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[PATCH] libcxgb: use raw_cpu_ptr() in ppm_get_cpu_entries()

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From: Haoran Wang <hidden>
Date: 2026-10-19 13:22:31
Also in: linux-rt-devel, linux-scsi, lkml
Subsystem: networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

ppm_get_cpu_entries() disables preemption with get_cpu(), reads the
current CPU's pool with per_cpu_ptr(), then acquires spin_lock_bh()
while preemption is still disabled, and finally put_cpu().

    cpu = get_cpu();
    pool = per_cpu_ptr(ppm->pool, cpu);
    spin_lock_bh(&pool->lock);
    put_cpu();

On PREEMPT_RT kernels spin_lock_bh() becomes a sleeping lock
(rt_spin_lock).  get_cpu() raises preempt_count, so acquiring the
lock right after sleeps with preempt_count still positive.  Sleeping
in that state is the scheduling-while-atomic case, which under
CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP reports a BUG and, if the lock is contended,
deadlocks on the spot.  The trigger path is any iSCSI offload I/O
through a Chelsio NIC that reaches ppm_get_cpu_entries().

The preemption disable exists only to stabilize the per-CPU accessor,
the pool is serialized by pool->lock, not by preemption.  Replace
get_cpu() + per_cpu_ptr() + put_cpu() with raw_smp_processor_id() +
raw_cpu_ptr(), which read the current CPU without disabling preemption.

On non-RT kernels spin_lock_bh() does not sleep, so the BUG does not
fire there; the defect is PREEMPT_RT-specific.

With the fix, preempt_count is 0 at spin_lock_bh(), so rt_spin_lock()'s
might_sleep() no longer triggers.

Signed-off-by: Haoran Wang <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/libcxgb/libcxgb_ppm.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/libcxgb/libcxgb_ppm.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/libcxgb/libcxgb_ppm.c
index 2e3973a32..5f68c5d57 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/libcxgb/libcxgb_ppm.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/libcxgb/libcxgb_ppm.c
@@ -125,10 +125,9 @@ static int ppm_get_cpu_entries(struct cxgbi_ppm *ppm, unsigned int count,
 	if (!ppm->pool)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	cpu = get_cpu();
-	pool = per_cpu_ptr(ppm->pool, cpu);
+	cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
+	pool = raw_cpu_ptr(ppm->pool);
 	spin_lock_bh(&pool->lock);
-	put_cpu();
 
 	i = ppm_find_unused_entries(pool->bmap, ppm->pool_index_max,
 				    pool->next, count, 0);
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