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authorMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>2017-12-05 21:29:37 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-12-11 10:52:23 -0500
commita8ceb5dbfde1092b466936bca0ff3be127ecf38e (patch)
tree768483ddf27f70faa09ffe0f4a0c90a35119f249 /include
parentf0f1d0166b17e1fadaa1dfa99721a9abb97e65eb (diff)
downloadlinux-a8ceb5dbfde1092b466936bca0ff3be127ecf38e.tar.bz2
ptr_ring: add barriers
Users of ptr_ring expect that it's safe to give the data structure a pointer and have it be available to consumers, but that actually requires an smb_wmb or a stronger barrier. In absence of such barriers and on architectures that reorder writes, consumer might read an un=initialized value from an skb pointer stored in the skb array. This was observed causing crashes. To fix, add memory barriers. The barrier we use is a wmb, the assumption being that producers do not need to read the value so we do not need to order these reads. Reported-by: George Cherian <george.cherian@cavium.com> Suggested-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/ptr_ring.h9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/ptr_ring.h b/include/linux/ptr_ring.h
index 37b4bb2545b3..6866df4f31b5 100644
--- a/include/linux/ptr_ring.h
+++ b/include/linux/ptr_ring.h
@@ -101,12 +101,18 @@ static inline bool ptr_ring_full_bh(struct ptr_ring *r)
/* Note: callers invoking this in a loop must use a compiler barrier,
* for example cpu_relax(). Callers must hold producer_lock.
+ * Callers are responsible for making sure pointer that is being queued
+ * points to a valid data.
*/
static inline int __ptr_ring_produce(struct ptr_ring *r, void *ptr)
{
if (unlikely(!r->size) || r->queue[r->producer])
return -ENOSPC;
+ /* Make sure the pointer we are storing points to a valid data. */
+ /* Pairs with smp_read_barrier_depends in __ptr_ring_consume. */
+ smp_wmb();
+
r->queue[r->producer++] = ptr;
if (unlikely(r->producer >= r->size))
r->producer = 0;
@@ -275,6 +281,9 @@ static inline void *__ptr_ring_consume(struct ptr_ring *r)
if (ptr)
__ptr_ring_discard_one(r);
+ /* Make sure anyone accessing data through the pointer is up to date. */
+ /* Pairs with smp_wmb in __ptr_ring_produce. */
+ smp_read_barrier_depends();
return ptr;
}