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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] net/hns3: fix TM thread safety risk
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
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Hi Stephen

On 2023/8/5 23:58, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Aug 2023 16:36:26 +0800
> Dongdong Liu <liudongdong3@huawei.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Chengwen Feng <fengchengwen@huawei.com>
>>
>> The driver-related TM (traffic management) info is implemented through
>> the linked list. The following threads are involved in the read and
>> write of the TM info:
>>
>> 1. main thread: invokes the rte_tm_xxx() API family to modify or read.
>> 2. interrupt thread: will read TM info in reset recover process.
>> 3. telemetry/proc-info thread: invoke rte_eth_dev_priv_dump() API to
>>    read TM info.
>>
>> Currently, thread safety protection of TM info is implemented only in
>> the following operations:
>> 1. some of the rte_tm_xxx() API's implementation.
>> 2. reset recover process.
>>
>> Thread safety risks may exist in other scenarios, so fix by:
>> 1. make sure all the rte_tm_xxx() API's implementations protected by
>>    hw.lock.
>> 2. make sure rte_eth_dev_priv_dump() API's implementation protected
>>    by hw.lock.
>>
>> Fixes: c09c7847d892 ("net/hns3: support traffic management")
>> Fixes: e4cfe6bb9114 ("net/hns3: dump TM configuration info")
>> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
>
> I hope no locking is necessary in the data path.
Yes, these are control plane APIs.

Thanks,
Dongdong
> .
>