From: "Nélio Laranjeiro" <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>
To: Pavlo Shcherbyna <pavlo.shcherbyna@harmonicinc.com>
Cc: adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com, dev@dpdk.org, shahafs@mellanox.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/mlx5: release spinlock before return from function
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 08:55:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170929065511.GR7279@autoinstall.dev.6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1506643436-15561-1-git-send-email-pavlo.shcherbyna@harmonicinc.com>
Hi Pavlo,
On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 03:03:56AM +0300, Pavlo Shcherbyna wrote:
> If priv_ethtool_get_stats_n fails to retrieve statistics, lock
> is not released. Next call of function, which uses the same
> spinlock, will stuck trying to obtain it.
>
> This patch addresses the issue.
>
> Fixes: 4b2e6df26168 ("net/mlx5: fix extended statistics counters identification")
> Cc: shahafs@mellanox.com
>
> Signed-off-by: Pavlo Shcherbyna <pavlo.shcherbyna@harmonicinc.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_stats.c | 8 ++++++--
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_stats.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_stats.c
> index 703f48c..8764829 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_stats.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_stats.c
> @@ -442,8 +442,10 @@ struct mlx5_counter_ctrl {
>
> priv_lock(priv);
> stats_n = priv_ethtool_get_stats_n(priv);
> - if (stats_n < 0)
> + if (stats_n < 0) {
> + priv_unlock(priv);
> return -1;
> + }
> if (xstats_ctrl->stats_n != stats_n)
> priv_xstats_init(priv);
> ret = priv_xstats_get(priv, stats);
> @@ -467,8 +469,10 @@ struct mlx5_counter_ctrl {
>
> priv_lock(priv);
> stats_n = priv_ethtool_get_stats_n(priv);
> - if (stats_n < 0)
> + if (stats_n < 0) {
> + priv_unlock(priv);
> return;
> + }
> if (xstats_ctrl->stats_n != stats_n)
> priv_xstats_init(priv);
> priv_xstats_reset(priv);
> --
> 1.7.10.4
This bug is already fixed in next-net/master [1][2].
Thanks for your contribution.
[1] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-August/072864.html
[2] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-August/073404.html
--
Nélio Laranjeiro
6WIND
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