On Sat, 2014-12-20 at 20:40 +0800, 白家驹 wrote: > Thank for the reply! > > For the first reply: > I let pci_pool_create fail on purpose to simulate insufficient memory, > and then run the driver in reality, but the driver crashes. > > For the second reply: > I admit you are right, and my code style need to be improved. >
Added in netdev and e1000-devel back onto the CC, since Jia-Ju Bai
removed them in his reply
>
> At 2014-12-20 18:18:09,"Jeff Kirsher" <jeffrey.t.kirs...@intel.com> wrote:
> >On Sat, 2014-12-20 at 15:40 +0800, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
> >> I have actually tested e100 driver on the real hardware(Intel 82559
> >> PCI
> >> Ethernet Controller), and find some bugs:
> >> The target file is drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c, which is used to
> >> build
> >> e100.ko.
> >>
> >> (1) The function pci_pool_create is called by e100_probe when
> >> initializing
> >> the ethernet card driver. But when pci_pool_create is failed, which
> >> means
> >> that it returns NULL to nic->cbs_pool, the system crash will happen.
> >> Because
> >> pci_pool_alloc (in e100_alloc_cbs in e100_up in e100_open) need to use
> >> nic->cbs_pool to allocate the resource, but it is NULL. I suggest that
> >> a
> >> check can be added in the code to detect whether pci_pool_create
> >> returns
> >> NULL.
> >> (2) In the normal process, netif_napi_add is called in e100_probe, but
> >> netif_napi_del is not called in e100_remove. However, many other
> >> ethernet
> >> card drivers call them in pairs, even in the error handling paths,
> >> such as
> >> r8169 and igb.
> >>
> >> Meanwhile, I also write the patch to fix the bugs. I have run the
> >> patch on
> >> the hardware, it can work normally and fix the above bugs.
> >
> >Did you actually experience an issue? Or is this a theoretical issue
> >that was never actually seen?
> >
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c
> >> b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c
> >> index 781065e..2631d3f 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c
> >> @@ -2969,6 +2969,11 @@ static int e100_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
> >> const
> >> struct pci_device_id *ent)
> >> nic->params.cbs.max * sizeof(struct cb),
> >> sizeof(u32),
> >> 0);
> >> + if(!(nic->cbs_pool))
> >> + {
> >> + err = -ENOMEM;
> >> + goto err_out_pool;
> >> + }
> >> netif_info(nic, probe, nic->netdev,
> >
> >Minor nit-pick but your open bracket needs to be on the same line as the
> >if statement AND you need a space between the 'if' and (). So the above
> >code should look like:
> > if (!nic->cbs_pool) {
> > err = -ENOMEM;
> > goto err_out_pool;
> > }
>
>
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