Thanks a lot, your advice is very helpful :)
I will submit a patch according to your advice, and update my bug report.
By the way, I have found many similar possible bugs in network drivers
in FreeBSD.
And they are all caused by "BUS_DMA_WAITOK" in bus_dmamap_load and other
dmamap-load related functions.
If my reported bugs can be quickly confirmed, I will write and submit
patches for them as soon as possible.
I am looking forward to helpful comments and advice :)
Thanks,
Jia-Ju Bai
On 2017/6/18 13:31, Kevin Oberman wrote:
On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 2:03 AM, Jia-Ju Bai <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
The alc driver may sleep under a mutex, and the function call
paths in file
"sys/dev/alc/if_alc.c" in FreeBSD 11.0 is:
alc_resume [line 2648: acquire the mutex]
alc_init_locked [line 2664]
alc_init_rx_ring [line 3911]
alc_newbuf [line 4469]
bus_dmamap_load_mbuf_sg(BUS_DMA_WAITOK) [line 3472] -->
may sleep
alc_int_task [line 3330: acquire the mutex]
alc_start_locked [line 3372]
alc_encap [line 2942]
bus_dmamap_load_mbuf_sg(BUS_DMA_WAITOK) [line 2780] --> may
sleep
The possible fix of these bugs is to set the last parameter in
bus_dmamap_load_mbuf_sg to "BUS_DMA_NOWAIT".
This bug is found by a static analysis tool written by myself, and
it is
checked by my review of the FreeBSD code.
By the way, I am a freshman in developing FreeBSD drivers, and I
am willing to
submit a patch. But I do not know how to write and submit a patch,
and where to
submit, so I am looking forward to useful advice :)
Jia-Ju Bai
To submit a patch, use svn to download the source from a repository.
Be sure the file in your source directory is the current, unmodified file.
Edit the file or files as needed to correct the bug
Generate the diff with the command "svn diff
path-to-directory-containing-file(s) > diff-file.diff"
Update the bug report attaching the patch (with a brief description)
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