The ice_ptp_request_ts() function is used to request a timestamp index for use with a packet. When reserving an index, it sets the start time and saves a pointer to the skb into the appropriate index. The function marks the in_use bit first before doing any of these steps. The IRQ handler which clears the timestamps reads the in_use bits uses a lockless flow for reading the in_use bits to determine which ones are in-use. This is necessary as actually processing a complete timestamp must be able to sleep so we cannot hold the timestamp tracker lock over the entire sequence. Additionally, blocking the Tx hotpath with such a lock indefinitely would be problematic.
However, the existing flow now has a very narrow window where the IRQ handler could see a timestamp as in-use but read a stale value for its "start" time. Fix this by ordering the sequence to mark the in_use bit last, and add a memory barrier to prevent re-ordering of the previous writes to setup the index. This was found and reported by Sashiko while reviewing an unrelated change. Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260821-jk-e825c-minimized-fixes-v1-0-9d0731eb4858%40intel.com?part=7 Fixes: ea9b847cda64 ("ice: enable transmit timestamps for E810 devices") Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <[email protected]> --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ptp.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ptp.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ptp.c index adc5308baefc..bbb57edcec0f 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ptp.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ptp.c @@ -592,6 +592,9 @@ static void ice_ptp_process_tx_tstamp(struct ice_ptp_tx *tx) bool drop_ts = !link_up; struct sk_buff *skb; + /* Prevent speculative re-ordering of start and skb */ + smp_rmb(); + /* Drop packets which have waited for more than 2 seconds */ if (time_is_before_jiffies(tx->tstamps[idx].start + 2 * HZ)) { drop_ts = true; @@ -2670,11 +2673,13 @@ s8 ice_ptp_request_ts(struct ice_ptp_tx *tx, struct sk_buff *skb) * a reference to the skb and the start time to allow discarding old * requests. */ - set_bit(idx, tx->in_use); - clear_bit(idx, tx->stale); tx->tstamps[idx].start = jiffies; tx->tstamps[idx].skb = skb_get(skb); skb_shinfo(skb)->tx_flags |= SKBTX_IN_PROGRESS; + clear_bit(idx, tx->stale); + /* Ensure index is setup before marking it as used */ + smp_mb__before_atomic(); + set_bit(idx, tx->in_use); ice_trace(tx_tstamp_request, skb, idx); } -- 2.56.0.rc0.395.gd1f3524e15dc
