On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 09:59:40AM -0500, [email protected] wrote:
> From: Bodo Stroesser <[email protected]>
>
> With recent changes it is possible for the timer handler to detect an
> idle interface and not start the timer, but the thread to start an
> operation at the same time. The thread will not start the timer in that
> instance, resulting in the timer not running.
>
> Instead, move all timer operations under the lock and start the timer in
> the thread if it detect non-idle and the timer is not already running.
> Moving under locks allows the last timeout to be set in both the thread
> and the timer. 'Timer is not running' means that the timer is not
> pending and smi_timeout() is not running. So we need a flag to detect
> this correctly.
>
> Also fix a few other timeout bugs: setting the last timeout when the
> interrupt has to be disabled and the timer started, and setting the last
> timeout in check_start_timer_thread possibly racing with the timer
>
> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Bodo Stroesser <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
> ---
> drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 46
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
> 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>
> Upstream change 48e8ac2979920ffa39117e2d725afa3a749bfe8d
>
> Please apply to stable kernels 3.4 and later.
>
Thanks, I'm queuing it for the 3.11 kernel.
Cheers,
--
Luís
> diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
> b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
> index b7efd3c..9c40691 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
> @@ -248,6 +248,9 @@ struct smi_info {
> /* The timer for this si. */
> struct timer_list si_timer;
>
> + /* This flag is set, if the timer is running (timer_pending() isn't
> enough) */
> + bool timer_running;
> +
> /* The time (in jiffies) the last timeout occurred at. */
> unsigned long last_timeout_jiffies;
>
> @@ -434,6 +437,13 @@ static void start_clear_flags(struct smi_info *smi_info)
> smi_info->si_state = SI_CLEARING_FLAGS;
> }
>
> +static void smi_mod_timer(struct smi_info *smi_info, unsigned long new_val)
> +{
> + smi_info->last_timeout_jiffies = jiffies;
> + mod_timer(&smi_info->si_timer, new_val);
> + smi_info->timer_running = true;
> +}
> +
> /*
> * When we have a situtaion where we run out of memory and cannot
> * allocate messages, we just leave them in the BMC and run the system
> @@ -446,8 +456,7 @@ static inline void disable_si_irq(struct smi_info
> *smi_info)
> start_disable_irq(smi_info);
> smi_info->interrupt_disabled = 1;
> if (!atomic_read(&smi_info->stop_operation))
> - mod_timer(&smi_info->si_timer,
> - jiffies + SI_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES);
> + smi_mod_timer(smi_info, jiffies + SI_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES);
> }
> }
>
> @@ -907,15 +916,7 @@ static void sender(void *send_info,
> list_add_tail(&msg->link, &smi_info->xmit_msgs);
>
> if (smi_info->si_state == SI_NORMAL && smi_info->curr_msg == NULL) {
> - /*
> - * last_timeout_jiffies is updated here to avoid
> - * smi_timeout() handler passing very large time_diff
> - * value to smi_event_handler() that causes
> - * the send command to abort.
> - */
> - smi_info->last_timeout_jiffies = jiffies;
> -
> - mod_timer(&smi_info->si_timer, jiffies + SI_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES);
> + smi_mod_timer(smi_info, jiffies + SI_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES);
>
> if (smi_info->thread)
> wake_up_process(smi_info->thread);
> @@ -1004,6 +1005,17 @@ static int ipmi_thread(void *data)
>
> spin_lock_irqsave(&(smi_info->si_lock), flags);
> smi_result = smi_event_handler(smi_info, 0);
> +
> + /*
> + * If the driver is doing something, there is a possible
> + * race with the timer. If the timer handler see idle,
> + * and the thread here sees something else, the timer
> + * handler won't restart the timer even though it is
> + * required. So start it here if necessary.
> + */
> + if (smi_result != SI_SM_IDLE && !smi_info->timer_running)
> + smi_mod_timer(smi_info, jiffies + SI_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES);
> +
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&(smi_info->si_lock), flags);
> busy_wait = ipmi_thread_busy_wait(smi_result, smi_info,
> &busy_until);
> @@ -1073,10 +1085,6 @@ static void smi_timeout(unsigned long data)
> * SI_USEC_PER_JIFFY);
> smi_result = smi_event_handler(smi_info, time_diff);
>
> - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&(smi_info->si_lock), flags);
> -
> - smi_info->last_timeout_jiffies = jiffies_now;
> -
> if ((smi_info->irq) && (!smi_info->interrupt_disabled)) {
> /* Running with interrupts, only do long timeouts. */
> timeout = jiffies + SI_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES;
> @@ -1098,7 +1106,10 @@ static void smi_timeout(unsigned long data)
>
> do_mod_timer:
> if (smi_result != SI_SM_IDLE)
> - mod_timer(&(smi_info->si_timer), timeout);
> + smi_mod_timer(smi_info, timeout);
> + else
> + smi_info->timer_running = false;
> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&(smi_info->si_lock), flags);
> }
>
> static irqreturn_t si_irq_handler(int irq, void *data)
> @@ -1146,8 +1157,7 @@ static int smi_start_processing(void *send_info,
>
> /* Set up the timer that drives the interface. */
> setup_timer(&new_smi->si_timer, smi_timeout, (long)new_smi);
> - new_smi->last_timeout_jiffies = jiffies;
> - mod_timer(&new_smi->si_timer, jiffies + SI_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES);
> + smi_mod_timer(new_smi, jiffies + SI_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES);
>
> /*
> * Check if the user forcefully enabled the daemon.
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>
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