[ewg] [PATCH] RDMA/nes: Fix for crash when adding timer and timer is pending

Tatyana Nikolova Tatyana.E.Nikolova at intel.com
Sat Nov 24 22:46:24 PST 2012


RDMA/nes: Replace with 0025-RDMA-nes-Fix-for-adding-timer.patch with
0025-RDMA-nes-Fix-for-modifying-tcp-timer.patch

Signed-off-by: Tatyana Nikolova <Tatyana.E.Nikolova at intel.com>
---
 .../0025-RDMA-nes-Fix-for-adding-timer.patch       |   23 ------
 ...0025-RDMA-nes-Fix-for-modifying-tcp-timer.patch |   74 ++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 linux-next-pending/0025-RDMA-nes-Fix-for-adding-timer.patch
 create mode 100644 linux-next-pending/0025-RDMA-nes-Fix-for-modifying-tcp-timer.patch

diff --git a/linux-next-pending/0025-RDMA-nes-Fix-for-adding-timer.patch b/linux-next-pending/0025-RDMA-nes-Fix-for-adding-timer.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 13f9a29..0000000
--- a/linux-next-pending/0025-RDMA-nes-Fix-for-adding-timer.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-Fix for kernel panic caused by adding a timer when a timer is already pending.
-
-Signed-off-by: Tatyana Nikolova <Tatyana.E.Nikolova at intel.com>
----
- drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_cm.c |    2 +-
- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_cm.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_cm.c
-index cfaacaf..c04bfca 100644
---- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_cm.c
-+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_cm.c
-@@ -727,7 +727,7 @@ int schedule_nes_timer(struct nes_cm_node *cm_node, struct sk_buff *skb,
- 
- 	if (!was_timer_set) {
- 		cm_core->tcp_timer.expires = new_send->timetosend;
--		add_timer(&cm_core->tcp_timer);
-+		mod_timer(&cm_core->tcp_timer, cm_core->tcp_timer.expires);
- 	}
- 
- 	return ret;
--- 
-1.7.4.2
-
diff --git a/linux-next-pending/0025-RDMA-nes-Fix-for-modifying-tcp-timer.patch b/linux-next-pending/0025-RDMA-nes-Fix-for-modifying-tcp-timer.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..129ccec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/linux-next-pending/0025-RDMA-nes-Fix-for-modifying-tcp-timer.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+Fix for kernel BUG_ON when adding timer and a timer is already pending.
+To avoid nes tcp_timer crash for SMP architectures, add_timer is replaced with mod_timer.
+
+Signed-off-by: Tatyana Nikolova <Tatyana.E.Nikolova at intel.com>
+---
+ drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_cm.c |   24 ++++++------------------
+ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_cm.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_cm.c
+index cfaacaf..7bee158 100644
+--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_cm.c
++++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_cm.c
+@@ -671,7 +671,6 @@ int schedule_nes_timer(struct nes_cm_node *cm_node, struct sk_buff *skb,
+ 	struct nes_cm_core *cm_core = cm_node->cm_core;
+ 	struct nes_timer_entry *new_send;
+ 	int ret = 0;
+-	u32 was_timer_set;
+ 
+ 	new_send = kzalloc(sizeof(*new_send), GFP_ATOMIC);
+ 	if (!new_send)
+@@ -723,12 +722,8 @@ int schedule_nes_timer(struct nes_cm_node *cm_node, struct sk_buff *skb,
+ 		}
+ 	}
+ 
+-	was_timer_set = timer_pending(&cm_core->tcp_timer);
+-
+-	if (!was_timer_set) {
+-		cm_core->tcp_timer.expires = new_send->timetosend;
+-		add_timer(&cm_core->tcp_timer);
+-	}
++	if (!timer_pending(&cm_core->tcp_timer))
++		mod_timer(&cm_core->tcp_timer, new_send->timetosend);
+ 
+ 	return ret;
+ }
+@@ -946,10 +941,8 @@ static void nes_cm_timer_tick(unsigned long pass)
+ 	}
+ 
+ 	if (settimer) {
+-		if (!timer_pending(&cm_core->tcp_timer)) {
+-			cm_core->tcp_timer.expires = nexttimeout;
+-			add_timer(&cm_core->tcp_timer);
+-		}
++		if (!timer_pending(&cm_core->tcp_timer))
++			mod_timer(&cm_core->tcp_timer, nexttimeout);
+ 	}
+ }
+ 
+@@ -1314,8 +1307,6 @@ static int mini_cm_del_listen(struct nes_cm_core *cm_core,
+ static inline int mini_cm_accelerated(struct nes_cm_core *cm_core,
+ 				      struct nes_cm_node *cm_node)
+ {
+-	u32 was_timer_set;
+-
+ 	cm_node->accelerated = 1;
+ 
+ 	if (cm_node->accept_pend) {
+@@ -1325,11 +1316,8 @@ static inline int mini_cm_accelerated(struct nes_cm_core *cm_core,
+ 		BUG_ON(atomic_read(&cm_node->listener->pend_accepts_cnt) < 0);
+ 	}
+ 
+-	was_timer_set = timer_pending(&cm_core->tcp_timer);
+-	if (!was_timer_set) {
+-		cm_core->tcp_timer.expires = jiffies + NES_SHORT_TIME;
+-		add_timer(&cm_core->tcp_timer);
+-	}
++	if (!timer_pending(&cm_core->tcp_timer))
++		mod_timer(&cm_core->tcp_timer, (jiffies + NES_SHORT_TIME));
+ 
+ 	return 0;
+ }
+-- 
+1.7.4.2
+
-- 
1.7.1




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