On 10.12.2023 12:01, Ronald Wahl wrote:
From: Ronald Wahl ronald.wahl@raritan.com
There is a bug in the ks8851 Ethernet driver that more data is written to the hardware TX buffer than actually available. This is caused by wrong accounting of the free TX buffer space.
The driver maintains a tx_space variable that represents the TX buffer space that is deemed to be free. The ks8851_start_xmit_spi() function adds an SKB to a queue if tx_space is large enough and reduces tx_space by the amount of buffer space it will later need in the TX buffer and then schedules a work item. If there is not enough space then the TX queue is stopped.
The worker function ks8851_tx_work() dequeues all the SKBs and writes the data into the hardware TX buffer. The last packet will trigger an interrupt after it was send. Here it is assumed that all data fits into the TX buffer.
In the interrupt routine (which runs asynchronously because it is a threaded interrupt) tx_space is updated with the current value from the hardware. Also the TX queue is woken up again.
Now it could happen that after data was sent to the hardware and before handling the TX interrupt new data is queued in ks8851_start_xmit_spi() when the TX buffer space had still some space left. When the interrupt is actually handled tx_space is updated from the hardware but now we already have new SKBs queued that have not been written to the hardware TX buffer yet. Since tx_space has been overwritten by the value from the hardware the space is not accounted for.
Now we have more data queued then buffer space available in the hardware and ks8851_tx_work() will potentially overrun the hardware TX buffer. In many cases it will still work because often the buffer is written out fast enough so that no overrun occurs but for example if the peer throttles us via flow control then an overrun may happen.
This can be fixed in different ways. The most simple way would be to set tx_space to 0 before writing data to the hardware TX buffer preventing the queuing of more SKBs until the TX interrupt has been handled. I have choosen a slightly more efficient (and still rather simple) way and track the amount of data that is already queued and not yet written to the hardware. When new SKBs are to be queued the already queued amount of data is honoured when checking free TX buffer space.
I tested this with a setup of two linked KS8851 running iperf3 between the two in bidirectional mode. Before the fix I got a stall after some minutes. With the fix I saw now issues anymore after hours.
Cc: "David S. Miller" davem@davemloft.net Cc: Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com Cc: Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org Cc: Paolo Abeni pabeni@redhat.com Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.10+ Signed-off-by: Ronald Wahl ronald.wahl@raritan.com
drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851.h | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_common.c | 21 +++++------ drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_spi.c | 41 +++++++++++++-------- 3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
Patch should be annotated as "net", and Fixes tag is missing.