releases/2.6.23.10/fix-synchronize_irq-races-with-irq-handler.patch

From stable-bounces@linux.kernel.org Wed Nov 21 14:10:14 2007
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:09:39 -0500
Subject: Fix synchronize_irq races with IRQ handler
To: linux-stable <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Message-ID: <4744ACA3.8090408@redhat.com>

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

patch a98ce5c6feead6bfedefabd46cb3d7f5be148d9a in mainline.

Fix synchronize_irq races with IRQ handler

As it is some callers of synchronize_irq rely on memory barriers
to provide synchronisation against the IRQ handlers.  For example,
the tg3 driver does

tp->irq_sync = 1;
smp_mb();
synchronize_irq();

and then in the IRQ handler:

if (!tp->irq_sync)
	netif_rx_schedule(dev, &tp->napi);

Unfortunately memory barriers only work well when they come in
pairs.  Because we don't actually have memory barriers on the
IRQ path, the memory barrier before the synchronize_irq() doesn't
actually protect us.

In particular, synchronize_irq() may return followed by the
result of netif_rx_schedule being made visible.

This patch (mostly written by Linus) fixes this by using spin
locks instead of memory barries on the synchronize_irq() path.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 kernel/irq/manage.c |   20 ++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/irq/manage.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/manage.c
@@ -29,12 +29,28 @@
 void synchronize_irq(unsigned int irq)
 {
 	struct irq_desc *desc = irq_desc + irq;
+	unsigned int status;
 
 	if (irq >= NR_IRQS)
 		return;
 
-	while (desc->status & IRQ_INPROGRESS)
-		cpu_relax();
+	do {
+		unsigned long flags;
+
+		/*
+		 * Wait until we're out of the critical section.  This might
+		 * give the wrong answer due to the lack of memory barriers.
+		 */
+		while (desc->status & IRQ_INPROGRESS)
+			cpu_relax();
+
+		/* Ok, that indicated we're done: double-check carefully. */
+		spin_lock_irqsave(&desc->lock, flags);
+		status = desc->status;
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&desc->lock, flags);
+
+		/* Oops, that failed? */
+	} while (status & IRQ_INPROGRESS);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(synchronize_irq);