linux/net/atm
Jiri Olsa a57de0b433 net: adding memory barrier to the poll and receive callbacks
Adding memory barrier after the poll_wait function, paired with
receive callbacks. Adding fuctions sock_poll_wait and sk_has_sleeper
to wrap the memory barrier.

Without the memory barrier, following race can happen.
The race fires, when following code paths meet, and the tp->rcv_nxt
and __add_wait_queue updates stay in CPU caches.

CPU1                         CPU2

sys_select                   receive packet
  ...                        ...
  __add_wait_queue           update tp->rcv_nxt
  ...                        ...
  tp->rcv_nxt check          sock_def_readable
  ...                        {
  schedule                      ...
                                if (sk->sk_sleep && waitqueue_active(sk->sk_sleep))
                                        wake_up_interruptible(sk->sk_sleep)
                                ...
                             }

If there was no cache the code would work ok, since the wait_queue and
rcv_nxt are opposit to each other.

Meaning that once tp->rcv_nxt is updated by CPU2, the CPU1 either already
passed the tp->rcv_nxt check and sleeps, or will get the new value for
tp->rcv_nxt and will return with new data mask.
In both cases the process (CPU1) is being added to the wait queue, so the
waitqueue_active (CPU2) call cannot miss and will wake up CPU1.

The bad case is when the __add_wait_queue changes done by CPU1 stay in its
cache, and so does the tp->rcv_nxt update on CPU2 side.  The CPU1 will then
endup calling schedule and sleep forever if there are no more data on the
socket.

Calls to poll_wait in following modules were ommited:
	net/bluetooth/af_bluetooth.c
	net/irda/af_irda.c
	net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c
	net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_debugfs.c
	net/phonet/socket.c
	net/rds/af_rds.c
	net/rfkill/core.c
	net/sunrpc/cache.c
	net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c
	net/tipc/socket.c

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-09 17:06:57 -07:00
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addr.c
addr.h
atm_misc.c
atm_sysfs.c
br2684.c net: skb->dst accessors 2009-06-03 02:51:04 -07:00
clip.c net: skb->dst accessors 2009-06-03 02:51:04 -07:00
common.c net: adding memory barrier to the poll and receive callbacks 2009-07-09 17:06:57 -07:00
common.h
ioctl.c atm: sk_wmem_alloc initial value is one 2009-06-18 00:29:12 -07:00
Kconfig
lec.c net: fix network drivers ndo_start_xmit() return values (part 7) 2009-06-13 01:18:43 -07:00
lec.h
lec_arpc.h
Makefile
mpc.c
mpc.h
mpoa_caches.c
mpoa_caches.h
mpoa_proc.c
pppoatm.c
proc.c atm: sk_wmem_alloc initial value is one 2009-06-18 00:29:12 -07:00
protocols.h
pvc.c
raw.c atm: sk_wmem_alloc initial value is one 2009-06-18 00:29:12 -07:00
resources.c
resources.h
signaling.c
signaling.h
svc.c