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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2014-10-10 04:48:14 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-10-10 15:37:28 -0400
commit42b0270b40e2ad692ef59e28233202ee6f293e1e (patch)
tree69d6d03af07645ea074a68433d24b2bf3ace9f22 /drivers
parent1fadee0c364572f2b2e098b34001fbaa82ee2e00 (diff)
downloadlinux-42b0270b40e2ad692ef59e28233202ee6f293e1e.tar.gz
fm10k: fix race accessing page->_count
This is illegal to use atomic_set(&page->_count, 2) even if we 'own'
the page. Other entities in the kernel need to use get_page_unless_zero()
to get a reference to the page before testing page properties, so we could
loose a refcount increment.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c7
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c
index 6c800a330d66..9d7118a0d67a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c
@@ -219,11 +219,10 @@ static bool fm10k_can_reuse_rx_page(struct fm10k_rx_buffer *rx_buffer,
 	/* flip page offset to other buffer */
 	rx_buffer->page_offset ^= FM10K_RX_BUFSZ;
 
-	/* since we are the only owner of the page and we need to
-	 * increment it, just set the value to 2 in order to avoid
-	 * an unnecessary locked operation
+	/* Even if we own the page, we are not allowed to use atomic_set()
+	 * This would break get_page_unless_zero() users.
 	 */
-	atomic_set(&page->_count, 2);
+	atomic_inc(&page->_count);
 #else
 	/* move offset up to the next cache line */
 	rx_buffer->page_offset += truesize;