net/mlx5: E-Switch, Use atomic rep state to serialize state change
authorBodong Wang <bodong@mellanox.com>
Thu, 18 Apr 2019 23:24:15 +0000 (18:24 -0500)
committerSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Wed, 1 May 2019 21:39:17 +0000 (14:39 -0700)
commit6f4e02193c9a9ea54dd3151cf97489fa787cd0e6
treedf40749b84beff24785928bbd40a7863836d9146
parent5d9986a3947a08185c407442c9a5fc9546b9e440
net/mlx5: E-Switch, Use atomic rep state to serialize state change

When the state of rep was introduced, it was also designed to prevent
duplicate unloading of the same rep. Considering the following two
flows when an eswitch manager is at switchdev mode with n VF reps loaded.

+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------+
| cpu-0                                | cpu-1                          |
| --------                             | --------                       |
| mlx5_ib_remove                       | mlx5_eswitch_disable_sriov     |
|  mlx5_ib_unregister_vport_reps       |  esw_offloads_cleanup          |
|   mlx5_eswitch_unregister_vport_reps |   esw_offloads_unload_all_reps |
|    __unload_reps_all_vport           |    __unload_reps_all_vport     |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------+

These two flows will try to unload the same rep. Per original design,
once one flow unloads the rep, the state moves to REGISTERED. The 2nd
flow will no longer needs to do the unload and bails out. However, as
read and write of the state is not atomic, when 1st flow is doing the
unload, the state is still LOADED, 2nd flow is able to do the same
unload action. Kernel crash will happen.

To solve this, driver should do atomic test-and-set for the state. So
that only one flow can change the rep state from LOADED to REGISTERED,
and proceed to do the actual unloading.

Since the state is changing to atomic type, all other read/write should
be atomic action as well.

Fixes: f121e0ea9586 (net/mlx5: E-Switch, Add state to eswitch vport representors)
Signed-off-by: Bodong Wang <bodong@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Parav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Vu Pham <vuhuong@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch_offloads.c
include/linux/mlx5/eswitch.h