[NET]: Add netif_tx_lock

Various drivers use xmit_lock internally to synchronise with their
transmission routines.  They do so without setting xmit_lock_owner.
This is fine as long as netpoll is not in use.

With netpoll it is possible for deadlocks to occur if xmit_lock_owner
isn't set.  This is because if a printk occurs while xmit_lock is held
and xmit_lock_owner is not set can cause netpoll to attempt to take
xmit_lock recursively.

While it is possible to resolve this by getting netpoll to use
trylock, it is suboptimal because netpoll's sole objective is to
maximise the chance of getting the printk out on the wire.  So
delaying or dropping the message is to be avoided as much as possible.

So the only alternative is to always set xmit_lock_owner.  The
following patch does this by introducing the netif_tx_lock family of
functions that take care of setting/unsetting xmit_lock_owner.

I renamed xmit_lock to _xmit_lock to indicate that it should not be
used directly.  I didn't provide irq versions of the netif_tx_lock
functions since xmit_lock is meant to be a BH-disabling lock.

This is pretty much a straight text substitution except for a small
bug fix in winbond.  It currently uses
netif_stop_queue/spin_unlock_wait to stop transmission.  This is
unsafe as an IRQ can potentially wake up the queue.  So it is safer to
use netif_tx_disable.

The hamradio bits used spin_lock_irq but it is unnecessary as
xmit_lock must never be taken in an IRQ handler.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 6bfa78c..1b09f1c 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1282,15 +1282,13 @@ int __skb_linearize(struct sk_buff *skb, gfp_t gfp_mask)
 
 #define HARD_TX_LOCK(dev, cpu) {			\
 	if ((dev->features & NETIF_F_LLTX) == 0) {	\
-		spin_lock(&dev->xmit_lock);		\
-		dev->xmit_lock_owner = cpu;		\
+		netif_tx_lock(dev);			\
 	}						\
 }
 
 #define HARD_TX_UNLOCK(dev) {				\
 	if ((dev->features & NETIF_F_LLTX) == 0) {	\
-		dev->xmit_lock_owner = -1;		\
-		spin_unlock(&dev->xmit_lock);		\
+		netif_tx_unlock(dev);			\
 	}						\
 }
 
@@ -1389,8 +1387,8 @@ int dev_queue_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb)
 	/* The device has no queue. Common case for software devices:
 	   loopback, all the sorts of tunnels...
 
-	   Really, it is unlikely that xmit_lock protection is necessary here.
-	   (f.e. loopback and IP tunnels are clean ignoring statistics
+	   Really, it is unlikely that netif_tx_lock protection is necessary
+	   here.  (f.e. loopback and IP tunnels are clean ignoring statistics
 	   counters.)
 	   However, it is possible, that they rely on protection
 	   made by us here.
@@ -2805,7 +2803,7 @@ int register_netdevice(struct net_device *dev)
 	BUG_ON(dev->reg_state != NETREG_UNINITIALIZED);
 
 	spin_lock_init(&dev->queue_lock);
-	spin_lock_init(&dev->xmit_lock);
+	spin_lock_init(&dev->_xmit_lock);
 	dev->xmit_lock_owner = -1;
 #ifdef CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT
 	spin_lock_init(&dev->ingress_lock);