From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel•org>
To: Gui-Dong Han <hanguidong02@gmail•com>
Cc: Chris Snook <chris.snook@gmail•com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn•ch>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google•com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat•com>,
netdev@vger•kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
baijiaju1990@gmail•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: atheros: atl1e: use atomic functions with memory barriers for next_to_clean
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:59:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260427175930.3c170c98@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260422093717.893646-1-hanguidong02@gmail.com>
On Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:37:17 +0800 Gui-Dong Han wrote:
> Found by auditing atomic operations used for synchronization.
> A similar fix can be found in 6df8e84aa6b5.
>
> Do not change atl1e_init_ring_ptrs(). Its atomic_set() runs during
> bring-up before NAPI and interrupts are enabled, so it is not a runtime
> publication point between Tx cleanup and Tx submission.
>
> In my opinion, implementing ad-hoc lockless algorithms directly within
> individual drivers is highly error-prone. To avoid these subtle memory
> ordering and barrier bugs, drivers should rely on established, well-tested
> kernel libraries like kfifo to handle this type of concurrency.
I don't think this is sufficient, we can still race stop vs wake.
Please convert the driver to use netif_txq_maybe_stop() and friends.
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2026-04-22 9:37 [PATCH] net: atheros: atl1e: use atomic functions with memory barriers for next_to_clean Gui-Dong Han
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