Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: stmmac: don't attach interface until resume finishes

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2021 12:11:20 +0200

On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 04:36:20PM +0800, Macpaul Lin wrote:
> From: Leon Yu <[email-masked]>
> 
> commit 31096c3e8b1163c6e966bf4d1f36d8b699008f84 upstream.
> 
> Commit 14b41a2959fb ("net: stmmac: Delete txtimer in suspend()") was the
> first attempt to fix a race between mod_timer() and setup_timer()
> during stmmac_resume(). However the issue still exists as the commit
> only addressed half of the issue.
> 
> Same race can still happen as stmmac_resume() re-attaches interface
> way too early - even before hardware is fully initialized.  Worse,
> doing so allows network traffic to restart and stmmac_tx_timer_arm()
> being called in the middle of stmmac_resume(), which re-init tx timers
> in stmmac_init_coalesce().  timer_list will be corrupted and system
> crashes as a result of race between mod_timer() and setup_timer().
> 
>   systemd--1995    2.... 552950018us : stmmac_suspend: 4994
>   ksoftirq-9       0..s2 553123133us : stmmac_tx_timer_arm: 2276
>   systemd--1995    0.... 553127896us : stmmac_resume: 5101
>   systemd--320     7...2 553132752us : stmmac_tx_timer_arm: 2276
>   (sd-exec-1999    5...2 553135204us : stmmac_tx_timer_arm: 2276
>   ---------------------------------
>   pc : run_timer_softirq+0x468/0x5e0
>   lr : run_timer_softirq+0x570/0x5e0
>   Call trace:
>    run_timer_softirq+0x468/0x5e0
>    __do_softirq+0x124/0x398
>    irq_exit+0xd8/0xe0
>    __handle_domain_irq+0x6c/0xc0
>    gic_handle_irq+0x60/0xb0
>    el1_irq+0xb8/0x180
>    arch_cpu_idle+0x38/0x230
>    default_idle_call+0x24/0x3c
>    do_idle+0x1e0/0x2b8
>    cpu_startup_entry+0x28/0x48
>    secondary_start_kernel+0x1b4/0x208
> 
> Fix this by deferring netif_device_attach() to the end of
> stmmac_resume().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Leon Yu <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email-masked]>

Whenever you forward on a patch, you should add yourself to the
signed-off-by chain.

I'll just add you to the cc: to let us know who asked for this patch.

thanks,

greg k-h