[PATCH 7/8] staging/rdma/hfi1: Reduce snoop locking scope in IOCTL handler.

ira.weiny at intel.com ira.weiny at intel.com
Wed Nov 11 05:43:08 UTC 2015


From: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro at intel.com>

This patch avoids issues while calling into copy from/to user while holding the
lock by only taking the lock when it is absolutely required.

The only commands which require the snoop lock are: *Set Filter *Clear Filter
*Clear Queue

Reported-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov at ispras.ru>
Reviewed-by: Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny at intel.com>
---
 drivers/staging/rdma/hfi1/diag.c | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rdma/hfi1/diag.c b/drivers/staging/rdma/hfi1/diag.c
index 43f08080480c..34a8c4da71d2 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rdma/hfi1/diag.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rdma/hfi1/diag.c
@@ -1008,8 +1008,6 @@ static long hfi1_ioctl(struct file *fp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 		/* We do not support the old setlink state */
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&dd->hfi1_snoop.snoop_lock, flags);
-
 	switch (cmd) {
 	case HFI1_SNOOP_IOCSETLINKSTATE_EXTRA:
 		memset(&link_info, 0, sizeof(link_info));
@@ -1125,11 +1123,14 @@ static long hfi1_ioctl(struct file *fp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 
 	case HFI1_SNOOP_IOCCLEARQUEUE:
 		snoop_dbg("Clearing snoop queue");
+		spin_lock_irqsave(&dd->hfi1_snoop.snoop_lock, flags);
 		drain_snoop_list(&dd->hfi1_snoop.queue);
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dd->hfi1_snoop.snoop_lock, flags);
 		break;
 
 	case HFI1_SNOOP_IOCCLEARFILTER:
 		snoop_dbg("Clearing filter");
+		spin_lock_irqsave(&dd->hfi1_snoop.snoop_lock, flags);
 		if (dd->hfi1_snoop.filter_callback) {
 			/* Drain packets first */
 			drain_snoop_list(&dd->hfi1_snoop.queue);
@@ -1137,6 +1138,7 @@ static long hfi1_ioctl(struct file *fp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 		}
 		kfree(dd->hfi1_snoop.filter_value);
 		dd->hfi1_snoop.filter_value = NULL;
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dd->hfi1_snoop.snoop_lock, flags);
 		break;
 
 	case HFI1_SNOOP_IOCSETFILTER:
@@ -1173,13 +1175,14 @@ static long hfi1_ioctl(struct file *fp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 			break;
 		}
 		/* Drain packets first */
+		spin_lock_irqsave(&dd->hfi1_snoop.snoop_lock, flags);
 		drain_snoop_list(&dd->hfi1_snoop.queue);
 		dd->hfi1_snoop.filter_callback =
 			hfi1_filters[filter_cmd.opcode].filter;
 		/* just in case we see back to back sets */
 		kfree(dd->hfi1_snoop.filter_value);
 		dd->hfi1_snoop.filter_value = filter_value;
-
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dd->hfi1_snoop.snoop_lock, flags);
 		break;
 	case HFI1_SNOOP_IOCGETVERSION:
 		value = SNOOP_CAPTURE_VERSION;
@@ -1203,7 +1206,6 @@ static long hfi1_ioctl(struct file *fp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 		break;
 	}
 
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dd->hfi1_snoop.snoop_lock, flags);
 	return ret;
 }
 
-- 
1.8.2



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