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There is a bug in the ks8851 Ethernet driver that more data is written
to the hardware TX buffer than actually available. This is caused by
wrong accounting of the free TX buffer space.
The driver maintains a tx_space variable that represents the TX buffer
space that is deemed to be free. The ks8851_start_xmit_spi() function
adds an SKB to a queue if tx_space is large enough and reduces tx_space
by the amount of buffer space it will later need in the TX buffer and
then schedules a work item. If there is not enough space then the TX
queue is stopped.
The worker function ks8851_tx_work() dequeues all the SKBs and writes
the data into the hardware TX buffer. The last packet will trigger an
interrupt after it was send. Here it is assumed that all data fits into
the TX buffer.
In the interrupt routine (which runs asynchronously because it is a
threaded interrupt) tx_space is updated with the current value from the
hardware. Also the TX queue is woken up again.
Now it could happen that after data was sent to the hardware and before
handling the TX interrupt new data is queued in ks8851_start_xmit_spi()
when the TX buffer space had still some space left. When the interrupt
is actually handled tx_space is updated from the hardware but now we
already have new SKBs queued that have not been written to the hardware
TX buffer yet. Since tx_space has been overwritten by the value from the
hardware the space is not accounted for.
Now we have more data queued then buffer space available in the hardware
and ks8851_tx_work() will potentially overrun the hardware TX buffer. In
many cases it will still work because often the buffer is written out
fast enough so that no overrun occurs but for example if the peer
throttles us via flow control then an overrun may happen.
This can be fixed in different ways. The most simple way would be to set
tx_space to 0 before writing data to the hardware TX buffer preventing
the queuing of more SKBs until the TX interrupt has been handled. I have
chosen a slightly more efficient (and still rather simple) way and
track the amount of data that is already queued and not yet written to
the hardware. When new SKBs are to be queued the already queued amount
of data is honoured when checking free TX buffer space.
I tested this with a setup of two linked KS8851 running iperf3 between
the two in bidirectional mode. Before the fix I got a stall after some
minutes. With the fix I saw now issues anymore after hours.
Fixes:
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