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Salil Mehta bf5a6b4c47 net: hns: Fix the stray netpoll locks causing deadlock in NAPI path 
This patch fixes the problem of the spin locks, originally
meant for the netpoll path of hns driver, causing deadlock in
the normal NAPI poll path. The issue happened due to the presence
of the stray leftover spin lock code related to the netpoll,
whose support was earlier removed from the HNS[1], got activated
due to enabling of NET_POLL_CONTROLLER switch.

Earlier background:
The netpoll handling code originally had this bug(as identified
by Marc Zyngier[2]) of wrong spin lock API being used which did
not disable the interrupts and hence could cause locking issues.
i.e. if the lock were first acquired in context to thread like
'ip' util and this lock if ever got later acquired again in
context to the interrupt context like TX/RX (Interrupts could
always pre-empt the lock holding task and acquire the lock again)
and hence could cause deadlock.

Proposed Solution:
1. If the netpoll was enabled in the HNS driver, which is not
   right now, we could have simply used spin_[un]lock_irqsave()
2. But as netpoll is disabled, therefore, it is best to get rid
   of the existing locks and stray code for now. This should
   solve the problem reported by Marc.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/4bd2c03be7
[2] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1189139/

Fixes: 4bd2c03be7 ("net: hns: remove ndo_poll_controller")
Cc: lipeng <lipeng321@huawei.com>
Cc: Yisen Zhuang <yisen.zhuang@huawei.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reported-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-11-07 16:12:15 -08:00
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certs PKCS#7: Refactor verify_pkcs7_signature() 2019-08-05 18:40:18 -04:00
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Documentation Documentation: TLS: Add missing counter description 2019-11-05 18:34:06 -08:00
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README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.