linux/drivers/net
Ahmed S. Darwish 889b77f7fd can: kvaser_usb: Reset all URB tx contexts upon channel close
Flooding the Kvaser CAN to USB dongle with multiple reads and
writes in very high frequency (*), closing the CAN channel while
all the transmissions are on (#), opening the device again (@),
then sending a small number of packets would make the driver
enter an almost infinite loop of:

[....]
[15959.853988] kvaser_usb 4-3:1.0 can0: cannot find free context
[15959.853990] kvaser_usb 4-3:1.0 can0: cannot find free context
[15959.853991] kvaser_usb 4-3:1.0 can0: cannot find free context
[15959.853993] kvaser_usb 4-3:1.0 can0: cannot find free context
[15959.853994] kvaser_usb 4-3:1.0 can0: cannot find free context
[15959.853995] kvaser_usb 4-3:1.0 can0: cannot find free context
[....]

_dragging the whole system down_ in the process due to the
excessive logging output.

Initially, this has caused random panics in the kernel due to a
buggy error recovery path.  That got fixed in an earlier commit.(%)
This patch aims at solving the root cause. -->

16 tx URBs and contexts are allocated per CAN channel per USB
device. Such URBs are protected by:

a) A simple atomic counter, up to a value of MAX_TX_URBS (16)
b) A flag in each URB context, stating if it's free
c) The fact that ndo_start_xmit calls are themselves protected
   by the networking layers higher above

After grabbing one of the tx URBs, if the driver noticed that all
of them are now taken, it stops the netif transmission queue.
Such queue is worken up again only if an acknowedgment was received
from the firmware on one of our earlier-sent frames.

Meanwhile, upon channel close (#), the driver sends a CMD_STOP_CHIP
to the firmware, effectively closing all further communication.  In
the high traffic case, the atomic counter remains at MAX_TX_URBS,
and all the URB contexts remain marked as active.  While opening
the channel again (@), it cannot send any further frames since no
more free tx URB contexts are available.

Reset all tx URB contexts upon CAN channel close.

(*) 50 parallel instances of `cangen0 -g 0 -ix`
(#) `ifconfig can0 down`
(@) `ifconfig can0 up`
(%) "can: kvaser_usb: Don't free packets when tight on URBs"

Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <ahmed.darwish@valeo.com>
Cc: linux-stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
2015-01-15 16:58:01 +01:00
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appletalk net: better IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE support 2014-10-07 13:22:11 -04:00
arcnet
bonding bonding: change error message to debug message in __bond_release_one() 2014-12-27 02:20:55 -05:00
caif caif: Fix napi poll list corruption 2014-12-22 16:34:39 -05:00
can can: kvaser_usb: Reset all URB tx contexts upon channel close 2015-01-15 16:58:01 +01:00
cris
dsa net: dsa: bcm_sf2: always select FIXED_PHY 2014-12-16 00:57:07 -05:00
ethernet be2net: Allow GRE to work concurrently while a VxLAN tunnel is configured 2015-01-15 01:55:05 -05:00
fddi defxx: Clean up DEFEA resource management 2014-11-21 16:37:13 -05:00
hamradio hamradio: 6pack: remove unnecessary check 2014-11-03 15:34:31 -05:00
hippi
hyperv hyperv: Fix some variable name typos in send-buffer init/revoke 2014-12-22 16:11:11 -05:00
ieee802154 Driver core patches for 3.19-rc1 2014-12-14 16:10:09 -08:00
ipvlan ipvlan: move the device check function into netdevice.h 2014-12-09 16:10:06 -05:00
irda Driver core patches for 3.19-rc1 2014-12-14 16:10:09 -08:00
phy net: phy: micrel: use generic config_init for KSZ8021/KSZ8031 2014-12-26 16:19:50 -05:00
plip
ppp ppp_read(): switch to skb_copy_datagram_iter() 2014-12-09 16:29:10 -05:00
slip
team team: avoid possible underflow of count_pending value for notify_peers and mcast_rejoin 2015-01-14 16:53:57 -05:00
usb usb/kaweth: use GFP_ATOMIC under spin_lock in usb_start_wait_urb() 2015-01-12 16:42:49 -05:00
vmxnet3 ethtool: Support for configurable RSS hash function 2014-12-08 21:07:10 -05:00
wan net: better IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE support 2014-10-07 13:22:11 -04:00
wimax kbuild: remove unnecessary "obj- := dummy.o" trick 2014-10-02 13:55:02 +02:00
wireless * fix for 7265D NVM check 2015-01-05 12:07:04 +02:00
xen-netback xen-netback: fixing the propagation of the transmit shaper timeout 2015-01-06 14:17:37 -05:00
dummy.c dummy: use MODULE_VERSION 2014-12-09 21:51:06 -05:00
eql.c net: better IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE support 2014-10-07 13:22:11 -04:00
ifb.c net: better IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE support 2014-10-07 13:22:11 -04:00
Kconfig ipvlan: ipvlan depends on INET and IPV6 2014-11-29 20:53:05 -08:00
LICENSE.SRC
loopback.c net: better IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE support 2014-10-07 13:22:11 -04:00
macvlan.c macvlan: play well with ipvlan device 2014-12-09 16:10:06 -05:00
macvtap.c macvtap: drop broken IFF_VNET_LE 2014-12-16 11:19:42 -05:00
Makefile ipvlan: Initial check-in of the IPVLAN driver. 2014-11-24 15:29:18 -05:00
mdio.c
mii.c
netconsole.c
nlmon.c
ntb_netdev.c
rionet.c
sb1000.c
Space.c
sungem_phy.c
tun.c tun: drop broken IFF_VNET_LE 2014-12-16 11:19:41 -05:00
veth.c
virtio_net.c virtio_net: Fix napi poll list corruption 2014-12-22 16:10:12 -05:00
vxlan.c vxlan: Fix double free of skb. 2014-12-23 23:57:31 -05:00
xen-netfront.c xen-netfront: use different locks for Rx and Tx stats 2015-01-13 17:22:11 -05:00