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wireguard: send/receive: cond_resched() when processing worker ringbuffers
authorJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Wed, 6 May 2020 21:33:04 +0000 (15:33 -0600)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 7 May 2020 03:03:47 +0000 (20:03 -0700)
commit5ce75aec96a9f780705b5599452c56d673f8e35b
treed275974f4516371281eb5d8dc1b508a02b2e242e
parentc62450e60bca5235870838cd37c12482b6bbf0ed
wireguard: send/receive: cond_resched() when processing worker ringbuffers

Users with pathological hardware reported CPU stalls on CONFIG_
PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y, because the ringbuffers would stay full, meaning
these workers would never terminate. That turned out not to be okay on
systems without forced preemption, which Sultan observed. This commit
adds a cond_resched() to the bottom of each loop iteration, so that
these workers don't hog the core. Note that we don't need this on the
napi poll worker, since that terminates after its budget is expended.

Suggested-by: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@kerneltoast.com>
Reported-by: Wang Jian <larkwang@gmail.com>
Fixes: 0c73bbc77a76 ("net: WireGuard secure network tunnel")
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/wireguard/receive.c
drivers/net/wireguard/send.c