ptr_ring: add barriers

Users of ptr_ring expect that it's safe to give the
data structure a pointer and have it be available
to consumers, but that actually requires an smb_wmb
or a stronger barrier.

In absence of such barriers and on architectures that reorder writes,
consumer might read an un=initialized value from an skb pointer stored
in the skb array.  This was observed causing crashes.

To fix, add memory barriers.  The barrier we use is a wmb, the
assumption being that producers do not need to read the value so we do
not need to order these reads.

Reported-by: George Cherian <george.cherian@cavium.com>
Suggested-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/include/linux/ptr_ring.h b/include/linux/ptr_ring.h
index 37b4bb2545b32dc82633df6b76e629b9999f900b..6866df4f31b59da506d56b3db29501a56d813635 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/ptr_ring.h
+++ b/include/linux/ptr_ring.h
@@ -101,12 +101,18 @@ static inline bool ptr_ring_full_bh(struct ptr_ring *r)
 
 /* Note: callers invoking this in a loop must use a compiler barrier,
  * for example cpu_relax(). Callers must hold producer_lock.
+ * Callers are responsible for making sure pointer that is being queued
+ * points to a valid data.
  */
 static inline int __ptr_ring_produce(struct ptr_ring *r, void *ptr)
 {
        if (unlikely(!r->size) || r->queue[r->producer])
                return -ENOSPC;
 
+       /* Make sure the pointer we are storing points to a valid data. */
+       /* Pairs with smp_read_barrier_depends in __ptr_ring_consume. */
+       smp_wmb();
+
        r->queue[r->producer++] = ptr;
        if (unlikely(r->producer >= r->size))
                r->producer = 0;
@@ -275,6 +281,9 @@ static inline void *__ptr_ring_consume(struct ptr_ring *r)
        if (ptr)
                __ptr_ring_discard_one(r);
 
+       /* Make sure anyone accessing data through the pointer is up to date. */
+       /* Pairs with smp_wmb in __ptr_ring_produce. */
+       smp_read_barrier_depends();
        return ptr;
 }