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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: hoist sta->lock from reorder release timer

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On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 16:21 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:

> > I think it's probably easier to fix than to revert now? There are only a
> > handful of fields, and it seemed to me that most of them can easily be
> > moved under the reorder lock.
> 
> I would prefer a fix on top rather than a series of reverts...

I think this should fix it. Somebody review please?

johannes

---
 net/mac80211/agg-rx.c      |    8 +++-----
 net/mac80211/debugfs_sta.c |   29 +++++++++++++++--------------
 net/mac80211/rx.c          |   17 +++++++++++++----
 net/mac80211/sta_info.h    |   29 ++++++++++++++---------------
 4 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)

--- wireless-testing.orig/net/mac80211/agg-rx.c	2010-10-07 22:44:04.000000000 +0200
+++ wireless-testing/net/mac80211/agg-rx.c	2010-10-07 22:53:33.000000000 +0200
@@ -129,9 +129,7 @@ static void sta_rx_agg_reorder_timer_exp
 			timer_to_tid[0]);
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
-	spin_lock(&sta->lock);
 	ieee80211_release_reorder_timeout(sta, *ptid);
-	spin_unlock(&sta->lock);
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 }
 
@@ -256,7 +254,7 @@ void ieee80211_process_addba_request(str
 	}
 
 	/* prepare A-MPDU MLME for Rx aggregation */
-	tid_agg_rx = kmalloc(sizeof(struct tid_ampdu_rx), GFP_ATOMIC);
+	tid_agg_rx = kmalloc(sizeof(struct tid_ampdu_rx), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!tid_agg_rx) {
 #ifdef CONFIG_MAC80211_HT_DEBUG
 		if (net_ratelimit())
@@ -280,9 +278,9 @@ void ieee80211_process_addba_request(str
 
 	/* prepare reordering buffer */
 	tid_agg_rx->reorder_buf =
-		kcalloc(buf_size, sizeof(struct sk_buff *), GFP_ATOMIC);
+		kcalloc(buf_size, sizeof(struct sk_buff *), GFP_KERNEL);
 	tid_agg_rx->reorder_time =
-		kcalloc(buf_size, sizeof(unsigned long), GFP_ATOMIC);
+		kcalloc(buf_size, sizeof(unsigned long), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!tid_agg_rx->reorder_buf || !tid_agg_rx->reorder_time) {
 #ifdef CONFIG_MAC80211_HT_DEBUG
 		if (net_ratelimit())
--- wireless-testing.orig/net/mac80211/debugfs_sta.c	2010-10-07 22:47:41.000000000 +0200
+++ wireless-testing/net/mac80211/debugfs_sta.c	2010-10-07 22:50:03.000000000 +0200
@@ -116,34 +116,35 @@ static ssize_t sta_agg_status_read(struc
 	char buf[71 + STA_TID_NUM * 40], *p = buf;
 	int i;
 	struct sta_info *sta = file->private_data;
+	struct tid_ampdu_rx *tid_rx;
+	struct tid_ampdu_tx *tid_tx;
+
+	rcu_read_lock();
 
-	spin_lock_bh(&sta->lock);
 	p += scnprintf(p, sizeof(buf) + buf - p, "next dialog_token: %#02x\n",
 			sta->ampdu_mlme.dialog_token_allocator + 1);
 	p += scnprintf(p, sizeof(buf) + buf - p,
 		       "TID\t\tRX active\tDTKN\tSSN\t\tTX\tDTKN\tpending\n");
+
 	for (i = 0; i < STA_TID_NUM; i++) {
+		tid_rx = rcu_dereference(sta->ampdu_mlme.tid_rx[i]);
+		tid_tx = rcu_dereference(sta->ampdu_mlme.tid_tx[i]);
+
 		p += scnprintf(p, sizeof(buf) + buf - p, "%02d", i);
-		p += scnprintf(p, sizeof(buf) + buf - p, "\t\t%x",
-				!!sta->ampdu_mlme.tid_rx[i]);
+		p += scnprintf(p, sizeof(buf) + buf - p, "\t\t%x", !!tid_rx);
 		p += scnprintf(p, sizeof(buf) + buf - p, "\t%#.2x",
-				sta->ampdu_mlme.tid_rx[i] ?
-				sta->ampdu_mlme.tid_rx[i]->dialog_token : 0);
+				tid_rx ? tid_rx->dialog_token : 0);
 		p += scnprintf(p, sizeof(buf) + buf - p, "\t%#.3x",
-				sta->ampdu_mlme.tid_rx[i] ?
-				sta->ampdu_mlme.tid_rx[i]->ssn : 0);
+				tid_rx ? tid_rx->ssn : 0);
 
-		p += scnprintf(p, sizeof(buf) + buf - p, "\t\t%x",
-				!!sta->ampdu_mlme.tid_tx[i]);
+		p += scnprintf(p, sizeof(buf) + buf - p, "\t\t%x", !!tid_tx);
 		p += scnprintf(p, sizeof(buf) + buf - p, "\t%#.2x",
-				sta->ampdu_mlme.tid_tx[i] ?
-				sta->ampdu_mlme.tid_tx[i]->dialog_token : 0);
+				tid_tx ? tid_tx->dialog_token : 0);
 		p += scnprintf(p, sizeof(buf) + buf - p, "\t%03d",
-				sta->ampdu_mlme.tid_tx[i] ?
-				skb_queue_len(&sta->ampdu_mlme.tid_tx[i]->pending) : 0);
+				tid_tx ? skb_queue_len(&tid_tx->pending) : 0);
 		p += scnprintf(p, sizeof(buf) + buf - p, "\n");
 	}
-	spin_unlock_bh(&sta->lock);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	return simple_read_from_buffer(userbuf, count, ppos, buf, p - buf);
 }
--- wireless-testing.orig/net/mac80211/sta_info.h	2010-10-07 22:44:16.000000000 +0200
+++ wireless-testing/net/mac80211/sta_info.h	2010-10-07 23:01:53.000000000 +0200
@@ -81,13 +81,14 @@ enum ieee80211_sta_info_flags {
  * @stop_initiator: initiator of a session stop
  * @tx_stop: TX DelBA frame when stopping
  *
- * This structure is protected by RCU and the per-station
- * spinlock. Assignments to the array holding it must hold
- * the spinlock, only the TX path can access it under RCU
- * lock-free if, and only if, the state has  the flag
- * %HT_AGG_STATE_OPERATIONAL set. Otherwise, the TX path
- * must also acquire the spinlock and re-check the state,
- * see comments in the tx code touching it.
+ * This structure's lifetime is managed by RCU, assignments to
+ * the array holding it must hold the aggregation mutex.
+ *
+ * The TX path can access it under RCU lock-free if, and
+ * only if, the state has the flag %HT_AGG_STATE_OPERATIONAL
+ * set. Otherwise, the TX path must also acquire the spinlock
+ * and re-check the state, see comments in the tx code
+ * touching it.
  */
 struct tid_ampdu_tx {
 	struct rcu_head rcu_head;
@@ -115,15 +116,13 @@ struct tid_ampdu_tx {
  * @rcu_head: RCU head used for freeing this struct
  * @reorder_lock: serializes access to reorder buffer, see below.
  *
- * This structure is protected by RCU and the per-station
- * spinlock. Assignments to the array holding it must hold
- * the spinlock.
+ * This structure's lifetime is managed by RCU, assignments to
+ * the array holding it must hold the aggregation mutex.
  *
- * The @reorder_lock is used to protect the variables and
- * arrays such as @reorder_buf, @reorder_time, @head_seq_num,
- * @stored_mpdu_num and @reorder_time from being corrupted by
- * concurrent access of the RX path and the expired frame
- * release timer.
+ * The @reorder_lock is used to protect the members of this
+ * struct, except for @timeout, @buf_size and @dialog_token,
+ * which are constant across the lifetime of the struct (the
+ * dialog token being used only for debugging).
  */
 struct tid_ampdu_rx {
 	struct rcu_head rcu_head;
--- wireless-testing.orig/net/mac80211/rx.c	2010-10-07 22:52:03.000000000 +0200
+++ wireless-testing/net/mac80211/rx.c	2010-10-07 22:58:17.000000000 +0200
@@ -538,6 +538,8 @@ static void ieee80211_release_reorder_fr
 {
 	struct sk_buff *skb = tid_agg_rx->reorder_buf[index];
 
+	lockdep_assert_held(&tid_agg_rx->reorder_lock);
+
 	if (!skb)
 		goto no_frame;
 
@@ -557,6 +559,8 @@ static void ieee80211_release_reorder_fr
 {
 	int index;
 
+	lockdep_assert_held(&tid_agg_rx->reorder_lock);
+
 	while (seq_less(tid_agg_rx->head_seq_num, head_seq_num)) {
 		index = seq_sub(tid_agg_rx->head_seq_num, tid_agg_rx->ssn) %
 							tid_agg_rx->buf_size;
@@ -581,6 +585,8 @@ static void ieee80211_sta_reorder_releas
 {
 	int index, j;
 
+	lockdep_assert_held(&tid_agg_rx->reorder_lock);
+
 	/* release the buffer until next missing frame */
 	index = seq_sub(tid_agg_rx->head_seq_num, tid_agg_rx->ssn) %
 						tid_agg_rx->buf_size;
@@ -659,10 +665,11 @@ static bool ieee80211_sta_manage_reorder
 	int index;
 	bool ret = true;
 
+	spin_lock(&tid_agg_rx->reorder_lock);
+
 	buf_size = tid_agg_rx->buf_size;
 	head_seq_num = tid_agg_rx->head_seq_num;
 
-	spin_lock(&tid_agg_rx->reorder_lock);
 	/* frame with out of date sequence number */
 	if (seq_less(mpdu_seq_num, head_seq_num)) {
 		dev_kfree_skb(skb);
@@ -1899,9 +1906,12 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_ctrl(struct ieee80211_rx_
 			mod_timer(&tid_agg_rx->session_timer,
 				  TU_TO_EXP_TIME(tid_agg_rx->timeout));
 
+		spin_lock(&tid_agg_rx->reorder_lock);
 		/* release stored frames up to start of BAR */
 		ieee80211_release_reorder_frames(hw, tid_agg_rx, start_seq_num,
 						 frames);
+		spin_unlock(&tid_agg_rx->reorder_lock);
+
 		kfree_skb(skb);
 		return RX_QUEUED;
 	}
@@ -2493,9 +2503,8 @@ static void ieee80211_invoke_rx_handlers
 }
 
 /*
- * This function makes calls into the RX path. Therefore the
- * caller must hold the sta_info->lock and everything has to
- * be under rcu_read_lock protection as well.
+ * This function makes calls into the RX path, therefore
+ * it has to be invoked under RCU read lock.
  */
 void ieee80211_release_reorder_timeout(struct sta_info *sta, int tid)
 {


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