This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net/mlx5: Don't call timecounter cyc2time directly from 1PPS flow
to the 5.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
net-mlx5-don-t-call-timecounter-cyc2time-directly-fr.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit b2720af31d68b0a5ef0b2eb94b91f41aacc48d99
Author: Eran Ben Elisha <eranbe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Jun 16 12:07:10 2020 +0300
net/mlx5: Don't call timecounter cyc2time directly from 1PPS flow
[ Upstream commit 0d2ffdc8d4002a62de31ff7aa3bef28c843c3cbe ]
Before calling timecounter_cyc2time(), clock->lock must be taken.
Use mlx5_timecounter_cyc2time instead which guarantees a safe access.
Fixes: afc98a0b46d8 ("net/mlx5: Update ptp_clock_event foreach PPS event")
Signed-off-by: Eran Ben Elisha <eranbe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/clock.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/clock.c
index 2d55b7c22c034..4e7cfa22b3d2f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/clock.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/clock.c
@@ -550,8 +550,9 @@ static int mlx5_pps_event(struct notifier_block *nb,
switch (clock->ptp_info.pin_config[pin].func) {
case PTP_PF_EXTTS:
ptp_event.index = pin;
- ptp_event.timestamp = timecounter_cyc2time(&clock->tc,
- be64_to_cpu(eqe->data.pps.time_stamp));
+ ptp_event.timestamp =
+ mlx5_timecounter_cyc2time(clock,
+ be64_to_cpu(eqe->data.pps.time_stamp));
if (clock->pps_info.enabled) {
ptp_event.type = PTP_CLOCK_PPSUSR;
ptp_event.pps_times.ts_real =
