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    net/mpc5200: Fix locking on fec_mpc52xx driver · 1e4e0767
    Asier Llano authored
    Fix the locking scheme on the fec_mpc52xx driver.  This device can
    receive IRQs from three sources; the FEC itself, the tx DMA, and the
    rx DMA.  Mutual exclusion was handled by taking a spin_lock() in the
    critical regions, but because the handlers are run with IRQs enabled,
    spin_lock() is insufficient and the driver can end up interrupting
    a critical region anyway from another IRQ.
    
    Asier Llano discovered that this occurs when an error IRQ is raised
    in the middle of handling rx irqs which resulted in an sk_buff memory
    leak.
    
    In addition, locking is spotty at best in the driver and inspection
    revealed quite a few places with insufficient locking.
    
    This patch is based on Asier's initial work, but reworks a number of
    things so that locks are held for as short a time as possible, so
    that spin_lock_irqsave() is used everywhere, and so the locks are
    dropped when calling into the network stack (because the lock only
    protects the hardware interface; not the network stack).
    
    Boot tested on a lite5200 with an NFS root.  Has not been performance
    tested.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAsier Llano <a.llano@ziv.es>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGrant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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