net/mpc5200: Fix locking on fec_mpc52xx driver
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: Asier Llano <a.llano@ziv.es>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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