bnx2x: prevent race in statistics flow
The race may cause access of registers while MAC hw block is
in reset state. As a result syslog will show error messages.
We can prevent this by using state from local variable.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kravkov <dmitry@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_stats.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_stats.c
index 02ac6a7..3034f0e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_stats.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_stats.c
@@ -1349,12 +1349,14 @@
enum bnx2x_stats_state state;
if (unlikely(bp->panic))
return;
- bnx2x_stats_stm[bp->stats_state][event].action(bp);
+
spin_lock_bh(&bp->stats_lock);
state = bp->stats_state;
bp->stats_state = bnx2x_stats_stm[state][event].next_state;
spin_unlock_bh(&bp->stats_lock);
+ bnx2x_stats_stm[state][event].action(bp);
+
if ((event != STATS_EVENT_UPDATE) || netif_msg_timer(bp))
DP(BNX2X_MSG_STATS, "state %d -> event %d -> state %d\n",
state, event, bp->stats_state);