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x86: uv: XPC receive message reuse triggers invalid BUG_ON()
authorRobin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:47:59 +0000 (16:47 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Thu, 9 Dec 2010 21:27:14 +0000 (13:27 -0800)
commit 046d6c563b1c6226bbf0f84e5b2413ad8ab921a1 upstream.

This was a difficult bug to trip.  XPC was in the middle of sending an
acknowledgement for a received message.

In xpc_received_payload_uv():
.
        ret = xpc_send_gru_msg(ch->sn.uv.cached_notify_gru_mq_desc, msg,
                               sizeof(struct xpc_notify_mq_msghdr_uv));
        if (ret != xpSuccess)
                XPC_DEACTIVATE_PARTITION(&xpc_partitions[ch->partid], ret);

        msg->hdr.msg_slot_number += ch->remote_nentries;

at the point in xpc_send_gru_msg() where the hardware has dispatched the
acknowledgement, the remote side is able to reuse the message structure
and send a message with a different slot number.  This problem is made
worse by interrupts.

The adjustment of msg_slot_number and the BUG_ON in
xpc_handle_notify_mq_msg_uv() which verifies the msg_slot_number is
consistent are only used for debug purposes.  Since a fix for this that
preserves the debug functionality would either have to infringe upon the
payload or allocate another structure just for debug, I decided to remove
it entirely.

Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_uv.c

index 27e56eee6af35ff3cde6c4b550e7f60e71112cfb..fea9a340e7f326ee859bcfa65fbd7c56891f70b6 100644 (file)
@@ -1441,7 +1441,6 @@ xpc_handle_notify_mq_msg_uv(struct xpc_partition *part,
        msg_slot = ch_uv->recv_msg_slots +
            (msg->hdr.msg_slot_number % ch->remote_nentries) * ch->entry_size;
 
-       BUG_ON(msg->hdr.msg_slot_number != msg_slot->hdr.msg_slot_number);
        BUG_ON(msg_slot->hdr.size != 0);
 
        memcpy(msg_slot, msg, msg->hdr.size);
@@ -1665,8 +1664,6 @@ xpc_received_payload_uv(struct xpc_channel *ch, void *payload)
                               sizeof(struct xpc_notify_mq_msghdr_uv));
        if (ret != xpSuccess)
                XPC_DEACTIVATE_PARTITION(&xpc_partitions[ch->partid], ret);
-
-       msg->hdr.msg_slot_number += ch->remote_nentries;
 }
 
 static struct xpc_arch_operations xpc_arch_ops_uv = {