From: Dmitry Kravkov Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 04:34:30 +0000 (+0000) Subject: bnx2x: prevent race in statistics flow X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4a025f49d3f2f2f39b474af360c81a5587b41657;p=mv-sheeva.git 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 Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_stats.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_stats.c index 02ac6a771bf..3034f0e3193 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_stats.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_stats.c @@ -1349,12 +1349,14 @@ void bnx2x_stats_handle(struct bnx2x *bp, enum bnx2x_stats_event event) 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);