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authorDmitry Kravkov <dmitry@broadcom.com>2011-11-13 04:34:30 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-11-13 16:03:56 -0500
commit4a025f49d3f2f2f39b474af360c81a5587b41657 (patch)
tree5f9ae3a4eecfd197839dc9ba5ab2c67710a6945f /drivers/net
parent8304859adc213df9f69a86e06164683f76cd5d49 (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_stats.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_stats.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_stats.c
index 02ac6a771bf9..3034f0e31938 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);