On 9/11/2023 7:55 pm, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 07, 2023 at 06:20:22AM -0500, Faizal Rahim wrote:
>> Fix the issue of prematurely setting q->current_entry to NULL in the
>> setup_first_end_time() function when a new admin schedule arrives
>> while the oper schedule is still running but hasn't transitioned yet.
>> This premature setting causes problems because any reference to
>> q->current_entry, such as in taprio_dequeue(), will result in NULL
>> during this period, which is incorrect. q->current_entry should remain
>> valid until the currently running entry expires.
>>
>> To address this issue, only set q->current_entry to NULL when there is
>> no oper schedule currently running.
>>
>> Fixes: 5a781ccbd19e ("tc: Add support for configuring the taprio scheduler")
>
> The "Fixes" tag represents the commit where the code started becoming a
> problem, not when the code that you're changing was first introduced.
>
> I find it hard to believe that the problem was in commit 5a781ccbd19e
> ("tc: Add support for configuring the taprio scheduler"), because we
> didn't support admin -> oper dynamic schedules back then.
>
My bad, will update accordingly.
>> Signed-off-by: Faizal Rahim <[email protected]>
>> ---
>> net/sched/sch_taprio.c | 3 ++-
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/net/sched/sch_taprio.c b/net/sched/sch_taprio.c
>> index 01b114edec30..c60e9e7ac193 100644
>> --- a/net/sched/sch_taprio.c
>> +++ b/net/sched/sch_taprio.c
>> @@ -1375,7 +1375,8 @@ static void setup_first_end_time(struct taprio_sched *q,
>> first->gate_close_time[tc] = ktime_add_ns(base, first->gate_duration[tc]);
>> }
>>
>> - rcu_assign_pointer(q->current_entry, NULL);
>> + if (!hrtimer_active(&q->advance_timer))
>> + rcu_assign_pointer(q->current_entry, NULL);
>> }
>>
>> static void taprio_start_sched(struct Qdisc *sch,
>> --
>> 2.25.1
>>