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From:   Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
Subject: [Report] net: wireless: iwlegacy: Several possible data races
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Date:   Sat, 6 Oct 2018 10:25:13 +0800
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****** Possible race 0 ******
CPU0:
il4965_mac_tx
     il4965_tx_skb
         line 1687: spin_lock_irqsave(&il->lock, flags)
         line 1894: q->write_ptr = il_queue_inc_wrap(...) [WRITE]

CPU1:
il4965_irq_tasklet
     il_txq_update_write_ptr
         line 2749: il_wr(..., txq->q.write_ptr); [READ]
         line 2757: _il_wr(..., txq->q.write_ptr); [READ]

CPU2:
il_bg_watchdog
     il_check_stuck_queue
         line 4817: if (q->read_ptr == q->write_ptr) [READ]

CPU3:
il4965_irq_tasklet
     il4965_rx_handle
         line 4827, function pointer: il->handlers[pkt->hdr.cmd] (il, rxb);
         il4965_hdl_tx
             il_queue_used
                 line 868: return q->write_ptr >= ... q->write_ptr ... 
[READ]

As for q->write_ptr, the WRITE operation in CPU0 is performed with holding
a spinlock il->lock, but the READ operations in CPU1, CPU2 and CPU3
are performed without holding this spinlock, so there may exist data races.

****** Possible race 1 ******
CPU0:
il4965_irq_tasklet
     il4965_rx_handle
         line 4827, function pointer: il->handlers[pkt->hdr.cmd] (il, rxb);
         il4965_hdl_tx
             line 2834: spin_lock_irqsave(&il->sta_lock, flags)
             il4965_tx_queue_reclaim
                 line 2490: q->read_ptr = ... [WRITE]

CPU1:
il_bg_watchdog
     il_check_stuck_queue
         line 4817: q->read_ptr == q->write_ptr [READ]

As for q->read_ptr, the WRITE operation in CPU0 is performed with
holding a spinlock il->sta_lock, but the READ operation in CPU1 is
performed without holding this spinlock, so there may exist a data race.

****** Possible race 2 ******
CPU0:
il4965_mac_tx
     il4965_tx_skb
         line 1687: spin_lock_irqsave(&il->lock, flags)
         line 1863: txq->need_update = 1 [WRITE]

CPU1:
il4965_irq_tasklet
     il_txq_update_write_ptr
         line 2731: if (txq->need_update == 0) [READ]

As for txq->need_update, the WRITE operation in CPU0 is performed with
holding a spinlock il->lock, but the READ operation in CPU1 is performed
without holding this spinlock, so there may exist a data race.

I do not find good ways to fix these possible data races, so I only 
report them.


Best wishes,
Jia-Ju Bai