Commit 1d7ea556 authored by Menglong Dong's avatar Menglong Dong Committed by David S. Miller

macvlan: schedule bc_work even if error

While enqueueing a broadcast skb to port->bc_queue, schedule_work()
is called to add port->bc_work, which processes the skbs in
bc_queue, to "events" work queue. If port->bc_queue is full, the
skb will be discarded and schedule_work(&port->bc_work) won't be
called. However, if port->bc_queue is full and port->bc_work is not
running or pending, port->bc_queue will keep full and schedule_work()
won't be called any more, and all broadcast skbs to macvlan will be
discarded. This case can happen:

macvlan_process_broadcast() is the pending function of port->bc_work,
it moves all the skbs in port->bc_queue to the queue "list", and
processes the skbs in "list". During this, new skbs will keep being
added to port->bc_queue in macvlan_broadcast_enqueue(), and
port->bc_queue may already full when macvlan_process_broadcast()
return. This may happen, especially when there are a lot of real-time
threads and the process is preempted.

Fix this by calling schedule_work(&port->bc_work) even if
port->bc_work is full in macvlan_broadcast_enqueue().

Fixes: 412ca155 ("macvlan: Move broadcasts into a work queue")
Signed-off-by: default avatarMenglong Dong <dong.menglong@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 32085f25
...@@ -359,10 +359,11 @@ static void macvlan_broadcast_enqueue(struct macvlan_port *port, ...@@ -359,10 +359,11 @@ static void macvlan_broadcast_enqueue(struct macvlan_port *port,
} }
spin_unlock(&port->bc_queue.lock); spin_unlock(&port->bc_queue.lock);
schedule_work(&port->bc_work);
if (err) if (err)
goto free_nskb; goto free_nskb;
schedule_work(&port->bc_work);
return; return;
free_nskb: free_nskb:
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