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[net,1/2] net/mlx5_core: Fix race in create EQ

Message ID 1415271082-7644-2-git-send-email-eli@mellanox.com (mailing list archive)
State Not Applicable, archived
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Eli Cohen Nov. 6, 2014, 10:51 a.m. UTC 
After the EQ is created, it can possibly generate interrupts and the interrupt
handler is referencing eq->dev. It is therefore required to set eq->dev before
calling request_irq() so if an event is generated before request_irq() returns,
we will have a valid eq->dev field.

Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eq.c | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eq.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eq.c
index a278238a2db6..ad2c96a02a53 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eq.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eq.c
@@ -374,15 +374,14 @@  int mlx5_create_map_eq(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev, struct mlx5_eq *eq, u8 vecidx,
 	snprintf(eq->name, MLX5_MAX_EQ_NAME, "%s@pci:%s",
 		 name, pci_name(dev->pdev));
 	eq->eqn = out.eq_number;
+	eq->irqn = vecidx;
+	eq->dev = dev;
+	eq->doorbell = uar->map + MLX5_EQ_DOORBEL_OFFSET;
 	err = request_irq(table->msix_arr[vecidx].vector, mlx5_msix_handler, 0,
 			  eq->name, eq);
 	if (err)
 		goto err_eq;
 
-	eq->irqn = vecidx;
-	eq->dev = dev;
-	eq->doorbell = uar->map + MLX5_EQ_DOORBEL_OFFSET;
-
 	err = mlx5_debug_eq_add(dev, eq);
 	if (err)
 		goto err_irq;