[PATCH v2 3/4] timer: fix function to stop all timers

Naga Harish K S V s.v.naga.harish.k at intel.com
Wed Aug 10 09:09:58 CEST 2022


There is a possibility of deadlock in this API,
as same spinlock is tried to be acquired in nested manner.

In timer_del function, if the previous owner and current owner lcore
are different, the lock is tried to be acquired even though the same
lock is already acquired by the caller of timer_del function.

This patch removes the acquisition of nested locking.

Fixes: 821c51267bcd63a ("timer: add function to stop all timers in a list")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Naga Harish K S V <s.v.naga.harish.k at intel.com>
---
 lib/timer/rte_timer.c | 13 ++++---------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/timer/rte_timer.c b/lib/timer/rte_timer.c
index 9994813d0d..85d67573eb 100644
--- a/lib/timer/rte_timer.c
+++ b/lib/timer/rte_timer.c
@@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ rte_timer_reset_sync(struct rte_timer *tim, uint64_t ticks,
 }
 
 static int
-__rte_timer_stop(struct rte_timer *tim, int local_is_locked,
+__rte_timer_stop(struct rte_timer *tim,
 		 struct rte_timer_data *timer_data)
 {
 	union rte_timer_status prev_status, status;
@@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ __rte_timer_stop(struct rte_timer *tim, int local_is_locked,
 
 	/* remove it from list */
 	if (prev_status.state == RTE_TIMER_PENDING) {
-		timer_del(tim, prev_status, local_is_locked, priv_timer);
+		timer_del(tim, prev_status, 0, priv_timer);
 		__TIMER_STAT_ADD(priv_timer, pending, -1);
 	}
 
@@ -631,7 +631,7 @@ rte_timer_alt_stop(uint32_t timer_data_id, struct rte_timer *tim)
 
 	TIMER_DATA_VALID_GET_OR_ERR_RET(timer_data_id, timer_data, -EINVAL);
 
-	return __rte_timer_stop(tim, 0, timer_data);
+	return __rte_timer_stop(tim, timer_data);
 }
 
 /* loop until rte_timer_stop() succeed */
@@ -987,21 +987,16 @@ rte_timer_stop_all(uint32_t timer_data_id, unsigned int *walk_lcores,
 		walk_lcore = walk_lcores[i];
 		priv_timer = &timer_data->priv_timer[walk_lcore];
 
-		rte_spinlock_lock(&priv_timer->list_lock);
-
 		for (tim = priv_timer->pending_head.sl_next[0];
 		     tim != NULL;
 		     tim = next_tim) {
 			next_tim = tim->sl_next[0];
 
-			/* Call timer_stop with lock held */
-			__rte_timer_stop(tim, 1, timer_data);
+			__rte_timer_stop(tim, timer_data);
 
 			if (f)
 				f(tim, f_arg);
 		}
-
-		rte_spinlock_unlock(&priv_timer->list_lock);
 	}
 
 	return 0;
-- 
2.25.1



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