On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 06:22:14PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> Your recent ibmveth commit, 751ae21c
> ("fix int rollover panic"), causes a rapid oops on my test machine
> (POWER5 LPAR).
>
> I've bisected it down to that commit, but am still investigating the
> cause of the crash itself.

Found the problem, I believe: an object lesson in the need for great
caution using ++.

[...]
@@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ static void ibmveth_replenish_buffer_poo
 		}

 		free_index = pool->consumer_index++ % pool->size;
+		pool->consumer_index = free_index;
 		index = pool->free_map[free_index];

 		ibmveth_assert(index != IBM_VETH_INVALID_MAP);

Since the ++ is used as post-increment, the increment is not included
in free_index, and so the added line effectively reverts the
increment.  The produced_index side has an analagous bug.

The following change corrects this:

The recent commit 751ae21c introduced
a bug in the producer/consumer index calculation in the ibmveth driver
- incautious use of the post-increment ++ operator resulted in an
increment being immediately reverted.  This patch corrects the logic.

Without this patch, the driver oopses almost immediately after
activation on at least some machines.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>