Calling napi_disable() on an already disabled napi can cause the
deadlock. Because the delayed refill work will call napi_disable(), we
must ensure that refill work is only enabled and scheduled after we have
enabled the rx queue's NAPI.

Signed-off-by: Bui Quang Minh <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 63126e490bda..8016d2b378cf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -3208,16 +3208,31 @@ static int virtnet_open(struct net_device *dev)
        int i, err;
 
        for (i = 0; i < vi->max_queue_pairs; i++) {
+               bool schedule_refill = false;
+
+               /* - We must call try_fill_recv before enabling napi of the same
+                * receive queue so that it doesn't race with the call in
+                * virtnet_receive.
+                * - We must enable and schedule delayed refill work only when
+                * we have enabled all the receive queue's napi. Otherwise, in
+                * refill_work, we have a deadlock when calling napi_disable on
+                * an already disabled napi.
+                */
                if (i < vi->curr_queue_pairs) {
-                       enable_delayed_refill(&vi->rq[i]);
                        /* Make sure we have some buffers: if oom use wq. */
                        if (!try_fill_recv(vi, &vi->rq[i], GFP_KERNEL))
-                               schedule_delayed_work(&vi->rq[i].refill, 0);
+                               schedule_refill = true;
                }
 
                err = virtnet_enable_queue_pair(vi, i);
                if (err < 0)
                        goto err_enable_qp;
+
+               if (i < vi->curr_queue_pairs) {
+                       enable_delayed_refill(&vi->rq[i]);
+                       if (schedule_refill)
+                               schedule_delayed_work(&vi->rq[i].refill, 0);
+               }
        }
 
        if (virtio_has_feature(vi->vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_STATUS)) {
@@ -3456,11 +3471,16 @@ static void __virtnet_rx_resume(struct virtnet_info *vi,
        bool running = netif_running(vi->dev);
        bool schedule_refill = false;
 
+       /* See the comment in virtnet_open for the ordering rule
+        * of try_fill_recv, receive queue napi_enable and delayed
+        * refill enable/schedule.
+        */
        if (refill && !try_fill_recv(vi, rq, GFP_KERNEL))
                schedule_refill = true;
        if (running)
                virtnet_napi_enable(rq);
 
+       enable_delayed_refill(rq);
        if (schedule_refill)
                schedule_delayed_work(&rq->refill, 0);
 }
@@ -3470,18 +3490,15 @@ static void virtnet_rx_resume_all(struct virtnet_info 
*vi)
        int i;
 
        for (i = 0; i < vi->max_queue_pairs; i++) {
-               if (i < vi->curr_queue_pairs) {
-                       enable_delayed_refill(&vi->rq[i]);
+               if (i < vi->curr_queue_pairs)
                        __virtnet_rx_resume(vi, &vi->rq[i], true);
-               } else {
+               else
                        __virtnet_rx_resume(vi, &vi->rq[i], false);
-               }
        }
 }
 
 static void virtnet_rx_resume(struct virtnet_info *vi, struct receive_queue 
*rq)
 {
-       enable_delayed_refill(rq);
        __virtnet_rx_resume(vi, rq, true);
 }
 
-- 
2.43.0


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