The reset path will call ibmvnic_cleanup->ibmvnic_napi_disable ->napi_disable(). This is supposed to stop the polling. Commit 21ecba6c48f9 ("ibmvnic: Exit polling routine correctly during adapter reset") reported that the during device reset, polling routine never completed and napi_disable slept indefinitely. In order to solve that problem, resetting bit was checked and napi_complete_done was called before dev->poll::ibmvnic_poll exited.
Checking for resetting bit in dev->poll is racy because resetting bit may be false while being checked, but turns true immediately afterwards. Hence we call napi_complete in ibmvnic_napi_disable, which avoids the racing with resetting, and makes sure dev->poll and napi_disalbe completes before reset routine actually releases resources. Fixes: 21ecba6c48f9 ("ibmvnic: Exit polling routine correctly during adapter reset") Signed-off-by: Lijun Pan <l...@linux.ibm.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c | 8 +------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c index b6102ccf9b90..338d3d071cec 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c @@ -785,6 +785,7 @@ static void ibmvnic_napi_disable(struct ibmvnic_adapter *adapter) for (i = 0; i < adapter->req_rx_queues; i++) { netdev_dbg(adapter->netdev, "Disabling napi[%d]\n", i); + napi_complete(&adapter->napi[i]); napi_disable(&adapter->napi[i]); } @@ -2455,13 +2456,6 @@ static int ibmvnic_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget) u16 offset; u8 flags = 0; - if (unlikely(test_bit(0, &adapter->resetting) && - adapter->reset_reason != VNIC_RESET_NON_FATAL)) { - enable_scrq_irq(adapter, rx_scrq); - napi_complete_done(napi, frames_processed); - return frames_processed; - } - if (!pending_scrq(adapter, rx_scrq)) break; next = ibmvnic_next_scrq(adapter, rx_scrq); -- 2.23.0