From: Jiri Benc jbenc@redhat.com
[ Upstream commit 857b6c6f665cca9828396d9743faf37fd09e9ac3 ]
The loop in i40e_get_capabilities can never end. The problem is that although i40e_aq_discover_capabilities returns with an error if there's a firmware problem, the returned error is not checked. There is a check for pf->hw.aq.asq_last_status but that value is set to I40E_AQ_RC_OK on most firmware problems.
When i40e_aq_discover_capabilities encounters a firmware problem, it will encounter the same problem on its next invocation. As the result, the loop becomes endless. We hit this with I40E_ERR_ADMIN_QUEUE_TIMEOUT but looking at the code, it can happen with a range of other firmware errors.
I don't know what the correct behavior should be: whether the firmware should be retried a few times, or whether pf->hw.aq.asq_last_status should be always set to the encountered firmware error (but then it would be pointless and can be just replaced by the i40e_aq_discover_capabilities return value). However, the current behavior with an endless loop under the rtnl mutex(!) is unacceptable and Intel has not submitted a fix, although we explained the bug to them 7 months ago.
This may not be the best possible fix but it's better than hanging the whole system on a firmware bug.
Fixes: 56a62fc86895 ("i40e: init code and hardware support") Tested-by: Stefan Assmann sassmann@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc jbenc@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Jesse Brandeburg jesse.brandeburg@intel.com Tested-by: Dave Switzer david.switzer@intel.com Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c index 21ab7d2caddf..8434067566db 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c @@ -9616,7 +9616,7 @@ static int i40e_get_capabilities(struct i40e_pf *pf, if (pf->hw.aq.asq_last_status == I40E_AQ_RC_ENOMEM) { /* retry with a larger buffer */ buf_len = data_size; - } else if (pf->hw.aq.asq_last_status != I40E_AQ_RC_OK) { + } else if (pf->hw.aq.asq_last_status != I40E_AQ_RC_OK || err) { dev_info(&pf->pdev->dev, "capability discovery failed, err %s aq_err %s\n", i40e_stat_str(&pf->hw, err),