This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
vmxnet3: ensure that adapter is in proper state during force_close
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: vmxnet3-ensure-that-adapter-is-in-proper-state-during-force_close.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Mon Apr 9 17:09:24 CEST 2018
From: Neil Horman nhorman@tuxdriver.com Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 12:00:01 -0400 Subject: vmxnet3: ensure that adapter is in proper state during force_close
From: Neil Horman nhorman@tuxdriver.com
[ Upstream commit 1c4d5f51a812a82de97beee24f48ed05c65ebda5 ]
There are several paths in vmxnet3, where settings changes cause the adapter to be brought down and back up (vmxnet3_set_ringparam among them). Should part of the reset operation fail, these paths call vmxnet3_force_close, which enables all napi instances prior to calling dev_close (with the expectation that vmxnet3_close will then properly disable them again). However, vmxnet3_force_close neglects to clear VMXNET3_STATE_BIT_QUIESCED prior to calling dev_close. As a result vmxnet3_quiesce_dev (called from vmxnet3_close), returns early, and leaves all the napi instances in a enabled state while the device itself is closed. If a device in this state is activated again, napi_enable will be called on already enabled napi_instances, leading to a BUG halt.
The fix is to simply enausre that the QUIESCED bit is cleared in vmxnet3_force_close to allow quesence to be completed properly on close.
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman nhorman@tuxdriver.com CC: Shrikrishna Khare skhare@vmware.com CC: "VMware, Inc." pv-drivers@vmware.com CC: "David S. Miller" davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c +++ b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c @@ -2962,6 +2962,11 @@ vmxnet3_force_close(struct vmxnet3_adapt /* we need to enable NAPI, otherwise dev_close will deadlock */ for (i = 0; i < adapter->num_rx_queues; i++) napi_enable(&adapter->rx_queue[i].napi); + /* + * Need to clear the quiesce bit to ensure that vmxnet3_close + * can quiesce the device properly + */ + clear_bit(VMXNET3_STATE_BIT_QUIESCED, &adapter->state); dev_close(adapter->netdev); }
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nhorman@tuxdriver.com are
queue-4.9/x86-asm-don-t-use-rbp-as-a-temporary-register-in-csum_partial_copy_generic.patch queue-4.9/vmxnet3-ensure-that-adapter-is-in-proper-state-during-force_close.patch