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ibmvnic: don't stop queue in xmit
authorSukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.ibm.com>
Fri, 29 Oct 2021 22:03:14 +0000 (15:03 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 1 Nov 2021 13:14:52 +0000 (13:14 +0000)
commit60f7a33f7fbc041232753e6b87ac891b566c8094
tree8c6245f3ffd2976fdf7f5dcc3a67734ff0248c17
parentb08d93e35aef7539b92c508e78e069dbd90a2a6f
ibmvnic: don't stop queue in xmit

If adapter's resetting bit is on, discard the packet but don't stop the
transmit queue - instead leave that to the reset code. With this change,
it is possible that we may get several calls to ibmvnic_xmit() that simply
discard packets and return.

But if we stop the queue here, we might end up doing so just after
__ibmvnic_open() started the queues (during a hard/soft reset) and before
the ->resetting bit was cleared. If that happens, there will be no one to
restart queue and transmissions will be blocked indefinitely.

This can cause a TIMEOUT reset and with auto priority failover enabled,
an unnecessary FAILOVER reset to less favored backing device and then a
FAILOVER back to the most favored backing device. If we hit the window
repeatedly, we can get stuck in a loop of TIMEOUT, FAILOVER, FAILOVER
resets leaving the adapter unusable for extended periods of time.

Fixes: 6b5492cd71be ("ibmvnic: Free skb's in cases of failure in transmit")
Reported-by: Abdul Haleem <abdhalee@in.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Vaishnavi Bhat <vaish123@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Dany Madden <drt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c