[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] igb: reinit_locked() should be called with rtnl_lock

Francesco Ruggeri fruggeri at arista.com
Thu Jul 2 19:35:05 UTC 2020


> Do not worry about the other Intel drivers, I have our developers looking at each of our drivers for the locking issue.
>
> @David Miller - I am picking up this patch

There seems to be a second race, independent from the
original one, that results in a divide error:

kworker         reboot -f       tx packet

igb_reset_task
                __igb_shutdown
                rtnl_lock()
                ...
                igb_clear_interrupt_scheme
                igb_free_q_vectors
                adapter->num_tx_queues = 0
                ...
                rtnl_unlock()
rtnl_lock()
igb_reinit_locked
igb_down
igb_up
netif_tx_start_all_queues
                                dev_hard_start_xmit
                                igb_xmit_frame
                                igb_tx_queue_mapping
                                Panics on
                                r_idx % adapter->num_tx_queues

Using in igb_reset_task a logic similar to the one in
ixgbe_reset_subtask (bailing if __IGB_DOWN or __IGB_RESETTING
is set) seems to avoid the panic.
That logic was first introduced in ixgbe as part of commit
2f90b8657ec ('ixgbe: this patch adds support for DCB to the
kernel and ixgbe driver').
Both fixes seem to be needed.


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