[PATCH net] ibmvnic: Skip fatal error reset after passive init

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Fri May 1 06:28:19 AEST 2020


From: Juliet Kim <julietk at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 13:22:11 -0500

> During MTU change, the following events may happen.
> Client-driven CRQ initialization fails due to partner’s CRQ closed,
> causing client to enqueue a reset task for FATAL_ERROR. Then passive
> (server-driven) CRQ initialization succeeds, causing client to
> release CRQ and enqueue a reset task for failover. If the passive
> CRQ initialization occurs before the FATAL reset task is processed,
> the FATAL error reset task would try to access a CRQ message queue
> that was freed, causing an oops. The problem may be most likely to
> occur during DLPAR add vNIC with a non-default MTU, because the DLPAR
> process will automatically issue a change MTU request.
> 
> Fix this by not processing fatal error reset if CRQ is passively
> initialized after client-driven CRQ initialization fails.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Juliet Kim <julietk at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Applied, thanks.


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