[PATCH net v3] ibmvnic: Continue with reset if set link down failed

[Lijun Pan]

On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 2:14 PM Dany Madden <drt at linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> When ibmvnic gets a FATAL error message from the vnicserver, it marks
> the Command Respond Queue (CRQ) inactive and resets the adapter. If this
> FATAL reset fails and a transmission timeout reset follows, the CRQ is
> still inactive, ibmvnic's attempt to set link down will also fail. If
> ibmvnic abandons the reset because of this failed set link down and this
> is the last reset in the workqueue, then this adapter will be left in an
> inoperable state.
>
> Instead, make the driver ignore this link down failure and continue to
> free and re-register CRQ so that the adapter has an opportunity to
> recover.
>
> Fixes: ed651a10875f ("ibmvnic: Updated reset handling")
> Signed-off-by: Dany Madden <drt at linux.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Rick Lindsley <ricklind at linux.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev at linux.ibm.com>
> ---
> Changes in V2:
> - Update description to clarify background for the patch
> - Include Reviewed-by tags
> Changes in V3:
> - Add comment above the code change
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c | 11 +++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
> index 5788bb956d73..9e005a08d43b 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
> @@ -2017,8 +2017,15 @@ static int do_reset(struct ibmvnic_adapter *adapter,
>                         rtnl_unlock();
>                         rc = set_link_state(adapter, IBMVNIC_LOGICAL_LNK_DN);
>                         rtnl_lock();
> -                       if (rc)
> -                               goto out;
> +
> +                       /* Attempted to set the link down. It could fail if the
> +                        * vnicserver has already torn down the CRQ. We will
> +                        * note it and continue with reset to reinit the CRQ.
> +                        */
> +                       if (rc) {
> +                               netdev_dbg(netdev,
> +                                          "Setting link down failed rc=%d. Continue anyway\n", rc);
> +                       }

There are other places which check and rely on the return value of
this function. Your change makes that inconsistent. Can you stop
posting new versions and soliciting the maintainer to accept it before
there is material change? There are many ways to make reset
successful. I think this is the worst approach of all.


>
>                         if (adapter->state == VNIC_OPEN) {
>                                 /* When we dropped rtnl, ibmvnic_open() got
> --
> 2.18.2
>