tree 6118c5f42d04b5daf770f2b52d118916cf03b6db
parent 366235d4bebc39363ed029176873097c66049954
author Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.ibm.com> 1635544994 -0700
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 1637240653 +0100

ibmvnic: don't stop queue in xmit

[ Upstream commit 8878e46fcfd46b19964bd90e13b25dd94cbfc9be ]

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: 7f5b030830fe ("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>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>