ibmvnic: don't spin in tasklet
authorSukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.ibm.com>
Sat, 22 Jan 2022 02:59:20 +0000 (18:59 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 1 Feb 2022 16:25:46 +0000 (17:25 +0100)
commit0a60d04abc62b8cbf93fbd9d5f6f1eddad2004ec
tree594a7580920301da6a824b6e4fe8c363c96f7e02
parent55258b505996d05f62830192422ba9b4df045677
ibmvnic: don't spin in tasklet

[ Upstream commit 48079e7fdd0269d66b1d7d66ae88bd03162464ad ]

ibmvnic_tasklet() continuously spins waiting for responses to all
capability requests. It does this to avoid encountering an error
during initialization of the vnic. However if there is a bug in the
VIOS and we do not receive a response to one or more queries the
tasklet ends up spinning continuously leading to hard lock ups.

If we fail to receive a message from the VIOS it is reasonable to
timeout the login attempt rather than spin indefinitely in the tasklet.

Fixes: 249168ad07cd ("ibmvnic: Make CRQ interrupt tasklet wait for all capabilities crqs")
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>
drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c