[PATCH net 4/4] eth: bnxt: avoid deadlock when canceling IRQ affinity notifier

Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]> Mon, 3 Aug 2026 12:31:35 -0700
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.netdev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Unregistering IRQ affinity notifiers waits for the callback synchronously.
bnxt takes the netdev instance lock in the notifier (to restart the queue)
and cancels the work under the same lock. This may obviously deadlock.

Move the restart to the async service task. The queue restart isn't
super time sensitive. Store the new TPH tag, schedule the task.
Safely canceling the service task is already ironed out.

In bnxt_request_irq() the order of registering notifier, affinity and
initial TPH programming has to be inverted. I think it was racy
previously since user may trigger an update as soon as notifier
is installed.

There's a small known gap - if pcie_tph_get_cpu_st() fails at init
and the target tag is 0 we may miss programming the entry.
This does not seem worth fixing, the code has skip-on-failure
all over the place, anyway.

Fixes: c214410c47d6 ("bnxt_en: Add TPH support in BNXT driver")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.h |  3 +
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c | 86 ++++++++++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.h
index 6335dfc14c98..18eadbc491e7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.h
@@ -1268,6 +1268,8 @@ struct bnxt_irq {
 	struct bnxt	*bp;
 	int		msix_nr;
 	int		ring_nr;
+	u16		tag;
+	u16		new_tag;
 	struct irq_affinity_notify affinity_notify;
 };
 
@@ -2641,6 +2643,7 @@ struct bnxt {
 #define BNXT_RING_COAL_NOW_SP_EVENT	17
 #define BNXT_FW_RESET_NOTIFY_SP_EVENT	18
 #define BNXT_FW_EXCEPTION_SP_EVENT	19
+#define BNXT_TPH_UPDATE_SP_EVENT	20
 #define BNXT_LINK_CFG_CHANGE_SP_EVENT	21
 #define BNXT_THERMAL_THRESHOLD_SP_EVENT	22
 #define BNXT_FW_ECHO_REQUEST_SP_EVENT	23
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c
index 202a16170141..72d808c06def 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c
@@ -11770,12 +11770,13 @@ static void bnxt_irq_affinity_notify(struct irq_affinity_notify *notify,
 {
 	struct bnxt_irq *irq;
 	u16 tag;
-	int err;
 
 	irq = container_of(notify, struct bnxt_irq, affinity_notify);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_RFS_ACCEL
 	if (irq->bp->dev->rx_cpu_rmap && irq->ring_nr < irq->bp->rx_nr_rings) {
+		int err;
+
 		err = cpu_rmap_update(irq->bp->dev->rx_cpu_rmap, irq->ring_nr,
 				      mask);
 		if (err)
@@ -11793,20 +11794,11 @@ static void bnxt_irq_affinity_notify(struct irq_affinity_notify *notify,
 		return;
 
 	if (pcie_tph_get_cpu_st(irq->bp->pdev, TPH_MEM_TYPE_VM,
-				cpumask_first(irq->cpu_mask), &tag))
+				cpumask_first(mask), &tag))
 		return;
 
-	if (pcie_tph_set_st_entry(irq->bp->pdev, irq->msix_nr, tag))
-		return;
-
-	netdev_lock(irq->bp->dev);
-	if (netif_running(irq->bp->dev)) {
-		err = netdev_rx_queue_restart(irq->bp->dev, irq->ring_nr);
-		if (err)
-			netdev_err(irq->bp->dev,
-				   "RX queue restart failed: err=%d\n", err);
-	}
-	netdev_unlock(irq->bp->dev);
+	WRITE_ONCE(irq->new_tag, tag);
+	bnxt_queue_sp_work(irq->bp, BNXT_TPH_UPDATE_SP_EVENT);
 }
 
 static void bnxt_irq_affinity_release(struct kref *ref)
@@ -11877,6 +11869,8 @@ static void bnxt_free_irq(struct bnxt *bp)
 		}
 
 		irq->requested = 0;
+		irq->tag = 0;
+		irq->new_tag = 0;
 	}
 
 	/* Disable TPH support */
@@ -11914,6 +11908,7 @@ static int bnxt_request_irq(struct bnxt *bp)
 	for (i = 0, j = 0; i < bp->cp_nr_rings; i++) {
 		int map_idx = bnxt_cp_num_to_irq_num(bp, i);
 		struct bnxt_irq *irq = &bp->irq_tbl[map_idx];
+		unsigned int cpu_num;
 		u16 tag;
 
 		if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RFS_ACCEL) &&
@@ -11939,8 +11934,19 @@ static int bnxt_request_irq(struct bnxt *bp)
 		irq->have_cpumask = 1;
 		irq->msix_nr = map_idx;
 		irq->ring_nr = i;
-		cpumask_set_cpu(cpumask_local_spread(i, numa_node),
-				irq->cpu_mask);
+		cpu_num = cpumask_local_spread(i, numa_node);
+		cpumask_set_cpu(cpu_num, irq->cpu_mask);
+
+		/* Init ST table entry if we can get the mapping */
+		if (!pcie_tph_get_cpu_st(bp->pdev, TPH_MEM_TYPE_VM,
+					 cpu_num, &tag)) {
+			pcie_tph_set_st_entry(bp->pdev, irq->msix_nr, tag);
+			irq->tag = tag;
+			irq->new_tag = tag;
+		}
+
+		bnxt_register_irq_notifier(bp, irq);
+
 		rc = irq_update_affinity_hint(irq->vector, irq->cpu_mask);
 		if (rc) {
 			netdev_warn(bp->dev,
@@ -11948,16 +11954,6 @@ static int bnxt_request_irq(struct bnxt *bp)
 				    irq->vector);
 			break;
 		}
-
-		bnxt_register_irq_notifier(bp, irq);
-
-		/* Init ST table entry */
-		if (pcie_tph_get_cpu_st(irq->bp->pdev, TPH_MEM_TYPE_VM,
-					cpumask_first(irq->cpu_mask),
-					&tag))
-			continue;
-
-		pcie_tph_set_st_entry(irq->bp->pdev, irq->msix_nr, tag);
 	}
 	return rc;
 }
@@ -14460,6 +14456,43 @@ static void bnxt_rtnl_unlock_sp(struct bnxt *bp)
 	rtnl_unlock();
 }
 
+static void bnxt_tph_update(struct bnxt *bp)
+{
+	struct net_device *dev = bp->dev;
+	int i;
+
+	bnxt_lock_sp(bp);
+	if (!test_bit(BNXT_STATE_OPEN, &bp->state))
+		goto unlock;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < bp->rx_nr_rings; i++) {
+		struct bnxt_irq *irq;
+		int map_idx, err;
+		u16 tag;
+
+		map_idx = bnxt_cp_num_to_irq_num(bp, i);
+		irq = &bp->irq_tbl[map_idx];
+		tag = READ_ONCE(irq->new_tag);
+		if (irq->tag == tag)
+			continue;
+
+		if (pcie_tph_set_st_entry(bp->pdev, irq->msix_nr, tag))
+			continue;
+
+		err = netdev_rx_queue_restart(dev, irq->ring_nr);
+		if (err) {
+			netdev_err(dev, "RX queue restart failed: err=%d\n",
+				   err);
+			continue;
+		}
+
+		irq->tag = tag;
+	}
+
+unlock:
+	bnxt_unlock_sp(bp);
+}
+
 /* Only called from bnxt_sp_task() */
 static void bnxt_reset(struct bnxt *bp, bool silent)
 {
@@ -14884,6 +14917,9 @@ static void bnxt_sp_task(struct work_struct *work)
 			bnxt_devlink_health_fw_report(bp);
 	}
 
+	if (test_and_clear_bit(BNXT_TPH_UPDATE_SP_EVENT, &bp->sp_event))
+		bnxt_tph_update(bp);
+
 	smp_mb__before_atomic();
 	clear_bit(BNXT_STATE_IN_SP_TASK, &bp->state);
 }
-- 
2.55.0