[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH iwl-net] i40e: fix napi_disable hang in i40e_down() during firmware update
[email protected] Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:57:56 +0300
| Newsgroups | org.osuosl.intel-wired-lan,org.kernel.vger.netdev |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
From: Mohammad Heib <[email protected]> i40e_down() expects its caller to set __I40E_VSI_DOWN before calling it, as noted in the comment at the top of the function. All callers do this except i40e_vsi_reinit_locked(), which calls i40e_down() directly without setting the flag. Normally this doesn't cause problems because NAPI drains cleanly on its own. But when the hardware is in a bad state, like during an NVM firmware update, the ring descriptors can contain garbage that i40e_napi_poll() sees as real work. Since __I40E_VSI_DOWN isn't set, the poll function has no reason to bail out. It keeps returning budget, napi_disable() keeps waiting, and the whole thing hangs. The thread stuck in napi_disable() is usually NetworkManager, and because it holds the RTNL lock, the system can end up completely frozen. Set __I40E_VSI_DOWN in i40e_vsi_reinit_locked() before calling i40e_down(). i40e_up_complete() already clears the flag when the VSI comes back up, so no additional cleanup is needed. Fixes: 41c445ff0f48 ("i40e: main driver core") Signed-off-by: Mohammad Heib <[email protected]> --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c index 878e0c46e5bb..78f95f63b588 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c @@ -7463,6 +7463,8 @@ static void i40e_vsi_reinit_locked(struct i40e_vsi *vsi) while (test_and_set_bit(__I40E_CONFIG_BUSY, pf->state)) usleep_range(1000, 2000); + /* required by i40e_down() */ + set_bit(__I40E_VSI_DOWN, vsi->state); i40e_down(vsi); i40e_up(vsi); -- 2.53.0