| From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH 4.9 15/61] bnxt_en: Fix race when modifying pause settings. | Date | Thu, 30 Jul 2020 10:04:33 +0200 |
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From: Vasundhara Volam <vasundhara-v.volam@broadcom.com>
[ Upstream commit 163e9ef63641a02de4c95cd921577265c52e1ce2 ]
The driver was modified to not rely on rtnl lock to protect link settings about 2 years ago. The pause setting was missed when making that change. Fix it by acquiring link_lock mutex before calling bnxt_hwrm_set_pause().
Fixes: e2dc9b6e38fa ("bnxt_en: Don't use rtnl lock to protect link change logic in workqueue.") Signed-off-by: Vasundhara Volam <vasundhara-v.volam@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Edwin Peer <edwin.peer@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> --- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c index 3a352f76e633c..427d4dbc97354 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c @@ -1023,8 +1023,11 @@ static int bnxt_set_pauseparam(struct net_device *dev, if (epause->tx_pause) link_info->req_flow_ctrl |= BNXT_LINK_PAUSE_TX; - if (netif_running(dev)) + if (netif_running(dev)) { + mutex_lock(&bp->link_lock); rc = bnxt_hwrm_set_pause(bp); + mutex_unlock(&bp->link_lock); + } return rc; } -- 2.25.1
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