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authorOscar Maes <oscmaes92@gmail.com>2026-05-28 16:03:20 +0200
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2026-06-02 11:26:30 -0700
commit73bf3cca7de6a73f53b6a52dc3b1c82ae5667a4d (patch)
tree0ed6bdb6d1155fa5b7f480012f07cd2d9051e54b
parent3522b21fd7e1863d0734537737bd59f1b90d0190 (diff)
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pcnet32: stop holding device spin lock during napi_complete_done
napi_complete_done may call gro_flush_normal (though not currently, as GRO is unsupported at the moment), which may result in packet TX. This will eventually result in calling pcnet32_start_xmit - resulting in a deadlock while trying to re-acquire the already locked spin lock. It is safe to split the spinlock block into two, because the hardware registers are still protected from concurrent access, and the two blocks perform unrelated operations that don't need to happen atomically. Fixes: 5b2ec6f2be51 ("pcnet32: use napi_complete_done()") Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Signed-off-by: Oscar Maes <oscmaes92@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528140320.5556-1-oscmaes92@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/amd/pcnet32.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/pcnet32.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/pcnet32.c
index 911808ab13a7..4f3076d4ea34 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/pcnet32.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/pcnet32.c
@@ -1407,8 +1407,10 @@ static int pcnet32_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
pcnet32_restart(dev, CSR0_START);
netif_wake_queue(dev);
}
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&lp->lock, flags);
if (work_done < budget && napi_complete_done(napi, work_done)) {
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&lp->lock, flags);
/* clear interrupt masks */
val = lp->a->read_csr(ioaddr, CSR3);
val &= 0x00ff;
@@ -1416,9 +1418,9 @@ static int pcnet32_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
/* Set interrupt enable. */
lp->a->write_csr(ioaddr, CSR0, CSR0_INTEN);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&lp->lock, flags);
}
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&lp->lock, flags);
return work_done;
}