Re: [PATCH net] virtio-net: disable NAPI only when enabled during XDP set

[Ben Greear]

On 02/28/2018 09:22 AM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 18:20:04 +0800
>
> > We try to disable NAPI to prevent a single XDP TX queue being used by
> > multiple cpus. But we don't check if device is up (NAPI is enabled),
> > this could result stall because of infinite wait in
> > napi_disable(). Fixing this by checking device state through
> > netif_running() before.
> >
> > Fixes: 4941d472bf95b ("virtio-net: do not reset during XDP set")
> > Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Yes, mis-paired NAPI enable/disable are really a pain.
>
> Probably, we can do something in the interfaces or mechanisms to make
> this less error prone and less fragile.
>
> Anyways, applied and queued up for -stable, thanks!


I just hit a similar bug in ath10k.  It seems like napi has plenty
of free bit flags so it could keep track of 'is-enabled' state and
allow someone to call napi_disable multiple times w/out deadlocking.

Thanks,
Ben

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