[PATCH 4.19 012/100] net/ibmvnic: Fix RTNL deadlock during device reset

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Apr 30 2019 - 07:45:28 EST


[ Upstream commit 986103e7920cabc0b910749e77ae5589d3934d52 ]

Commit a5681e20b541 ("net/ibmnvic: Fix deadlock problem
in reset") made the change to hold the RTNL lock during
driver reset but still calls netdev_notify_peers, which
results in a deadlock. Instead, use call_netdevice_notifiers,
which is functionally the same except that it does not
take the RTNL lock again.

Fixes: a5681e20b541 ("net/ibmnvic: Fix deadlock problem in reset")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
index a475f36ddf8c..426789e2c23d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
@@ -1859,7 +1859,7 @@ static int do_reset(struct ibmvnic_adapter *adapter,

if (adapter->reset_reason != VNIC_RESET_FAILOVER &&
adapter->reset_reason != VNIC_RESET_CHANGE_PARAM)
- netdev_notify_peers(netdev);
+ call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS, netdev);

netif_carrier_on(netdev);

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2.19.1