Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net] iavf: fix deadlock in reset handling

[Jacob Keller]

On 2/2/2026 3:58 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Mon,  2 Feb 2026 09:48:20 +0100 Petr Oros wrote:
> > +	netdev_unlock(netdev);
> > +	ret = wait_event_interruptible_timeout(adapter->reset_waitqueue,
> > +					       !iavf_is_reset_in_progress(adapter),
> > +					       msecs_to_jiffies(5000));
> > +	netdev_lock(netdev);
>
> Dropping locks taken by the core around the driver callback
> is obviously unacceptable. SMH.

Right. It seems like the correct fix is to either a) have reset take and 
hold the netdev lock (now that its distinct from the global RTNL lock) 
or b) refactor reset so that it can defer any of the netdev related 
stuff somehow.