[PATCH net 5/6] gve: fix napi_disable deadlock when attempting to disable XSK pools
From: Joshua Washington
Date: Fri Aug 14 2026 - 19:49:49 EST
When disabling XSK pools, GVE calls the unlocked versions of
napi_disable and napi_enable. However, the netdev lock has already been
acquired before ndo_bpf is called because GVE supports queue management
ops. Calling the unlocked versions of napi_disable/enable results in a
deadlock when attempting to disable XSK pools, as the thread attempts to
re-acquire a lock it already holds.
Update the NAPI calls to use the locked versions.
Fixes: 606048cbd834 ("net: designate XSK pool pointers in queues as "ops protected"")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reviewed-by: Harshitha Ramamurthy <hramamurthy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jordan Rhee <jordanrhee@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Joshua Washington <joshwash@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_main.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_main.c
index 453b304016b6..e084b367a92d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_main.c
@@ -1706,17 +1706,17 @@ static int gve_xsk_pool_disable(struct net_device *dev,
}
napi_rx = &priv->ntfy_blocks[priv->rx[qid].ntfy_id].napi;
- napi_disable(napi_rx); /* make sure current rx poll is done */
+ napi_disable_locked(napi_rx); /* make sure current rx poll is done */
tx_qid = gve_xdp_tx_queue_id(priv, qid);
napi_tx = &priv->ntfy_blocks[priv->tx[tx_qid].ntfy_id].napi;
- napi_disable(napi_tx); /* make sure current tx poll is done */
+ napi_disable_locked(napi_tx); /* make sure current tx poll is done */
gve_unreg_xsk_pool(priv, qid);
smp_mb(); /* Make sure it is visible to the workers on datapath */
- napi_enable(napi_rx);
- napi_enable(napi_tx);
+ napi_enable_locked(napi_rx);
+ napi_enable_locked(napi_tx);
if (gve_is_gqi(priv)) {
if (gve_rx_work_pending(&priv->rx[qid]))
napi_schedule(napi_rx);
--
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