Commit 48079e7f authored by Sukadev Bhattiprolu's avatar Sukadev Bhattiprolu Committed by David S. Miller

ibmvnic: don't spin in tasklet

ibmvnic_tasklet() continuously spins waiting for responses to all
capability requests. It does this to avoid encountering an error
during initialization of the vnic. However if there is a bug in the
VIOS and we do not receive a response to one or more queries the
tasklet ends up spinning continuously leading to hard lock ups.

If we fail to receive a message from the VIOS it is reasonable to
timeout the login attempt rather than spin indefinitely in the tasklet.

Fixes: 249168ad ("ibmvnic: Make CRQ interrupt tasklet wait for all capabilities crqs")
Signed-off-by: default avatarSukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDany Madden <drt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 151b6a5c
......@@ -5499,12 +5499,6 @@ static void ibmvnic_tasklet(struct tasklet_struct *t)
ibmvnic_handle_crq(crq, adapter);
crq->generic.first = 0;
}
/* remain in tasklet until all
* capabilities responses are received
*/
if (!adapter->wait_capability)
done = true;
}
/* if capabilities CRQ's were sent in this tasklet, the following
* tasklet must wait until all responses are received
......
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