Re: [PATCH] tg3: driver sleeps indefinitely when EEH errors exceed eeh_max_freezes

[Michael Chan]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 12:01 PM David Christensen
<drc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The driver function tg3_io_error_detected() calls napi_disable twice,
> without an intervening napi_enable, when the number of EEH errors exceeds
> eeh_max_freezes, resulting in an indefinite sleep while holding rtnl_lock.
>
> The function is called once with the PCI state pci_channel_io_frozen and
> then called again with the state pci_channel_io_perm_failure when the
> number of EEH failures in an hour exceeds eeh_max_freezes.
>
> Protecting the calls to napi_enable/napi_disable with a new state
> variable prevents the long sleep.

This works, but I think a simpler fix is to check tp->pcierr_recovery
in tg3_io_error_detected() and skip most of the tg3 calls (including
the one that disables NAPI) if the flag is true.