Patch "net/mlx5: Cancel health poll before sending panic teardown command" has been added to the 4.13-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    net/mlx5: Cancel health poll before sending panic teardown command

to the 4.13-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     net-mlx5-cancel-health-poll-before-sending-panic-teardown-command.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.13 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Tue Nov 21 13:07:20 CET 2017
From: Huy Nguyen <huyn@mellanox.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 15:11:56 -0500
Subject: net/mlx5: Cancel health poll before sending panic teardown command

From: Huy Nguyen <huyn@mellanox.com>


[ Upstream commit d2aa060d40fa060e963f9a356d43481e43ba3dac ]

After the panic teardown firmware command, health_care detects the error
in PCI bus and calls the mlx5_pci_err_detected. This health_care flow is
no longer needed because the panic teardown firmware command will bring
down the PCI bus communication with the HCA.

The solution is to cancel the health care timer and its pending
workqueue request before sending panic teardown firmware command.

Kernel trace:
mlx5_core 0033:01:00.0: Shutdown was called
mlx5_core 0033:01:00.0: health_care:154:(pid 9304): handling bad device here
mlx5_core 0033:01:00.0: mlx5_handle_bad_state:114:(pid 9304): NIC state 1
mlx5_core 0033:01:00.0: mlx5_pci_err_detected was called
mlx5_core 0033:01:00.0: mlx5_enter_error_state:96:(pid 9304): start
mlx5_3:mlx5_ib_event:3061:(pid 9304): warning: event on port 0
mlx5_core 0033:01:00.0: mlx5_enter_error_state:104:(pid 9304): end
Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x0000003f
Faulting instruction address: 0xc0080000434b8c80

Fixes: 8812c24d28f4 ('net/mlx5: Add fast unload support in shutdown flow')
Signed-off-by: Huy Nguyen <huyn@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Moshe Shemesh <moshe@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c |    7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c
@@ -1545,9 +1545,16 @@ static int mlx5_try_fast_unload(struct m
 		return -EAGAIN;
 	}
 
+	/* Panic tear down fw command will stop the PCI bus communication
+	 * with the HCA, so the health polll is no longer needed.
+	 */
+	mlx5_drain_health_wq(dev);
+	mlx5_stop_health_poll(dev);
+
 	ret = mlx5_cmd_force_teardown_hca(dev);
 	if (ret) {
 		mlx5_core_dbg(dev, "Firmware couldn't do fast unload error: %d\n", ret);
+		mlx5_start_health_poll(dev);
 		return ret;
 	}
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from huyn@mellanox.com are

queue-4.13/net-mlx5-cancel-health-poll-before-sending-panic-teardown-command.patch