From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com,
andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, horms@kernel.org,
willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com, skhawaja@google.com,
joe@dama.to, sdf@fomichev.me, shuah@kernel.org,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net v2 3/3] net: prevent deadlocks when enabling NAPIs with mixed kthread config
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2025 17:12:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250809001205.1147153-4-kuba@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250809001205.1147153-1-kuba@kernel.org>
The following order of calls currently deadlocks if:
- device has threaded=1; and
- NAPI has persistent config with threaded=0.
netif_napi_add_weight_config()
dev->threaded == 1
napi_kthread_create()
napi_enable()
napi_restore_config()
napi_set_threaded(0)
napi_stop_kthread()
while (NAPIF_STATE_SCHED)
msleep(20)
We deadlock because disabled NAPI has STATE_SCHED set.
Creating a thread in netif_napi_add() just to destroy it in
napi_disable() is fairly ugly in the first place. Let's read
both the device config and the NAPI config in netif_napi_add().
Fixes: e6d76268813d ("net: Update threaded state in napi config in netif_set_threaded")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
---
net/core/dev.h | 8 ++++++++
net/core/dev.c | 5 +++--
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/core/dev.h b/net/core/dev.h
index ab69edc0c3e3..d6b08d435479 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.h
+++ b/net/core/dev.h
@@ -323,6 +323,14 @@ static inline enum netdev_napi_threaded napi_get_threaded(struct napi_struct *n)
return NETDEV_NAPI_THREADED_DISABLED;
}
+static inline enum netdev_napi_threaded
+napi_get_threaded_config(struct net_device *dev, struct napi_struct *n)
+{
+ if (n->config)
+ return n->config->threaded;
+ return dev->threaded;
+}
+
int napi_set_threaded(struct napi_struct *n,
enum netdev_napi_threaded threaded);
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index f180746382a1..5a3c0f40a93f 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -7357,8 +7357,9 @@ void netif_napi_add_weight_locked(struct net_device *dev,
* Clear dev->threaded if kthread creation failed so that
* threaded mode will not be enabled in napi_enable().
*/
- if (dev->threaded && napi_kthread_create(napi))
- dev->threaded = NETDEV_NAPI_THREADED_DISABLED;
+ if (napi_get_threaded_config(dev, napi))
+ if (napi_kthread_create(napi))
+ dev->threaded = NETDEV_NAPI_THREADED_DISABLED;
netif_napi_set_irq_locked(napi, -1);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(netif_napi_add_weight_locked);
--
2.50.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-09 0:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-09 0:12 [PATCH net v2 0/3] net: prevent deadlocks and mis-configuration with per-NAPI threaded config Jakub Kicinski
2025-08-09 0:12 ` [PATCH net v2 1/3] selftests: drv-net: don't assume device has only 2 queues Jakub Kicinski
2025-08-10 2:01 ` Joe Damato
2025-08-09 0:12 ` [PATCH net v2 2/3] net: update NAPI threaded config even for disabled NAPIs Jakub Kicinski
2025-08-10 2:04 ` Joe Damato
2025-08-09 0:12 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2025-08-10 2:05 ` [PATCH net v2 3/3] net: prevent deadlocks when enabling NAPIs with mixed kthread config Joe Damato
2025-08-10 1:59 ` [PATCH net v2 0/3] net: prevent deadlocks and mis-configuration with per-NAPI threaded config Joe Damato
2025-08-11 15:52 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-08-12 12:50 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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