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ibmvnic: don't spin in tasklet

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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: 249168ad07 ("ibmvnic: Make CRQ interrupt tasklet wait for all capabilities crqs")
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Dany Madden <drt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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Sukadev Bhattiprolu 2022-01-21 18:59:20 -08:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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commit 0a60d04abc
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drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
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@ -5075,12 +5075,6 @@ static void ibmvnic_tasklet(struct tasklet_struct *t)
ibmvnic_handle_crq(crq, adapter); ibmvnic_handle_crq(crq, adapter);
crq->generic.first = 0; 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 /* if capabilities CRQ's were sent in this tasklet, the following
* tasklet must wait until all responses are received * tasklet must wait until all responses are received