kernel/linux.git/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel, branch v6.12.98

net: ks8851: Avoid excess softirq scheduling

2026-05-07T04:09:33+00:00

commit 22230e68b2cf1ab6b027be8cf1198164a949c4fa upstream. The code injects a packet into netif_rx() repeatedly, which will add it to its internal NAPI and schedule a softirq, and process it. It is more efficient to queue multiple packets and process them all at the local_bh_enable() time. Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Fixes: e0863634bf9f ("net: ks8851: Queue RX packets in IRQ handler instead of disabling BHs") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260415231020.455298-2-marex@nabladev.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: ks8851: Reinstate disabling of BHs around IRQ handler

2026-05-07T04:09:33+00:00

commit 5c9fcac3c872224316714d0d8914d9af16c76a6d upstream. If the driver executes ks8851_irq() AND a TX packet has been sent, then the driver enables TX queue via netif_wake_queue() which schedules TX softirq to queue packets for this device. If CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y is set AND a packet has also been received by the MAC, then ks8851_rx_pkts() calls netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() to allocate SKBs for the received packets. If netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() is called with BH enabled, then local_bh_enable() at the end of netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() will trigger the pending softirq processing, which may ultimately call the .xmit callback ks8851_start_xmit_par(). The ks8851_start_xmit_par() will try to lock struct ks8851_net_par .lock spinlock, which is already locked by ks8851_irq() from which ks8851_start_xmit_par() was called. This leads to a deadlock, which is reported by the kernel, including a trace listed below. If CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT is not set, then since commit 0913ec336a6c0 ("net: ks8851: Fix deadlock with the SPI chip variant") the deadlock can also be triggered without received packet in the RX FIFO. The pending softirqs will be processed on return from spin_unlock_bh(&ks->statelock) in ks8851_irq(), which triggers the deadlock as well. Fix the problem by disabling BH around critical sections, including the IRQ handler, thus preventing the net_tx_action() softirq from triggering during these critical sections. The net_tx_action() softirq is triggered once BH are re-enabled and at the end of the IRQ handler, once all the other IRQ handler actions have been completed. __schedule from schedule_rtlock+0x1c/0x34 schedule_rtlock from rtlock_slowlock_locked+0x548/0x904 rtlock_slowlock_locked from rt_spin_lock+0x60/0x9c rt_spin_lock from ks8851_start_xmit_par+0x74/0x1a8 ks8851_start_xmit_par from netdev_start_xmit+0x20/0x44 netdev_start_xmit from dev_hard_start_xmit+0xd0/0x188 dev_hard_start_xmit from sch_direct_xmit+0xb8/0x25c sch_direct_xmit from __qdisc_run+0x1f8/0x4ec __qdisc_run from qdisc_run+0x1c/0x28 qdisc_run from net_tx_action+0x1f0/0x268 net_tx_action from handle_softirqs+0x1a4/0x270 handle_softirqs from __local_bh_enable_ip+0xcc/0xe0 __local_bh_enable_ip from __alloc_skb+0xd8/0x128 __alloc_skb from __netdev_alloc_skb+0x3c/0x19c __netdev_alloc_skb from ks8851_irq+0x388/0x4d4 ks8851_irq from irq_thread_fn+0x24/0x64 irq_thread_fn from irq_thread+0x178/0x28c irq_thread from kthread+0x12c/0x138 kthread from ret_from_fork+0x14/0x28 Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Fixes: e0863634bf9f ("net: ks8851: Queue RX packets in IRQ handler instead of disabling BHs") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260415231020.455298-1-marex@nabladev.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: ks8851: Fix potential TX stall after interface reopen

2024-07-11T09:52:29+00:00

The amount of TX space in the hardware buffer is tracked in the tx_space variable. The initial value is currently only set during driver probing. After closing the interface and reopening it the tx_space variable has the last value it had before close. If it is smaller than the size of the first send packet after reopeing the interface the queue will be stopped. The queue is woken up after receiving a TX interrupt but this will never happen since we did not send anything. This commit moves the initialization of the tx_space variable to the ks8851_net_open function right before starting the TX queue. Also query the value from the hardware instead of using a hard coded value. Only the SPI chip variant is affected by this issue because only this driver variant actually depends on the tx_space variable in the xmit function. Fixes: 3dc5d4454545 ("net: ks8851: Fix TX stall caused by TX buffer overrun") Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Jakub Kicinski Cc: Paolo Abeni Cc: Simon Horman Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.10+ Signed-off-by: Ronald Wahl Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240709195845.9089-1-rwahl@gmx.de Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

net: ks8851: Fix deadlock with the SPI chip variant

2024-07-09T11:37:23+00:00

When SMP is enabled and spinlocks are actually functional then there is a deadlock with the 'statelock' spinlock between ks8851_start_xmit_spi and ks8851_irq: watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 27s! call trace: queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x100/0x284 do_raw_spin_lock+0x34/0x44 ks8851_start_xmit_spi+0x30/0xb8 ks8851_start_xmit+0x14/0x20 netdev_start_xmit+0x40/0x6c dev_hard_start_xmit+0x6c/0xbc sch_direct_xmit+0xa4/0x22c __qdisc_run+0x138/0x3fc qdisc_run+0x24/0x3c net_tx_action+0xf8/0x130 handle_softirqs+0x1ac/0x1f0 __do_softirq+0x14/0x20 ____do_softirq+0x10/0x1c call_on_irq_stack+0x3c/0x58 do_softirq_own_stack+0x1c/0x28 __irq_exit_rcu+0x54/0x9c irq_exit_rcu+0x10/0x1c el1_interrupt+0x38/0x50 el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24 el1h_64_irq+0x64/0x68 __netif_schedule+0x6c/0x80 netif_tx_wake_queue+0x38/0x48 ks8851_irq+0xb8/0x2c8 irq_thread_fn+0x2c/0x74 irq_thread+0x10c/0x1b0 kthread+0xc8/0xd8 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 This issue has not been identified earlier because tests were done on a device with SMP disabled and so spinlocks were actually NOPs. Now use spin_(un)lock_bh for TX queue related locking to avoid execution of softirq work synchronously that would lead to a deadlock. Fixes: 3dc5d4454545 ("net: ks8851: Fix TX stall caused by TX buffer overrun") Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Jakub Kicinski Cc: Paolo Abeni Cc: Simon Horman Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.10+ Signed-off-by: Ronald Wahl Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240706101337.854474-1-rwahl@gmx.de Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

2024-05-15T14:30:49+00:00

Cross merge. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: ks8851: Fix another TX stall caused by wrong ISR flag handling

2024-05-15T10:44:13+00:00

Under some circumstances it may happen that the ks8851 Ethernet driver stops sending data. Currently the interrupt handler resets the interrupt status flags in the hardware after handling TX. With this approach we may lose interrupts in the time window between handling the TX interrupt and resetting the TX interrupt status bit. When all of the three following conditions are true then transmitting data stops: - TX queue is stopped to wait for room in the hardware TX buffer - no queued SKBs in the driver (txq) that wait for being written to hw - hardware TX buffer is empty and the last TX interrupt was lost This is because reenabling the TX queue happens when handling the TX interrupt status but if the TX status bit has already been cleared then this interrupt will never come. With this commit the interrupt status flags will be cleared before they are handled. That way we stop losing interrupts. The wrong handling of the ISR flags was there from the beginning but with commit 3dc5d4454545 ("net: ks8851: Fix TX stall caused by TX buffer overrun") the issue becomes apparent. Fixes: 3dc5d4454545 ("net: ks8851: Fix TX stall caused by TX buffer overrun") Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Jakub Kicinski Cc: Paolo Abeni Cc: Simon Horman Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.10+ Signed-off-by: Ronald Wahl Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2024-05-09T17:01:01+00:00

Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR. No conflicts. Adjacent changes: drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3pf/hclge_main.c 35d92abfbad8 ("net: hns3: fix kernel crash when devlink reload during initialization") 2a1a1a7b5fd7 ("net: hns3: add command queue trace for hns3") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: annotate writes on dev->mtu from ndo_change_mtu()

2024-05-07T23:19:14+00:00

Simon reported that ndo_change_mtu() methods were never updated to use WRITE_ONCE(dev->mtu, new_mtu) as hinted in commit 501a90c94510 ("inet: protect against too small mtu values.") We read dev->mtu without holding RTNL in many places, with READ_ONCE() annotations. It is time to take care of ndo_change_mtu() methods to use corresponding WRITE_ONCE() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reported-by: Simon Horman Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20240505144608.GB67882@kernel.org/ Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Acked-by: Shannon Nelson Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240506102812.3025432-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: ks8851: Queue RX packets in IRQ handler instead of disabling BHs

2024-05-03T22:15:03+00:00

Currently the driver uses local_bh_disable()/local_bh_enable() in its IRQ handler to avoid triggering net_rx_action() softirq on exit from netif_rx(). The net_rx_action() could trigger this driver .start_xmit callback, which is protected by the same lock as the IRQ handler, so calling the .start_xmit from netif_rx() from the IRQ handler critical section protected by the lock could lead to an attempt to claim the already claimed lock, and a hang. The local_bh_disable()/local_bh_enable() approach works only in case the IRQ handler is protected by a spinlock, but does not work if the IRQ handler is protected by mutex, i.e. this works for KS8851 with Parallel bus interface, but not for KS8851 with SPI bus interface. Remove the BH manipulation and instead of calling netif_rx() inside the IRQ handler code protected by the lock, queue all the received SKBs in the IRQ handler into a queue first, and once the IRQ handler exits the critical section protected by the lock, dequeue all the queued SKBs and push them all into netif_rx(). At this point, it is safe to trigger the net_rx_action() softirq, since the netif_rx() call is outside of the lock that protects the IRQ handler. Fixes: be0384bf599c ("net: ks8851: Handle softirqs at the end of IRQ thread to fix hang") Tested-by: Ronald Wahl # KS8851 SPI Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240502183436.117117-1-marex@denx.de Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: ks8851: Handle softirqs at the end of IRQ thread to fix hang

2024-04-09T02:48:48+00:00

The ks8851_irq() thread may call ks8851_rx_pkts() in case there are any packets in the MAC FIFO, which calls netif_rx(). This netif_rx() implementation is guarded by local_bh_disable() and local_bh_enable(). The local_bh_enable() may call do_softirq() to run softirqs in case any are pending. One of the softirqs is net_rx_action, which ultimately reaches the driver .start_xmit callback. If that happens, the system hangs. The entire call chain is below: ks8851_start_xmit_par from netdev_start_xmit netdev_start_xmit from dev_hard_start_xmit dev_hard_start_xmit from sch_direct_xmit sch_direct_xmit from __dev_queue_xmit __dev_queue_xmit from __neigh_update __neigh_update from neigh_update neigh_update from arp_process.constprop.0 arp_process.constprop.0 from __netif_receive_skb_one_core __netif_receive_skb_one_core from process_backlog process_backlog from __napi_poll.constprop.0 __napi_poll.constprop.0 from net_rx_action net_rx_action from __do_softirq __do_softirq from call_with_stack call_with_stack from do_softirq do_softirq from __local_bh_enable_ip __local_bh_enable_ip from netif_rx netif_rx from ks8851_irq ks8851_irq from irq_thread_fn irq_thread_fn from irq_thread irq_thread from kthread kthread from ret_from_fork The hang happens because ks8851_irq() first locks a spinlock in ks8851_par.c ks8851_lock_par() spin_lock_irqsave(&ksp->lock, ...) and with that spinlock locked, calls netif_rx(). Once the execution reaches ks8851_start_xmit_par(), it calls ks8851_lock_par() again which attempts to claim the already locked spinlock again, and the hang happens. Move the do_softirq() call outside of the spinlock protected section of ks8851_irq() by disabling BHs around the entire spinlock protected section of ks8851_irq() handler. Place local_bh_enable() outside of the spinlock protected section, so that it can trigger do_softirq() without the ks8851_par.c ks8851_lock_par() spinlock being held, and safely call ks8851_start_xmit_par() without attempting to lock the already locked spinlock. Since ks8851_irq() is protected by local_bh_disable()/local_bh_enable() now, replace netif_rx() with __netif_rx() which is not duplicating the local_bh_disable()/local_bh_enable() calls. Fixes: 797047f875b5 ("net: ks8851: Implement Parallel bus operations") Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240405203204.82062-2-marex@denx.de Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski