Subject: Re: [PATCH net v3 1/3] virtio-net: don't schedule delayed refill worker

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2026 10:29:05 -0500

On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 10:04:36PM +0700, Bui Quang Minh wrote:
> When we fail to refill the receive buffers, we schedule a delayed worker
> to retry later. However, this worker creates some concurrency issues.
> For example, when the worker runs concurrently with virtnet_xdp_set,
> both need to temporarily disable queue's NAPI before enabling again.
> Without proper synchronization, a deadlock can happen when
> napi_disable() is called on an already disabled NAPI. That
> napi_disable() call will be stuck and so will the subsequent
> napi_enable() call.
> 
> To simplify the logic and avoid further problems, we will instead retry
> refilling in the next NAPI poll.
> 
> Fixes: 4bc12818b363 ("virtio-net: disable delayed refill when pausing rx")
> Reported-by: Paolo Abeni <[email-masked]>
> Closes: https://netdev-ctrl.bots.linux.dev/logs/vmksft/drv-hw-dbg/results/400961/3-xdp-py/stderr
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Suggested-by: Xuan Zhuo <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Bui Quang Minh <[email-masked]>

Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email-masked]>

and CC stable I think. Can you do that pls?

> ---
>  drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
>  1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> index 1bb3aeca66c6..f986abf0c236 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> @@ -3046,16 +3046,16 @@ static int virtnet_receive(struct receive_queue *rq, int budget,
>  	else
>  		packets = virtnet_receive_packets(vi, rq, budget, xdp_xmit, &stats);
>  
> +	u64_stats_set(&stats.packets, packets);
>  	if (rq->vq->num_free > min((unsigned int)budget, virtqueue_get_vring_size(rq->vq)) / 2) {
> -		if (!try_fill_recv(vi, rq, GFP_ATOMIC)) {
> -			spin_lock(&vi->refill_lock);
> -			if (vi->refill_enabled)
> -				schedule_delayed_work(&vi->refill, 0);
> -			spin_unlock(&vi->refill_lock);
> -		}
> +		if (!try_fill_recv(vi, rq, GFP_ATOMIC))
> +			/* We need to retry refilling in the next NAPI poll so
> +			 * we must return budget to make sure the NAPI is
> +			 * repolled.
> +			 */
> +			packets = budget;
>  	}
>  
> -	u64_stats_set(&stats.packets, packets);
>  	u64_stats_update_begin(&rq->stats.syncp);
>  	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(virtnet_rq_stats_desc); i++) {
>  		size_t offset = virtnet_rq_stats_desc[i].offset;
> @@ -3230,9 +3230,10 @@ static int virtnet_open(struct net_device *dev)
>  
>  	for (i = 0; i < vi->max_queue_pairs; i++) {
>  		if (i < vi->curr_queue_pairs)
> -			/* Make sure we have some buffers: if oom use wq. */
> -			if (!try_fill_recv(vi, &vi->rq[i], GFP_KERNEL))
> -				schedule_delayed_work(&vi->refill, 0);
> +			/* Pre-fill rq agressively, to make sure we are ready to
> +			 * get packets immediately.
> +			 */
> +			try_fill_recv(vi, &vi->rq[i], GFP_KERNEL);
>  
>  		err = virtnet_enable_queue_pair(vi, i);
>  		if (err < 0)
> @@ -3472,16 +3473,15 @@ static void __virtnet_rx_resume(struct virtnet_info *vi,
>  				struct receive_queue *rq,
>  				bool refill)
>  {
> -	bool running = netif_running(vi->dev);
> -	bool schedule_refill = false;
> +	if (netif_running(vi->dev)) {
> +		/* Pre-fill rq agressively, to make sure we are ready to get
> +		 * packets immediately.
> +		 */
> +		if (refill)
> +			try_fill_recv(vi, rq, GFP_KERNEL);
>  
> -	if (refill && !try_fill_recv(vi, rq, GFP_KERNEL))
> -		schedule_refill = true;
> -	if (running)
>  		virtnet_napi_enable(rq);
> -
> -	if (schedule_refill)
> -		schedule_delayed_work(&vi->refill, 0);
> +	}
>  }
>  
>  static void virtnet_rx_resume_all(struct virtnet_info *vi)
> @@ -3829,11 +3829,13 @@ static int virtnet_set_queues(struct virtnet_info *vi, u16 queue_pairs)
>  	}
>  succ:
>  	vi->curr_queue_pairs = queue_pairs;
> -	/* virtnet_open() will refill when device is going to up. */
> -	spin_lock_bh(&vi->refill_lock);
> -	if (dev->flags & IFF_UP && vi->refill_enabled)
> -		schedule_delayed_work(&vi->refill, 0);
> -	spin_unlock_bh(&vi->refill_lock);
> +	if (dev->flags & IFF_UP) {
> +		local_bh_disable();
> +		for (int i = 0; i < vi->curr_queue_pairs; ++i)
> +			virtqueue_napi_schedule(&vi->rq[i].napi, vi->rq[i].vq);
> +
> +		local_bh_enable();
> +	}
>  
>  	return 0;
>  }
> -- 
> 2.43.0