Subject: [PATCH net 4/4] net/mlx5e: Restore destroying state bit after profile cleanup

From: Saeed Mahameed <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2026 13:26:57 -0800

From: Saeed Mahameed <[email-masked]>

Profile rollback can fail in mlx5e_netdev_change_profile() and we will
end up with invalid mlx5e_priv memset to 0, we must maintain the
'destroying' bit in order to gracefully shutdown even if the
profile/priv are not valid.

This patch maintains the previous state of the 'destroying' state of
mlx5e_priv after priv cleanup, to allow the remove flow to cleanup
common resources from mlx5_core to avoid FW fatal errors as seen below:

$ devlink dev eswitch set pci/0000:00:03.0 mode switchdev
    Error: mlx5_core: Failed setting eswitch to offloads.
dmesg: mlx5_core 0000:00:03.0 enp0s3np0: failed to rollback to orig profile, ...

$ devlink dev reload pci/0000:00:03.0

mlx5_core 0000:00:03.0: E-Switch: Disable: mode(LEGACY), nvfs(0), necvfs(0), active vports(0)
mlx5_core 0000:00:03.0: poll_health:803:(pid 519): Fatal error 3 detected
mlx5_core 0000:00:03.0: firmware version: 28.41.1000
mlx5_core 0000:00:03.0: 0.000 Gb/s available PCIe bandwidth (Unknown x255 link)
mlx5_core 0000:00:03.0: mlx5_function_enable:1200:(pid 519): enable hca failed
mlx5_core 0000:00:03.0: mlx5_function_enable:1200:(pid 519): enable hca failed
mlx5_core 0000:00:03.0: mlx5_health_try_recover:340:(pid 141): handling bad device here
mlx5_core 0000:00:03.0: mlx5_handle_bad_state:285:(pid 141): Expected to see disabled NIC but it is full driver
mlx5_core 0000:00:03.0: mlx5_error_sw_reset:236:(pid 141): start
mlx5_core 0000:00:03.0: NIC IFC still 0 after 4000ms.

Fixes: c4d7eb57687f ("net/mxl5e: Add change profile method")
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <[email-masked]>
Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <[email-masked]>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c
index 2c06a4abea04..9042c8a388e4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c
@@ -6325,6 +6325,7 @@ int mlx5e_priv_init(struct mlx5e_priv *priv,
 
 void mlx5e_priv_cleanup(struct mlx5e_priv *priv)
 {
+	bool destroying = test_bit(MLX5E_STATE_DESTROYING, &priv->state);
 	int i;
 
 	/* bail if change profile failed and also rollback failed */
@@ -6352,6 +6353,8 @@ void mlx5e_priv_cleanup(struct mlx5e_priv *priv)
 	}
 
 	memset(priv, 0, sizeof(*priv));
+	if (destroying) /* restore destroying bit, to allow unload */
+		set_bit(MLX5E_STATE_DESTROYING, &priv->state);
 }
 
 static unsigned int mlx5e_get_max_num_txqs(struct mlx5_core_dev *mdev,
-- 
2.52.0