Subject: Re: [PATCH iwl-net v1] igc: Fix infinite initialization loop with early XDP redirect

From: Maciej Fijalkowski <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2023 00:55:36 +0200

On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 02:37:52PM -0700, Vinicius Costa Gomes wrote:
> When a XDP redirect happens before the link is ready, that

When exactly link was 'ready' in your setup? You said it was enough to
launch traffic towards igc iface before running xdp-bench. Was the iface
down or up or?

> transmission will not finish and will timeout, causing an adapter
> reset. If the redirects do not stop, the adapter will not stop
> resetting.

Please highlight that this driver shares tx resources with netstack. I
believe the source of this bug is that the watchdog is responsible to call
netif_carrier_on() from a workqueue which happens to be scheduled *after*
clearing __IGC_DOWN in igc_up().

> 
> Wait for the driver to signal that there's a carrier before allowing
> transmissions to proceed.
> 
> Fixes: 4ff320361092 ("igc: Add support for XDP_REDIRECT action")
> Reported-by: Ferenc Fejes <[email-masked]>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/[email-masked]/
> Signed-off-by: Vinicius Costa Gomes <[email-masked]>
> Tested-by: Ferenc Fejes <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_main.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_main.c
> index 293b45717683..98de34d0ce07 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_main.c
> @@ -6491,7 +6491,7 @@ static int igc_xdp_xmit(struct net_device *dev, int num_frames,
>  	struct igc_ring *ring;
>  	int i, drops;
>  
> -	if (unlikely(test_bit(__IGC_DOWN, &adapter->state)))
> +	if (unlikely(!netif_carrier_ok(dev)))
>  		return -ENETDOWN;

I thought about keeping the bit check as well but given what i wrote above
it is probably redundant, so:

Reviewed-by: Maciej Fijalkowski <[email-masked]>

>  
>  	if (unlikely(flags & ~XDP_XMIT_FLAGS_MASK))
> -- 
> 2.41.0
>