4.16-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Nathan Fontenot <nf...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ Upstream commit ebc701b796a67a5785399dcbc83d90e3b5f1e02f ]
When attempting to change the driver parameters, such as the MTU
value or number of queues, do not call netdev_notify_peers().
Doing so will deadlock on the rtnl_lock.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nf...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.le...@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
@@ -1711,7 +1711,8 @@ static int do_reset(struct ibmvnic_adapt
for (i = 0; i < adapter->req_rx_queues; i++)
napi_schedule(&adapter->napi[i]);
- if (adapter->reset_reason != VNIC_RESET_FAILOVER)
+ if (adapter->reset_reason != VNIC_RESET_FAILOVER &&
+ adapter->reset_reason != VNIC_RESET_CHANGE_PARAM)
netdev_notify_peers(netdev);
netif_carrier_on(netdev);
