ibmvnic: don't spin in tasklet

ibmvnic_tasklet() continuously spins waiting for responses to all
capability requests. It does this to avoid encountering an error
during initialization of the vnic. However if there is a bug in the
VIOS and we do not receive a response to one or more queries the
tasklet ends up spinning continuously leading to hard lock ups.

If we fail to receive a message from the VIOS it is reasonable to
timeout the login attempt rather than spin indefinitely in the tasklet.

Fixes: 249168ad07cd ("ibmvnic: Make CRQ interrupt tasklet wait for all capabilities crqs")
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Dany Madden <drt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
index c65e98bc4f7d69a0662f87ce3f5e82576e0fbd2c..3df7fd0b944e1041402fdedeeefd318d8f464194 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
@@ -5499,12 +5499,6 @@ static void ibmvnic_tasklet(struct tasklet_struct *t)
                        ibmvnic_handle_crq(crq, adapter);
                        crq->generic.first = 0;
                }
-
-               /* remain in tasklet until all
-                * capabilities responses are received
-                */
-               if (!adapter->wait_capability)
-                       done = true;
        }
        /* if capabilities CRQ's were sent in this tasklet, the following
         * tasklet must wait until all responses are received