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virtio-net: don't re-enable refill work too early when NAPI is disabled

PATCH Applied Jakub Kicinski 2 participants 2 messages Apr 30, 2025 – May 5, 2025

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PATCH v2 1/1 virtio-net: don't re-enable refill work too early when NAPI is disabled

Commit 4bc12818b363 ("virtio-net: disable delayed refill when pausing rx") fixed a deadlock between reconfig paths and refill work trying to disable the same NAPI instance. The refill work can't run in parallel with reconfig because trying to double-disable a NAPI instance causes a stall under the instance lock, which the reconfig path needs to re-enable the NAPI and therefore unblock the stalled thread.

There are two cases where we re-enable refill too early. One is in the virtnet_set_queues() handler. We call it when installing XDP:

   virtnet_rx_pause_all(vi);
   ...
   virtnet_napi_tx_disable(..);
   ...
   virtnet_set_queues(..);
   ...
   virtnet_rx_resume_all(..);

We want the work to be disabled until we call virtnet_rx_resume_all(), but virtnet_set_queues() kicks it before NAPIs were re-enabled.

The other case is a more trivial case of mis-ordering in __virtnet_rx_resume() found by code inspection.

Taking the spin lock in virtnet_set_queues() (requested during review) may be unnecessary as we are under rtnl_lock and so are all paths writing to ->refill_enabled.

Fixes 4bc12818b363 ("virtio-net: disable delayed refill when pausing rx")
Fixes 413f0271f396 ("net: protect NAPI enablement with netdev_lock()")

---
v2:
- wrap schedule under the spin lock
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]

---
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
drivers/net/virtio_net.c +8 -3
index c107916b685e..f9e3e628ec4d 100644
@@ -3383,12 +3383,15 @@ static void __virtnet_rx_resume(struct virtnet_info *vi,
 				bool refill)
 {
 	bool running = netif_running(vi->dev);
+	bool schedule_refill = false;
 
 	if (refill && !try_fill_recv(vi, rq, GFP_KERNEL))
-		schedule_delayed_work(&vi->refill, 0);
-
+		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)
@@ -3728,8 +3731,10 @@ 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. */
-	if (dev->flags & IFF_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);
 
 	return 0;
 }
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This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (main) by Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>:

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>:

Quoted 8 lines · On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 09:37:58 -0700 you wrote:

Commit 4bc12818b363 ("virtio-net: disable delayed refill when pausing rx") fixed a deadlock between reconfig paths and refill work trying to disable the same NAPI instance. The refill work can't run in parallel with reconfig because trying to double-disable a NAPI instance causes a stall under the instance lock, which the reconfig path needs to re-enable the NAPI and therefore unblock the stalled thread.

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Here is the summary with links:
- [net,v2] virtio-net: don't re-enable refill work too early when NAPI is disabled

    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/1e20324b23f0

You are awesome, thank you!

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