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[PATCH net-next 3/7] ibmveth: disable the reset work before unregister in remove

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From: Mingming Cao <hidden>
Date: 2026-10-03 01:58:15
Also in: netdev
Subsystem: ibm power virtual ethernet device driver, linux for powerpc (32-bit and 64-bit), networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Nick Child, Madhavan Srinivasan, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

Revision v1 of 3 in this series.

Revisions (3)
  1. v1 current
  2. v3 [diff vs current]
  3. v4 [diff vs current]
ibmveth_remove() cancels the reset work before unregister_netdev(),
but NAPI keeps running until unregister closes the device and can
queue the reset again, on an interrupt enable failure, a bad
free_map entry or a bad RX slot. The reset can then run on the
adapter after free_netdev(), or reopen the device during unregister.

Use disable_work_sync(), which waits for a running reset and keeps
the work from being queued again. A bad RX slot also makes poll
spin, which can stall unregister; a later patch in this series
fixes that.

It was not reproduced. Tested on a POWER10 LPAR with unbind and bind
cycles under traffic.

Fixes: 2c91e2319ed9 ("net: ibmveth: Reset the adapter when unexpected states are detected")
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c
index 00cee2916920..77d3740cc52a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c
@@ -1950,7 +1950,7 @@ static void ibmveth_remove(struct vio_dev *dev)
 	struct ibmveth_adapter *adapter = netdev_priv(netdev);
 	int i;
 
-	cancel_work_sync(&adapter->work);
+	disable_work_sync(&adapter->work);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < IBMVETH_NUM_BUFF_POOLS; i++)
 		kobject_put(&adapter->rx_buff_pool[i].kobj);
-- 
2.39.3 (Apple Git-146)

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