When a PCI error (e.g. AER error or DPC containment) marks the PCI
channel as frozen or permanently failed, the IOMMU mappings for the
device may already be torn down. If mlx5e_napi_poll() continues
processing CQEs in this state, every call to dma_unmap_page() triggers
a WARN_ON in iommu_dma_unmap_phys().

In a real-world crash scenario on an NVIDIA Grace (ARM64) platform,
a DPC event froze the PCI channel and the mlx5 NAPI poll continued
processing error CQEs, calling dma_unmap for each pending WQE. Here is
an example:

The DPC event on port 0007:00:00.0 fires and eth1 (on 0017:01:00.0) starts
seeing error CQEs almost immediately:

     pcieport 0007:00:00.0: DPC: containment event, status:0x2009
     mlx5_core 0017:01:00.0 eth1: Error cqe on cqn 0x54e, ci 0xb06, ...

The WARN_ON storm begins ~0.4s later and repeats for every pending WQE:

     WARNING: CPU: 32 PID: 0 at drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c:1237 iommu_dma_unmap_phys
     Call trace:
      iommu_dma_unmap_phys+0xd4/0xe0
      mlx5e_tx_wi_dma_unmap+0xb4/0xf0
      mlx5e_poll_tx_cq+0x14c/0x438
      mlx5e_napi_poll+0x6c/0x5e0
      net_rx_action+0x160/0x5c0
      handle_softirqs+0xe8/0x320
      run_ksoftirqd+0x30/0x58

After 23 seconds of WARN_ON() storm, the watchdog fires:

     watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#32 stuck for 23s! [ksoftirqd/32:179]
     Kernel panic - not syncing: softlockup: hung tasks

Each unmap hit the WARN_ON in the IOMMU layer, printing a full stack
trace. With dozens of pending WQEs, this created a storm of WARN_ON
dumps in softirq context that monopolized the CPU for over 23 seconds,
triggering a soft lockup panic.

Fix this by checking pci_channel_offline() at the top of
mlx5e_napi_poll() and bailing out immediately when the channel is
offline. napi_complete_done() is called before returning to clear the
NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit, ensuring that napi_disable() in the teardown path
does not spin forever waiting for it. No CQ interrupts are re-armed
since the explicit mlx5e_cq_arm() calls are skipped, so the NAPI
instance will not be re-scheduled. The pending DMA buffers are left for
device removal to clean up.

Fixes: e586b3b0baee ("net/mlx5: Ethernet Datapath files")
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
---
  drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_txrx.c | 13 +++++++++++++
  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_txrx.c
index 76108299ea57d..934ad7fafa801 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_txrx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_txrx.c

@@ -138,6 +138,19 @@ int mlx5e_napi_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
  	bool xsk_open;
  	int i;
  
+	/*
+	 * When the PCI channel is offline, IOMMU mappings may already be torn
+	 * down.  Processing CQEs would call dma_unmap for every pending WQE,
+	 * each hitting a WARN_ON in the IOMMU layer.  The resulting storm of
+	 * warnings in softirq context can monopolise the CPU long enough to
+	 * trigger a soft lockup and prevent any RCU grace period from
+	 * completing.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(pci_channel_offline(c->mdev->pdev))) {
+		napi_complete_done(napi, 0);
+		return 0;
+	}
+
  	rcu_read_lock();
  
  	qos_sqs = rcu_dereference(c->qos_sqs);

---
base-commit: a956792a1543c2bf4a2266cb818dc7c4135006f0
change-id: 20260209-mlx5_iommu-c8b238b1bb14

Best regards,
--
Breno Leitao [off-list ref]