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[PATCH net 5/5] net/mlx5e: Fix "scheduling while atomic" in IPsec MAC address query

From: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Date: 2026-02-24 11:47:52
Also in: linux-rdma, lkml
Subsystem: mellanox ethernet driver (mlx5e), mellanox ethernet innova drivers, mellanox mlx5 core vpi driver, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Saeed Mahameed, Tariq Toukan, Mark Bloch, Leon Romanovsky, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

From: Jianbo Liu <redacted>

Fix a "scheduling while atomic" bug in mlx5e_ipsec_init_macs() by
replacing mlx5_query_mac_address() with ether_addr_copy() to get the
local MAC address directly from netdev->dev_addr.

The issue occurs because mlx5_query_mac_address() queries the hardware
which involves mlx5_cmd_exec() that can sleep, but it is called from
the mlx5e_ipsec_handle_event workqueue which runs in atomic context.

The MAC address is already available in netdev->dev_addr, so no need
to query hardware. This avoids the sleeping call and resolves the bug.

Call trace:
  BUG: scheduling while atomic: kworker/u112:2/69344/0x00000200
  __schedule+0x7ab/0xa20
  schedule+0x1c/0xb0
  schedule_timeout+0x6e/0xf0
  __wait_for_common+0x91/0x1b0
  cmd_exec+0xa85/0xff0 [mlx5_core]
  mlx5_cmd_exec+0x1f/0x50 [mlx5_core]
  mlx5_query_nic_vport_mac_address+0x7b/0xd0 [mlx5_core]
  mlx5_query_mac_address+0x19/0x30 [mlx5_core]
  mlx5e_ipsec_init_macs+0xc1/0x720 [mlx5_core]
  mlx5e_ipsec_build_accel_xfrm_attrs+0x422/0x670 [mlx5_core]
  mlx5e_ipsec_handle_event+0x2b9/0x460 [mlx5_core]
  process_one_work+0x178/0x2e0
  worker_thread+0x2ea/0x430

Fixes: cee137a63431 ("net/mlx5e: Handle ESN update events")
Signed-off-by: Jianbo Liu <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ipsec.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ipsec.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ipsec.c
index 9c7064187ed0..f03507a522b4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ipsec.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ipsec.c
@@ -259,7 +259,6 @@ static void mlx5e_ipsec_init_limits(struct mlx5e_ipsec_sa_entry *sa_entry,
 static void mlx5e_ipsec_init_macs(struct mlx5e_ipsec_sa_entry *sa_entry,
 				  struct mlx5_accel_esp_xfrm_attrs *attrs)
 {
-	struct mlx5_core_dev *mdev = mlx5e_ipsec_sa2dev(sa_entry);
 	struct mlx5e_ipsec_addr *addrs = &attrs->addrs;
 	struct net_device *netdev = sa_entry->dev;
 	struct xfrm_state *x = sa_entry->x;
@@ -276,7 +275,7 @@ static void mlx5e_ipsec_init_macs(struct mlx5e_ipsec_sa_entry *sa_entry,
 	    attrs->type != XFRM_DEV_OFFLOAD_PACKET)
 		return;
 
-	mlx5_query_mac_address(mdev, addr);
+	ether_addr_copy(addr, netdev->dev_addr);
 	switch (attrs->dir) {
 	case XFRM_DEV_OFFLOAD_IN:
 		src = attrs->dmac;
-- 
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