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[PATCH iwl-next 3/8] e1000e: prevent race between PM and reset task

From: Matt Vollrath <hidden>
Date: 2026-08-30 23:22:33
Also in: intel-wired-lan, linux-doc, lkml, stable
Subsystem: intel ethernet drivers, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Tony Nguyen, Przemek Kitszel, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

e1000e_down could be entered simultaneously by the reset task and the
runtime PM suspend callback. Prevent this by acquiring a runtime PM
reference in the reset task.

The intention is that:
* A reset attempted during runtime suspend should drop silently; the
  interface is already going down.
* A runtime suspend attempted during a reset will be retried later.
* All callers of e1000e_down are now serialized.

Signed-off-by: Matt Vollrath <redacted>
Fixes: 23606cf5d119 ("e1000e / PCI / PM: Add basic runtime PM support (rev. 4)")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-5-fable
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
index 47ff3c6ab451..4c15ca307b08 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
@@ -6004,20 +6004,37 @@ static void e1000_tx_timeout(struct net_device *netdev, unsigned int __always_un
 static void e1000_reset_task(struct work_struct *work)
 {
 	struct e1000_adapter *adapter;
+	struct device *dev;
+	int rc;
+
 	adapter = container_of(work, struct e1000_adapter, reset_task);
+	dev = &adapter->pdev->dev;
 
 	rtnl_lock();
+
+	/* Runtime suspend downs the device without holding rtnl.  Hold a
+	 * runtime PM reference so it cannot start underneath the reset, and
+	 * skip the reset if the device is already suspending or suspended:
+	 * resuming resets the hardware anyway.
+	 */
+	rc = pm_runtime_get_if_active(dev);
+	if (!rc)
+		goto out_unlock;
+
 	/* don't run the task if already down */
-	if (test_bit(__E1000_DOWN, &adapter->state)) {
-		rtnl_unlock();
-		return;
-	}
+	if (test_bit(__E1000_DOWN, &adapter->state))
+		goto out_put;
 
 	if (!(adapter->flags & FLAG_RESTART_NOW)) {
 		e1000e_dump(adapter);
 		e_err("Reset adapter unexpectedly\n");
 	}
 	e1000e_reinit_locked(adapter);
+
+out_put:
+	if (rc > 0)
+		pm_runtime_put(dev);
+out_unlock:
 	rtnl_unlock();
 }
 
-- 
2.43.0
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