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    ibmvnic: don't stop queue in xmit · 8878e46f
    Sukadev Bhattiprolu authored
    If adapter's resetting bit is on, discard the packet but don't stop the
    transmit queue - instead leave that to the reset code. With this change,
    it is possible that we may get several calls to ibmvnic_xmit() that simply
    discard packets and return.
    
    But if we stop the queue here, we might end up doing so just after
    __ibmvnic_open() started the queues (during a hard/soft reset) and before
    the ->resetting bit was cleared. If that happens, there will be no one to
    restart queue and transmissions will be blocked indefinitely.
    
    This can cause a TIMEOUT reset and with auto priority failover enabled,
    an unnecessary FAILOVER reset to less favored backing device and then a
    FAILOVER back to the most favored backing device. If we hit the window
    repeatedly, we can get stuck in a loop of TIMEOUT, FAILOVER, FAILOVER
    resets leaving the adapter unusable for extended periods of time.
    
    Fixes: 7f5b0308 ("ibmvnic: Free skb's in cases of failure in transmit")
    Reported-by: default avatarAbdul Haleem <abdhalee@in.ibm.com>
    Reported-by: default avatarVaishnavi Bhat <vaish123@in.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.ibm.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDany Madden <drt@linux.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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