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When resetting an interface ("recovery"), qeth currently attempts to
elide the call to dev_close(). We initially only call .ndo_close to
quiesce the data path, and then offline & online the ccwgroup device.
If the reset succeeded, a call to .ndo_open then resumes the data path
along with some internal setup (dev_addr validation, RX modeset) that
dev_open() would have usually triggered.
dev_close() only gets called (via the close_dev worker) if the reset
action fails.
It's unclear whether this was initially done due to locking concerns, or
rather to execute the reset transparently. Either way, temporarily
closing the interface without dev_close() is fragile, and means we're
susceptible to various races and unexpected behaviour. For instance:
- Bypassing dev_deactivate_many() means that the qdiscs are not set to
__QDISC_STATE_DEACTIVATED. Consequently any intermittent TX completion
can wake up the txq, resulting in calls to .ndo_start_xmit while the
data path is down. We have custom state checking to detect this case
and drop such packets.
- Because the IFF_UP flag doesn't reflect the interface's actual state
during a reset, we have custom state checking in .ndo_open and
.ndo_close to guard against invalid calls.
- Considering that the reset might take a considerable amount of time
(in particular if an IO fails and we end up waiting for its timeout), we
_do_ want NETDEV_GOING_DOWN and NETDEV_DOWN events so that components
like bonding, team, bridge, macvlan, vlan, ... can take appropriate
action.
Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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