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ibmvnic: Do not notify peers on parameter change resets

When attempting to change the driver parameters, such as the MTU
value or number of queues, do not call netdev_notify_peers().
Doing so will deadlock on the rtnl_lock.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Nathan Fontenot 7 years ago
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1 changed files with 2 additions and 1 deletions
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      drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c

+ 2 - 1
drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c

@@ -1843,7 +1843,8 @@ static int do_reset(struct ibmvnic_adapter *adapter,
 	for (i = 0; i < adapter->req_rx_queues; i++)
 	for (i = 0; i < adapter->req_rx_queues; i++)
 		napi_schedule(&adapter->napi[i]);
 		napi_schedule(&adapter->napi[i]);
 
 
-	if (adapter->reset_reason != VNIC_RESET_FAILOVER)
+	if (adapter->reset_reason != VNIC_RESET_FAILOVER &&
+	    adapter->reset_reason != VNIC_RESET_CHANGE_PARAM)
 		netdev_notify_peers(netdev);
 		netdev_notify_peers(netdev);
 
 
 	netif_carrier_on(netdev);
 	netif_carrier_on(netdev);