When system enters into kdump kernel because of kernel panic, it won't shutdown devices. On-flight DMA will continue transferring data until device driver initializes. All devices are supposed to reset during driver initialization. And this property is used to fix the kdump failure in system with intel iommu. Other systems with hardware iommu should be similar. Please check commit 091d42e ("iommu/vt-d: Copy translation tables from old kernel") and those commits around it. But bnx2 driver doesn't reset device during driver initialization. The device resetting is deferred to net device up stage. This will cause hardware iommu handling failure on bnx2 device. And its resetting relies on firmware. So in this patch move the firmware requesting code to earlier bnx2_init_one(), then next call bnx2_reset_chip to reset device. Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2.c | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2.c index 8fc3f3c..d68a487 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2.c @@ -6356,10 +6356,6 @@ bnx2_open(struct net_device *dev) struct bnx2 *bp = netdev_priv(dev); int rc; - rc = bnx2_request_firmware(bp); - if (rc < 0) - goto out; - netif_carrier_off(dev); bnx2_disable_int(bp); @@ -8575,6 +8571,12 @@ bnx2_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent) pci_set_drvdata(pdev, dev); + rc = bnx2_request_firmware(bp); + if (rc < 0) + goto error; + + + bnx2_reset_chip(bp, BNX2_DRV_MSG_CODE_RESET); memcpy(dev->dev_addr, bp->mac_addr, ETH_ALEN); dev->hw_features = NETIF_F_IP_CSUM | NETIF_F_SG | @@ -8607,6 +8609,7 @@ bnx2_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent) return 0; error: + bnx2_release_firmware(bp); pci_iounmap(pdev, bp->regview); pci_release_regions(pdev); pci_disable_device(pdev); -- 2.5.5