__ethtool_get_link_ksettings requires rtnl lock. If not it throws the
following warnning.
[ 1855.996191] RTNL: assertion failed at net/core/ethtool.c (564)
[ 1855.997084] CPU: 12 PID: 1866 Comm: kworker/12:0 Not tainted 4.12.0+ #47
[ 1855.997982] Hardware name: Cisco Systems Inc UCSC-C240-M4S2/UCSC-C240-M4S2, BIOS C240M4.2.0.12.503.0307172239 03/07/2017
[ 1855.998949] Workqueue: infiniband ib_cache_task [ib_core]
[ 1855.999920] Call Trace:
[ 1856.000872] dump_stack+0x63/0x8b
[ 1856.001576] enic 0000:11:00.0 a0: Link DOWN
[ 1856.002769] __ethtool_get_link_ksettings+0xfe/0x110
[ 1856.003733] ? netlink_broadcast_filtered+0x14b/0x3a0
[ 1856.004703] usnic_ib_query_port+0x46/0x1c0 [usnic_verbs]
[ 1856.005680] ib_query_port+0x9e/0x120 [ib_core]
[ 1856.006654] ib_cache_update+0xcf/0x430 [ib_core]
[ 1856.007621] ? ib_cache_update+0xcf/0x430 [ib_core]
[ 1856.008601] ? netdev_run_todo+0x51/0x2f0
[ 1856.009581] ? linkwatch_do_dev+0x38/0x50
[ 1856.010588] ib_cache_task+0x1e/0x30 [ib_core]
[ 1856.011564] process_one_work+0x1bc/0x3e0
[ 1856.012528] worker_thread+0x4a/0x3a0
[ 1856.013486] kthread+0x125/0x140
[ 1856.014437] ? process_one_work+0x3e0/0x3e0
[ 1856.015378] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x40/0x40
[ 1856.016318] ret_from_fork+0x25/0x30
Signed-off-by: Govindarajulu Varadarajan <gvaradar@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_ib_verbs.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_ib_verbs.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_ib_verbs.c
index 4996984885c2..03002bac93e7 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_ib_verbs.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_ib_verbs.c
@@ -331,7 +331,9 @@ int usnic_ib_query_port(struct ib_device *ibdev, u8 port,
usnic_dbg("\n");
mutex_lock(&us_ibdev->usdev_lock);
+ rtnl_lock();
__ethtool_get_link_ksettings(us_ibdev->netdev, &cmd);
+ rtnl_unlock();
/* props being zeroed by the caller, avoid zeroing it here */
props->lid = 0;
--
2.13.2
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