This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ibmvnic: remove excessive irqsave to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ibmvnic-remove-excessive-irqsave.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 60f94fa5e92bfed6ab8b309e3ad29555994ec525 Author: Junlin Yang <yangjunlin@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Mar 5 16:48:39 2021 +0800 ibmvnic: remove excessive irqsave [ Upstream commit 69cdb7947adb816fc9325b4ec02a6dddd5070b82 ] ibmvnic_remove locks multiple spinlocks while disabling interrupts: spin_lock_irqsave(&adapter->state_lock, flags); spin_lock_irqsave(&adapter->rwi_lock, flags); As reported by coccinelle, the second _irqsave() overwrites the value saved in 'flags' by the first _irqsave(), therefore when the second _irqrestore() comes,the value in 'flags' is not valid,the value saved by the first _irqsave() has been lost. This likely leads to IRQs remaining disabled. So remove the second _irqsave(): spin_lock_irqsave(&adapter->state_lock, flags); spin_lock(&adapter->rwi_lock); Generated by: ./scripts/coccinelle/locks/flags.cocci ./drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c:5413:1-18: ERROR: nested lock+irqsave that reuses flags from line 5404. Fixes: 4a41c421f367 ("ibmvnic: serialize access to work queue on remove") Signed-off-by: Junlin Yang <yangjunlin@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c index 2aee81496ffa..4a4cb62b7332 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c @@ -5388,9 +5388,9 @@ static int ibmvnic_remove(struct vio_dev *dev) * after setting state, so __ibmvnic_reset() which is called * from the flush_work() below, can make progress. */ - spin_lock_irqsave(&adapter->rwi_lock, flags); + spin_lock(&adapter->rwi_lock); adapter->state = VNIC_REMOVING; - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&adapter->rwi_lock, flags); + spin_unlock(&adapter->rwi_lock); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&adapter->state_lock, flags);