This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
qed: Fix the VF msix vectors flow
to the 5.13-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:
qed-fix-the-vf-msix-vectors-flow.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.13 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 95f8bf775e6b0653562399e7452e62e8124d1391
Author: Shai Malin <smalin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun Aug 22 22:21:14 2021 +0300
qed: Fix the VF msix vectors flow
[ Upstream commit b0cd08537db8d2fbb227cdb2e5835209db295a24 ]
For VFs we should return with an error in case we didn't get the exact
number of msix vectors as we requested.
Not doing that will lead to a crash when starting queues for this VF.
Signed-off-by: Prabhakar Kushwaha <pkushwaha@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ariel Elior <aelior@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Shai Malin <smalin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_main.c
index 5bd58c65e163..6bb9ec98a12b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_main.c
@@ -616,7 +616,12 @@ static int qed_enable_msix(struct qed_dev *cdev,
rc = cnt;
}
- if (rc > 0) {
+ /* For VFs, we should return with an error in case we didn't get the
+ * exact number of msix vectors as we requested.
+ * Not doing that will lead to a crash when starting queues for
+ * this VF.
+ */
+ if ((IS_PF(cdev) && rc > 0) || (IS_VF(cdev) && rc == cnt)) {
/* MSI-x configuration was achieved */
int_params->out.int_mode = QED_INT_MODE_MSIX;
int_params->out.num_vectors = rc;
