This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ibmvnic: don't spin in tasklet to the 5.16-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-don-t-spin-in-tasklet.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.16 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 2123561538a49be252965e3b6fd1d1adb9ff96b6 Author: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Jan 21 18:59:20 2022 -0800 ibmvnic: don't spin in tasklet [ Upstream commit 48079e7fdd0269d66b1d7d66ae88bd03162464ad ] ibmvnic_tasklet() continuously spins waiting for responses to all capability requests. It does this to avoid encountering an error during initialization of the vnic. However if there is a bug in the VIOS and we do not receive a response to one or more queries the tasklet ends up spinning continuously leading to hard lock ups. If we fail to receive a message from the VIOS it is reasonable to timeout the login attempt rather than spin indefinitely in the tasklet. Fixes: 249168ad07cd ("ibmvnic: Make CRQ interrupt tasklet wait for all capabilities crqs") Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Dany Madden <drt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 acd488310bbce..682a440151a87 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c @@ -5491,12 +5491,6 @@ static void ibmvnic_tasklet(struct tasklet_struct *t) ibmvnic_handle_crq(crq, adapter); crq->generic.first = 0; } - - /* remain in tasklet until all - * capabilities responses are received - */ - if (!adapter->wait_capability) - done = true; } /* if capabilities CRQ's were sent in this tasklet, the following * tasklet must wait until all responses are received