This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
octeontx2-pf: Add missing mutex lock in otx2_get_pauseparam
to the 5.15-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:
octeontx2-pf-add-missing-mutex-lock-in-otx2_get_paus.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit c3d17af8c005af47641e2a1989afb2c53229141b
Author: Subbaraya Sundeep <sbhatta@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Nov 29 10:53:42 2023 +0530
octeontx2-pf: Add missing mutex lock in otx2_get_pauseparam
[ Upstream commit 9572c949385aa2ef10368287c439bcb7935137c8 ]
All the mailbox messages sent to AF needs to be guarded
by mutex lock. Add the missing lock in otx2_get_pauseparam
function.
Fixes: 75f36270990c ("octeontx2-pf: Support to enable/disable pause frames via ethtool")
Signed-off-by: Subbaraya Sundeep <sbhatta@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_ethtool.c
index dbfa3bc39e34e..fa4b2d833d77b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_ethtool.c
@@ -316,9 +316,12 @@ static void otx2_get_pauseparam(struct net_device *netdev,
if (is_otx2_lbkvf(pfvf->pdev))
return;
+ mutex_lock(&pfvf->mbox.lock);
req = otx2_mbox_alloc_msg_cgx_cfg_pause_frm(&pfvf->mbox);
- if (!req)
+ if (!req) {
+ mutex_unlock(&pfvf->mbox.lock);
return;
+ }
if (!otx2_sync_mbox_msg(&pfvf->mbox)) {
rsp = (struct cgx_pause_frm_cfg *)
@@ -326,6 +329,7 @@ static void otx2_get_pauseparam(struct net_device *netdev,
pause->rx_pause = rsp->rx_pause;
pause->tx_pause = rsp->tx_pause;
}
+ mutex_unlock(&pfvf->mbox.lock);
}
static int otx2_set_pauseparam(struct net_device *netdev,
