6.5-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 7db3111043885c146e795c199d39c3f9042d97c0 ] It is not safe to initialize the waitqueues after queueing the watchdog_task. It will be using them. The chance of this causing a real problem is very small, because there will be some sleeping before any of the waitqueues get used. I got a crash only after inserting an artificial sleep in iavf_probe. Queue the watchdog_task as the last step in iavf_probe. Add a comment to prevent repeating the mistake. Fixes: fe2647ab0c99 ("i40evf: prevent VF close returning before state transitions to DOWN") Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_main.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_main.c index 8ea5c0825c3c4..14875cd85a8e3 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_main.c @@ -4982,8 +4982,6 @@ static int iavf_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent) INIT_WORK(&adapter->finish_config, iavf_finish_config); INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&adapter->watchdog_task, iavf_watchdog_task); INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&adapter->client_task, iavf_client_task); - queue_delayed_work(adapter->wq, &adapter->watchdog_task, - msecs_to_jiffies(5 * (pdev->devfn & 0x07))); /* Setup the wait queue for indicating transition to down status */ init_waitqueue_head(&adapter->down_waitqueue); @@ -4994,6 +4992,9 @@ static int iavf_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent) /* Setup the wait queue for indicating virtchannel events */ init_waitqueue_head(&adapter->vc_waitqueue); + queue_delayed_work(adapter->wq, &adapter->watchdog_task, + msecs_to_jiffies(5 * (pdev->devfn & 0x07))); + /* Initialization goes on in the work. Do not add more of it below. */ return 0; err_ioremap: -- 2.42.0