bnxt_en: Don't use rtnl lock to protect link change logic in workqueue.

As a further improvement to the PF/VF link change logic, use a private
mutex instead of the rtnl lock to protect link change logic.  With the
new mutex, we don't have to take the rtnl lock in the workqueue when
we have to handle link related functions.  If the VF and PF drivers
are running on the same host and both take the rtnl lock and one is
waiting for the other, it will cause timeout.  This patch fixes these
timeouts.

Fixes: 90c694bb7181 ("bnxt_en: Fix RTNL lock usage on bnxt_update_link().")
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c
index 8eff05a3e0e4..b2cbc970b497 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c
@@ -1052,6 +1052,7 @@ static int bnxt_get_link_ksettings(struct net_device *dev,
 	u32 ethtool_speed;
 
 	ethtool_link_ksettings_zero_link_mode(lk_ksettings, supported);
+	mutex_lock(&bp->link_lock);
 	bnxt_fw_to_ethtool_support_spds(link_info, lk_ksettings);
 
 	ethtool_link_ksettings_zero_link_mode(lk_ksettings, advertising);
@@ -1099,6 +1100,7 @@ static int bnxt_get_link_ksettings(struct net_device *dev,
 			base->port = PORT_FIBRE;
 	}
 	base->phy_address = link_info->phy_addr;
+	mutex_unlock(&bp->link_lock);
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -1190,6 +1192,7 @@ static int bnxt_set_link_ksettings(struct net_device *dev,
 	if (!BNXT_SINGLE_PF(bp))
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
+	mutex_lock(&bp->link_lock);
 	if (base->autoneg == AUTONEG_ENABLE) {
 		BNXT_ETHTOOL_TO_FW_SPDS(fw_advertising, lk_ksettings,
 					advertising);
@@ -1234,6 +1237,7 @@ static int bnxt_set_link_ksettings(struct net_device *dev,
 		rc = bnxt_hwrm_set_link_setting(bp, set_pause, false);
 
 set_setting_exit:
+	mutex_unlock(&bp->link_lock);
 	return rc;
 }