net/mlx5: Fix deadlock between devlink lock and esw->wq

[ Upstream commit aed763abf0e905b4b8d747d1ba9e172961572f57 ]

esw->work_queue executes esw_functions_changed_event_handler ->
esw_vfs_changed_event_handler and acquires the devlink lock.

.eswitch_mode_set (acquires devlink lock in devlink_nl_pre_doit) ->
mlx5_devlink_eswitch_mode_set -> mlx5_eswitch_disable_locked ->
mlx5_eswitch_event_handler_unregister -> flush_workqueue deadlocks
when esw_vfs_changed_event_handler executes.

Fix that by no longer flushing the work to avoid the deadlock, and using
a generation counter to keep track of work relevance. This avoids an old
handler manipulating an esw that has undergone one or more mode changes:
- the counter is incremented in mlx5_eswitch_event_handler_unregister.
- the counter is read and passed to the ephemeral mlx5_host_work struct.
- the work handler takes the devlink lock and bails out if the current
  generation is different than the one it was scheduled to operate on.
- mlx5_eswitch_cleanup does the final draining before destroying the wq.

No longer flushing the workqueue has the side effect of maybe no longer
cancelling pending vport_change_handler work items, but that's ok since
those are disabled elsewhere:
- mlx5_eswitch_disable_locked disables the vport eq notifier.
- mlx5_esw_vport_disable disarms the HW EQ notification and marks
  vport->enabled under state_lock to false to prevent pending vport
  handler from doing anything.
- mlx5_eswitch_cleanup destroys the workqueue and makes sure all events
  are disabled/finished.

Fixes: f1bc646c9a06 ("net/mlx5: Use devl_ API in mlx5_esw_offloads_devlink_port_register")
Signed-off-by: Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Moshe Shemesh <moshe@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260305081019.1811100-1-tariqt@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

3 files changed, 19 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch.c
index 4b7a1ce7f406..32bf93e4ffce 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch.c
@@ -1072,10 +1072,11 @@ static void mlx5_eswitch_event_handler_register(struct mlx5_eswitch *esw)
 
 static void mlx5_eswitch_event_handler_unregister(struct mlx5_eswitch *esw)
 {
-	if (esw->mode == MLX5_ESWITCH_OFFLOADS && mlx5_eswitch_is_funcs_handler(esw->dev))
+	if (esw->mode == MLX5_ESWITCH_OFFLOADS &&
+	    mlx5_eswitch_is_funcs_handler(esw->dev)) {
 		mlx5_eq_notifier_unregister(esw->dev, &esw->esw_funcs.nb);
-
-	flush_workqueue(esw->work_queue);
+		atomic_inc(&esw->esw_funcs.generation);
+	}
 }
 
 static void mlx5_eswitch_clear_vf_vports_info(struct mlx5_eswitch *esw)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch.h
index 714ad28e8445..0276609a617c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch.h
@@ -334,10 +334,12 @@ struct esw_mc_addr { /* SRIOV only */
 struct mlx5_host_work {
 	struct work_struct	work;
 	struct mlx5_eswitch	*esw;
+	int			work_gen;
 };
 
 struct mlx5_esw_functions {
 	struct mlx5_nb		nb;
+	atomic_t		generation;
 	bool			host_funcs_disabled;
 	u16			num_vfs;
 	u16			num_ec_vfs;
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch_offloads.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch_offloads.c
index ccf53d478362..c79231b43797 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch_offloads.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch_offloads.c
@@ -3582,22 +3582,28 @@ static void esw_offloads_steering_cleanup(struct mlx5_eswitch *esw)
 }
 
 static void
-esw_vfs_changed_event_handler(struct mlx5_eswitch *esw, const u32 *out)
+esw_vfs_changed_event_handler(struct mlx5_eswitch *esw, int work_gen,
+			      const u32 *out)
 {
 	struct devlink *devlink;
 	bool host_pf_disabled;
 	u16 new_num_vfs;
 
+	devlink = priv_to_devlink(esw->dev);
+	devl_lock(devlink);
+
+	/* Stale work from one or more mode changes ago. Bail out. */
+	if (work_gen != atomic_read(&esw->esw_funcs.generation))
+		goto unlock;
+
 	new_num_vfs = MLX5_GET(query_esw_functions_out, out,
 			       host_params_context.host_num_of_vfs);
 	host_pf_disabled = MLX5_GET(query_esw_functions_out, out,
 				    host_params_context.host_pf_disabled);
 
 	if (new_num_vfs == esw->esw_funcs.num_vfs || host_pf_disabled)
-		return;
+		goto unlock;
 
-	devlink = priv_to_devlink(esw->dev);
-	devl_lock(devlink);
 	/* Number of VFs can only change from "0 to x" or "x to 0". */
 	if (esw->esw_funcs.num_vfs > 0) {
 		mlx5_eswitch_unload_vf_vports(esw, esw->esw_funcs.num_vfs);
@@ -3612,6 +3618,7 @@ esw_vfs_changed_event_handler(struct mlx5_eswitch *esw, const u32 *out)
 		}
 	}
 	esw->esw_funcs.num_vfs = new_num_vfs;
+unlock:
 	devl_unlock(devlink);
 }
 
@@ -3628,7 +3635,7 @@ static void esw_functions_changed_event_handler(struct work_struct *work)
 	if (IS_ERR(out))
 		goto out;
 
-	esw_vfs_changed_event_handler(esw, out);
+	esw_vfs_changed_event_handler(esw, host_work->work_gen, out);
 	kvfree(out);
 out:
 	kfree(host_work);
@@ -3648,6 +3655,7 @@ int mlx5_esw_funcs_changed_handler(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long type
 	esw = container_of(esw_funcs, struct mlx5_eswitch, esw_funcs);
 
 	host_work->esw = esw;
+	host_work->work_gen = atomic_read(&esw_funcs->generation);
 
 	INIT_WORK(&host_work->work, esw_functions_changed_event_handler);
 	queue_work(esw->work_queue, &host_work->work);