On embedded environments with hard memory limits it is a normal although rare case when skb can't be allocated on rx part under high traffic. In such OOM cases napi_complete_done() was not called. So the napi object became in an invalid state like it is "scheduled". Kernel do not re-schedules the poll of that napi object. Consequently, kernel can not remove that object the system hangs on `ifconfig down` waiting for a poll. We are fixing this by gracefully closing napi poll routine with correct invocation of napi_complete_done. This was reproduced with artificially failing the allocation of skb to simulate an "out of memory" error case and check that traffic does not get stuck. Fixes: 970a2e9864b0 ("net: ethernet: aquantia: Vector operations") Signed-off-by: Igor Russkikh <igor.russkikh@aquantia.com> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Bogdanov <dmitry.bogdanov@aquantia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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