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A recent change to the driver exposed a bug where the MAC RX
filters (unicast MAC, broadcast MAC, and multicast MAC) are
configured and enabled before the RX path is fully initialized.
The result of this bug is that after the PHY is started packets
that match these MAC RX filters start to flow into the RX FIFO.
And then, after rx_init() is completed, these packets will go
into the driver RX ring as well. If enough packets are received
to fill the RX ring (default size is 128 packets) before the call
to request_irq() completes, the driver RX function becomes stuck.
This bug is intermittent but is most likely to be seen where the
oob_net0 interface is connected to a busy network with lots of
broadcast and multicast traffic.
All the MAC RX filters must be disabled until the RX path is ready,
i.e. all initialization is done and all the IRQs are installed.
Fixes: f7442a634a ("mlxbf_gige: call request_irq() after NAPI initialized")
Reviewed-by: Asmaa Mnebhi <asmaa@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Thompson <davthompson@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240809163612.12852-1-davthompson@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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