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Commit 4c582234 authored by Ido Schimmel's avatar Ido Schimmel Committed by David S. Miller
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devlink: Wait longer before warning about unset port type

The commit cited below causes devlink to emit a warning if a type was
not set on a devlink port for longer than 30 seconds to "prevent
misbehavior of drivers". This proved to be problematic when
unregistering the backing netdev. The flow is always:

devlink_port_type_clear()	// schedules the warning
unregister_netdev()		// blocking
devlink_port_unregister()	// cancels the warning

The call to unregister_netdev() can block for long periods of time for
various reasons: RTNL lock is contended, large amounts of configuration
to unroll following dismantle of the netdev, etc. This results in
devlink emitting a warning despite the driver behaving correctly.

In emulated environments (of future hardware) which are usually very
slow, the warning can also be emitted during port creation as more than
30 seconds can pass between the time the devlink port is registered and
when its type is set.

In addition, syzbot has hit this warning [1] 1974 times since 07/11/19
without being able to produce a reproducer. Probably because
reproduction depends on the load or other bugs (e.g., RTNL not being
released).

To prevent bogus warnings, increase the timeout to 1 hour.

[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=e99b59e9c024a666c9f7450dc162a4b74d09d9cb



Fixes: 136bf27f ("devlink: add warning in case driver does not set port type")
Signed-off-by: default avatarIdo Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Reported-by: default avatar <syzbot+b0a18ed7b08b735d2f41@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Reported-by: default avatarAlex Veber <alexve@mellanox.com>
Tested-by: default avatarAlex Veber <alexve@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 9827c063
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