Enabling SR-IOV VFs will cause the PCI subsystem to schedule a
work and flush its workqueue.  Since the nfp driver schedules its
own work we can't enable VFs while holding driver load.  Commit
6d48ceb27af1 ("nfp: allocate a private workqueue for driver work")
tried to avoid this deadlock by creating a separate workqueue.
Unfortunately, due to the architecture of workqueue subsystem this
does not guarantee a separate thread of execution.  Luckily
we can simply take pci_enable_sriov() from under the driver lock.

Take pci_disable_sriov() from under the lock too for symmetry.

Fixes: 6d48ceb27af1 ("nfp: allocate a private workqueue for driver work")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicin...@netronome.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.hor...@netronome.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_main.c | 16 +++++++---------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_main.c 
b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_main.c
index d67969d3e484..3f199db2002e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_main.c
@@ -98,21 +98,20 @@ static int nfp_pcie_sriov_enable(struct pci_dev *pdev, int 
num_vfs)
        struct nfp_pf *pf = pci_get_drvdata(pdev);
        int err;
 
-       mutex_lock(&pf->lock);
-
        if (num_vfs > pf->limit_vfs) {
                nfp_info(pf->cpp, "Firmware limits number of VFs to %u\n",
                         pf->limit_vfs);
-               err = -EINVAL;
-               goto err_unlock;
+               return -EINVAL;
        }
 
        err = pci_enable_sriov(pdev, num_vfs);
        if (err) {
                dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "Failed to enable PCI SR-IOV: %d\n", err);
-               goto err_unlock;
+               return err;
        }
 
+       mutex_lock(&pf->lock);
+
        err = nfp_app_sriov_enable(pf->app, num_vfs);
        if (err) {
                dev_warn(&pdev->dev,
@@ -129,9 +128,8 @@ static int nfp_pcie_sriov_enable(struct pci_dev *pdev, int 
num_vfs)
        return num_vfs;
 
 err_sriov_disable:
-       pci_disable_sriov(pdev);
-err_unlock:
        mutex_unlock(&pf->lock);
+       pci_disable_sriov(pdev);
        return err;
 #endif
        return 0;
@@ -158,10 +156,10 @@ static int nfp_pcie_sriov_disable(struct pci_dev *pdev)
 
        pf->num_vfs = 0;
 
+       mutex_unlock(&pf->lock);
+
        pci_disable_sriov(pdev);
        dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "Removed VFs.\n");
-
-       mutex_unlock(&pf->lock);
 #endif
        return 0;
 }
-- 
2.11.0

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