linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.9 749/757] s390/qeth: dont let HW override the configured port role

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Date:   Tue, 27 Oct 2020 14:56:39 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Alexandra Winter <wintera@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Julian Wiedmann <jwi@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.9 749/757] s390/qeth: dont let HW override the configured port role

From: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@...ux.ibm.com>

[ Upstream commit a04f0ecacdb0639d416614619225a39de3927e22 ]

The only time that our Bridgeport role should change is when we change
the configuration ourselves. In which case we also adjust our internal
state tracking, no need to do it again when we receive the corresponding
event.

Removing the locked section helps a subsequent patch that needs to flush
the workqueue while under sbp_lock.

It would be nice to raise a warning here in case HW does weird things
after all, but this could end up generating false-positives when we
change the configuration ourselves.

Suggested-by: Alexandra Winter <wintera@...ux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@...ux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexandra Winter <wintera@...ux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c
index 9866d01b40fe7..4af7b5d57b4e4 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c
@@ -1120,12 +1120,6 @@ static void qeth_bridge_state_change_worker(struct work_struct *work)
 		NULL
 	};
 
-	/* Role should not change by itself, but if it did, */
-	/* information from the hardware is authoritative.  */
-	mutex_lock(&data->card->sbp_lock);
-	data->card->options.sbp.role = entry->role;
-	mutex_unlock(&data->card->sbp_lock);
-
 	snprintf(env_locrem, sizeof(env_locrem), "BRIDGEPORT=statechange");
 	snprintf(env_role, sizeof(env_role), "ROLE=%s",
 		(entry->role == QETH_SBP_ROLE_NONE) ? "none" :
-- 
2.25.1