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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/net, branch v7.0-rc1</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Convert remaining multi-line kmalloc_obj/flex GFP_KERNEL uses</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T16:26:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T07:46:04+00:00</published>
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Conversion performed via this Coccinelle script:

  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
  // Options: --include-headers-for-types --all-includes --include-headers --keep-comments
  virtual patch

  @gfp depends on patch &amp;&amp; !(file in "tools") &amp;&amp; !(file in "samples")@
  identifier ALLOC = {kmalloc_obj,kmalloc_objs,kmalloc_flex,
 		    kzalloc_obj,kzalloc_objs,kzalloc_flex,
		    kvmalloc_obj,kvmalloc_objs,kvmalloc_flex,
		    kvzalloc_obj,kvzalloc_objs,kvzalloc_flex};
  @@

  	ALLOC(...
  -		, GFP_KERNEL
  	)

  $ make coccicheck MODE=patch COCCI=gfp.cocci

Build and boot tested x86_64 with Fedora 42's GCC and Clang:

Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20260123 (Red Hat 15.2.1-7), GNU ld version 2.44-12.fc42) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01
Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (clang version 20.1.8 (Fedora 20.1.8-4.fc42), LLD 20.1.8) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Conversion performed via this Coccinelle script:

  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
  // Options: --include-headers-for-types --all-includes --include-headers --keep-comments
  virtual patch

  @gfp depends on patch &amp;&amp; !(file in "tools") &amp;&amp; !(file in "samples")@
  identifier ALLOC = {kmalloc_obj,kmalloc_objs,kmalloc_flex,
 		    kzalloc_obj,kzalloc_objs,kzalloc_flex,
		    kvmalloc_obj,kvmalloc_objs,kvmalloc_flex,
		    kvzalloc_obj,kvzalloc_objs,kvzalloc_flex};
  @@

  	ALLOC(...
  -		, GFP_KERNEL
  	)

  $ make coccicheck MODE=patch COCCI=gfp.cocci

Build and boot tested x86_64 with Fedora 42's GCC and Clang:

Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20260123 (Red Hat 15.2.1-7), GNU ld version 2.44-12.fc42) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01
Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (clang version 20.1.8 (Fedora 20.1.8-4.fc42), LLD 20.1.8) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00</published>
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This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines.  I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.

Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for
me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the
middle of the script.  I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.

So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the
syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed'
scripts.

The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want
whitespace cleanup anyway.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines.  I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.

Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for
me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the
middle of the script.  I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.

So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the
syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed'
scripts.

The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want
whitespace cleanup anyway.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_flex' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T01:06:51+00:00</published>
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This is the exact same thing as the 'alloc_obj()' version, only much
smaller because there are a lot fewer users of the *alloc_flex()
interface.

As with alloc_obj() version, this was done entirely with mindless brute
force, using the same script, except using 'flex' in the pattern rather
than 'objs*'.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
This is the exact same thing as the 'alloc_obj()' version, only much
smaller because there are a lot fewer users of the *alloc_flex()
interface.

As with alloc_obj() version, this was done entirely with mindless brute
force, using the same script, except using 'flex' in the pattern rather
than 'objs*'.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kmalloc_obj: Clean up after treewide replacements</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T08:12:19+00:00</published>
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Coccinelle doesn't handle re-indenting line escapes. Fix the 2 places
where these got misaligned.

Remove 2 now-redundant type casts, found with:
$ git grep -P 'struct (\S+).*\)\s*k\S+alloc_(objs?|flex)\(struct \1'

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Coccinelle doesn't handle re-indenting line escapes. Fix the 2 places
where these got misaligned.

Remove 2 now-redundant type casts, found with:
$ git grep -P 'struct (\S+).*\)\s*k\S+alloc_(objs?|flex)\(struct \1'

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'net-7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net</title>
<updated>2026-02-19T18:39:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-19T18:39:08+00:00</published>
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Pull networking fixes from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Including fixes from Netfilter.

  Current release - new code bugs:

   - net: fix backlog_unlock_irq_restore() vs CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT

   - eth: mlx5e: XSK, Fix unintended ICOSQ change

   - phy_port: correctly recompute the port's linkmodes

   - vsock: prevent child netns mode switch from local to global

   - couple of kconfig fixes for new symbols

  Previous releases - regressions:

   - nfc: nci: fix false-positive parameter validation for packet data

   - net: do not delay zero-copy skbs in skb_attempt_defer_free()

  Previous releases - always broken:

   - mctp: ensure our nlmsg responses to user space are zero-initialised

   - ipv6: ioam: fix heap buffer overflow in __ioam6_fill_trace_data()

   - fixes for ICMP rate limiting

  Misc:

   - intel: fix PCI device ID conflict between i40e and ipw2200"

* tag 'net-7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (85 commits)
  net: nfc: nci: Fix parameter validation for packet data
  net/mlx5e: Use unsigned for mlx5e_get_max_num_channels
  net/mlx5e: Fix deadlocks between devlink and netdev instance locks
  net/mlx5e: MACsec, add ASO poll loop in macsec_aso_set_arm_event
  net/mlx5: Fix misidentification of write combining CQE during poll loop
  net/mlx5e: Fix misidentification of ASO CQE during poll loop
  net/mlx5: Fix multiport device check over light SFs
  bonding: alb: fix UAF in rlb_arp_recv during bond up/down
  bnge: fix reserving resources from FW
  eth: fbnic: Advertise supported XDP features.
  rds: tcp: fix uninit-value in __inet_bind
  net/rds: Fix NULL pointer dereference in rds_tcp_accept_one
  octeontx2-af: Fix default entries mcam entry action
  net/mlx5e: XSK, Fix unintended ICOSQ change
  ipv6: icmp: icmpv6_xrlim_allow() optimization if net.ipv6.icmp.ratelimit is zero
  ipv4: icmp: icmpv4_xrlim_allow() optimization if net.ipv4.icmp_ratelimit is zero
  ipv6: icmp: remove obsolete code in icmpv6_xrlim_allow()
  inet: move icmp_global_{credit,stamp} to a separate cache line
  icmp: prevent possible overflow in icmp_global_allow()
  selftests/net: packetdrill: add ipv4-mapped-ipv6 tests
  ...
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<pre>
Pull networking fixes from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Including fixes from Netfilter.

  Current release - new code bugs:

   - net: fix backlog_unlock_irq_restore() vs CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT

   - eth: mlx5e: XSK, Fix unintended ICOSQ change

   - phy_port: correctly recompute the port's linkmodes

   - vsock: prevent child netns mode switch from local to global

   - couple of kconfig fixes for new symbols

  Previous releases - regressions:

   - nfc: nci: fix false-positive parameter validation for packet data

   - net: do not delay zero-copy skbs in skb_attempt_defer_free()

  Previous releases - always broken:

   - mctp: ensure our nlmsg responses to user space are zero-initialised

   - ipv6: ioam: fix heap buffer overflow in __ioam6_fill_trace_data()

   - fixes for ICMP rate limiting

  Misc:

   - intel: fix PCI device ID conflict between i40e and ipw2200"

* tag 'net-7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (85 commits)
  net: nfc: nci: Fix parameter validation for packet data
  net/mlx5e: Use unsigned for mlx5e_get_max_num_channels
  net/mlx5e: Fix deadlocks between devlink and netdev instance locks
  net/mlx5e: MACsec, add ASO poll loop in macsec_aso_set_arm_event
  net/mlx5: Fix misidentification of write combining CQE during poll loop
  net/mlx5e: Fix misidentification of ASO CQE during poll loop
  net/mlx5: Fix multiport device check over light SFs
  bonding: alb: fix UAF in rlb_arp_recv during bond up/down
  bnge: fix reserving resources from FW
  eth: fbnic: Advertise supported XDP features.
  rds: tcp: fix uninit-value in __inet_bind
  net/rds: Fix NULL pointer dereference in rds_tcp_accept_one
  octeontx2-af: Fix default entries mcam entry action
  net/mlx5e: XSK, Fix unintended ICOSQ change
  ipv6: icmp: icmpv6_xrlim_allow() optimization if net.ipv6.icmp.ratelimit is zero
  ipv4: icmp: icmpv4_xrlim_allow() optimization if net.ipv4.icmp_ratelimit is zero
  ipv6: icmp: remove obsolete code in icmpv6_xrlim_allow()
  inet: move icmp_global_{credit,stamp} to a separate cache line
  icmp: prevent possible overflow in icmp_global_allow()
  selftests/net: packetdrill: add ipv4-mapped-ipv6 tests
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net/mlx5e: Use unsigned for mlx5e_get_max_num_channels</title>
<updated>2026-02-19T17:30:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cosmin Ratiu</name>
<email>cratiu@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-18T07:29:04+00:00</published>
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The max number of channels is always an unsigned int, use the correct
type to fix compilation errors done with strict type checking, e.g.:

error: call to ‘__compiletime_assert_1110’ declared with attribute
  error: min(mlx5e_get_devlink_param_num_doorbells(mdev),
  mlx5e_get_max_num_channels(mdev)) signedness error

Fixes: 74a8dadac17e ("net/mlx5e: Preparations for supporting larger number of channels")
Signed-off-by: Cosmin Ratiu &lt;cratiu@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dragos Tatulea &lt;dtatulea@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller &lt;Jacob.e.keller@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260218072904.1764634-7-tariqt@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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The max number of channels is always an unsigned int, use the correct
type to fix compilation errors done with strict type checking, e.g.:

error: call to ‘__compiletime_assert_1110’ declared with attribute
  error: min(mlx5e_get_devlink_param_num_doorbells(mdev),
  mlx5e_get_max_num_channels(mdev)) signedness error

Fixes: 74a8dadac17e ("net/mlx5e: Preparations for supporting larger number of channels")
Signed-off-by: Cosmin Ratiu &lt;cratiu@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dragos Tatulea &lt;dtatulea@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller &lt;Jacob.e.keller@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260218072904.1764634-7-tariqt@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net/mlx5e: Fix deadlocks between devlink and netdev instance locks</title>
<updated>2026-02-19T17:30:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cosmin Ratiu</name>
<email>cratiu@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-18T07:29:03+00:00</published>
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In the mentioned "Fixes" commit, various work tasks triggering devlink
health reporter recovery were switched to use netdev_trylock to protect
against concurrent tear down of the channels being recovered. But this
had the side effect of introducing potential deadlocks because of
incorrect lock ordering.

The correct lock order is described by the init flow:
probe_one -&gt; mlx5_init_one (acquires devlink lock)
-&gt; mlx5_init_one_devl_locked -&gt; mlx5_register_device
-&gt; mlx5_rescan_drivers_locked -...-&gt; mlx5e_probe -&gt; _mlx5e_probe
-&gt; register_netdev (acquires rtnl lock)
-&gt; register_netdevice (acquires netdev lock)
=&gt; devlink lock -&gt; rtnl lock -&gt; netdev lock.

But in the current recovery flow, the order is wrong:
mlx5e_tx_err_cqe_work (acquires netdev lock)
-&gt; mlx5e_reporter_tx_err_cqe -&gt; mlx5e_health_report
-&gt; devlink_health_report (acquires devlink lock =&gt; boom!)
-&gt; devlink_health_reporter_recover
-&gt; mlx5e_tx_reporter_recover -&gt; mlx5e_tx_reporter_recover_from_ctx
-&gt; mlx5e_tx_reporter_err_cqe_recover

The same pattern exists in:
mlx5e_reporter_rx_timeout
mlx5e_reporter_tx_ptpsq_unhealthy
mlx5e_reporter_tx_timeout

Fix these by moving the netdev_trylock calls from the work handlers
lower in the call stack, in the respective recovery functions, where
they are actually necessary.

Fixes: 8f7b00307bf1 ("net/mlx5e: Convert mlx5 netdevs to instance locking")
Signed-off-by: Cosmin Ratiu &lt;cratiu@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dragos Tatulea &lt;dtatulea@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller &lt;Jacob.e.keller@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260218072904.1764634-6-tariqt@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
In the mentioned "Fixes" commit, various work tasks triggering devlink
health reporter recovery were switched to use netdev_trylock to protect
against concurrent tear down of the channels being recovered. But this
had the side effect of introducing potential deadlocks because of
incorrect lock ordering.

The correct lock order is described by the init flow:
probe_one -&gt; mlx5_init_one (acquires devlink lock)
-&gt; mlx5_init_one_devl_locked -&gt; mlx5_register_device
-&gt; mlx5_rescan_drivers_locked -...-&gt; mlx5e_probe -&gt; _mlx5e_probe
-&gt; register_netdev (acquires rtnl lock)
-&gt; register_netdevice (acquires netdev lock)
=&gt; devlink lock -&gt; rtnl lock -&gt; netdev lock.

But in the current recovery flow, the order is wrong:
mlx5e_tx_err_cqe_work (acquires netdev lock)
-&gt; mlx5e_reporter_tx_err_cqe -&gt; mlx5e_health_report
-&gt; devlink_health_report (acquires devlink lock =&gt; boom!)
-&gt; devlink_health_reporter_recover
-&gt; mlx5e_tx_reporter_recover -&gt; mlx5e_tx_reporter_recover_from_ctx
-&gt; mlx5e_tx_reporter_err_cqe_recover

The same pattern exists in:
mlx5e_reporter_rx_timeout
mlx5e_reporter_tx_ptpsq_unhealthy
mlx5e_reporter_tx_timeout

Fix these by moving the netdev_trylock calls from the work handlers
lower in the call stack, in the respective recovery functions, where
they are actually necessary.

Fixes: 8f7b00307bf1 ("net/mlx5e: Convert mlx5 netdevs to instance locking")
Signed-off-by: Cosmin Ratiu &lt;cratiu@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dragos Tatulea &lt;dtatulea@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller &lt;Jacob.e.keller@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260218072904.1764634-6-tariqt@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net/mlx5e: MACsec, add ASO poll loop in macsec_aso_set_arm_event</title>
<updated>2026-02-19T17:30:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gal Pressman</name>
<email>gal@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-18T07:29:02+00:00</published>
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The macsec_aso_set_arm_event function calls mlx5_aso_poll_cq once
without a retry loop. If the CQE is not immediately available after
posting the WQE, the function fails unnecessarily.

Use read_poll_timeout() to poll 3-10 usecs for CQE, consistent with
other ASO polling code paths in the driver.

Fixes: 739cfa34518e ("net/mlx5: Make ASO poll CQ usable in atomic context")
Signed-off-by: Gal Pressman &lt;gal@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jianbo Liu &lt;jianbol@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller &lt;Jacob.e.keller@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260218072904.1764634-5-tariqt@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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The macsec_aso_set_arm_event function calls mlx5_aso_poll_cq once
without a retry loop. If the CQE is not immediately available after
posting the WQE, the function fails unnecessarily.

Use read_poll_timeout() to poll 3-10 usecs for CQE, consistent with
other ASO polling code paths in the driver.

Fixes: 739cfa34518e ("net/mlx5: Make ASO poll CQ usable in atomic context")
Signed-off-by: Gal Pressman &lt;gal@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jianbo Liu &lt;jianbol@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller &lt;Jacob.e.keller@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260218072904.1764634-5-tariqt@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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