napi_schedule() is expected to be called either:
* From an interrupt, where raised softirqs are handled on IRQ exit
* From a softirq disabled section, where raised softirqs are handled on
the next call to local_bh_enable().
* From a softirq handler, where raised softirqs are handled on the next
round in do_softirq(), or further deferred to a dedicated kthread.
Other bare tasks context may end up ignoring the raised NET_RX vector
until the next random softirq handling opportunity, which may not
happen before a while if the CPU goes idle afterwards with the tick
stopped.
Such "misuses" have been detected on several places thanks to messages
of the kind:
"NOHZ tick-stop error: local softirq work is pending, handler #08!!!"
For example:
__raise_softirq_irqoff
__napi_schedule
rtl8152_runtime_resume.isra.0
rtl8152_resume
usb_resume_interface.isra.0
usb_resume_both
__rpm_callback
rpm_callback
rpm_resume
__pm_runtime_resume
usb_autoresume_device
usb_remote_wakeup
hub_event
process_one_work
worker_thread
kthread
ret_from_fork
ret_from_fork_asm
And also:
* drivers/net/usb/r8152.c::rtl_work_func_t
* drivers/net/netdevsim/netdev.c::nsim_start_xmit
There is a long history of issues of this kind:
019edd01d1 ("ath10k: sdio: Add missing BH locking around napi_schdule()")
3300685893 ("idpf: disable local BH when scheduling napi for marker packets")
e3d5d70cb4 ("net: lan78xx: fix "softirq work is pending" error")
e55c27ed9c ("mt76: mt7615: add missing bh-disable around rx napi schedule")
c0182aa985 ("mt76: mt7915: add missing bh-disable around tx napi enable/schedule")
970be1dff2 ("mt76: disable BH around napi_schedule() calls")
019edd01d1 ("ath10k: sdio: Add missing BH locking around napi_schdule()")
30bfec4fec ("can: rx-offload: can_rx_offload_threaded_irq_finish(): add new function to be called from threaded interrupt")
e63052a5dd ("mlx5e: add add missing BH locking around napi_schdule()")
83a0c6e589 ("i40e: Invoke softirqs after napi_reschedule")
bd4ce941c8 ("mlx4: Invoke softirqs after napi_reschedule")
8cf699ec84 ("mlx4: do not call napi_schedule() without care")
ec13ee8014 ("virtio_net: invoke softirqs after __napi_schedule")
This shows that relying on the caller to arrange a proper context for
the softirqs to be handled while calling napi_schedule() is very fragile
and error prone. Also fixing them can also prove challenging if the
caller may be called from different kinds of contexts.
Therefore fix this from napi_schedule() itself with waking up ksoftirqd
when softirqs are raised from task contexts.
Reported-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Reported-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/354a2690-9bbf-4ccb-8769-fa94707a9340@molgen.mpg.de/
Cc: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250223221708.27130-1-frederic@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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