linux/net/core/netpoll.c

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include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-24 17:04:11 +09:00
netpoll: Check for skb->queue_mapping Reducing real_num_tx_queues needs to be in sync with skb queue_mapping otherwise skbs with queue_mapping greater than real_num_tx_queues can be sent to the underlying driver and can result in kernel panic. One such event is running netconsole and enabling VF on the same device. Or running netconsole and changing number of tx queues via ethtool on same device. e.g. Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference tsk->{mm,active_mm}->context = 0000000000001525 tsk->{mm,active_mm}->pgd = fff800130ff9a000 \|/ ____ \|/ "@'/ .. \`@" /_| \__/ |_\ \__U_/ kworker/48:1(475): Oops [#1] CPU: 48 PID: 475 Comm: kworker/48:1 Tainted: G OE 4.11.0-rc3-davem-net+ #7 Workqueue: events queue_process task: fff80013113299c0 task.stack: fff800131132c000 TSTATE: 0000004480e01600 TPC: 00000000103f9e3c TNPC: 00000000103f9e40 Y: 00000000 Tainted: G OE TPC: <ixgbe_xmit_frame_ring+0x7c/0x6c0 [ixgbe]> g0: 0000000000000000 g1: 0000000000003fff g2: 0000000000000000 g3: 0000000000000001 g4: fff80013113299c0 g5: fff8001fa6808000 g6: fff800131132c000 g7: 00000000000000c0 o0: fff8001fa760c460 o1: fff8001311329a50 o2: fff8001fa7607504 o3: 0000000000000003 o4: fff8001f96e63a40 o5: fff8001311d77ec0 sp: fff800131132f0e1 ret_pc: 000000000049ed94 RPC: <set_next_entity+0x34/0xb80> l0: 0000000000000000 l1: 0000000000000800 l2: 0000000000000000 l3: 0000000000000000 l4: 000b2aa30e34b10d l5: 0000000000000000 l6: 0000000000000000 l7: fff8001fa7605028 i0: fff80013111a8a00 i1: fff80013155a0780 i2: 0000000000000000 i3: 0000000000000000 i4: 0000000000000000 i5: 0000000000100000 i6: fff800131132f1a1 i7: 00000000103fa4b0 I7: <ixgbe_xmit_frame+0x30/0xa0 [ixgbe]> Call Trace: [00000000103fa4b0] ixgbe_xmit_frame+0x30/0xa0 [ixgbe] [0000000000998c74] netpoll_start_xmit+0xf4/0x200 [0000000000998e10] queue_process+0x90/0x160 [0000000000485fa8] process_one_work+0x188/0x480 [0000000000486410] worker_thread+0x170/0x4c0 [000000000048c6b8] kthread+0xd8/0x120 [0000000000406064] ret_from_fork+0x1c/0x2c [0000000000000000] (null) Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint Caller[00000000103fa4b0]: ixgbe_xmit_frame+0x30/0xa0 [ixgbe] Caller[0000000000998c74]: netpoll_start_xmit+0xf4/0x200 Caller[0000000000998e10]: queue_process+0x90/0x160 Caller[0000000000485fa8]: process_one_work+0x188/0x480 Caller[0000000000486410]: worker_thread+0x170/0x4c0 Caller[000000000048c6b8]: kthread+0xd8/0x120 Caller[0000000000406064]: ret_from_fork+0x1c/0x2c Caller[0000000000000000]: (null) Signed-off-by: Tushar Dave <tushar.n.dave@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-04-20 15:57:31 -07:00
netpoll: Check for skb->queue_mapping Reducing real_num_tx_queues needs to be in sync with skb queue_mapping otherwise skbs with queue_mapping greater than real_num_tx_queues can be sent to the underlying driver and can result in kernel panic. One such event is running netconsole and enabling VF on the same device. Or running netconsole and changing number of tx queues via ethtool on same device. e.g. Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference tsk->{mm,active_mm}->context = 0000000000001525 tsk->{mm,active_mm}->pgd = fff800130ff9a000 \|/ ____ \|/ "@'/ .. \`@" /_| \__/ |_\ \__U_/ kworker/48:1(475): Oops [#1] CPU: 48 PID: 475 Comm: kworker/48:1 Tainted: G OE 4.11.0-rc3-davem-net+ #7 Workqueue: events queue_process task: fff80013113299c0 task.stack: fff800131132c000 TSTATE: 0000004480e01600 TPC: 00000000103f9e3c TNPC: 00000000103f9e40 Y: 00000000 Tainted: G OE TPC: <ixgbe_xmit_frame_ring+0x7c/0x6c0 [ixgbe]> g0: 0000000000000000 g1: 0000000000003fff g2: 0000000000000000 g3: 0000000000000001 g4: fff80013113299c0 g5: fff8001fa6808000 g6: fff800131132c000 g7: 00000000000000c0 o0: fff8001fa760c460 o1: fff8001311329a50 o2: fff8001fa7607504 o3: 0000000000000003 o4: fff8001f96e63a40 o5: fff8001311d77ec0 sp: fff800131132f0e1 ret_pc: 000000000049ed94 RPC: <set_next_entity+0x34/0xb80> l0: 0000000000000000 l1: 0000000000000800 l2: 0000000000000000 l3: 0000000000000000 l4: 000b2aa30e34b10d l5: 0000000000000000 l6: 0000000000000000 l7: fff8001fa7605028 i0: fff80013111a8a00 i1: fff80013155a0780 i2: 0000000000000000 i3: 0000000000000000 i4: 0000000000000000 i5: 0000000000100000 i6: fff800131132f1a1 i7: 00000000103fa4b0 I7: <ixgbe_xmit_frame+0x30/0xa0 [ixgbe]> Call Trace: [00000000103fa4b0] ixgbe_xmit_frame+0x30/0xa0 [ixgbe] [0000000000998c74] netpoll_start_xmit+0xf4/0x200 [0000000000998e10] queue_process+0x90/0x160 [0000000000485fa8] process_one_work+0x188/0x480 [0000000000486410] worker_thread+0x170/0x4c0 [000000000048c6b8] kthread+0xd8/0x120 [0000000000406064] ret_from_fork+0x1c/0x2c [0000000000000000] (null) Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint Caller[00000000103fa4b0]: ixgbe_xmit_frame+0x30/0xa0 [ixgbe] Caller[0000000000998c74]: netpoll_start_xmit+0xf4/0x200 Caller[0000000000998e10]: queue_process+0x90/0x160 Caller[0000000000485fa8]: process_one_work+0x188/0x480 Caller[0000000000486410]: worker_thread+0x170/0x4c0 Caller[000000000048c6b8]: kthread+0xd8/0x120 Caller[0000000000406064]: ret_from_fork+0x1c/0x2c Caller[0000000000000000]: (null) Signed-off-by: Tushar Dave <tushar.n.dave@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-04-20 15:57:31 -07:00
net: fix skb use after free in netpoll After commit baeababb5b85d5c4e6c917efe2a1504179438d3b ("tun: return NET_XMIT_DROP for dropped packets"), when tun_net_xmit drop packets, it will free skb and return NET_XMIT_DROP, netpoll_send_skb_on_dev will run into following use after free cases: 1. retry netpoll_start_xmit with freed skb; 2. queue freed skb in npinfo->txq. queue_process will also run into use after free case. hit netpoll_send_skb_on_dev first case with following kernel log: [ 117.864773] kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:306! [ 117.864773] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI [ 117.864774] CPU: 3 PID: 2627 Comm: loop_printmsg Kdump: loaded Tainted: P OE 5.3.0-050300rc5-generic #201908182231 [ 117.864775] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Ubuntu-1.8.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014 [ 117.864775] RIP: 0010:kmem_cache_free+0x28d/0x2b0 [ 117.864781] Call Trace: [ 117.864781] ? tun_net_xmit+0x21c/0x460 [ 117.864781] kfree_skbmem+0x4e/0x60 [ 117.864782] kfree_skb+0x3a/0xa0 [ 117.864782] tun_net_xmit+0x21c/0x460 [ 117.864782] netpoll_start_xmit+0x11d/0x1b0 [ 117.864788] netpoll_send_skb_on_dev+0x1b8/0x200 [ 117.864789] __br_forward+0x1b9/0x1e0 [bridge] [ 117.864789] ? skb_clone+0x53/0xd0 [ 117.864790] ? __skb_clone+0x2e/0x120 [ 117.864790] deliver_clone+0x37/0x50 [bridge] [ 117.864790] maybe_deliver+0x89/0xc0 [bridge] [ 117.864791] br_flood+0x6c/0x130 [bridge] [ 117.864791] br_dev_xmit+0x315/0x3c0 [bridge] [ 117.864792] netpoll_start_xmit+0x11d/0x1b0 [ 117.864792] netpoll_send_skb_on_dev+0x1b8/0x200 [ 117.864792] netpoll_send_udp+0x2c6/0x3e8 [ 117.864793] write_msg+0xd9/0xf0 [netconsole] [ 117.864793] console_unlock+0x386/0x4e0 [ 117.864793] vprintk_emit+0x17e/0x280 [ 117.864794] vprintk_default+0x29/0x50 [ 117.864794] vprintk_func+0x4c/0xbc [ 117.864794] printk+0x58/0x6f [ 117.864795] loop_fun+0x24/0x41 [printmsg_loop] [ 117.864795] kthread+0x104/0x140 [ 117.864795] ? 0xffffffffc05b1000 [ 117.864796] ? kthread_park+0x80/0x80 [ 117.864796] ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40 Signed-off-by: Feng Sun <loyou85@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Xiaojun Zhao <xiaojunzhao141@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-08-26 14:46:04 +08:00
net: Provide a PREEMPT_RT specific check for netdev_queue::_xmit_lock After acquiring netdev_queue::_xmit_lock the number of the CPU owning the lock is recorded in netdev_queue::xmit_lock_owner. This works as long as the BH context is not preemptible. On PREEMPT_RT the softirq context is preemptible and without the softirq-lock it is possible to have multiple user in __dev_queue_xmit() submitting a skb on the same CPU. This is fine in general but this means also that the current CPU is recorded as netdev_queue::xmit_lock_owner. This in turn leads to the recursion alert and the skb is dropped. Instead checking the for CPU number, that owns the lock, PREEMPT_RT can check if the lockowner matches the current task. Add netif_tx_owned() which returns true if the current context owns the lock by comparing the provided CPU number with the recorded number. This resembles the current check by negating the condition (the current check returns true if the lock is not owned). On PREEMPT_RT use rt_mutex_owner() to return the lock owner and compare the current task against it. Use the new helper in __dev_queue_xmit() and netif_local_xmit_active() which provides a similar check. Update comments regarding pairing READ_ONCE(). Reported-by: Bert Karwatzki <spasswolf@web.de> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260216134333.412332-1-spasswolf@web.de Fixes: 3253cb49cbad4 ("softirq: Allow to drop the softirq-BKL lock on PREEMPT_RT") Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Reported-by: Bert Karwatzki <spasswolf@web.de> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260302162631.uGUyIqDT@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2026-03-02 17:26:31 +01:00
netpoll: Close race condition between poll_one_napi and napi_disable Drivers might call napi_disable while not holding the napi instance poll_lock. In those instances, its possible for a race condition to exist between poll_one_napi and napi_disable. That is to say, poll_one_napi only tests the NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit to see if there is work to do during a poll, and as such the following may happen: CPU0 CPU1 ndo_tx_timeout napi_poll_dev napi_disable poll_one_napi test_and_set_bit (ret 0) test_bit (ret 1) reset adapter napi_poll_routine If the adapter gets a tx timeout without a napi instance scheduled, its possible for the adapter to think it has exclusive access to the hardware (as the napi instance is now scheduled via the napi_disable call), while the netpoll code thinks there is simply work to do. The result is parallel hardware access leading to corrupt data structures in the driver, and a crash. Additionaly, there is another, more critical race between netpoll and napi_disable. The disabled napi state is actually identical to the scheduled state for a given napi instance. The implication being that, if a napi instance is disabled, a netconsole instance would see the napi state of the device as having been scheduled, and poll it, likely while the driver was dong something requiring exclusive access. In the case above, its fairly clear that not having the rings in a state ready to be polled will cause any number of crashes. The fix should be pretty easy. netpoll uses its own bit to indicate that that the napi instance is in a state of being serviced by netpoll (NAPI_STATE_NPSVC). We can just gate disabling on that bit as well as the sched bit. That should prevent netpoll from conducting a napi poll if we convert its set bit to a test_and_set_bit operation to provide mutual exclusion Change notes: V2) Remove a trailing whtiespace Resubmit with proper subject prefix V3) Clean up spacing nits Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> CC: jmaxwell@redhat.com Tested-by: jmaxwell@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-09-23 14:57:58 -04:00
2019-03-25 21:32:28 +02:00
netpoll: fix race on poll_list resulting in garbage entry A few months back a race was discused between the netpoll napi service path, and the fast path through net_rx_action: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2007/10/16/345470 A patch was submitted for that bug, but I think we missed a case. Consider the following scenario: INITIAL STATE CPU0 has one napi_struct A on its poll_list CPU1 is calling netpoll_send_skb and needs to call poll_napi on the same napi_struct A that CPU0 has on its list CPU0 CPU1 net_rx_action poll_napi !list_empty (returns true) locks poll_lock for A poll_one_napi napi->poll netif_rx_complete __napi_complete (removes A from poll_list) list_entry(list->next) In the above scenario, net_rx_action assumes that the per-cpu poll_list is exclusive to that cpu. netpoll of course violates that, and because the netpoll path can dequeue from the poll list, its possible for CPU0 to detect a non-empty list at the top of the while loop in net_rx_action, but have it become empty by the time it calls list_entry. Since the poll_list isn't surrounded by any other structure, the returned data from that list_entry call in this situation is garbage, and any number of crashes can result based on what exactly that garbage is. Given that its not fasible for performance reasons to place exclusive locks arround each cpus poll list to provide that mutal exclusion, I think the best solution is modify the netpoll path in such a way that we continue to guarantee that the poll_list for a cpu is in fact exclusive to that cpu. To do this I've implemented the patch below. It adds an additional bit to the state field in the napi_struct. When executing napi->poll from the netpoll_path, this bit will be set. When a driver calls netif_rx_complete, if that bit is set, it will not remove the napi_struct from the poll_list. That work will be saved for the next iteration of net_rx_action. I've tested this and it seems to work well. About the biggest drawback I can see to it is the fact that it might result in an extra loop through net_rx_action in the event that the device is actually contended for (i.e. the netpoll path actually preforms all the needed work no the device, and the call to net_rx_action winds up doing nothing, except removing the napi_struct from the poll_list. However I think this is probably a small price to pay, given that the alternative is a crash. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-09 23:22:26 -08:00
[NET]: Make NAPI polling independent of struct net_device objects. Several devices have multiple independant RX queues per net device, and some have a single interrupt doorbell for several queues. In either case, it's easier to support layouts like that if the structure representing the poll is independant from the net device itself. The signature of the ->poll() call back goes from: int foo_poll(struct net_device *dev, int *budget) to int foo_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget) The caller is returned the number of RX packets processed (or the number of "NAPI credits" consumed if you want to get abstract). The callee no longer messes around bumping dev->quota, *budget, etc. because that is all handled in the caller upon return. The napi_struct is to be embedded in the device driver private data structures. Furthermore, it is the driver's responsibility to disable all NAPI instances in it's ->stop() device close handler. Since the napi_struct is privatized into the driver's private data structures, only the driver knows how to get at all of the napi_struct instances it may have per-device. With lots of help and suggestions from Rusty Russell, Roland Dreier, Michael Chan, Jeff Garzik, and Jamal Hadi Salim. Bug fixes from Thomas Graf, Roland Dreier, Peter Zijlstra, Joseph Fannin, Scott Wood, Hans J. Koch, and Michael Chan. [ Ported to current tree and all drivers converted. Integrated Stephen's follow-on kerneldoc additions, and restored poll_list handling to the old style to fix mutual exclusion issues. -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-03 16:41:36 -07:00
[NET]: Make NAPI polling independent of struct net_device objects. Several devices have multiple independant RX queues per net device, and some have a single interrupt doorbell for several queues. In either case, it's easier to support layouts like that if the structure representing the poll is independant from the net device itself. The signature of the ->poll() call back goes from: int foo_poll(struct net_device *dev, int *budget) to int foo_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget) The caller is returned the number of RX packets processed (or the number of "NAPI credits" consumed if you want to get abstract). The callee no longer messes around bumping dev->quota, *budget, etc. because that is all handled in the caller upon return. The napi_struct is to be embedded in the device driver private data structures. Furthermore, it is the driver's responsibility to disable all NAPI instances in it's ->stop() device close handler. Since the napi_struct is privatized into the driver's private data structures, only the driver knows how to get at all of the napi_struct instances it may have per-device. With lots of help and suggestions from Rusty Russell, Roland Dreier, Michael Chan, Jeff Garzik, and Jamal Hadi Salim. Bug fixes from Thomas Graf, Roland Dreier, Peter Zijlstra, Joseph Fannin, Scott Wood, Hans J. Koch, and Michael Chan. [ Ported to current tree and all drivers converted. Integrated Stephen's follow-on kerneldoc additions, and restored poll_list handling to the old style to fix mutual exclusion issues. -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-03 16:41:36 -07:00
netpoll: protect napi_poll and poll_controller during dev_[open|close] Ivan Vercera was recently backporting commit 9c13cb8bb477a83b9a3c9e5a5478a4e21294a760 to a RHEL kernel, and I noticed that, while this patch protects the tg3 driver from having its ndo_poll_controller routine called during device initalization, it does nothing for the driver during shutdown. I.e. it would be entirely possible to have the ndo_poll_controller method (or subsequently the ndo_poll) routine called for a driver in the netpoll path on CPU A while in parallel on CPU B, the ndo_close or ndo_open routine could be called. Given that the two latter routines tend to initizlize and free many data structures that the former two rely on, the result can easily be data corruption or various other crashes. Furthermore, it seems that this is potentially a problem with all net drivers that support netpoll, and so this should ideally be fixed in a common path. As Ben H Pointed out to me, we can't preform dev_open/dev_close in atomic context, so I've come up with this solution. We can use a mutex to sleep in open/close paths and just do a mutex_trylock in the napi poll path and abandon the poll attempt if we're locked, as we'll just retry the poll on the next send anyway. I've tested this here by flooding netconsole with messages on a system whos nic driver I modfied to periodically return NETDEV_TX_BUSY, so that the netpoll tx workqueue would be forced to send frames and poll the device. While this was going on I rapidly ifdown/up'ed the interface and watched for any problems. I've not found any. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> CC: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com> CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> CC: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> CC: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-05 08:05:43 +00:00
netpoll: protect napi_poll and poll_controller during dev_[open|close] Ivan Vercera was recently backporting commit 9c13cb8bb477a83b9a3c9e5a5478a4e21294a760 to a RHEL kernel, and I noticed that, while this patch protects the tg3 driver from having its ndo_poll_controller routine called during device initalization, it does nothing for the driver during shutdown. I.e. it would be entirely possible to have the ndo_poll_controller method (or subsequently the ndo_poll) routine called for a driver in the netpoll path on CPU A while in parallel on CPU B, the ndo_close or ndo_open routine could be called. Given that the two latter routines tend to initizlize and free many data structures that the former two rely on, the result can easily be data corruption or various other crashes. Furthermore, it seems that this is potentially a problem with all net drivers that support netpoll, and so this should ideally be fixed in a common path. As Ben H Pointed out to me, we can't preform dev_open/dev_close in atomic context, so I've come up with this solution. We can use a mutex to sleep in open/close paths and just do a mutex_trylock in the napi poll path and abandon the poll attempt if we're locked, as we'll just retry the poll on the next send anyway. I've tested this here by flooding netconsole with messages on a system whos nic driver I modfied to periodically return NETDEV_TX_BUSY, so that the netpoll tx workqueue would be forced to send frames and poll the device. While this was going on I rapidly ifdown/up'ed the interface and watched for any problems. I've not found any. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> CC: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com> CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> CC: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> CC: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-05 08:05:43 +00:00
netpoll: convert mutex into a semaphore Bart Van Assche recently reported a warning to me: <IRQ> [<ffffffff8103d79f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0 [<ffffffff8103d7fa>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [<ffffffff814761dd>] mutex_trylock+0x16d/0x180 [<ffffffff813968c9>] netpoll_poll_dev+0x49/0xc30 [<ffffffff8136a2d2>] ? __alloc_skb+0x82/0x2a0 [<ffffffff81397715>] netpoll_send_skb_on_dev+0x265/0x410 [<ffffffff81397c5a>] netpoll_send_udp+0x28a/0x3a0 [<ffffffffa0541843>] ? write_msg+0x53/0x110 [netconsole] [<ffffffffa05418bf>] write_msg+0xcf/0x110 [netconsole] [<ffffffff8103eba1>] call_console_drivers.constprop.17+0xa1/0x1c0 [<ffffffff8103fb76>] console_unlock+0x2d6/0x450 [<ffffffff8104011e>] vprintk_emit+0x1ee/0x510 [<ffffffff8146f9f6>] printk+0x4d/0x4f [<ffffffffa0004f1d>] scsi_print_command+0x7d/0xe0 [scsi_mod] This resulted from my commit ca99ca14c which introduced a mutex_trylock operation in a path that could execute in interrupt context. When mutex debugging is enabled, the above warns the user when we are in fact exectuting in interrupt context interrupt context. After some discussion, It seems that a semaphore is the proper mechanism to use here. While mutexes are defined to be unusable in interrupt context, no such condition exists for semaphores (save for the fact that the non blocking api calls, like up and down_trylock must be used when in irq context). Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Reported-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> CC: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> CC: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-30 05:35:05 +00:00
netpoll: convert mutex into a semaphore Bart Van Assche recently reported a warning to me: <IRQ> [<ffffffff8103d79f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0 [<ffffffff8103d7fa>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [<ffffffff814761dd>] mutex_trylock+0x16d/0x180 [<ffffffff813968c9>] netpoll_poll_dev+0x49/0xc30 [<ffffffff8136a2d2>] ? __alloc_skb+0x82/0x2a0 [<ffffffff81397715>] netpoll_send_skb_on_dev+0x265/0x410 [<ffffffff81397c5a>] netpoll_send_udp+0x28a/0x3a0 [<ffffffffa0541843>] ? write_msg+0x53/0x110 [netconsole] [<ffffffffa05418bf>] write_msg+0xcf/0x110 [netconsole] [<ffffffff8103eba1>] call_console_drivers.constprop.17+0xa1/0x1c0 [<ffffffff8103fb76>] console_unlock+0x2d6/0x450 [<ffffffff8104011e>] vprintk_emit+0x1ee/0x510 [<ffffffff8146f9f6>] printk+0x4d/0x4f [<ffffffffa0004f1d>] scsi_print_command+0x7d/0xe0 [scsi_mod] This resulted from my commit ca99ca14c which introduced a mutex_trylock operation in a path that could execute in interrupt context. When mutex debugging is enabled, the above warns the user when we are in fact exectuting in interrupt context interrupt context. After some discussion, It seems that a semaphore is the proper mechanism to use here. While mutexes are defined to be unusable in interrupt context, no such condition exists for semaphores (save for the fact that the non blocking api calls, like up and down_trylock must be used when in irq context). Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Reported-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> CC: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> CC: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-30 05:35:05 +00:00
netpoll: protect napi_poll and poll_controller during dev_[open|close] Ivan Vercera was recently backporting commit 9c13cb8bb477a83b9a3c9e5a5478a4e21294a760 to a RHEL kernel, and I noticed that, while this patch protects the tg3 driver from having its ndo_poll_controller routine called during device initalization, it does nothing for the driver during shutdown. I.e. it would be entirely possible to have the ndo_poll_controller method (or subsequently the ndo_poll) routine called for a driver in the netpoll path on CPU A while in parallel on CPU B, the ndo_close or ndo_open routine could be called. Given that the two latter routines tend to initizlize and free many data structures that the former two rely on, the result can easily be data corruption or various other crashes. Furthermore, it seems that this is potentially a problem with all net drivers that support netpoll, and so this should ideally be fixed in a common path. As Ben H Pointed out to me, we can't preform dev_open/dev_close in atomic context, so I've come up with this solution. We can use a mutex to sleep in open/close paths and just do a mutex_trylock in the napi poll path and abandon the poll attempt if we're locked, as we'll just retry the poll on the next send anyway. I've tested this here by flooding netconsole with messages on a system whos nic driver I modfied to periodically return NETDEV_TX_BUSY, so that the netpoll tx workqueue would be forced to send frames and poll the device. While this was going on I rapidly ifdown/up'ed the interface and watched for any problems. I've not found any. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> CC: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com> CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> CC: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> CC: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-05 08:05:43 +00:00
netpoll: protect napi_poll and poll_controller during dev_[open|close] Ivan Vercera was recently backporting commit 9c13cb8bb477a83b9a3c9e5a5478a4e21294a760 to a RHEL kernel, and I noticed that, while this patch protects the tg3 driver from having its ndo_poll_controller routine called during device initalization, it does nothing for the driver during shutdown. I.e. it would be entirely possible to have the ndo_poll_controller method (or subsequently the ndo_poll) routine called for a driver in the netpoll path on CPU A while in parallel on CPU B, the ndo_close or ndo_open routine could be called. Given that the two latter routines tend to initizlize and free many data structures that the former two rely on, the result can easily be data corruption or various other crashes. Furthermore, it seems that this is potentially a problem with all net drivers that support netpoll, and so this should ideally be fixed in a common path. As Ben H Pointed out to me, we can't preform dev_open/dev_close in atomic context, so I've come up with this solution. We can use a mutex to sleep in open/close paths and just do a mutex_trylock in the napi poll path and abandon the poll attempt if we're locked, as we'll just retry the poll on the next send anyway. I've tested this here by flooding netconsole with messages on a system whos nic driver I modfied to periodically return NETDEV_TX_BUSY, so that the netpoll tx workqueue would be forced to send frames and poll the device. While this was going on I rapidly ifdown/up'ed the interface and watched for any problems. I've not found any. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> CC: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com> CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> CC: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> CC: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-05 08:05:43 +00:00
netpoll: protect napi_poll and poll_controller during dev_[open|close] Ivan Vercera was recently backporting commit 9c13cb8bb477a83b9a3c9e5a5478a4e21294a760 to a RHEL kernel, and I noticed that, while this patch protects the tg3 driver from having its ndo_poll_controller routine called during device initalization, it does nothing for the driver during shutdown. I.e. it would be entirely possible to have the ndo_poll_controller method (or subsequently the ndo_poll) routine called for a driver in the netpoll path on CPU A while in parallel on CPU B, the ndo_close or ndo_open routine could be called. Given that the two latter routines tend to initizlize and free many data structures that the former two rely on, the result can easily be data corruption or various other crashes. Furthermore, it seems that this is potentially a problem with all net drivers that support netpoll, and so this should ideally be fixed in a common path. As Ben H Pointed out to me, we can't preform dev_open/dev_close in atomic context, so I've come up with this solution. We can use a mutex to sleep in open/close paths and just do a mutex_trylock in the napi poll path and abandon the poll attempt if we're locked, as we'll just retry the poll on the next send anyway. I've tested this here by flooding netconsole with messages on a system whos nic driver I modfied to periodically return NETDEV_TX_BUSY, so that the netpoll tx workqueue would be forced to send frames and poll the device. While this was going on I rapidly ifdown/up'ed the interface and watched for any problems. I've not found any. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> CC: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com> CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> CC: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> CC: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-05 08:05:43 +00:00
netpoll: protect napi_poll and poll_controller during dev_[open|close] Ivan Vercera was recently backporting commit 9c13cb8bb477a83b9a3c9e5a5478a4e21294a760 to a RHEL kernel, and I noticed that, while this patch protects the tg3 driver from having its ndo_poll_controller routine called during device initalization, it does nothing for the driver during shutdown. I.e. it would be entirely possible to have the ndo_poll_controller method (or subsequently the ndo_poll) routine called for a driver in the netpoll path on CPU A while in parallel on CPU B, the ndo_close or ndo_open routine could be called. Given that the two latter routines tend to initizlize and free many data structures that the former two rely on, the result can easily be data corruption or various other crashes. Furthermore, it seems that this is potentially a problem with all net drivers that support netpoll, and so this should ideally be fixed in a common path. As Ben H Pointed out to me, we can't preform dev_open/dev_close in atomic context, so I've come up with this solution. We can use a mutex to sleep in open/close paths and just do a mutex_trylock in the napi poll path and abandon the poll attempt if we're locked, as we'll just retry the poll on the next send anyway. I've tested this here by flooding netconsole with messages on a system whos nic driver I modfied to periodically return NETDEV_TX_BUSY, so that the netpoll tx workqueue would be forced to send frames and poll the device. While this was going on I rapidly ifdown/up'ed the interface and watched for any problems. I've not found any. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> CC: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com> CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> CC: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> CC: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-05 08:05:43 +00:00
netpoll: convert mutex into a semaphore Bart Van Assche recently reported a warning to me: <IRQ> [<ffffffff8103d79f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0 [<ffffffff8103d7fa>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [<ffffffff814761dd>] mutex_trylock+0x16d/0x180 [<ffffffff813968c9>] netpoll_poll_dev+0x49/0xc30 [<ffffffff8136a2d2>] ? __alloc_skb+0x82/0x2a0 [<ffffffff81397715>] netpoll_send_skb_on_dev+0x265/0x410 [<ffffffff81397c5a>] netpoll_send_udp+0x28a/0x3a0 [<ffffffffa0541843>] ? write_msg+0x53/0x110 [netconsole] [<ffffffffa05418bf>] write_msg+0xcf/0x110 [netconsole] [<ffffffff8103eba1>] call_console_drivers.constprop.17+0xa1/0x1c0 [<ffffffff8103fb76>] console_unlock+0x2d6/0x450 [<ffffffff8104011e>] vprintk_emit+0x1ee/0x510 [<ffffffff8146f9f6>] printk+0x4d/0x4f [<ffffffffa0004f1d>] scsi_print_command+0x7d/0xe0 [scsi_mod] This resulted from my commit ca99ca14c which introduced a mutex_trylock operation in a path that could execute in interrupt context. When mutex debugging is enabled, the above warns the user when we are in fact exectuting in interrupt context interrupt context. After some discussion, It seems that a semaphore is the proper mechanism to use here. While mutexes are defined to be unusable in interrupt context, no such condition exists for semaphores (save for the fact that the non blocking api calls, like up and down_trylock must be used when in irq context). Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Reported-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> CC: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> CC: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-30 05:35:05 +00:00
netpoll: protect napi_poll and poll_controller during dev_[open|close] Ivan Vercera was recently backporting commit 9c13cb8bb477a83b9a3c9e5a5478a4e21294a760 to a RHEL kernel, and I noticed that, while this patch protects the tg3 driver from having its ndo_poll_controller routine called during device initalization, it does nothing for the driver during shutdown. I.e. it would be entirely possible to have the ndo_poll_controller method (or subsequently the ndo_poll) routine called for a driver in the netpoll path on CPU A while in parallel on CPU B, the ndo_close or ndo_open routine could be called. Given that the two latter routines tend to initizlize and free many data structures that the former two rely on, the result can easily be data corruption or various other crashes. Furthermore, it seems that this is potentially a problem with all net drivers that support netpoll, and so this should ideally be fixed in a common path. As Ben H Pointed out to me, we can't preform dev_open/dev_close in atomic context, so I've come up with this solution. We can use a mutex to sleep in open/close paths and just do a mutex_trylock in the napi poll path and abandon the poll attempt if we're locked, as we'll just retry the poll on the next send anyway. I've tested this here by flooding netconsole with messages on a system whos nic driver I modfied to periodically return NETDEV_TX_BUSY, so that the netpoll tx workqueue would be forced to send frames and poll the device. While this was going on I rapidly ifdown/up'ed the interface and watched for any problems. I've not found any. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> CC: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com> CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> CC: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> CC: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-05 08:05:43 +00:00
netpoll: protect napi_poll and poll_controller during dev_[open|close] Ivan Vercera was recently backporting commit 9c13cb8bb477a83b9a3c9e5a5478a4e21294a760 to a RHEL kernel, and I noticed that, while this patch protects the tg3 driver from having its ndo_poll_controller routine called during device initalization, it does nothing for the driver during shutdown. I.e. it would be entirely possible to have the ndo_poll_controller method (or subsequently the ndo_poll) routine called for a driver in the netpoll path on CPU A while in parallel on CPU B, the ndo_close or ndo_open routine could be called. Given that the two latter routines tend to initizlize and free many data structures that the former two rely on, the result can easily be data corruption or various other crashes. Furthermore, it seems that this is potentially a problem with all net drivers that support netpoll, and so this should ideally be fixed in a common path. As Ben H Pointed out to me, we can't preform dev_open/dev_close in atomic context, so I've come up with this solution. We can use a mutex to sleep in open/close paths and just do a mutex_trylock in the napi poll path and abandon the poll attempt if we're locked, as we'll just retry the poll on the next send anyway. I've tested this here by flooding netconsole with messages on a system whos nic driver I modfied to periodically return NETDEV_TX_BUSY, so that the netpoll tx workqueue would be forced to send frames and poll the device. While this was going on I rapidly ifdown/up'ed the interface and watched for any problems. I've not found any. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> CC: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com> CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> CC: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> CC: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-05 08:05:43 +00:00
netpoll: protect napi_poll and poll_controller during dev_[open|close] Ivan Vercera was recently backporting commit 9c13cb8bb477a83b9a3c9e5a5478a4e21294a760 to a RHEL kernel, and I noticed that, while this patch protects the tg3 driver from having its ndo_poll_controller routine called during device initalization, it does nothing for the driver during shutdown. I.e. it would be entirely possible to have the ndo_poll_controller method (or subsequently the ndo_poll) routine called for a driver in the netpoll path on CPU A while in parallel on CPU B, the ndo_close or ndo_open routine could be called. Given that the two latter routines tend to initizlize and free many data structures that the former two rely on, the result can easily be data corruption or various other crashes. Furthermore, it seems that this is potentially a problem with all net drivers that support netpoll, and so this should ideally be fixed in a common path. As Ben H Pointed out to me, we can't preform dev_open/dev_close in atomic context, so I've come up with this solution. We can use a mutex to sleep in open/close paths and just do a mutex_trylock in the napi poll path and abandon the poll attempt if we're locked, as we'll just retry the poll on the next send anyway. I've tested this here by flooding netconsole with messages on a system whos nic driver I modfied to periodically return NETDEV_TX_BUSY, so that the netpoll tx workqueue would be forced to send frames and poll the device. While this was going on I rapidly ifdown/up'ed the interface and watched for any problems. I've not found any. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> CC: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com> CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> CC: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> CC: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-05 08:05:43 +00:00
netpoll: convert mutex into a semaphore Bart Van Assche recently reported a warning to me: <IRQ> [<ffffffff8103d79f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0 [<ffffffff8103d7fa>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [<ffffffff814761dd>] mutex_trylock+0x16d/0x180 [<ffffffff813968c9>] netpoll_poll_dev+0x49/0xc30 [<ffffffff8136a2d2>] ? __alloc_skb+0x82/0x2a0 [<ffffffff81397715>] netpoll_send_skb_on_dev+0x265/0x410 [<ffffffff81397c5a>] netpoll_send_udp+0x28a/0x3a0 [<ffffffffa0541843>] ? write_msg+0x53/0x110 [netconsole] [<ffffffffa05418bf>] write_msg+0xcf/0x110 [netconsole] [<ffffffff8103eba1>] call_console_drivers.constprop.17+0xa1/0x1c0 [<ffffffff8103fb76>] console_unlock+0x2d6/0x450 [<ffffffff8104011e>] vprintk_emit+0x1ee/0x510 [<ffffffff8146f9f6>] printk+0x4d/0x4f [<ffffffffa0004f1d>] scsi_print_command+0x7d/0xe0 [scsi_mod] This resulted from my commit ca99ca14c which introduced a mutex_trylock operation in a path that could execute in interrupt context. When mutex debugging is enabled, the above warns the user when we are in fact exectuting in interrupt context interrupt context. After some discussion, It seems that a semaphore is the proper mechanism to use here. While mutexes are defined to be unusable in interrupt context, no such condition exists for semaphores (save for the fact that the non blocking api calls, like up and down_trylock must be used when in irq context). Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Reported-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> CC: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> CC: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-30 05:35:05 +00:00
netpoll: protect napi_poll and poll_controller during dev_[open|close] Ivan Vercera was recently backporting commit 9c13cb8bb477a83b9a3c9e5a5478a4e21294a760 to a RHEL kernel, and I noticed that, while this patch protects the tg3 driver from having its ndo_poll_controller routine called during device initalization, it does nothing for the driver during shutdown. I.e. it would be entirely possible to have the ndo_poll_controller method (or subsequently the ndo_poll) routine called for a driver in the netpoll path on CPU A while in parallel on CPU B, the ndo_close or ndo_open routine could be called. Given that the two latter routines tend to initizlize and free many data structures that the former two rely on, the result can easily be data corruption or various other crashes. Furthermore, it seems that this is potentially a problem with all net drivers that support netpoll, and so this should ideally be fixed in a common path. As Ben H Pointed out to me, we can't preform dev_open/dev_close in atomic context, so I've come up with this solution. We can use a mutex to sleep in open/close paths and just do a mutex_trylock in the napi poll path and abandon the poll attempt if we're locked, as we'll just retry the poll on the next send anyway. I've tested this here by flooding netconsole with messages on a system whos nic driver I modfied to periodically return NETDEV_TX_BUSY, so that the netpoll tx workqueue would be forced to send frames and poll the device. While this was going on I rapidly ifdown/up'ed the interface and watched for any problems. I've not found any. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> CC: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com> CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> CC: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> CC: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-05 08:05:43 +00:00
netpoll: Fix deadlock in memory allocation under spinlock Fix a AA deadlock in refill_skbs() where memory allocation while holding skb_pool->lock can trigger a recursive lock acquisition attempt. The deadlock scenario occurs when the system is under severe memory pressure: 1. refill_skbs() acquires skb_pool->lock (spinlock) 2. alloc_skb() is called while holding the lock 3. Memory allocator fails and calls slab_out_of_memory() 4. This triggers printk() for the OOM warning 5. The console output path calls netpoll_send_udp() 6. netpoll_send_udp() attempts to acquire the same skb_pool->lock 7. Deadlock: the lock is already held by the same CPU Call stack: refill_skbs() spin_lock_irqsave(&skb_pool->lock) <- lock acquired __alloc_skb() kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof() slab_out_of_memory() printk() console_flush_all() netpoll_send_udp() skb_dequeue() spin_lock_irqsave(&skb_pool->lock) <- deadlock attempt This bug was exposed by commit 248f6571fd4c51 ("netpoll: Optimize skb refilling on critical path") which removed refill_skbs() from the critical path (where nested printk was being deferred), letting nested printk being called from inside refill_skbs() Refactor refill_skbs() to never allocate memory while holding the spinlock. Another possible solution to fix this problem is protecting the refill_skbs() from nested printks, basically calling printk_deferred_{enter,exit}() in refill_skbs(), then, any nested pr_warn() would be deferred. I prefer this approach, given I _think_ it might be a good idea to move the alloc_skb() from GFP_ATOMIC to GFP_KERNEL in the future, so, having the alloc_skb() outside of the lock will be necessary step. There is a possible TOCTOU issue when checking for the pool length, and queueing the new allocated skb, but, this is not an issue, given that an extra SKB in the pool is harmless and it will be eventually used. Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Fixes: 248f6571fd4c51 ("netpoll: Optimize skb refilling on critical path") Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251103-fix_netpoll_aa-v4-1-4cfecdf6da7c@debian.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-11-03 08:38:17 -08:00
netpoll: Fix deadlock in memory allocation under spinlock Fix a AA deadlock in refill_skbs() where memory allocation while holding skb_pool->lock can trigger a recursive lock acquisition attempt. The deadlock scenario occurs when the system is under severe memory pressure: 1. refill_skbs() acquires skb_pool->lock (spinlock) 2. alloc_skb() is called while holding the lock 3. Memory allocator fails and calls slab_out_of_memory() 4. This triggers printk() for the OOM warning 5. The console output path calls netpoll_send_udp() 6. netpoll_send_udp() attempts to acquire the same skb_pool->lock 7. Deadlock: the lock is already held by the same CPU Call stack: refill_skbs() spin_lock_irqsave(&skb_pool->lock) <- lock acquired __alloc_skb() kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof() slab_out_of_memory() printk() console_flush_all() netpoll_send_udp() skb_dequeue() spin_lock_irqsave(&skb_pool->lock) <- deadlock attempt This bug was exposed by commit 248f6571fd4c51 ("netpoll: Optimize skb refilling on critical path") which removed refill_skbs() from the critical path (where nested printk was being deferred), letting nested printk being called from inside refill_skbs() Refactor refill_skbs() to never allocate memory while holding the spinlock. Another possible solution to fix this problem is protecting the refill_skbs() from nested printks, basically calling printk_deferred_{enter,exit}() in refill_skbs(), then, any nested pr_warn() would be deferred. I prefer this approach, given I _think_ it might be a good idea to move the alloc_skb() from GFP_ATOMIC to GFP_KERNEL in the future, so, having the alloc_skb() outside of the lock will be necessary step. There is a possible TOCTOU issue when checking for the pool length, and queueing the new allocated skb, but, this is not an issue, given that an extra SKB in the pool is harmless and it will be eventually used. Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Fixes: 248f6571fd4c51 ("netpoll: Optimize skb refilling on critical path") Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251103-fix_netpoll_aa-v4-1-4cfecdf6da7c@debian.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-11-03 08:38:17 -08:00
[NET]: Make NAPI polling independent of struct net_device objects. Several devices have multiple independant RX queues per net device, and some have a single interrupt doorbell for several queues. In either case, it's easier to support layouts like that if the structure representing the poll is independant from the net device itself. The signature of the ->poll() call back goes from: int foo_poll(struct net_device *dev, int *budget) to int foo_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget) The caller is returned the number of RX packets processed (or the number of "NAPI credits" consumed if you want to get abstract). The callee no longer messes around bumping dev->quota, *budget, etc. because that is all handled in the caller upon return. The napi_struct is to be embedded in the device driver private data structures. Furthermore, it is the driver's responsibility to disable all NAPI instances in it's ->stop() device close handler. Since the napi_struct is privatized into the driver's private data structures, only the driver knows how to get at all of the napi_struct instances it may have per-device. With lots of help and suggestions from Rusty Russell, Roland Dreier, Michael Chan, Jeff Garzik, and Jamal Hadi Salim. Bug fixes from Thomas Graf, Roland Dreier, Peter Zijlstra, Joseph Fannin, Scott Wood, Hans J. Koch, and Michael Chan. [ Ported to current tree and all drivers converted. Integrated Stephen's follow-on kerneldoc additions, and restored poll_list handling to the old style to fix mutual exclusion issues. -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-03 16:41:36 -07:00
[NET]: Make NAPI polling independent of struct net_device objects. Several devices have multiple independant RX queues per net device, and some have a single interrupt doorbell for several queues. In either case, it's easier to support layouts like that if the structure representing the poll is independant from the net device itself. The signature of the ->poll() call back goes from: int foo_poll(struct net_device *dev, int *budget) to int foo_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget) The caller is returned the number of RX packets processed (or the number of "NAPI credits" consumed if you want to get abstract). The callee no longer messes around bumping dev->quota, *budget, etc. because that is all handled in the caller upon return. The napi_struct is to be embedded in the device driver private data structures. Furthermore, it is the driver's responsibility to disable all NAPI instances in it's ->stop() device close handler. Since the napi_struct is privatized into the driver's private data structures, only the driver knows how to get at all of the napi_struct instances it may have per-device. With lots of help and suggestions from Rusty Russell, Roland Dreier, Michael Chan, Jeff Garzik, and Jamal Hadi Salim. Bug fixes from Thomas Graf, Roland Dreier, Peter Zijlstra, Joseph Fannin, Scott Wood, Hans J. Koch, and Michael Chan. [ Ported to current tree and all drivers converted. Integrated Stephen's follow-on kerneldoc additions, and restored poll_list handling to the old style to fix mutual exclusion issues. -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-03 16:41:36 -07:00
netpoll: normalize skb->dev to the netpoll device __netpoll_send_skb() always transmits through np->dev and queues busy packets on np->dev->npinfo->txq, but it leaves skb->dev unchanged. Stacked callers such as DSA and macvlan can reach netpoll with skb->dev still naming the upper device while np->dev is the lower device that owns the netpoll state. If the skb has to be deferred, queue_process() later dequeues it from the lower device's txq but retries it through skb->dev. That can re-enter the upper ndo_start_xmit path on an already transformed skb, and if the upper device disappears before the lower txq drains the workqueue can dereference a stale skb->dev pointer. The buggy scenario involves two paths, with each column showing the order within that path: path A label: netpoll enqueue path path B label: upper-device teardown 1. Stacked xmit calls netpoll 1. Teardown unregisters the upper with lower np->dev and upper net_device while lower npinfo skb->dev. stays alive. 2. __netpoll_send_skb() uses 2. netdev_release() runs for the np->dev->npinfo as the txq upper net_device. owner. 3. Busy transmit queues the skb 3. The lower txq still owns the on that lower txq with upper deferred skb. skb->dev. 4. queue_process() drains the 4. queue_process() dereferences lower txq and reads skb->dev. that stale upper skb->dev. Normalize skb->dev to np->dev after loading np->dev from the netpoll instance, before either the direct transmit path or the fallback enqueue. This keeps the queued skb in the same device and txq domain as the netpoll state that owns it. KASAN report as below: KASAN slab-use-after-free in queue_process+0x7c/0x480 Workqueue: events queue_process The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88810906c000 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-4k of size 4096 The buggy address is located 168 bytes inside of freed 4096-byte region [ffff88810906c000, ffff88810906d000) Read of size 8 Call trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x73/0xb0 (?:?) print_report+0xd1/0x620 (?:?) srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 (?:?) __virt_addr_valid+0x215/0x420 (?:?) kasan_complete_mode_report_info+0x64/0x200 (?:?) kasan_report+0xf7/0x130 (?:?) queue_process+0x7c/0x480 (net/core/netpoll.c:88) kasan_check_range+0x10c/0x1c0 (?:?) __kasan_check_read+0x15/0x20 (?:?) process_one_work+0x8b7/0x1af0 (kernel/workqueue.c:3200) assign_work+0x170/0x3f0 (?:?) worker_thread+0x574/0xf10 (?:?) _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x4b/0x60 (?:?) trace_hardirqs_on+0x2a/0x180 (?:?) kthread+0x2fc/0x3f0 (?:?) ret_from_fork+0x58b/0x830 (?:?) __switch_to+0x58e/0xe90 (?:?) __switch_to_asm+0x39/0x70 (?:?) ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 (?:?) Freed by task stack: kasan_save_stack+0x3d/0x60 (?:?) kasan_save_track+0x18/0x40 (?:?) kasan_save_free_info+0x3f/0x60 (?:?) __kasan_slab_free+0x48/0x70 (?:?) kfree+0x20e/0x4e0 (?:?) kvfree+0x31/0x40 (?:?) netdev_release+0x71/0x90 (net/core/net-sysfs.c:2227) device_release+0xd2/0x250 (?:?) kobject_put+0x181/0x4c0 (lib/kobject.c:730) netdev_run_todo+0x700/0x1000 (net/core/dev.c:11666) rtnl_dellink+0x396/0xc00 (net/core/rtnetlink.c:3558) rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x740/0xc20 (net/core/rtnetlink.c:6897) netlink_rcv_skb+0x147/0x3a0 (?:?) rtnetlink_rcv+0x19/0x20 (net/core/rtnetlink.c:7021) netlink_unicast+0x4d1/0x830 (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1327) netlink_sendmsg+0x840/0xe10 (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1812) ____sys_sendmsg+0x8a7/0xb50 (?:?) ___sys_sendmsg+0x104/0x190 (?:?) __sys_sendmsg+0x135/0x1d0 (?:?) __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x7b/0xc0 (?:?) x64_sys_call+0x205c/0x2130 (?:?) do_syscall_64+0x115/0x6a0 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:87) entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f (?:?) Fixes: 5de4a473bda4 ("netpoll queue cleanup") Signed-off-by: Zhang Cen <rollkingzzc@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260519104647.3517990-1-rollkingzzc@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-05-19 18:46:47 +08:00
[NET]: Make NAPI polling independent of struct net_device objects. Several devices have multiple independant RX queues per net device, and some have a single interrupt doorbell for several queues. In either case, it's easier to support layouts like that if the structure representing the poll is independant from the net device itself. The signature of the ->poll() call back goes from: int foo_poll(struct net_device *dev, int *budget) to int foo_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget) The caller is returned the number of RX packets processed (or the number of "NAPI credits" consumed if you want to get abstract). The callee no longer messes around bumping dev->quota, *budget, etc. because that is all handled in the caller upon return. The napi_struct is to be embedded in the device driver private data structures. Furthermore, it is the driver's responsibility to disable all NAPI instances in it's ->stop() device close handler. Since the napi_struct is privatized into the driver's private data structures, only the driver knows how to get at all of the napi_struct instances it may have per-device. With lots of help and suggestions from Rusty Russell, Roland Dreier, Michael Chan, Jeff Garzik, and Jamal Hadi Salim. Bug fixes from Thomas Graf, Roland Dreier, Peter Zijlstra, Joseph Fannin, Scott Wood, Hans J. Koch, and Michael Chan. [ Ported to current tree and all drivers converted. Integrated Stephen's follow-on kerneldoc additions, and restored poll_list handling to the old style to fix mutual exclusion issues. -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-03 16:41:36 -07:00
net: fix skb use after free in netpoll After commit baeababb5b85d5c4e6c917efe2a1504179438d3b ("tun: return NET_XMIT_DROP for dropped packets"), when tun_net_xmit drop packets, it will free skb and return NET_XMIT_DROP, netpoll_send_skb_on_dev will run into following use after free cases: 1. retry netpoll_start_xmit with freed skb; 2. queue freed skb in npinfo->txq. queue_process will also run into use after free case. hit netpoll_send_skb_on_dev first case with following kernel log: [ 117.864773] kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:306! [ 117.864773] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI [ 117.864774] CPU: 3 PID: 2627 Comm: loop_printmsg Kdump: loaded Tainted: P OE 5.3.0-050300rc5-generic #201908182231 [ 117.864775] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Ubuntu-1.8.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014 [ 117.864775] RIP: 0010:kmem_cache_free+0x28d/0x2b0 [ 117.864781] Call Trace: [ 117.864781] ? tun_net_xmit+0x21c/0x460 [ 117.864781] kfree_skbmem+0x4e/0x60 [ 117.864782] kfree_skb+0x3a/0xa0 [ 117.864782] tun_net_xmit+0x21c/0x460 [ 117.864782] netpoll_start_xmit+0x11d/0x1b0 [ 117.864788] netpoll_send_skb_on_dev+0x1b8/0x200 [ 117.864789] __br_forward+0x1b9/0x1e0 [bridge] [ 117.864789] ? skb_clone+0x53/0xd0 [ 117.864790] ? __skb_clone+0x2e/0x120 [ 117.864790] deliver_clone+0x37/0x50 [bridge] [ 117.864790] maybe_deliver+0x89/0xc0 [bridge] [ 117.864791] br_flood+0x6c/0x130 [bridge] [ 117.864791] br_dev_xmit+0x315/0x3c0 [bridge] [ 117.864792] netpoll_start_xmit+0x11d/0x1b0 [ 117.864792] netpoll_send_skb_on_dev+0x1b8/0x200 [ 117.864792] netpoll_send_udp+0x2c6/0x3e8 [ 117.864793] write_msg+0xd9/0xf0 [netconsole] [ 117.864793] console_unlock+0x386/0x4e0 [ 117.864793] vprintk_emit+0x17e/0x280 [ 117.864794] vprintk_default+0x29/0x50 [ 117.864794] vprintk_func+0x4c/0xbc [ 117.864794] printk+0x58/0x6f [ 117.864795] loop_fun+0x24/0x41 [printmsg_loop] [ 117.864795] kthread+0x104/0x140 [ 117.864795] ? 0xffffffffc05b1000 [ 117.864796] ? kthread_park+0x80/0x80 [ 117.864796] ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40 Signed-off-by: Feng Sun <loyou85@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Xiaojun Zhao <xiaojunzhao141@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-08-26 14:46:04 +08:00
2019-03-25 21:32:28 +02:00
net: fix skb use after free in netpoll After commit baeababb5b85d5c4e6c917efe2a1504179438d3b ("tun: return NET_XMIT_DROP for dropped packets"), when tun_net_xmit drop packets, it will free skb and return NET_XMIT_DROP, netpoll_send_skb_on_dev will run into following use after free cases: 1. retry netpoll_start_xmit with freed skb; 2. queue freed skb in npinfo->txq. queue_process will also run into use after free case. hit netpoll_send_skb_on_dev first case with following kernel log: [ 117.864773] kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:306! [ 117.864773] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI [ 117.864774] CPU: 3 PID: 2627 Comm: loop_printmsg Kdump: loaded Tainted: P OE 5.3.0-050300rc5-generic #201908182231 [ 117.864775] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Ubuntu-1.8.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014 [ 117.864775] RIP: 0010:kmem_cache_free+0x28d/0x2b0 [ 117.864781] Call Trace: [ 117.864781] ? tun_net_xmit+0x21c/0x460 [ 117.864781] kfree_skbmem+0x4e/0x60 [ 117.864782] kfree_skb+0x3a/0xa0 [ 117.864782] tun_net_xmit+0x21c/0x460 [ 117.864782] netpoll_start_xmit+0x11d/0x1b0 [ 117.864788] netpoll_send_skb_on_dev+0x1b8/0x200 [ 117.864789] __br_forward+0x1b9/0x1e0 [bridge] [ 117.864789] ? skb_clone+0x53/0xd0 [ 117.864790] ? __skb_clone+0x2e/0x120 [ 117.864790] deliver_clone+0x37/0x50 [bridge] [ 117.864790] maybe_deliver+0x89/0xc0 [bridge] [ 117.864791] br_flood+0x6c/0x130 [bridge] [ 117.864791] br_dev_xmit+0x315/0x3c0 [bridge] [ 117.864792] netpoll_start_xmit+0x11d/0x1b0 [ 117.864792] netpoll_send_skb_on_dev+0x1b8/0x200 [ 117.864792] netpoll_send_udp+0x2c6/0x3e8 [ 117.864793] write_msg+0xd9/0xf0 [netconsole] [ 117.864793] console_unlock+0x386/0x4e0 [ 117.864793] vprintk_emit+0x17e/0x280 [ 117.864794] vprintk_default+0x29/0x50 [ 117.864794] vprintk_func+0x4c/0xbc [ 117.864794] printk+0x58/0x6f [ 117.864795] loop_fun+0x24/0x41 [printmsg_loop] [ 117.864795] kthread+0x104/0x140 [ 117.864795] ? 0xffffffffc05b1000 [ 117.864796] ? kthread_park+0x80/0x80 [ 117.864796] ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40 Signed-off-by: Feng Sun <loyou85@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Xiaojun Zhao <xiaojunzhao141@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-08-26 14:46:04 +08:00
netpoll: Remove gfp parameter from __netpoll_setup The gfp parameter was added in: commit 47be03a28cc6c80e3aa2b3e8ed6d960ff0c5c0af Author: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Date: Fri Aug 10 01:24:37 2012 +0000 netpoll: use GFP_ATOMIC in slave_enable_netpoll() and __netpoll_setup() slave_enable_netpoll() and __netpoll_setup() may be called with read_lock() held, so should use GFP_ATOMIC to allocate memory. Eric suggested to pass gfp flags to __netpoll_setup(). Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> The reason for the gfp parameter was removed in: commit c4cdef9b7183159c23c7302aaf270d64c549f557 Author: dingtianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com> Date: Tue Jul 23 15:25:27 2013 +0800 bonding: don't call slave_xxx_netpoll under spinlocks The slave_xxx_netpoll will call synchronize_rcu_bh(), so the function may schedule and sleep, it should't be called under spinlocks. bond_netpoll_setup() and bond_netpoll_cleanup() are always protected by rtnl lock, it is no need to take the read lock, as the slave list couldn't be changed outside rtnl lock. Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Nothing else that calls __netpoll_setup or ndo_netpoll_setup requires a gfp paramter, so remove the gfp parameter from both of these functions making the code clearer. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-03-27 15:36:38 -07:00
netpoll: convert mutex into a semaphore Bart Van Assche recently reported a warning to me: <IRQ> [<ffffffff8103d79f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0 [<ffffffff8103d7fa>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [<ffffffff814761dd>] mutex_trylock+0x16d/0x180 [<ffffffff813968c9>] netpoll_poll_dev+0x49/0xc30 [<ffffffff8136a2d2>] ? __alloc_skb+0x82/0x2a0 [<ffffffff81397715>] netpoll_send_skb_on_dev+0x265/0x410 [<ffffffff81397c5a>] netpoll_send_udp+0x28a/0x3a0 [<ffffffffa0541843>] ? write_msg+0x53/0x110 [netconsole] [<ffffffffa05418bf>] write_msg+0xcf/0x110 [netconsole] [<ffffffff8103eba1>] call_console_drivers.constprop.17+0xa1/0x1c0 [<ffffffff8103fb76>] console_unlock+0x2d6/0x450 [<ffffffff8104011e>] vprintk_emit+0x1ee/0x510 [<ffffffff8146f9f6>] printk+0x4d/0x4f [<ffffffffa0004f1d>] scsi_print_command+0x7d/0xe0 [scsi_mod] This resulted from my commit ca99ca14c which introduced a mutex_trylock operation in a path that could execute in interrupt context. When mutex debugging is enabled, the above warns the user when we are in fact exectuting in interrupt context interrupt context. After some discussion, It seems that a semaphore is the proper mechanism to use here. While mutexes are defined to be unusable in interrupt context, no such condition exists for semaphores (save for the fact that the non blocking api calls, like up and down_trylock must be used when in irq context). Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Reported-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> CC: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> CC: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-30 05:35:05 +00:00
netconsole: allow selection of egress interface via MAC address Currently, netconsole has two methods of configuration - module parameter and configfs. The former interface allows for netconsole activation earlier during boot (by specifying the module parameter on the kernel command line), so it is preferred for debugging issues which arise before userspace is up/the configfs interface can be used. The module parameter syntax requires specifying the egress interface name. This requirement makes it hard to use for a couple reasons: - The egress interface name can be hard or impossible to predict. For example, installing a new network card in a system can change the interface names assigned by the kernel. - When constructing the module parameter, one may have trouble determining the original (kernel-assigned) name of the interface (which is the name that should be given to netconsole) if some stable interface naming scheme is in effect. A human can usually look at kernel logs to determine the original name, but this is very painful if automation is constructing the parameter. For these reasons, allow selection of the egress interface via MAC address when configuring netconsole using the module parameter. Update the netconsole documentation with an example of the new syntax. Selection of egress interface by MAC address via configfs is far less interesting (since when this interface can be used, one should be able to easily convert between MAC address and interface name), so it is left unimplemented. Signed-off-by: Uday Shankar <ushankar@purestorage.com> Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Tested-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250312-netconsole-v6-2-3437933e79b8@purestorage.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2025-03-12 13:51:47 -06:00
netconsole: allow selection of egress interface via MAC address Currently, netconsole has two methods of configuration - module parameter and configfs. The former interface allows for netconsole activation earlier during boot (by specifying the module parameter on the kernel command line), so it is preferred for debugging issues which arise before userspace is up/the configfs interface can be used. The module parameter syntax requires specifying the egress interface name. This requirement makes it hard to use for a couple reasons: - The egress interface name can be hard or impossible to predict. For example, installing a new network card in a system can change the interface names assigned by the kernel. - When constructing the module parameter, one may have trouble determining the original (kernel-assigned) name of the interface (which is the name that should be given to netconsole) if some stable interface naming scheme is in effect. A human can usually look at kernel logs to determine the original name, but this is very painful if automation is constructing the parameter. For these reasons, allow selection of the egress interface via MAC address when configuring netconsole using the module parameter. Update the netconsole documentation with an example of the new syntax. Selection of egress interface by MAC address via configfs is far less interesting (since when this interface can be used, one should be able to easily convert between MAC address and interface name), so it is left unimplemented. Signed-off-by: Uday Shankar <ushankar@purestorage.com> Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Tested-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250312-netconsole-v6-2-3437933e79b8@purestorage.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2025-03-12 13:51:47 -06:00
netconsole: allow selection of egress interface via MAC address Currently, netconsole has two methods of configuration - module parameter and configfs. The former interface allows for netconsole activation earlier during boot (by specifying the module parameter on the kernel command line), so it is preferred for debugging issues which arise before userspace is up/the configfs interface can be used. The module parameter syntax requires specifying the egress interface name. This requirement makes it hard to use for a couple reasons: - The egress interface name can be hard or impossible to predict. For example, installing a new network card in a system can change the interface names assigned by the kernel. - When constructing the module parameter, one may have trouble determining the original (kernel-assigned) name of the interface (which is the name that should be given to netconsole) if some stable interface naming scheme is in effect. A human can usually look at kernel logs to determine the original name, but this is very painful if automation is constructing the parameter. For these reasons, allow selection of the egress interface via MAC address when configuring netconsole using the module parameter. Update the netconsole documentation with an example of the new syntax. Selection of egress interface by MAC address via configfs is far less interesting (since when this interface can be used, one should be able to easily convert between MAC address and interface name), so it is left unimplemented. Signed-off-by: Uday Shankar <ushankar@purestorage.com> Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Tested-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250312-netconsole-v6-2-3437933e79b8@purestorage.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2025-03-12 13:51:47 -06:00
netconsole: allow selection of egress interface via MAC address Currently, netconsole has two methods of configuration - module parameter and configfs. The former interface allows for netconsole activation earlier during boot (by specifying the module parameter on the kernel command line), so it is preferred for debugging issues which arise before userspace is up/the configfs interface can be used. The module parameter syntax requires specifying the egress interface name. This requirement makes it hard to use for a couple reasons: - The egress interface name can be hard or impossible to predict. For example, installing a new network card in a system can change the interface names assigned by the kernel. - When constructing the module parameter, one may have trouble determining the original (kernel-assigned) name of the interface (which is the name that should be given to netconsole) if some stable interface naming scheme is in effect. A human can usually look at kernel logs to determine the original name, but this is very painful if automation is constructing the parameter. For these reasons, allow selection of the egress interface via MAC address when configuring netconsole using the module parameter. Update the netconsole documentation with an example of the new syntax. Selection of egress interface by MAC address via configfs is far less interesting (since when this interface can be used, one should be able to easily convert between MAC address and interface name), so it is left unimplemented. Signed-off-by: Uday Shankar <ushankar@purestorage.com> Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Tested-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250312-netconsole-v6-2-3437933e79b8@purestorage.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2025-03-12 13:51:47 -06:00
netconsole: allow selection of egress interface via MAC address Currently, netconsole has two methods of configuration - module parameter and configfs. The former interface allows for netconsole activation earlier during boot (by specifying the module parameter on the kernel command line), so it is preferred for debugging issues which arise before userspace is up/the configfs interface can be used. The module parameter syntax requires specifying the egress interface name. This requirement makes it hard to use for a couple reasons: - The egress interface name can be hard or impossible to predict. For example, installing a new network card in a system can change the interface names assigned by the kernel. - When constructing the module parameter, one may have trouble determining the original (kernel-assigned) name of the interface (which is the name that should be given to netconsole) if some stable interface naming scheme is in effect. A human can usually look at kernel logs to determine the original name, but this is very painful if automation is constructing the parameter. For these reasons, allow selection of the egress interface via MAC address when configuring netconsole using the module parameter. Update the netconsole documentation with an example of the new syntax. Selection of egress interface by MAC address via configfs is far less interesting (since when this interface can be used, one should be able to easily convert between MAC address and interface name), so it is left unimplemented. Signed-off-by: Uday Shankar <ushankar@purestorage.com> Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Tested-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250312-netconsole-v6-2-3437933e79b8@purestorage.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2025-03-12 13:51:47 -06:00
netconsole: allow selection of egress interface via MAC address Currently, netconsole has two methods of configuration - module parameter and configfs. The former interface allows for netconsole activation earlier during boot (by specifying the module parameter on the kernel command line), so it is preferred for debugging issues which arise before userspace is up/the configfs interface can be used. The module parameter syntax requires specifying the egress interface name. This requirement makes it hard to use for a couple reasons: - The egress interface name can be hard or impossible to predict. For example, installing a new network card in a system can change the interface names assigned by the kernel. - When constructing the module parameter, one may have trouble determining the original (kernel-assigned) name of the interface (which is the name that should be given to netconsole) if some stable interface naming scheme is in effect. A human can usually look at kernel logs to determine the original name, but this is very painful if automation is constructing the parameter. For these reasons, allow selection of the egress interface via MAC address when configuring netconsole using the module parameter. Update the netconsole documentation with an example of the new syntax. Selection of egress interface by MAC address via configfs is far less interesting (since when this interface can be used, one should be able to easily convert between MAC address and interface name), so it is left unimplemented. Signed-off-by: Uday Shankar <ushankar@purestorage.com> Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Tested-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250312-netconsole-v6-2-3437933e79b8@purestorage.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2025-03-12 13:51:47 -06:00
netconsole: allow selection of egress interface via MAC address Currently, netconsole has two methods of configuration - module parameter and configfs. The former interface allows for netconsole activation earlier during boot (by specifying the module parameter on the kernel command line), so it is preferred for debugging issues which arise before userspace is up/the configfs interface can be used. The module parameter syntax requires specifying the egress interface name. This requirement makes it hard to use for a couple reasons: - The egress interface name can be hard or impossible to predict. For example, installing a new network card in a system can change the interface names assigned by the kernel. - When constructing the module parameter, one may have trouble determining the original (kernel-assigned) name of the interface (which is the name that should be given to netconsole) if some stable interface naming scheme is in effect. A human can usually look at kernel logs to determine the original name, but this is very painful if automation is constructing the parameter. For these reasons, allow selection of the egress interface via MAC address when configuring netconsole using the module parameter. Update the netconsole documentation with an example of the new syntax. Selection of egress interface by MAC address via configfs is far less interesting (since when this interface can be used, one should be able to easily convert between MAC address and interface name), so it is left unimplemented. Signed-off-by: Uday Shankar <ushankar@purestorage.com> Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Tested-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250312-netconsole-v6-2-3437933e79b8@purestorage.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2025-03-12 13:51:47 -06:00
netconsole: allow selection of egress interface via MAC address Currently, netconsole has two methods of configuration - module parameter and configfs. The former interface allows for netconsole activation earlier during boot (by specifying the module parameter on the kernel command line), so it is preferred for debugging issues which arise before userspace is up/the configfs interface can be used. The module parameter syntax requires specifying the egress interface name. This requirement makes it hard to use for a couple reasons: - The egress interface name can be hard or impossible to predict. For example, installing a new network card in a system can change the interface names assigned by the kernel. - When constructing the module parameter, one may have trouble determining the original (kernel-assigned) name of the interface (which is the name that should be given to netconsole) if some stable interface naming scheme is in effect. A human can usually look at kernel logs to determine the original name, but this is very painful if automation is constructing the parameter. For these reasons, allow selection of the egress interface via MAC address when configuring netconsole using the module parameter. Update the netconsole documentation with an example of the new syntax. Selection of egress interface by MAC address via configfs is far less interesting (since when this interface can be used, one should be able to easily convert between MAC address and interface name), so it is left unimplemented. Signed-off-by: Uday Shankar <ushankar@purestorage.com> Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Tested-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250312-netconsole-v6-2-3437933e79b8@purestorage.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2025-03-12 13:51:47 -06:00
netconsole: allow selection of egress interface via MAC address Currently, netconsole has two methods of configuration - module parameter and configfs. The former interface allows for netconsole activation earlier during boot (by specifying the module parameter on the kernel command line), so it is preferred for debugging issues which arise before userspace is up/the configfs interface can be used. The module parameter syntax requires specifying the egress interface name. This requirement makes it hard to use for a couple reasons: - The egress interface name can be hard or impossible to predict. For example, installing a new network card in a system can change the interface names assigned by the kernel. - When constructing the module parameter, one may have trouble determining the original (kernel-assigned) name of the interface (which is the name that should be given to netconsole) if some stable interface naming scheme is in effect. A human can usually look at kernel logs to determine the original name, but this is very painful if automation is constructing the parameter. For these reasons, allow selection of the egress interface via MAC address when configuring netconsole using the module parameter. Update the netconsole documentation with an example of the new syntax. Selection of egress interface by MAC address via configfs is far less interesting (since when this interface can be used, one should be able to easily convert between MAC address and interface name), so it is left unimplemented. Signed-off-by: Uday Shankar <ushankar@purestorage.com> Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Tested-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250312-netconsole-v6-2-3437933e79b8@purestorage.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2025-03-12 13:51:47 -06:00
netpoll: Remove gfp parameter from __netpoll_setup The gfp parameter was added in: commit 47be03a28cc6c80e3aa2b3e8ed6d960ff0c5c0af Author: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Date: Fri Aug 10 01:24:37 2012 +0000 netpoll: use GFP_ATOMIC in slave_enable_netpoll() and __netpoll_setup() slave_enable_netpoll() and __netpoll_setup() may be called with read_lock() held, so should use GFP_ATOMIC to allocate memory. Eric suggested to pass gfp flags to __netpoll_setup(). Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> The reason for the gfp parameter was removed in: commit c4cdef9b7183159c23c7302aaf270d64c549f557 Author: dingtianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com> Date: Tue Jul 23 15:25:27 2013 +0800 bonding: don't call slave_xxx_netpoll under spinlocks The slave_xxx_netpoll will call synchronize_rcu_bh(), so the function may schedule and sleep, it should't be called under spinlocks. bond_netpoll_setup() and bond_netpoll_cleanup() are always protected by rtnl lock, it is no need to take the read lock, as the slave list couldn't be changed outside rtnl lock. Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Nothing else that calls __netpoll_setup or ndo_netpoll_setup requires a gfp paramter, so remove the gfp parameter from both of these functions making the code clearer. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-03-27 15:36:38 -07:00
netpoll: prevent hanging NAPI when netcons gets enabled Paolo spotted hangs in NIPA running driver tests against virtio. The tests hang in virtnet_close() -> virtnet_napi_tx_disable(). The problem is only reproducible if running multiple of our tests in sequence (I used TEST_PROGS="xdp.py ping.py netcons_basic.sh \ netpoll_basic.py stats.py"). Initial suspicion was that this is a simple case of double-disable of NAPI, but instrumenting the code reveals: Deadlocked on NAPI ffff888007cd82c0 (virtnet_poll_tx): state: 0x37, disabled: false, owner: 0, listed: false, weight: 64 The NAPI was not in fact disabled, owner is 0 (rather than -1), so the NAPI "thinks" it's scheduled for CPU 0 but it's not listed (!list_empty(&n->poll_list) => false). It seems odd that normal NAPI processing would wedge itself like this. Better suspicion is that netpoll gets enabled while NAPI is polling, and also grabs the NAPI instance. This confuses napi_complete_done(): [netpoll] [normal NAPI] napi_poll() have = netpoll_poll_lock() rcu_access_pointer(dev->npinfo) return NULL # no netpoll __napi_poll() ->poll(->weight) poll_napi() cmpxchg(->poll_owner, -1, cpu) poll_one_napi() set_bit(NAPI_STATE_NPSVC, ->state) napi_complete_done() if (NAPIF_STATE_NPSVC) return false # exit without clearing SCHED This feels very unlikely, but perhaps virtio has some interactions with the hypervisor in the NAPI ->poll that makes the race window larger? Best I could to to prove the theory was to add and trigger this warning in napi_poll (just before netpoll_poll_unlock()): WARN_ONCE(!have && rcu_access_pointer(n->dev->npinfo) && napi_is_scheduled(n) && list_empty(&n->poll_list), "NAPI race with netpoll %px", n); If this warning hits the next virtio_close() will hang. This patch survived 30 test iterations without a hang (without it the longest clean run was around 10). Credit for triggering this goes to Breno's recent netconsole tests. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Reported-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/c5a93ed1-9abe-4880-a3bb-8d1678018b1d@redhat.com Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250726010846.1105875-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-07-25 18:08:46 -07:00
net: netpoll: fix incorrect refcount handling causing incorrect cleanup commit efa95b01da18 ("netpoll: fix use after free") incorrectly ignored the refcount and prematurely set dev->npinfo to NULL during netpoll cleanup, leading to improper behavior and memory leaks. Scenario causing lack of proper cleanup: 1) A netpoll is associated with a NIC (e.g., eth0) and netdev->npinfo is allocated, and refcnt = 1 - Keep in mind that npinfo is shared among all netpoll instances. In this case, there is just one. 2) Another netpoll is also associated with the same NIC and npinfo->refcnt += 1. - Now dev->npinfo->refcnt = 2; - There is just one npinfo associated to the netdev. 3) When the first netpolls goes to clean up: - The first cleanup succeeds and clears np->dev->npinfo, ignoring refcnt. - It basically calls `RCU_INIT_POINTER(np->dev->npinfo, NULL);` - Set dev->npinfo = NULL, without proper cleanup - No ->ndo_netpoll_cleanup() is either called 4) Now the second target tries to clean up - The second cleanup fails because np->dev->npinfo is already NULL. * In this case, ops->ndo_netpoll_cleanup() was never called, and the skb pool is not cleaned as well (for the second netpoll instance) - This leaks npinfo and skbpool skbs, which is clearly reported by kmemleak. Revert commit efa95b01da18 ("netpoll: fix use after free") and adds clarifying comments emphasizing that npinfo cleanup should only happen once the refcount reaches zero, ensuring stable and correct netpoll behavior. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.17.x Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jv@jvosburgh.net> Fixes: efa95b01da18 ("netpoll: fix use after free") Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251107-netconsole_torture-v10-1-749227b55f63@debian.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-11-07 06:03:37 -08:00
netpoll: fix a use-after-free on shutdown path There is a use-after-free error on netpoll, which is clearly detected by KASAN. BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x3b/0x80 Read of size 1 at addr ... by task kworker/9:1 Workqueue: events queue_process Call Trace: skb_dequeue+0x1e/0xb0 queue_process+0x2c/0x600 process_scheduled_works+0x4b6/0x850 worker_thread+0x414/0x5a0 Allocated by task 242: __netpoll_setup+0x201/0x4a0 netpoll_setup+0x249/0x550 enabled_store+0x32f/0x380 Freed by task 0: kfree+0x1b7/0x540 rcu_core+0x3f8/0x7a0 The problem happens when there is a pending TX worker running in parallel with the cleanup path. This is what happens on netpoll shutdown path: 1) __netpoll_cleanup() is called 2) set dev->npinfo to NULL 3) call_rcu() with rcu_cleanup_netpoll_info() 3.1) rcu_cleanup_netpoll_info() tries to cancel all workers with cancel_delayed_work(), but doesn't wait for the worker to finish 4) and kfree(npinfo); Because 3.1) doesn't really cancel the work, as the comment says "we can't call cancel_delayed_work_sync here, as we are in softirq", the TX worker can run after 4). Tl;DR: queue_process() is not an RCU reader, it reaches npinfo through the work item via container_of(). Use disable_delayed_work_sync() to ensure the worker is completely stopped and prevent any future re-arming attempts. Once npinfo is set to NULL, senders will bail out and not queue new work. The disable flag ensures any in-flight re-arming attempts also fail silently. In the future, we can do the cleanup inline here without needing the npinfo->rcu rcu_head, but that is net-next material. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 38e6bc185d95 ("netpoll: make __netpoll_cleanup non-block") Reviewed-by: Pavan Chebbi <pavan.chebbi@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260625-netpoll_rcu_fix-v2-1-0748ffac1e98@debian.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-06-25 05:03:18 -07:00
net: netpoll: fix incorrect refcount handling causing incorrect cleanup commit efa95b01da18 ("netpoll: fix use after free") incorrectly ignored the refcount and prematurely set dev->npinfo to NULL during netpoll cleanup, leading to improper behavior and memory leaks. Scenario causing lack of proper cleanup: 1) A netpoll is associated with a NIC (e.g., eth0) and netdev->npinfo is allocated, and refcnt = 1 - Keep in mind that npinfo is shared among all netpoll instances. In this case, there is just one. 2) Another netpoll is also associated with the same NIC and npinfo->refcnt += 1. - Now dev->npinfo->refcnt = 2; - There is just one npinfo associated to the netdev. 3) When the first netpolls goes to clean up: - The first cleanup succeeds and clears np->dev->npinfo, ignoring refcnt. - It basically calls `RCU_INIT_POINTER(np->dev->npinfo, NULL);` - Set dev->npinfo = NULL, without proper cleanup - No ->ndo_netpoll_cleanup() is either called 4) Now the second target tries to clean up - The second cleanup fails because np->dev->npinfo is already NULL. * In this case, ops->ndo_netpoll_cleanup() was never called, and the skb pool is not cleaned as well (for the second netpoll instance) - This leaks npinfo and skbpool skbs, which is clearly reported by kmemleak. Revert commit efa95b01da18 ("netpoll: fix use after free") and adds clarifying comments emphasizing that npinfo cleanup should only happen once the refcount reaches zero, ensuring stable and correct netpoll behavior. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.17.x Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jv@jvosburgh.net> Fixes: efa95b01da18 ("netpoll: fix use after free") Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251107-netconsole_torture-v10-1-749227b55f63@debian.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-11-07 06:03:37 -08:00