linux/net/openvswitch
Toke Høiland-Jørgensen 7c770dadfd net: openvswitch: Avoid releasing netdev before teardown completes
The patch cited in the Fixes tag below changed the teardown code for
OVS ports to no longer unconditionally take the RTNL. After this change,
the netdev_destroy() callback can proceed immediately to the call_rcu()
invocation if the IFF_OVS_DATAPATH flag is already cleared on the
netdev.

The ovs_netdev_detach_dev() function clears the flag before completing
the unregistration, and if it gets preempted after clearing the flag (as
can happen on an -rt kernel), netdev_destroy() can complete and the
device can be freed before the unregistration completes. This leads to a
splat like:

[  998.393867] Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xff00000001000239: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
[  998.393877] CPU: 42 UID: 0 PID: 55177 Comm: ip Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.12.0-211.1.1.el10_2.x86_64+rt #1 PREEMPT_RT
[  998.393886] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R740/0JMK61, BIOS 2.24.0 03/27/2025
[  998.393889] RIP: 0010:dev_set_promiscuity+0x8d/0xa0
[  998.393901] Code: 00 00 75 d8 48 8b 53 08 48 83 ba b0 02 00 00 00 75 ca 48 83 c4 08 5b c3 cc cc cc cc 48 83 bf 48 09 00 00 00 75 91 48 8b 47 08 <48> 83 b8 b0 02 00 00 00 74 97 eb 81 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 90 90 90
[  998.393906] RSP: 0018:ffffce5864a5f6a0 EFLAGS: 00010246
[  998.393912] RAX: ff00000000ffff89 RBX: ffff894d0adf5a05 RCX: 0000000000000000
[  998.393917] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000ffffffff RDI: ffff894d0adf5a05
[  998.393921] RBP: ffff894d19252000 R08: ffff894d19252000 R09: 0000000000000000
[  998.393924] R10: ffff894d19252000 R11: ffff894d192521b8 R12: 0000000000000006
[  998.393927] R13: ffffce5864a5f738 R14: 00000000ffffffe2 R15: 0000000000000000
[  998.393931] FS:  00007fad61971800(0000) GS:ffff894cc0140000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[  998.393936] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[  998.393940] CR2: 000055df0a2a6e40 CR3: 000000011c7fe003 CR4: 00000000007726f0
[  998.393944] PKRU: 55555554
[  998.393946] Call Trace:
[  998.393949]  <TASK>
[  998.393952]  ? show_trace_log_lvl+0x1b0/0x2f0
[  998.393961]  ? show_trace_log_lvl+0x1b0/0x2f0
[  998.393975]  ? dp_device_event+0x41/0x80 [openvswitch]
[  998.394009]  ? __die_body.cold+0x8/0x12
[  998.394016]  ? die_addr+0x3c/0x60
[  998.394027]  ? exc_general_protection+0x16d/0x390
[  998.394042]  ? asm_exc_general_protection+0x26/0x30
[  998.394058]  ? dev_set_promiscuity+0x8d/0xa0
[  998.394066]  ? ovs_netdev_detach_dev+0x3a/0x80 [openvswitch]
[  998.394092]  dp_device_event+0x41/0x80 [openvswitch]
[  998.394102]  notifier_call_chain+0x5a/0xd0
[  998.394106]  unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x51b/0xa60
[  998.394110]  rtnl_dellink+0x169/0x3e0
[  998.394121]  ? rt_mutex_slowlock.constprop.0+0x95/0xd0
[  998.394125]  rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x142/0x3f0
[  998.394128]  ? avc_has_perm_noaudit+0x69/0xf0
[  998.394130]  ? __pfx_rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x10/0x10
[  998.394132]  netlink_rcv_skb+0x50/0x100
[  998.394138]  netlink_unicast+0x292/0x3f0
[  998.394141]  netlink_sendmsg+0x21b/0x470
[  998.394145]  ____sys_sendmsg+0x39d/0x3d0
[  998.394149]  ___sys_sendmsg+0x9a/0xe0
[  998.394156]  __sys_sendmsg+0x7a/0xd0
[  998.394160]  do_syscall_64+0x7f/0x170
[  998.394162]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
[  998.394165] RIP: 0033:0x7fad61bf4724
[  998.394188] Code: 89 02 b8 ff ff ff ff eb bb 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa 80 3d c5 e9 0c 00 00 74 13 b8 2e 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 54 c3 0f 1f 00 48 83 ec 28 89 54 24 1c 48 89
[  998.394189] RSP: 002b:00007ffd7e2f7cb8 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
[  998.394191] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 00007fad61bf4724
[  998.394193] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007ffd7e2f7d20 RDI: 0000000000000003
[  998.394194] RBP: 00007ffd7e2f7d90 R08: 0000000000000010 R09: 000000000000003f
[  998.394195] R10: 000055df11558010 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007ffd7e2f8380
[  998.394196] R13: 0000000069b233d7 R14: 000055df0a256040 R15: 0000000000000000
[  998.394200]  </TASK>

To fix this, reorder the operations in ovs_netdev_detach_dev() to only
clear the flag after completing the other operations, and introduce an
smp_wmb() to make the ordering requirement explicit. The smp_wmb() is
paired with a full smp_mb() in netdev_destroy() to make sure the
call_rcu() invocation does not happen before the unregister operations
are visible.

Reported-by: Minxi Hou <mhou@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Minxi Hou <mhou@redhat.com>
Fixes: 5498227676 ("net: openvswitch: Avoid needlessly taking the RTNL on vport destroy")
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260318155554.1133405-1-toke@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
History 2026-03-19 17:15:37 -07:00
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actions.c net: openvswitch: remove never-working support for setting nsh fields 2025-11-14 18:13:24 -08:00
conntrack.c Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments 2026-02-21 20:03:00 -08:00
conntrack.h net/sched: act_api: fix miss set post_ct for ovs after do conntrack in act_ct 2021-03-16 15:22:18 -07:00
datapath.c Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments 2026-02-21 20:03:00 -08:00
datapath.h net: openvswitch: allow providing upcall pid for the 'execute' command 2025-07-07 14:30:39 -07:00
dp_notify.c net: replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq 2025-09-22 17:40:30 -07:00
drop.h net: openvswitch: add misc error drop reasons 2023-08-14 08:01:06 +01:00
flow.c net: openvswitch: Use for_each_cpu() where appropriate 2025-08-20 19:47:22 -07:00
flow.h net: openvswitch: reduce cpu_used_mask memory 2023-02-06 22:36:29 -08:00
flow_netlink.c Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument 2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
flow_netlink.h net: openvswitch: remove never-working support for setting nsh fields 2025-11-14 18:13:24 -08:00
flow_table.c Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument 2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
flow_table.h net: openvswitch: Annotate struct mask_array with __counted_by 2023-10-17 13:56:03 +02:00
Kconfig sctp: use skb_crc32c() instead of __skb_checksum() 2025-05-21 15:40:16 -07:00
Makefile openvswitch: add trace points 2021-06-22 10:47:32 -07:00
meter.c Convert 'alloc_flex' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument 2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
meter.h net: openvswitch: remove unnecessary linux/genetlink.h include 2024-04-01 21:44:34 -07:00
openvswitch_trace.c openvswitch: add trace points 2021-06-22 10:47:32 -07:00
openvswitch_trace.h tracing/treewide: Remove second parameter of __assign_str() 2024-05-22 20:14:47 -04:00
vport-geneve.c rtnetlink: Honour NLM_F_ECHO flag in rtnl_delete_link 2022-10-31 18:10:21 -07:00
vport-gre.c rtnetlink: Honour NLM_F_ECHO flag in rtnl_delete_link 2022-10-31 18:10:21 -07:00
vport-internal_dev.c net: rename netns_local to netns_immutable 2025-03-04 12:44:48 +01:00
vport-internal_dev.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 269 2019-06-05 17:30:29 +02:00
vport-netdev.c net: openvswitch: Avoid releasing netdev before teardown completes 2026-03-19 17:15:37 -07:00
vport-netdev.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 269 2019-06-05 17:30:29 +02:00
vport-vxlan.c rtnetlink: Honour NLM_F_ECHO flag in rtnl_delete_link 2022-10-31 18:10:21 -07:00
vport.c Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments 2026-02-21 20:03:00 -08:00
vport.h net: openvswitch: fix kernel-doc warnings in internal headers 2025-03-24 09:30:21 -07:00