linux/drivers/net/ethernet/intel
Sabrina Dubroca d8f5d356c6 e1000: add dummy allocator to fix race condition between mtu change and netpoll
commit 08e8331654 upstream.

There is a race condition between e1000_change_mtu's cleanups and
netpoll, when we change the MTU across jumbo size:

Changing MTU frees all the rx buffers:
    e1000_change_mtu -> e1000_down -> e1000_clean_all_rx_rings ->
        e1000_clean_rx_ring

Then, close to the end of e1000_change_mtu:
    pr_info -> ... -> netpoll_poll_dev -> e1000_clean ->
        e1000_clean_rx_irq -> e1000_alloc_rx_buffers -> e1000_alloc_frag

And when we come back to do the rest of the MTU change:
    e1000_up -> e1000_configure -> e1000_configure_rx ->
        e1000_alloc_jumbo_rx_buffers

alloc_jumbo finds the buffers already != NULL, since data (shared with
page in e1000_rx_buffer->rxbuf) has been re-alloc'd, but it's garbage,
or at least not what is expected when in jumbo state.

This results in an unusable adapter (packets don't get through), and a
NULL pointer dereference on the next call to e1000_clean_rx_ring
(other mtu change, link down, shutdown):

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at           (null)
IP: [<ffffffff81194d6e>] put_compound_page+0x7e/0x330

    [...]

Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff81195445>] put_page+0x55/0x60
 [<ffffffff815d9f44>] e1000_clean_rx_ring+0x134/0x200
 [<ffffffff815da055>] e1000_clean_all_rx_rings+0x45/0x60
 [<ffffffff815df5e0>] e1000_down+0x1c0/0x1d0
 [<ffffffff811e2260>] ? deactivate_slab+0x7f0/0x840
 [<ffffffff815e21bc>] e1000_change_mtu+0xdc/0x170
 [<ffffffff81647050>] dev_set_mtu+0xa0/0x140
 [<ffffffff81664218>] do_setlink+0x218/0xac0
 [<ffffffff814459e9>] ? nla_parse+0xb9/0x120
 [<ffffffff816652d0>] rtnl_newlink+0x6d0/0x890
 [<ffffffff8104f000>] ? kvm_clock_read+0x20/0x40
 [<ffffffff810a2068>] ? sched_clock_cpu+0xa8/0x100
 [<ffffffff81663802>] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x92/0x260

By setting the allocator to a dummy version, netpoll can't mess up our
rx buffers.  The allocator is set back to a sane value in
e1000_configure_rx.

Fixes: edbbb3ca10 ("e1000: implement jumbo receive with partial descriptors")
Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
History 2015-05-06 11:32:58 +01:00
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e1000 e1000: add dummy allocator to fix race condition between mtu change and netpoll 2015-05-06 11:32:58 +01:00
e1000e net: use SPEED_UNKNOWN and DUPLEX_UNKNOWN when appropriate 2014-06-06 16:24:07 -07:00
i40e Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2014-06-12 14:27:40 -07:00
i40evf i40e/i40evf: Bump i40e to version 0.4.10 and i40evf to 0.9.34 2014-06-11 08:48:43 -07:00
igb igb: bring link up when PHY is powered up 2014-12-15 11:56:27 +00:00
igbvf net: use SPEED_UNKNOWN and DUPLEX_UNKNOWN when appropriate 2014-06-06 16:24:07 -07:00
ixgb net: use SPEED_UNKNOWN and DUPLEX_UNKNOWN when appropriate 2014-06-06 16:24:07 -07:00
ixgbe ixgbe: fix use after free adapter->state test in ixgbe_remove/ixgbe_probe 2014-12-10 17:15:11 +00:00
ixgbevf Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2014-06-12 14:27:40 -07:00
e100.c net: get rid of SET_ETHTOOL_OPS 2014-05-13 17:43:20 -04:00
Kconfig i40e: add DCB option to Kconfig 2014-01-17 19:13:04 -08:00
Makefile i40evf: add driver to kernel build system 2013-12-31 16:27:49 -08:00