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Ilya Maximets ea9e990356 openvswitch: fix lockup on tx to unregistering netdev with carrier 
[ Upstream commit 47e55e4b41 ]

Commit in a fixes tag attempted to fix the issue in the following
sequence of calls:

    do_output
    -> ovs_vport_send
       -> dev_queue_xmit
          -> __dev_queue_xmit
             -> netdev_core_pick_tx
                -> skb_tx_hash

When device is unregistering, the 'dev->real_num_tx_queues' goes to
zero and the 'while (unlikely(hash >= qcount))' loop inside the
'skb_tx_hash' becomes infinite, locking up the core forever.

But unfortunately, checking just the carrier status is not enough to
fix the issue, because some devices may still be in unregistering
state while reporting carrier status OK.

One example of such device is a net/dummy.  It sets carrier ON
on start, but it doesn't implement .ndo_stop to set the carrier off.
And it makes sense, because dummy doesn't really have a carrier.
Therefore, while this device is unregistering, it's still easy to hit
the infinite loop in the skb_tx_hash() from the OVS datapath.  There
might be other drivers that do the same, but dummy by itself is
important for the OVS ecosystem, because it is frequently used as a
packet sink for tcpdump while debugging OVS deployments.  And when the
issue is hit, the only way to recover is to reboot.

Fix that by also checking if the device is running.  The running
state is handled by the net core during unregistering, so it covers
unregistering case better, and we don't really need to send packets
to devices that are not running anyway.

While only checking the running state might be enough, the carrier
check is preserved.  The running and the carrier states seem disjoined
throughout the code and different drivers.  And other core functions
like __dev_direct_xmit() check both before attempting to transmit
a packet.  So, it seems safer to check both flags in OVS as well.

Fixes: 066b86787f ("net: openvswitch: fix race on port output")
Reported-by: Friedrich Weber <f.weber@proxmox.com>
Closes: https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-discuss/2025-January/053423.html
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Tested-by: Friedrich Weber <f.weber@proxmox.com>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250109122225.4034688-1-i.maximets@ovn.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2025-01-23 17:17:09 +01:00
arch arm64: dts: rockchip: add hevc power domain clock to rk3328 2025-01-17 13:34:47 +01:00
block block, bfq: fix waker_bfqq UAF after bfq_split_bfqq() 2025-01-17 13:34:47 +01:00
certs certs: Fix build error when PKCS#11 URI contains semicolon 2023-02-09 11:28:11 +01:00
crypto crypto: api - Add crypto_clone_tfm 2024-12-14 19:53:51 +01:00
Documentation dt-bindings: display: adi,adv7533: Drop single lane support 2025-01-09 13:30:06 +01:00
drivers net: ethernet: ti: cpsw_ale: Fix cpsw_ale_get_field() 2025-01-23 17:17:09 +01:00
fs ocfs2: fix slab-use-after-free due to dangling pointer dqi_priv 2025-01-17 13:34:48 +01:00
include xhci: use pm_ptr() instead of #ifdef for CONFIG_PM conditionals 2025-01-17 13:34:49 +01:00
init initramfs: avoid filename buffer overrun 2024-12-14 19:53:14 +01:00
io_uring io_uring/eventfd: ensure io_eventfd_signal() defers another RCU period 2025-01-17 13:34:47 +01:00
ipc ipc: fix memleak if msg_init_ns failed in create_ipc_ns 2024-12-14 19:54:06 +01:00
kernel bpf: Fix overloading of MEM_UNINIT's meaning 2025-01-17 13:34:43 +01:00
lib lib: stackinit: hide never-taken branch from compiler 2024-12-14 19:54:37 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm mm: vmscan: account for free pages to prevent infinite Loop in throttle_direct_reclaim() 2025-01-09 13:30:07 +01:00
net openvswitch: fix lockup on tx to unregistering netdev with carrier 2025-01-23 17:17:09 +01:00
rust rust: macros: provide correct provenance when constructing THIS_MODULE 2024-10-17 15:22:24 +02:00
samples samples/bpf: Fix a resource leak 2024-12-14 19:54:40 +01:00
scripts scripts/sorttable: fix orc_sort_cmp() to maintain symmetry and transitivity 2025-01-17 13:34:38 +01:00
security selinux: ignore unknown extended permissions 2025-01-09 13:29:56 +01:00
sound ASoC: mediatek: disable buffer pre-allocation 2025-01-17 13:34:38 +01:00
tools stddef: make __struct_group() UAPI C++-friendly 2025-01-02 10:30:51 +01:00
usr usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file 2022-10-03 14:21:44 -07:00
virt KVM: Fix a data race on last_boosted_vcpu in kvm_vcpu_on_spin() 2024-06-27 13:46:21 +02:00
.clang-format inet: ping: use hlist_nulls rcu iterator during lookup 2022-12-01 12:42:46 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore Remove *.orig pattern from .gitignore 2024-10-17 15:21:15 +02:00
.mailmap 9 hotfixes. 6 for MM, 3 for other areas. Four of these patches address 2022-12-10 17:10:52 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Michal Marek from Kbuild maintainers 2022-11-16 14:53:00 +09:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: add leah to 6.1 MAINTAINERS file 2024-05-17 11:56:16 +02:00
Makefile Linux 6.1.126 2025-01-19 09:01:16 +01:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.