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The enetc_msg_task() function has several issues that need to be addressed:
1. Unbounded loop causing potential DoS:
enetc_msg_task() processes VF-to-PF mailbox messages in an unbounded
for(;;) loop that keeps polling ENETC_PSIMSGRR until no MR bits are set.
A malicious guest VM can exploit this by continuously sending messages at
a high rate - immediately sending a new message as soon as the PF
acknowledges the previous one. Since the worker thread never yields or
enforces a processing budget, the mr_mask check frequently evaluates to
non-zero, causing the PF to spin indefinitely and starving other tasks.
Fix this by replacing the unbounded loop with a single snapshot read at
task entry. The task processes only the VFs whose MR bits were set at
that point, then re-enables message interrupts before returning. This
bounds work per invocation to at most num_vfs iterations. No messages are
lost because the message interrupt is disabled in enetc_msg_psi_msix()
before scheduling enetc_msg_task(), so any new messages arriving during
processing will trigger a fresh interrupt once re-enabled, scheduling
another task invocation.
2. Write order of ENETC_PSIIDR and ENETC_PSIMSGRR:
Both ENETC_PSIIDR and ENETC_PSIMSGRR contain MR bits indicating messages
have been received from VSIs, but only ENETC_PSIIDR trigger the CPU
interrupt. Previously, ENETC_PSIMSGRR was written before ENETC_PSIIDR.
Writing ENETC_PSIMSGRR returns the message code to the VSI in its upper
16 bits, signaling to the VF that message processing is complete and it
may send the next message. If the VF sends a new message before
ENETC_PSIIDR is written, the subsequent w1c write to ENETC_PSIIDR would
inadvertently clear the MR bit set by the new message, causing the
interrupt to be lost and the new message to go unprocessed.
Therefore, write ENETC_PSIIDR first to clear the interrupt source, then
write ENETC_PSIMSGRR to acknowledge the message to the VSI.
3. Check both ENETC_PSIMSGRR and ENETC_PSIIDR for mr_status:
The write order change above introduces a potential race: if a VF sends
a new message in the window between the ENETC_PSIIDR w1c and the
ENETC_PSIMSGRR w1c, the ENETC_PSIMSGRR MR bit for the new message may
not be set. If mr_status was derived solely from ENETC_PSIMSGRR, this
message would never be detected despite ENETC_PSIIDR retaining its MR
bit, leading to an unacknowledged interrupt storm.
Fix this by computing mr_status as the union of both ENETC_PSIMSGRR and
ENETC_PSIIDR MR bits, ensuring all pending messages are detected
regardless of which register reflects the new message state.
Additionally, rename the per-register MR macros (ENETC_PSI*_MR_MASK,
ENETC_PSI*_MR) to register-agnostic names (ENETC_PSIMR_MASK,
ENETC_PSIMR_BIT) since the MR bit layout is shared across ENETC_PSIMSGRR,
ENETC_PSIIER, and ENETC_PSIIDR. Make the mask macro dynamic based on
the actual number of active VFs rather than hardcoded.
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