Patch "igb: re-assign hw address pointer on reset after PCI error" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    igb: re-assign hw address pointer on reset after PCI error

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     igb-re-assign-hw-address-pointer-on-reset-after-pci-error.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Thu Oct  5 10:28:31 CEST 2017
From: Guilherme G Piccoli <gpiccoli@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 16:46:43 -0200
Subject: igb: re-assign hw address pointer on reset after PCI error

From: Guilherme G Piccoli <gpiccoli@linux.vnet.ibm.com>


[ Upstream commit 69b97cf6dbce7403845a28bbc75d57f5be7b12ac ]

Whenever the igb driver detects the result of a read operation returns
a value composed only by F's (like 0xFFFFFFFF), it will detach the
net_device, clear the hw_addr pointer and warn to the user that adapter's
link is lost - those steps happen on igb_rd32().

In case a PCI error happens on Power architecture, there's a recovery
mechanism called EEH, that will reset the PCI slot and call driver's
handlers to reset the adapter and network functionality as well.

We observed that once hw_addr is NULL after the error is detected on
igb_rd32(), it's never assigned back, so in the process of resetting
the network functionality we got a NULL pointer dereference in both
igb_configure_tx_ring() and igb_configure_rx_ring(). In order to avoid
such bug, this patch re-assigns the hw_addr value in the slot_reset
handler.

Reported-by: Anthony H Thai <ahthai@us.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Harsha Thyagaraja <hathyaga@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G Piccoli <gpiccoli@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
@@ -7882,6 +7882,11 @@ static pci_ers_result_t igb_io_slot_rese
 		pci_enable_wake(pdev, PCI_D3hot, 0);
 		pci_enable_wake(pdev, PCI_D3cold, 0);
 
+		/* In case of PCI error, adapter lose its HW address
+		 * so we should re-assign it here.
+		 */
+		hw->hw_addr = adapter->io_addr;
+
 		igb_reset(adapter);
 		wr32(E1000_WUS, ~0);
 		result = PCI_ERS_RESULT_RECOVERED;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gpiccoli@linux.vnet.ibm.com are

queue-4.9/igb-re-assign-hw-address-pointer-on-reset-after-pci-error.patch