From: Myeonghun Pak <mhun512@gmail.com>
To: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>,
Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>,
intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Ijae Kim <ae878000@gmail.com>
Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net] idpf: disable DIM work before freeing q_vectors
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:58:46 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260720135846.76229-1-mhun512@gmail.com> (raw)
idpf never drains the Tx/Rx DIM works before freeing the memory they
live in. tx_dim and rx_dim are embedded in struct idpf_q_vector, they
are queued from the NAPI poll via net_dim(), and idpf_vport_intr_rel()
ends with kfree(rsrc->q_vectors). Nothing in the driver cancels them.
idpf_tx_dim_work() and idpf_rx_dim_work() then run on freed memory:
idpf_vport_intr_write_itr() writes the ITR register through
q_vector->intr_reg.tx_itr / rx_itr, void __iomem pointers loaded out of
the freed q_vector. No configuration is needed to get there --
IDPF_ITR_IS_DYNAMIC() is defined as (itr_mode) and idpf_vport_alloc()
initialises both modes to IDPF_ITR_DYNAMIC.
Draining after idpf_vport_intr_napi_dis_all() is not enough on its own.
idpf_net_dim() is called from inside the
"if (napi_complete_done(napi, work_done))" branch of the poll, and
napi_complete_done() has already cleared NAPIF_STATE_SCHED by then.
napi_disable_locked() waits only while (val & (NAPIF_STATE_SCHED |
NAPIF_STATE_NPSVC)), so napi_disable() can return while the poll tail is
still queueing the work, and a plain cancel_work_sync() would be
re-armed behind the drain.
Use disable_work_sync(): schedule_work() on a work with a non-zero
disable count is dropped by clear_pending_if_disabled() before
__queue_work() is reached.
Move idpf_init_dim() to idpf_vport_intr_alloc() so the works are
initialised on every path that can reach the drain -- the three
"goto intr_deinit" sites between idpf_vport_intr_init() and
idpf_vport_intr_ena() get there without the enable side having run.
Nothing re-enables them: rsrc->q_vectors is freed on every exit from
idpf_vport_open() and on every idpf_vport_stop(), so the count dies with
the object.
It is a race, not a deterministic failure -- net_dim() only schedules
once DIM_NEVENTS events have accumulated and the profile index changes.
A KASAN ifup/ifdown loop under load is the way to see it.
Fixes: c2d548cad150 ("idpf: add TX splitq napi poll support")
Fixes: 3a8845af66ed ("idpf: add RX splitq napi poll support")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # see patch description, needs adjustments for <= 6.9
Co-developed-by: Ijae Kim <ae878000@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ijae Kim <ae878000@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Myeonghun Pak <mhun512@gmail.com>
---
Found by static analysis; not tested on hardware. Testing by someone at
Intel with an idpf device would be very welcome.
disable_work_sync() landed in v6.10, which is newer than the commits
this fixes, hence the annotation on the stable tag. A backport to older
trees needs the work held down another way rather than a cherry-pick;
happy to send one if the bot reports a failure.
libwx does the same thing in the same order -- napi_disable() then
disable_work_sync() on the dim works -- in wx_napi_disable_all().
Based on v7.2-rc2.
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.c
index 7f9056404f64..cd98674fb648 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.c
@@ -4148,6 +4148,26 @@ static void idpf_vport_intr_ena_irq_all(struct idpf_vport *vport,
writel(rsrc->noirq_dyn_ctl_ena, rsrc->noirq_dyn_ctl);
}
+/**
+ * idpf_vport_intr_dis_dim_all - Disable DIM work for all q_vectors
+ * @rsrc: pointer to queue and vector resources
+ *
+ * The DIM works are embedded in the q_vector array that
+ * idpf_vport_intr_rel() frees, and the poll arms them after
+ * napi_complete_done() has already cleared NAPI_STATE_SCHED. Disable
+ * rather than just cancel, so that a poll tail still running past
+ * napi_disable() cannot queue them again behind the drain.
+ */
+static void idpf_vport_intr_dis_dim_all(struct idpf_q_vec_rsrc *rsrc)
+{
+ for (u16 v_idx = 0; v_idx < rsrc->num_q_vectors; v_idx++) {
+ struct idpf_q_vector *q_vector = &rsrc->q_vectors[v_idx];
+
+ disable_work_sync(&q_vector->tx_dim.work);
+ disable_work_sync(&q_vector->rx_dim.work);
+ }
+}
+
/**
* idpf_vport_intr_deinit - Release all vector associations for the vport
* @vport: main vport structure
@@ -4158,6 +4178,7 @@ void idpf_vport_intr_deinit(struct idpf_vport *vport,
{
idpf_vport_intr_dis_irq_all(rsrc);
idpf_vport_intr_napi_dis_all(rsrc);
+ idpf_vport_intr_dis_dim_all(rsrc);
idpf_vport_intr_napi_del_all(rsrc);
idpf_vport_intr_rel_irq(vport, rsrc);
}
@@ -4238,7 +4259,6 @@ static void idpf_vport_intr_napi_ena_all(struct idpf_q_vec_rsrc *rsrc)
for (u16 q_idx = 0; q_idx < rsrc->num_q_vectors; q_idx++) {
struct idpf_q_vector *q_vector = &rsrc->q_vectors[q_idx];
- idpf_init_dim(q_vector);
napi_enable(&q_vector->napi);
}
}
@@ -4581,6 +4601,8 @@ int idpf_vport_intr_alloc(struct idpf_vport *vport,
q_coal = &user_config->q_coalesce[v_idx];
q_vector->vport = vport;
+ idpf_init_dim(q_vector);
+
q_vector->tx_itr_value = q_coal->tx_coalesce_usecs;
q_vector->tx_intr_mode = q_coal->tx_intr_mode;
q_vector->tx_itr_idx = VIRTCHNL2_ITR_IDX_1;
--
2.43.0
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