[PATCH 3.14 85/92] e1000: add dummy allocator to fix race condition between mtu change and netpoll

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-05-02T20:08:42Z

From: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>

commit 08e8331654d1d7b2c58045e549005bc356aa7810 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: edbbb3ca1077 ("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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
@@ -144,6 +144,11 @@ static bool e1000_clean_rx_irq(struct e1
static bool e1000_clean_jumbo_rx_irq(struct e1000_adapter *adapter,
struct e1000_rx_ring *rx_ring,
int *work_done, int work_to_do);
+static void e1000_alloc_dummy_rx_buffers(struct e1000_adapter *adapter,
+ struct e1000_rx_ring *rx_ring,
+ int cleaned_count)
+{
+}
static void e1000_alloc_rx_buffers(struct e1000_adapter *adapter,
struct e1000_rx_ring *rx_ring,
int cleaned_count);
@@ -3531,8 +3536,11 @@ static int e1000_change_mtu(struct net_d
msleep(1);
/* e1000_down has a dependency on max_frame_size */
hw->max_frame_size = max_frame;
- if (netif_running(netdev))
+ if (netif_running(netdev)) {
+ /* prevent buffers from being reallocated */
+ adapter->alloc_rx_buf = e1000_alloc_dummy_rx_buffers;
e1000_down(adapter);
+ }

/* NOTE: netdev_alloc_skb reserves 16 bytes, and typically NET_IP_ALIGN
* means we reserve 2 more, this pushes us to allocate from the next