Re: [PATCH net 7/7] net: hns3: fix kernel crash when devlink reload during vf initialization

Jiri Pirko
2024-04-22T14:19:01Z

Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 03:43:27PM CEST, shaojijie@huawei.com wrote:
>From: Yonglong Liu <liuyonglong@huawei.com>
>
>The devlink reload process will access the hardware resources,
>but the register operation is done before the hardware is initialized.
>So, processing the devlink reload during initialization may lead to kernel
>crash. This patch fixes this by taking devl_lock during initialization.
>
>Fixes: cd6242991d2e ("net: hns3: add support for registering devlink for VF")
>Signed-off-by: Yonglong Liu <liuyonglong@huawei.com>
>Signed-off-by: Jijie Shao <shaojijie@huawei.com>
>---
> drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3vf/hclgevf_main.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
>diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3vf/hclgevf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3vf/hclgevf_main.c
>index 08db8e84be4e..3ee41943d15f 100644
>--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3vf/hclgevf_main.c
>+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3vf/hclgevf_main.c
>@@ -2849,6 +2849,8 @@ static int hclgevf_init_hdev(struct hclgevf_dev *hdev)
> if (ret)
> goto err_devlink_init;
>

Hmm, what if reload happens here? I think that you don't fix the issue,
rather just narrowing the race window.

Why don't you rather calle devlink_register at the end of this function?

Also, parallel to this patch, why don't you register devlink port of
flavour "virtual" for this VF?

>+ devl_lock(hdev->devlink);
>+
> ret = hclge_comm_cmd_queue_init(hdev->pdev, &hdev->hw.hw);
> if (ret)
> goto err_cmd_queue_init;
>@@ -2950,6 +2952,7 @@ static int hclgevf_init_hdev(struct hclgevf_dev *hdev)
> hclgevf_task_schedule(hdev, round_jiffies_relative(HZ));
> timer_setup(&hdev->reset_timer, hclgevf_reset_timer, 0);
>
>+ devl_unlock(hdev->devlink);
> return 0;
>
> err_config:
>@@ -2960,6 +2963,7 @@ static int hclgevf_init_hdev(struct hclgevf_dev *hdev)
> err_cmd_init:
> hclge_comm_cmd_uninit(hdev->ae_dev, &hdev->hw.hw);
> err_cmd_queue_init:
>+ devl_unlock(hdev->devlink);
> hclgevf_devlink_uninit(hdev);
> err_devlink_init:
> hclgevf_pci_uninit(hdev);
>--
>2.30.0
>
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