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From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: devel@linuxdriverproject.org,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next] hv_netvsc: fix a race between netvsc_send() and netvsc_init_buf()
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 15:53:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1476885181-3456-1-git-send-email-vkuznets@redhat.com> (raw)

Fix in commit 880988348270 ("hv_netvsc: set nvdev link after populating
chn_table") turns out to be incomplete. A crash in
netvsc_get_next_send_section() is observed on mtu change when the device
is under load. The race I identified is: if we get to netvsc_send() after
we set net_device_ctx->nvdev link in netvsc_device_add() but before we
finish netvsc_connect_vsp()->netvsc_init_buf() send_section_map is not
allocated and we crash. Unfortunately we can't set net_device_ctx->nvdev
link after the netvsc_init_buf() call as during the negotiation we need
to receive packets and on the receive path we check for it. It would
probably be possible to split nvdev into a pair of nvdev_in and nvdev_out
links and check them accordingly in get_outbound_net_device()/
get_inbound_net_device() but this looks like an overkill.

Check that send_section_map is allocated in netvsc_send().

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
---
 drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c
index 720b5fa..e2bfaac 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c
@@ -888,6 +888,13 @@ int netvsc_send(struct hv_device *device,
 	if (!net_device)
 		return -ENODEV;
 
+	/* We may race with netvsc_connect_vsp()/netvsc_init_buf() and get
+	 * here before the negotiation with the host is finished and
+	 * send_section_map may not be allocated yet.
+	 */
+	if (!net_device->send_section_map)
+		return -EAGAIN;
+
 	out_channel = net_device->chn_table[q_idx];
 
 	packet->send_buf_index = NETVSC_INVALID_INDEX;
-- 
2.7.4

             reply	other threads:[~2016-10-19 13:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-19 13:53 Vitaly Kuznetsov [this message]
2016-10-20  8:36 ` [PATCH net-next] hv_netvsc: fix a race between netvsc_send() and netvsc_init_buf() Stephen Hemminger
2016-10-20  8:51   ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2016-10-20 18:03     ` David Miller
2016-10-21 11:15       ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2016-10-21 14:52         ` David Miller
2016-10-21 15:17           ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2016-10-21 15:27             ` David Miller
2016-10-21 15:28 ` David Miller

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