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From: Li Li <boolli@google.com>
To: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>,
	 Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 David Decotigny <decot@google.com>,
	Anjali Singhai <anjali.singhai@intel.com>,
	 Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>,
	Brian Vazquez <brianvv@google.com>,  Li Li <boolli@google.com>,
	emil.s.tantilov@intel.com
Subject: [PATCH 1/5] idpf: skip getting/setting ring params if vport is NULL during HW reset
Date: Wed,  7 Jan 2026 01:04:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260107010503.2242163-1-boolli@google.com> (raw)

When an idpf HW reset is triggered, it clears the vport but does
not clear the netdev held by vport:

    // In idpf_vport_dealloc() called by idpf_init_hard_reset(),
    // idpf_init_hard_reset() sets IDPF_HR_RESET_IN_PROG, so
    // idpf_decfg_netdev() doesn't get called.
    if (!test_bit(IDPF_HR_RESET_IN_PROG, adapter->flags))
        idpf_decfg_netdev(vport);
    // idpf_decfg_netdev() would clear netdev but it isn't called:
    unregister_netdev(vport->netdev);
    free_netdev(vport->netdev);
    vport->netdev = NULL;
    // Later in idpf_init_hard_reset(), the vport is cleared:
    kfree(adapter->vports);
    adapter->vports = NULL;

During an idpf HW reset, when "ethtool -g/-G" is called on the netdev,
the vport associated with the netdev is NULL, and so a kernel panic
would happen:

[  513.185327] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000038
...
[  513.232756] RIP: 0010:idpf_get_ringparam+0x45/0x80

This can be reproduced reliably by injecting a TX timeout to cause
an idpf HW reset, and injecting a virtchnl error to cause the HW
reset to fail and retry, while calling "ethtool -g/-G" on the netdev
at the same time.

With this patch applied, we see the following error but no kernel
panics anymore:

[  476.323630] idpf 0000:05:00.0 eth1: failed to get ring params due to no vport in netdev

Signed-off-by: Li Li <boolli@google.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_ethtool.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_ethtool.c
index d5711be0b8e69..6a4b630b786c2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_ethtool.c
@@ -639,6 +638,10 @@ static void idpf_get_ringparam(struct net_device *netdev,
 
 	idpf_vport_ctrl_lock(netdev);
 	vport = idpf_netdev_to_vport(netdev);
+	if (!vport) {
+		netdev_err(netdev, "failed to get ring params due to no vport in netdev\n");
+		goto unlock;
+	}
 
 	ring->rx_max_pending = IDPF_MAX_RXQ_DESC;
 	ring->tx_max_pending = IDPF_MAX_TXQ_DESC;
@@ -647,6 +651,7 @@ static void idpf_get_ringparam(struct net_device *netdev,
 
 	kring->tcp_data_split = idpf_vport_get_hsplit(vport);
 
+unlock:
 	idpf_vport_ctrl_unlock(netdev);
 }
 
@@ -673,6 +674,11 @@ static int idpf_set_ringparam(struct net_device *netdev,
 
 	idpf_vport_ctrl_lock(netdev);
 	vport = idpf_netdev_to_vport(netdev);
+	if (!vport) {
+		netdev_err(netdev, "ring params not changed due to no vport in netdev\n");
+		err = -EFAULT;
+		goto unlock_mutex;
+	}
 
 	idx = vport->idx;
 
-- 
2.52.0.351.gbe84eed79e-goog


             reply	other threads:[~2026-01-07  1:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-01-07  1:04 Li Li [this message]
2026-01-07  1:05 ` [PATCH 2/5] idpf: skip changing MTU if vport is NULL during HW reset Li Li
2026-01-07  1:05 ` [PATCH 3/5] idpf: skip getting RX flow rules " Li Li
2026-01-12  9:58   ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Loktionov, Aleksandr
2026-01-07  1:05 ` [PATCH 4/5] idpf: skip setting channels " Li Li
2026-01-07  1:05 ` [PATCH 5/5] idpf: skip stopping/opening vport if it " Li Li
2026-01-09  6:06   ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Loktionov, Aleksandr
2026-01-09  6:10     ` Loktionov, Aleksandr
2026-01-07  5:30 ` [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 1/5] idpf: skip getting/setting ring params if vport " Paul Menzel
2026-01-07 18:39   ` Li Li
2026-01-07 17:41 ` Tantilov, Emil S
2026-01-07 18:40   ` Li Li

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