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 4/5] idpf: skip setting channels if vport is NULL during HW reset
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2026 01:05:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260107010503.2242163-4-boolli@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260107010503.2242163-1-boolli@google.com>
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 userspace changes the netdev channels,
the vport associated with the netdev is NULL, and so a kernel panic
would happen:
[ 2245.795117] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000088
...
[ 2245.842720] RIP: 0010:idpf_set_channels+0x40/0x120
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 running "ethtool -L" in userspace.
With this patch applied, we see the following error but no kernel
panics anymore:
[ 1176.743096] idpf 0000:05:00.0 eth1: channels not changed due to no vport in netdev
netlink error: Bad address
Signed-off-by: Li Li <boolli@google.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_ethtool.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_ethtool.c
index c71af85408a29..1b03528041af4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_ethtool.c
@@ -580,6 +579,11 @@ static int idpf_set_channels(struct net_device *netdev,
idpf_vport_ctrl_lock(netdev);
vport = idpf_netdev_to_vport(netdev);
+ if (!vport) {
+ netdev_err(netdev, "channels not changed due to no vport in netdev\n");
+ err = -EFAULT;
+ goto unlock_mutex;
+ }
idx = vport->idx;
vport_config = vport->adapter->vport_config[idx];
--
2.52.0.351.gbe84eed79e-goog
next prev parent 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 [PATCH 1/5] idpf: skip getting/setting ring params if vport is NULL during HW reset Li Li
2026-01-07 1:05 ` [PATCH 2/5] idpf: skip changing MTU " 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 ` Li Li [this message]
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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