From: Petr Oros <poros@redhat.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: ivecera@redhat.com, mschmidt@redhat.com,
Petr Oros <poros@redhat.com>,
Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>,
Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>,
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Subject: [PATCH net] iavf: fix PTP use-after-free during reset
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 10:57:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260129095723.7269-1-poros@redhat.com> (raw)
Commit 7c01dbfc8a1c5f ("iavf: periodically cache PHC time") introduced a
worker to cache PHC time, but failed to stop it during reset or disable.
This creates a race condition where `iavf_reset_task()` or
`iavf_disable_vf()` free adapter resources (AQ) while the worker is still
running. If the worker triggers `iavf_queue_ptp_cmd()` during teardown, it
accesses freed memory/locks, leading to a crash.
Fix this by calling `iavf_ptp_release()` before tearing down the adapter.
This ensures `ptp_clock_unregister()` synchronously cancels the worker and
cleans up the chardev before the backing resources are destroyed.
Fixes: 7c01dbfc8a1c5f ("iavf: periodically cache PHC time")
Signed-off-by: Petr Oros <poros@redhat.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_main.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_main.c
index 4b0fc8f354bc90..0dd58ce5a53ab1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_main.c
@@ -3025,6 +3025,8 @@ static void iavf_disable_vf(struct iavf_adapter *adapter)
adapter->flags |= IAVF_FLAG_PF_COMMS_FAILED;
+ iavf_ptp_release(adapter);
+
/* We don't use netif_running() because it may be true prior to
* ndo_open() returning, so we can't assume it means all our open
* tasks have finished, since we're not holding the rtnl_lock here.
@@ -3200,6 +3202,8 @@ static void iavf_reset_task(struct work_struct *work)
iavf_change_state(adapter, __IAVF_RESETTING);
adapter->flags &= ~IAVF_FLAG_RESET_PENDING;
+ iavf_ptp_release(adapter);
+
/* free the Tx/Rx rings and descriptors, might be better to just
* re-use them sometime in the future
*/
--
2.52.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-01-29 9:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-29 9:57 Petr Oros [this message]
2026-01-29 11:07 ` [PATCH net] iavf: fix PTP use-after-free during reset Ivan Vecera
2026-01-29 17:25 ` Jacob Keller
2026-01-29 19:03 ` Vadim Fedorenko
2026-01-29 21:48 ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Paul Menzel
2026-01-29 22:30 ` Petr Oros
2026-01-30 7:40 ` Loktionov, Aleksandr
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