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From: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
To: intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com,
	aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Kiran Patil <kiran.patil@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH iwl-net 1/5] iavf: fix null pointer dereference in iavf_detect_recover_hung
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:30:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260413073035.4082204-2-aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260413073035.4082204-1-aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>

From: Kiran Patil <kiran.patil@intel.com>

During a concurrent reset, q_vectors are freed and re-allocated while
the watchdog task may still be iterating rings in
iavf_detect_recover_hung(). Dereferencing a NULL q_vector inside
iavf_force_wb() results in a crash. Guard against this by skipping
rings whose q_vector is NULL.

Also move the tx_ring declaration into the loop body and drop the
redundant outer NULL initialisation, which the compiler can never
observe since an array-element address is always non-NULL.

Fixes: 9c6c12595b73 ("i40e: Detection and recovery of TX queue hung logic moved to service_task from tx_timeout")
Signed-off-by: Kiran Patil <kiran.patil@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_txrx.c | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_txrx.c
index 363c42b..e7e7fc9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_txrx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_txrx.c
@@ -176,7 +176,6 @@ static void iavf_force_wb(struct iavf_vsi *vsi, struct iavf_q_vector *q_vector)
  **/
 void iavf_detect_recover_hung(struct iavf_vsi *vsi)
 {
-	struct iavf_ring *tx_ring = NULL;
 	struct net_device *netdev;
 	unsigned int i;
 	int packets;
@@ -195,8 +194,11 @@ void iavf_detect_recover_hung(struct iavf_vsi *vsi)
 		return;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < vsi->back->num_active_queues; i++) {
-		tx_ring = &vsi->back->tx_rings[i];
-		if (tx_ring && tx_ring->desc) {
+		struct iavf_ring *tx_ring = &vsi->back->tx_rings[i];
+
+		if (!tx_ring || !tx_ring->q_vector)
+			continue;
+		if (tx_ring->desc) {
 			/* If packet counter has not changed the queue is
 			 * likely stalled, so force an interrupt for this
 			 * queue.
-- 
2.52.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-04-13  7:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-13  7:30 [PATCH iwl-net 0/5] iavf: five correctness fixes Aleksandr Loktionov
2026-04-13  7:30 ` Aleksandr Loktionov [this message]
2026-04-15 12:48   ` [PATCH iwl-net 1/5] iavf: fix null pointer dereference in iavf_detect_recover_hung Simon Horman
2026-04-13  7:30 ` [PATCH iwl-net 2/5] iavf: fix error path in iavf_request_misc_irq Aleksandr Loktionov
2026-04-13 11:53   ` Przemek Kitszel
2026-04-15 13:26   ` Simon Horman
2026-04-13  7:30 ` [PATCH iwl-net 3/5] iavf: prevent VSI corruption when ring params changed during reset Aleksandr Loktionov
2026-04-15 13:28   ` Simon Horman
2026-04-13  7:30 ` [PATCH iwl-net 4/5] iavf: fix TC boundary check in iavf_handle_tclass Aleksandr Loktionov
2026-04-15 13:46   ` Simon Horman
2026-04-13  7:30 ` [PATCH iwl-net 5/5] iavf: return 0 when TC flower filter not found after qdisc teardown Aleksandr Loktionov
2026-04-15 13:53   ` Simon Horman

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