From: Wei Fang <wei.fang@nxp.com>
To: claudiu.manoil@nxp.com, vladimir.oltean@nxp.com,
xiaoning.wang@nxp.com, andrew+netdev@lunn.ch,
davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org,
pabeni@redhat.com
Cc: imx@lists.linux.dev, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, catalin.horghidan@nxp.com
Subject: [PATCH v2 net 7/9] net: enetc: fix VF-to-PF message handler unbounded loop DoS
Date: Mon, 18 May 2026 11:05:33 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260518030535.1057228-8-wei.fang@nxp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260518030535.1057228-1-wei.fang@nxp.com>
enetc_msg_task() processes VF-to-PF mailbox messages using an unbounded
for(;;) loop that repeatedly polls ENETC_PSIMSGRR until no MR bits set.
A malicious guest VM can exploit this by immediately sending a new
message as soon as the PF acknowledges the previous one via a w1c write
to ENETC_PSIMSGRR. Since there is no processing budget or yield point,
a VF can keep the MR bit continuously re-asserted, preventing the loop
from ever terminating and starving other tasks on the PF worker thread.
Fix this by replacing the unbounded loop with a single snapshot read of
ENETC_PSIMSGRR at task entry. The task processes only the VFs whose MR
bits were set at that point, clears the corresponding bits in
ENETC_PSIMSGRR and ENETC_PSIIDR, and re-enables the message interrupt
before returning.
No messages are lost: the message interrupt is disabled before
enetc_msg_task() is scheduled (in enetc_msg_psi_msix()), so new messages
arriving during processing do not generate additional CPU interrupts.
When enetc_msg_task() re-enables the interrupts at exit, the hardware
detects any MR bits that were set during execution and generates a new
interrupt, scheduling another task invocation.
This bounds the work per task invocation to at most num_vfs message
processing iterations, regardless of how aggressively VFs send messages.
Fixes: beb74ac878c8 ("enetc: Add vf to pf messaging support")
Signed-off-by: Wei Fang <wei.fang@nxp.com>
---
.../net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_hw.h | 1 +
.../net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_msg.c | 38 +++++++++----------
2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_hw.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_hw.h
index 662e4fbafb74..39b82faaf041 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_hw.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_hw.h
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ static inline u32 enetc_vsi_set_msize(u32 size)
#define ENETC_PSIIER 0xa00
#define ENETC_PSIIER_MR_MASK GENMASK(2, 1)
#define ENETC_PSIIDR 0xa08
+#define ENETC_PSIIDR_MR(n) BIT((n) + 1) /* n = VSI index */
#define ENETC_SITXIDR 0xa18
#define ENETC_SIRXIDR 0xa28
#define ENETC_SIMSIVR 0xa30
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_msg.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_msg.c
index b4d7457097e6..39f057fe85c7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_msg.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_msg.c
@@ -32,32 +32,32 @@ static void enetc_msg_task(struct work_struct *work)
{
struct enetc_pf *pf = container_of(work, struct enetc_pf, msg_task);
struct enetc_hw *hw = &pf->si->hw;
- unsigned long mr_mask;
+ u32 mr_status;
int i;
- for (;;) {
- mr_mask = enetc_rd(hw, ENETC_PSIMSGRR) & ENETC_PSIMSGRR_MR_MASK;
- if (!mr_mask) {
- /* re-arm MR interrupts, w1c the IDR reg */
- enetc_wr(hw, ENETC_PSIIDR, ENETC_PSIIER_MR_MASK);
- enetc_msg_enable_mr_int(hw);
- return;
- }
+ mr_status = enetc_rd(hw, ENETC_PSIMSGRR) & ENETC_PSIMSGRR_MR_MASK;
+ if (!mr_status)
+ goto out;
- for (i = 0; i < pf->num_vfs; i++) {
- u32 psimsgrr;
- u16 msg_code;
+ for (i = 0; i < pf->num_vfs; i++) {
+ u32 psimsgrr;
+ u16 msg_code;
+
+ if (!(ENETC_PSIMSGRR_MR(i) & mr_status))
+ continue;
- if (!(ENETC_PSIMSGRR_MR(i) & mr_mask))
- continue;
+ enetc_msg_handle_rxmsg(pf, i, &msg_code);
- enetc_msg_handle_rxmsg(pf, i, &msg_code);
+ /* w1c to clear the corresponding VF MR bit */
+ enetc_wr(hw, ENETC_PSIIDR, ENETC_PSIIDR_MR(i));
- psimsgrr = ENETC_SIMSGSR_SET_MC(msg_code);
- psimsgrr |= ENETC_PSIMSGRR_MR(i); /* w1c */
- enetc_wr(hw, ENETC_PSIMSGRR, psimsgrr);
- }
+ psimsgrr = ENETC_SIMSGSR_SET_MC(msg_code);
+ psimsgrr |= ENETC_PSIMSGRR_MR(i); /* w1c */
+ enetc_wr(hw, ENETC_PSIMSGRR, psimsgrr);
}
+
+out:
+ enetc_msg_enable_mr_int(hw);
}
/* Init */
--
2.34.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-18 3:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-18 3:05 [PATCH v2 net 0/9] net: enetc: SR-IOV robustness and security fixes Wei Fang
2026-05-18 3:05 ` [PATCH v2 net 1/9] net: enetc: fix incorrect mailbox message status returned to VFs Wei Fang
2026-05-18 3:05 ` [PATCH v2 net 2/9] net: enetc: fix missing error code when pf->vf_state allocation fails Wei Fang
2026-05-18 3:05 ` [PATCH v2 net 3/9] net: enetc: add ratelimiting to VF mailbox error messages Wei Fang
2026-05-18 3:05 ` [PATCH v2 net 4/9] net: enetc: fix TOCTOU race and validate VF MAC address Wei Fang
2026-05-18 3:05 ` [PATCH v2 net 5/9] net: enetc: fix race condition in VF MAC address configuration Wei Fang
2026-05-18 3:05 ` [PATCH v2 net 6/9] net: enetc: fix DMA write to freed memory in enetc_msg_free_mbx() Wei Fang
2026-05-18 3:05 ` Wei Fang [this message]
2026-05-18 3:05 ` [PATCH v2 net 8/9] net: enetc: fix initialization order to prevent use of uninitialized resources Wei Fang
2026-05-19 17:15 ` Harshitha Ramamurthy
2026-05-18 3:05 ` [PATCH v2 net 9/9] net: enetc: avoid VF->PF mailbox timeout during SR-IOV teardown Wei Fang
2026-05-19 17:25 ` [PATCH v2 net 0/9] net: enetc: SR-IOV robustness and security fixes Harshitha Ramamurthy
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