From: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>,
Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>,
Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>,
Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>,
intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net] e1000e: fix IRQ leak when request_irq() fails in e1000_request_msix()
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:39:16 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260626083917.49745-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev> (raw)
An internal syzbot instance reported the warning below.
comedi (comedi_parport) lets userspace request_irq() an arbitrary IRQ
number and can thus grab one of e1000e's MSI-X vectors. When
e1000_request_msix() then fails partway through, it returned without
freeing the vectors it had already requested; pci_disable_msix() later
tears those descriptors down while their irqaction is still attached,
leaking the /proc/irq entry.
Free the already requested IRQs on the error path.
genirq: Flags mismatch irq 28. 00200000 (eth1-tx-0) vs. 00200000 (comedi_parport)
remove_proc_entry: removing non-empty directory 'irq/27', leaking at least 'eth1-rx-0'
WARNING: fs/proc/generic.c:742 at remove_proc_entry+0x436/0x560, CPU#3: ip/445
Modules linked in:
CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 445 Comm: ip Not tainted 7.1.0+ #284 PREEMPT
RIP: 0010:remove_proc_entry (fs/proc/generic.c:742 (discriminator 4))
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
<TASK>
unregister_irq_proc (kernel/irq/proc.c:406)
free_desc (kernel/irq/irqdesc.c:482)
irq_free_descs (kernel/irq/irqdesc.c:874 kernel/irq/irqdesc.c:865)
irq_domain_free_irqs (kernel/irq/irqdomain.c:1917)
msi_domain_free_locked.part.0 (kernel/irq/msi.c:1619 kernel/irq/msi.c:1645)
msi_domain_free_irqs_all_locked (kernel/irq/msi.c:1632)
pci_msi_teardown_msi_irqs (drivers/pci/msi/irqdomain.c:28)
pci_free_msi_irqs (drivers/pci/msi/msi.c:925)
pci_disable_msix (drivers/pci/msi/api.c:200 drivers/pci/msi/api.c:193)
e1000_request_irq (drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c:2028)
e1000e_open (drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c:4681)
__dev_open (net/core/dev.c:1702)
netif_change_flags (net/core/dev.c:9806)
do_setlink.isra.0 (net/core/rtnetlink.c:3207 (discriminator 1))
rtnetlink_rcv_msg (net/core/rtnetlink.c:7068)
netlink_rcv_skb (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2556)
Fixes: 4662e82b2cb4 ("e1000e: add support for new 82574L part")
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c | 13 +++++++++----
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
index 808e5cddd6a9..19b9823c5679 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
@@ -2099,7 +2099,7 @@ void e1000e_set_interrupt_capability(struct e1000_adapter *adapter)
static int e1000_request_msix(struct e1000_adapter *adapter)
{
struct net_device *netdev = adapter->netdev;
- int err = 0, vector = 0;
+ int err = 0, vector = 0, i;
if (strlen(netdev->name) < (IFNAMSIZ - 5))
snprintf(adapter->rx_ring->name,
@@ -2111,7 +2111,7 @@ static int e1000_request_msix(struct e1000_adapter *adapter)
e1000_intr_msix_rx, 0, adapter->rx_ring->name,
netdev);
if (err)
- return err;
+ goto err_free;
adapter->rx_ring->itr_register = adapter->hw.hw_addr +
E1000_EITR_82574(vector);
adapter->rx_ring->itr_val = adapter->itr;
@@ -2127,7 +2127,7 @@ static int e1000_request_msix(struct e1000_adapter *adapter)
e1000_intr_msix_tx, 0, adapter->tx_ring->name,
netdev);
if (err)
- return err;
+ goto err_free;
adapter->tx_ring->itr_register = adapter->hw.hw_addr +
E1000_EITR_82574(vector);
adapter->tx_ring->itr_val = adapter->itr;
@@ -2136,11 +2136,16 @@ static int e1000_request_msix(struct e1000_adapter *adapter)
err = request_irq(adapter->msix_entries[vector].vector,
e1000_msix_other, 0, netdev->name, netdev);
if (err)
- return err;
+ goto err_free;
e1000_configure_msix(adapter);
return 0;
+
+err_free:
+ for (i = vector - 1; i >= 0; i--)
+ free_irq(adapter->msix_entries[i].vector, netdev);
+ return err;
}
/**
--
2.43.0
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