From: Ratheesh Kannoth <rkannoth@marvell.com>
To: <kuba@kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <saikrishnag@marvell.com>,
<sbhatta@marvell.com>, <sgoutham@marvell.com>
Cc: <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>, <davem@davemloft.net>,
<edumazet@google.com>, <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Ratheesh Kannoth <rkannoth@marvell.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 net] octeontx2-af: fix cn20k mailbox lifetime on repeated rvu_mbox_init()
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:53:37 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260821102337.2989169-1-rkannoth@marvell.com> (raw)
From: Sai Krishna <saikrishnag@marvell.com>
rvu_mbox_init() is called separately for AF-PF mailboxes during probe
and for AF-VF mailboxes when SR-IOV is enabled. Each call used to
allocate a new ng_rvu object, leaking the first allocation when the
pointer was overwritten on the second call.
Sharing one ng_rvu across both paths exposed several teardown bugs:
the error path freed all cn20k mailbox DMA and kfree()d ng_rvu even
when only the failing init type should be unwound, leaving live AF-PF
mailbox memory in use after an AF-VF init failure. mutex_init() was
also re-run on the AF-VF path while AF-PF mailbox handlers could still
hold rvu->mbox_lock. Probe and SR-IOV failure paths did not release
cn20k mailbox DMA either, since cleanup only happened in rvu_remove().
Allocate ng_rvu once with devm_kzalloc(), initialize mbox_lock in the
same block, unwind only the mailbox memory for the failing init type,
and free cn20k mailbox DMA from the probe and pci_enable_sriov()
error paths.
Fixes: e53ee4acb220 ("octeontx2-af: CN20k basic mbox operations and structures")
Signed-off-by: Sai Krishna <saikrishnag@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ratheesh Kannoth <rkannoth@marvell.com>
---
v1 -> v2: Addressed sashiko comments
https://netdev-ai.bots.linux.dev/sashiko/#/patchset/20260820053656.2614614-1-rkannoth%40marvell.com
---
.../ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/cn20k/api.h | 1 +
.../marvell/octeontx2/af/cn20k/mbox_init.c | 21 +++++++++-
.../net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu.c | 39 +++++++++++--------
3 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/cn20k/api.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/cn20k/api.h
index 4285b5d6a6a2..f36a1d5f236f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/cn20k/api.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/cn20k/api.h
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ int cn20k_rvu_mbox_init(struct rvu *rvu, int type, int num);
int cn20k_rvu_get_mbox_regions(struct rvu *rvu, void **mbox_addr,
int num, int type, unsigned long *pf_bmap);
void cn20k_free_mbox_memory(struct rvu *rvu);
+void cn20k_free_mbox_memory_type(struct rvu *rvu, int type);
int cn20k_register_afpf_mbox_intr(struct rvu *rvu);
int cn20k_register_afvf_mbox_intr(struct rvu *rvu, int pf_vec_start);
void cn20k_rvu_enable_mbox_intr(struct rvu *rvu);
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/cn20k/mbox_init.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/cn20k/mbox_init.c
index 71401dec0d77..01f32adac599 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/cn20k/mbox_init.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/cn20k/mbox_init.c
@@ -335,13 +335,30 @@ int cn20k_rvu_mbox_init(struct rvu *rvu, int type, int ndevs)
return rvu_alloc_mbox_memory(rvu, type, ndevs, MBOX_SIZE);
}
+void cn20k_free_mbox_memory_type(struct rvu *rvu, int type)
+{
+ if (!is_cn20k(rvu->pdev) || !rvu->ng_rvu)
+ return;
+
+ switch (type) {
+ case TYPE_AFPF:
+ qmem_free(rvu->dev, rvu->ng_rvu->pf_mbox_addr);
+ rvu->ng_rvu->pf_mbox_addr = NULL;
+ break;
+ case TYPE_AFVF:
+ qmem_free(rvu->dev, rvu->ng_rvu->vf_mbox_addr);
+ rvu->ng_rvu->vf_mbox_addr = NULL;
+ break;
+ }
+}
+
void cn20k_free_mbox_memory(struct rvu *rvu)
{
if (!is_cn20k(rvu->pdev))
return;
- qmem_free(rvu->dev, rvu->ng_rvu->pf_mbox_addr);
- qmem_free(rvu->dev, rvu->ng_rvu->vf_mbox_addr);
+ cn20k_free_mbox_memory_type(rvu, TYPE_AFPF);
+ cn20k_free_mbox_memory_type(rvu, TYPE_AFVF);
}
void cn20k_rvu_disable_afvf_intr(struct rvu *rvu, int vfs)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu.c
index ffba56ee8a60..a0d535a1728e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu.c
@@ -2585,12 +2585,6 @@ static int rvu_mbox_init(struct rvu *rvu, struct mbox_wq_info *mw,
if (!pf_bmap)
return -ENOMEM;
- ng_rvu_mbox = kzalloc_obj(*ng_rvu_mbox);
- if (!ng_rvu_mbox) {
- err = -ENOMEM;
- goto free_bitmap;
- }
-
/* RVU VFs */
if (type == TYPE_AFVF)
bitmap_set(pf_bmap, 0, num);
@@ -2604,15 +2598,22 @@ static int rvu_mbox_init(struct rvu *rvu, struct mbox_wq_info *mw,
}
}
- rvu->ng_rvu = ng_rvu_mbox;
+ if (!rvu->ng_rvu) {
+ ng_rvu_mbox = devm_kzalloc(rvu->dev, sizeof(*ng_rvu_mbox), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!ng_rvu_mbox) {
+ err = -ENOMEM;
+ goto free_bitmap;
+ }
+
+ rvu->ng_rvu = ng_rvu_mbox;
- rvu->ng_rvu->rvu_mbox_ops = &rvu_mbox_ops;
+ rvu->ng_rvu->rvu_mbox_ops = &rvu_mbox_ops;
+ mutex_init(&rvu->mbox_lock);
+ }
err = cn20k_rvu_mbox_init(rvu, type, num);
if (err)
- goto free_mem;
-
- mutex_init(&rvu->mbox_lock);
+ goto free_bitmap;
mbox_regions = kcalloc(num, sizeof(void __iomem *), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!mbox_regions) {
@@ -2702,14 +2703,18 @@ static int rvu_mbox_init(struct rvu *rvu, struct mbox_wq_info *mw,
free_regions:
kfree(mbox_regions);
free_qmem:
- cn20k_free_mbox_memory(rvu);
-free_mem:
- kfree(rvu->ng_rvu);
+ cn20k_free_mbox_memory_type(rvu, type);
free_bitmap:
bitmap_free(pf_bmap);
return err;
}
+static void rvu_free_cn20k_mbox_memory(struct rvu *rvu)
+{
+ if (is_cn20k(rvu->pdev))
+ cn20k_free_mbox_memory(rvu);
+}
+
static void rvu_mbox_destroy(struct mbox_wq_info *mw)
{
struct otx2_mbox *mbox = &mw->mbox;
@@ -3519,6 +3524,7 @@ static int rvu_enable_sriov(struct rvu *rvu)
if (err) {
rvu_disable_afvf_intr(rvu);
rvu_mbox_destroy(&rvu->afvf_wq_info);
+ cn20k_free_mbox_memory_type(rvu, TYPE_AFVF);
return err;
}
@@ -3681,6 +3687,7 @@ static int rvu_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
err_mbox:
rvu_mbox_destroy(&rvu->afpf_wq_info);
err_hwsetup:
+ rvu_free_cn20k_mbox_memory(rvu);
rvu_cgx_exit(rvu);
rvu_fwdata_exit(rvu);
rvu_mcs_exit(rvu);
@@ -3723,9 +3730,7 @@ static void rvu_remove(struct pci_dev *pdev)
pci_set_drvdata(pdev, NULL);
devm_kfree(&pdev->dev, rvu->hw);
- if (is_cn20k(rvu->pdev))
- cn20k_free_mbox_memory(rvu);
- kfree(rvu->ng_rvu);
+ rvu_free_cn20k_mbox_memory(rvu);
devm_kfree(&pdev->dev, rvu);
atomic_set(&device_bound, 0);
}
--
2.43.0
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