* [PATCH net 0/4] net/mlx5: SD LAG and devcom stability fixes
@ 2026-09-02 16:37 Tariq Toukan
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From: Tariq Toukan @ 2026-09-02 16:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Lunn, David S. Miller, Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski,
netdev, Paolo Abeni
Cc: Akiva Goldberger, Edward Srouji, Gal Pressman, Kees Cook,
Leon Romanovsky, linux-kernel, linux-rdma, Maher Sanalla,
Mark Bloch, Or Har-Toov, Parav Pandit, Patrisious Haddad,
Saeed Mahameed, Shay Drori, Simon Horman, Tariq Toukan
Hi,
This series by Shay fixes four bugs in the Socket Direct LAG and devcom
subsystems, all related to initialization/teardown ordering and
concurrent access to the LAG device.
Regards,
Tariq
Shay Drory (4):
net/mlx5: SD, serialize SD LAG init/cleanup against LAG mode changes
net/mlx5: devcom, Base component size on linked devices
net/mlx5: SD, unload reps on shared FDB create error path
net/mlx5: LAG, reload IB reps of LAG master before the rest
.../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch.c | 2 +-
.../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag/lag.c | 74 ++++++++++++-------
.../mellanox/mlx5/core/lag/shared_fdb.c | 1 +
.../ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/devcom.c | 5 +-
.../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/sd.c | 13 ++++
5 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
base-commit: 70f3995830d3f1e79faa14eb0605914f778feca9
--
2.44.0
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From: Tariq Toukan @ 2026-09-02 16:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Lunn, David S. Miller, Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski,
netdev, Paolo Abeni
Cc: Akiva Goldberger, Edward Srouji, Gal Pressman, Kees Cook,
Leon Romanovsky, linux-kernel, linux-rdma, Maher Sanalla,
Mark Bloch, Or Har-Toov, Parav Pandit, Patrisious Haddad,
Saeed Mahameed, Shay Drori, Simon Horman, Tariq Toukan
From: Shay Drory <shayd@nvidia.com>
A secondary SD is spliced into the primary's shared LAG device (ldev)
by sd_lag_init() and removed by sd_lag_cleanup(). The LAG mode-change
paths drop ldev->lock mid-operation while iterating ldev->pfs, and rely
on ldev->mode_changes_in_progress to keep the member set stable across
that window.
sd_lag_cleanup() did not honor ldev->mode_changes_in_progress. Which
means a concurrent SD teardown could xa_erase() and kfree() a pf out of
ldev->pfs during a mode change's dropped-lock window, leading to a
NULL/use-after-free dereference of the secondary pf.
Make sd_lag_init() and sd_lag_cleanup() wait until
mode_changes_in_progress drops to zero before touching ldev, mirroring
mlx5_lag_remove_mdev().
In addition, fold the SD shared-FDB teardown in
mlx5_lag_disable_change() into the main locked section. Otherwise the
two acquire sd_devcom and mode_changes_in_progress in opposite orders -
sd_lag_init/cleanup takes sd_devcom then waits on
mode_changes_in_progress, while disable_change increments
mode_changes_in_progress then takes sd_devcom - an ABBA deadlock.
The same ABBA deadlock is present in mlx5_eswitch_disable(), which takes
sd_devcom between mlx5_lag_disable_change() and
mlx5_lag_enable_change(). Move that call after mlx5_lag_enable_change(),
matching the ordering already used by mlx5_devlink_eswitch_mode_set().
Fixes: 3c103110835d ("net/mlx5: SD, introduce Socket Direct LAG")
Signed-off-by: Shay Drory <shayd@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Akiva Goldberger <agoldberger@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
---
.../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch.c | 2 +-
.../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag/lag.c | 30 +++++++++----------
.../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/sd.c | 13 ++++++++
3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
Internal sashiko comment:
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/sd.c
b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/sd.c
> index ee2fdefa1945..2b2b7f3916f7 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/sd.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/sd.c
> @@ -342,7 +342,14 @@ static void sd_lag_init(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev)
> return;
> }
>
> +recheck:
> mutex_lock(&ldev->lock);
> + if (ldev->mode_changes_in_progress) {
> + mutex_unlock(&ldev->lock);
> + msleep(100);
> + goto recheck;
> +
}
> +
Does this open-coded retry loop reimplement a wait mechanism without
immediate
wakeups or fairness?
It looks like we are polling the mode_changes_in_progress flag using a
hard
coded msleep(100). Could this unnecessarily delay the initialization
path if
the condition clears much sooner than 100ms? Would it be better to use a
proper
synchronization primitive like a waitqueue here instead of an ad-hoc
flag loop?
[SD] This is the same check as in mlx5_lag_remove_mdev().
I agree we need to change it, but this is net-next material
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch.c
index b6e2c153b4f7..50e158b6a684 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch.c
@@ -2062,8 +2062,8 @@ void mlx5_eswitch_disable(struct mlx5_eswitch *esw)
mlx5_esw_reps_unblock(esw);
esw->mode = MLX5_ESWITCH_LEGACY;
- mlx5_sd_eswitch_mode_set(esw->dev, MLX5_ESWITCH_LEGACY);
mlx5_lag_enable_change(esw->dev);
+ mlx5_sd_eswitch_mode_set(esw->dev, MLX5_ESWITCH_LEGACY);
}
static int mlx5_esw_sf_max_pf_functions(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev,
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag/lag.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag/lag.c
index 2285c889c215..aee5ce471eba 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag/lag.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag/lag.c
@@ -2589,6 +2589,8 @@ void mlx5_lag_disable_change(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev)
mpesw = ldev->mode == MLX5_LAG_MODE_MPESW;
if (mpesw)
mlx5_mpesw_sd_devcoms_lock(ldev);
+ else if (sd_devcom)
+ mlx5_devcom_comp_lock(sd_devcom);
mutex_lock(&ldev->lock);
ldev->mode_changes_in_progress++;
@@ -2599,26 +2601,22 @@ void mlx5_lag_disable_change(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev)
mlx5_disable_lag(ldev);
}
+ if (sd_devcom) {
+ mlx5_lag_for_each(i, 0, ldev, MLX5_LAG_FILTER_ALL) {
+ pf = mlx5_lag_pf(ldev, i);
+ if (pf->dev == dev && pf->sd_fdb_active) {
+ mlx5_lag_shared_fdb_destroy(ldev, pf->group_id);
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
mutex_unlock(&ldev->lock);
if (mpesw)
mlx5_mpesw_sd_devcoms_unlock(ldev);
+ else if (sd_devcom)
+ mlx5_devcom_comp_unlock(sd_devcom);
mlx5_devcom_comp_unlock(primary->priv.hca_devcom_comp);
-
- if (!sd_devcom)
- return;
-
- /* Teardown SD shared FDB for this device's group if active */
- mlx5_devcom_comp_lock(sd_devcom);
- mutex_lock(&ldev->lock);
- mlx5_lag_for_each(i, 0, ldev, MLX5_LAG_FILTER_ALL) {
- pf = mlx5_lag_pf(ldev, i);
- if (pf->dev == dev && pf->sd_fdb_active) {
- mlx5_lag_shared_fdb_destroy(ldev, pf->group_id);
- break;
- }
- }
- mutex_unlock(&ldev->lock);
- mlx5_devcom_comp_unlock(sd_devcom);
}
void mlx5_lag_enable_change(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/sd.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/sd.c
index 4cdc50cd6f03..99cf455a61e1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/sd.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/sd.c
@@ -345,7 +345,14 @@ static void sd_lag_init(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev)
return;
}
+recheck:
mutex_lock(&ldev->lock);
+ if (ldev->mode_changes_in_progress) {
+ mutex_unlock(&ldev->lock);
+ msleep(100);
+ goto recheck;
+ }
+
pf = mlx5_lag_pf_by_dev(ldev, primary);
if (!pf) {
sd_warn(primary, "%s: primary not registered in ldev, skipping\n",
@@ -388,7 +395,13 @@ static void sd_lag_cleanup(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev)
if (!ldev)
return;
+recheck:
mutex_lock(&ldev->lock);
+ if (ldev->mode_changes_in_progress) {
+ mutex_unlock(&ldev->lock);
+ msleep(100);
+ goto recheck;
+ }
mlx5_sd_for_each_secondary(i, primary, pos)
mlx5_ldev_remove_mdev(ldev, pos);
--
2.44.0
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* [PATCH net 2/4] net/mlx5: devcom, Base component size on linked devices
2026-09-02 16:37 [PATCH net 0/4] net/mlx5: SD LAG and devcom stability fixes Tariq Toukan
2026-09-02 16:37 ` [PATCH net 1/4] net/mlx5: SD, serialize SD LAG init/cleanup against LAG mode changes Tariq Toukan
@ 2026-09-02 16:37 ` Tariq Toukan
2026-09-02 16:37 ` [PATCH net 3/4] net/mlx5: SD, unload reps on shared FDB create error path Tariq Toukan
2026-09-02 16:37 ` [PATCH net 4/4] net/mlx5: LAG, reload IB reps of LAG master before the rest Tariq Toukan
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From: Tariq Toukan @ 2026-09-02 16:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Lunn, David S. Miller, Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski,
netdev, Paolo Abeni
Cc: Akiva Goldberger, Edward Srouji, Gal Pressman, Kees Cook,
Leon Romanovsky, linux-kernel, linux-rdma, Maher Sanalla,
Mark Bloch, Or Har-Toov, Parav Pandit, Patrisious Haddad,
Saeed Mahameed, Shay Drori, Simon Horman, Tariq Toukan
From: Shay Drory <shayd@nvidia.com>
mlx5_devcom_comp_get_size() returns the component's kref count. That
kref is bumped in mlx5_devcom_register_component() under comp_list_lock,
before the comp_dev is linked onto comp_dev_list_head under comp->sem.
The event broadcast (mlx5_devcom_locked_send_event()) walks that list.
Hence, a caller can read the expected size, but send_event won't be sent
to all peers. In the SD group registration path, this lets a member
broadcast its role-election event over an incomplete list, electing a
primary that never completes the group, is never marked ready, and
leaves the group with a stale primary.
Track the number of linked comp_devs in a dedicated counter, maintained
under comp->sem together with the list add/remove, and return it from
mlx5_devcom_comp_get_size().
Fixes: 9bb1ac80738a ("net/mlx5: devcom, Add component size getter")
Signed-off-by: Shay Drory <shayd@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Akiva Goldberger <agoldberger@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/devcom.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/devcom.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/devcom.c
index 64f92427602d..75855481522b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/devcom.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/devcom.c
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ struct mlx5_devcom_comp {
struct mlx5_devcom_key key;
mlx5_devcom_event_handler_t handler;
struct kref ref;
+ int nr_devs;
bool ready;
struct rw_semaphore sem;
struct lock_class_key lock_key;
@@ -170,6 +171,7 @@ devcom_alloc_comp_dev(struct mlx5_devcom_dev *devc,
down_write(&comp->sem);
list_add_tail(&devcom->list, &comp->comp_dev_list_head);
+ WRITE_ONCE(comp->nr_devs, comp->nr_devs + 1);
up_write(&comp->sem);
return devcom;
@@ -182,6 +184,7 @@ devcom_free_comp_dev(struct mlx5_devcom_comp_dev *devcom)
down_write(&comp->sem);
list_del(&devcom->list);
+ WRITE_ONCE(comp->nr_devs, comp->nr_devs - 1);
up_write(&comp->sem);
kref_put(&devcom->devc->ref, mlx5_devcom_dev_release);
@@ -284,7 +287,7 @@ int mlx5_devcom_comp_get_size(struct mlx5_devcom_comp_dev *devcom)
{
struct mlx5_devcom_comp *comp = devcom->comp;
- return kref_read(&comp->ref);
+ return READ_ONCE(comp->nr_devs);
}
int mlx5_devcom_locked_send_event(struct mlx5_devcom_comp_dev *devcom,
--
2.44.0
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2026-09-02 16:37 ` [PATCH net 2/4] net/mlx5: devcom, Base component size on linked devices Tariq Toukan
@ 2026-09-02 16:37 ` Tariq Toukan
2026-09-02 16:37 ` [PATCH net 4/4] net/mlx5: LAG, reload IB reps of LAG master before the rest Tariq Toukan
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From: Tariq Toukan @ 2026-09-02 16:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Lunn, David S. Miller, Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski,
netdev, Paolo Abeni
Cc: Akiva Goldberger, Edward Srouji, Gal Pressman, Kees Cook,
Leon Romanovsky, linux-kernel, linux-rdma, Maher Sanalla,
Mark Bloch, Or Har-Toov, Parav Pandit, Patrisious Haddad,
Saeed Mahameed, Shay Drori, Simon Horman, Tariq Toukan
From: Shay Drory <shayd@nvidia.com>
The teardown path unloads the representors; align the create error
path to do the same.
Fixes: 68c2dd59a6c7 ("net/mlx5: E-Switch, Tie rep load/unload to SD LAG state")
Signed-off-by: Shay Drory <shayd@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Akiva Goldberger <agoldberger@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag/shared_fdb.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag/shared_fdb.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag/shared_fdb.c
index 6b4ad3c53f2f..424040918fa3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag/shared_fdb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag/shared_fdb.c
@@ -270,6 +270,7 @@ int mlx5_lag_shared_fdb_create(struct mlx5_lag *ldev,
pf->sd_fdb_active = false;
}
mlx5_lag_destroy_single_fdb_filter(ldev, group_id);
+ mlx5_lag_unload_reps_from_locked(ldev, filter);
}
err_add_devices:
mlx5_lag_add_devices_filter(ldev, filter);
--
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* [PATCH net 4/4] net/mlx5: LAG, reload IB reps of LAG master before the rest
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@ 2026-09-02 16:37 ` Tariq Toukan
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From: Tariq Toukan @ 2026-09-02 16:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Lunn, David S. Miller, Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski,
netdev, Paolo Abeni
Cc: Akiva Goldberger, Edward Srouji, Gal Pressman, Kees Cook,
Leon Romanovsky, linux-kernel, linux-rdma, Maher Sanalla,
Mark Bloch, Or Har-Toov, Parav Pandit, Patrisious Haddad,
Saeed Mahameed, Shay Drori, Simon Horman, Tariq Toukan
From: Shay Drory <shayd@nvidia.com>
In a shared-FDB LAG the master device creates the bond IB device; the
other LAG members do not create their own, they populate a port inside
the master's IB device. mlx5_lag_reload_ib_reps_unlocked() reloaded the
members' IB reps in iteration order, with no guarantee the master is
reloaded first. When a non-master member is reloaded before the master,
it tries to populate its port in an IB device that has not been
recreated yet.
Hence, reload the master's IB reps first, then every other member.
Fixes: 2b204cdb1206 ("net/mlx5: LAG, use xa_alloc to manage LAG device indices")
Signed-off-by: Shay Drory <shayd@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Akiva Goldberger <agoldberger@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
---
.../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag/lag.c | 44 ++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag/lag.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag/lag.c
index aee5ce471eba..4984c812268c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag/lag.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag/lag.c
@@ -1263,25 +1263,45 @@ void mlx5_lag_remove_devices(struct mlx5_lag *ldev)
mlx5_lag_remove_devices_filter(ldev, MLX5_LAG_FILTER_PORTS);
}
+static int mlx5_lag_reload_ib_reps_idx(struct mlx5_lag *ldev, int idx,
+ u32 flags)
+{
+ struct lag_func *pf = mlx5_lag_pf(ldev, idx);
+ struct mlx5_eswitch *esw;
+ int ret;
+
+ if (pf->dev->priv.flags & flags)
+ return 0;
+
+ esw = pf->dev->priv.eswitch;
+ mlx5_esw_reps_block(esw);
+ ret = mlx5_eswitch_reload_ib_reps(esw);
+ mlx5_esw_reps_unblock(esw);
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
static int mlx5_lag_reload_ib_reps_unlocked(struct mlx5_lag *ldev, u32 flags,
u32 filter, bool cont_on_fail)
{
- struct lag_func *pf;
+ int master_idx = mlx5_lag_get_dev_index_by_seq_filter(ldev, MLX5_LAG_P1,
+ filter);
int ret;
int i;
+ if (master_idx < 0)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ ret = mlx5_lag_reload_ib_reps_idx(ldev, master_idx, flags);
+ if (ret && !cont_on_fail)
+ return ret;
+
mlx5_lag_for_each(i, 0, ldev, filter) {
- pf = mlx5_lag_pf(ldev, i);
- if (!(pf->dev->priv.flags & flags)) {
- struct mlx5_eswitch *esw;
-
- esw = pf->dev->priv.eswitch;
- mlx5_esw_reps_block(esw);
- ret = mlx5_eswitch_reload_ib_reps(esw);
- mlx5_esw_reps_unblock(esw);
- if (ret && !cont_on_fail)
- return ret;
- }
+ if (i == master_idx)
+ continue;
+ ret = mlx5_lag_reload_ib_reps_idx(ldev, i, flags);
+ if (ret && !cont_on_fail)
+ return ret;
}
return 0;
--
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