[PATCH 5.4 130/215] ixgbe: avoid sleeping allocation in ixgbe_ipsec_vf_add_sa()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-04-11T10:20:24Z

From: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>

[ Upstream commit aec806fb4afba5fe80b09e29351379a4292baa43 ]

Change kzalloc() flags used in ixgbe_ipsec_vf_add_sa() to GFP_ATOMIC, to
avoid sleeping in IRQ context.

Dan Carpenter, with the help of Smatch, has found following issue:
The patch eda0333ac293: "ixgbe: add VF IPsec management" from Aug 13,
2018 (linux-next), leads to the following Smatch static checker
warning: drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c:917 ixgbe_ipsec_vf_add_sa()
warn: sleeping in IRQ context

The call tree that Smatch is worried about is:
ixgbe_msix_other() <- IRQ handler
-> ixgbe_msg_task()
-> ixgbe_rcv_msg_from_vf()
-> ixgbe_ipsec_vf_add_sa()

Fixes: eda0333ac293 ("ixgbe: add VF IPsec management")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/intel-wired-lan/db31a0b0-4d9f-4e6b-aed8-88266eb5665c@moroto.mountain
Reviewed-by: Michal Kubiak <michal.kubiak@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@amd.com>
Tested-by: Pucha Himasekhar Reddy <himasekharx.reddy.pucha@intel.com> (A Contingent worker at Intel)
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c | 16 ++++++++--------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c
index 5799b434165e0..bd2b0f4466c64 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c
@@ -909,7 +909,13 @@ int ixgbe_ipsec_vf_add_sa(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter, u32 *msgbuf, u32 vf)
goto err_out;
}

- xs = kzalloc(sizeof(*xs), GFP_KERNEL);
+ algo = xfrm_aead_get_byname(aes_gcm_name, IXGBE_IPSEC_AUTH_BITS, 1);
+ if (unlikely(!algo)) {
+ err = -ENOENT;
+ goto err_out;
+ }
+
+ xs = kzalloc(sizeof(*xs), GFP_ATOMIC);
if (unlikely(!xs)) {
err = -ENOMEM;
goto err_out;
@@ -925,14 +931,8 @@ int ixgbe_ipsec_vf_add_sa(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter, u32 *msgbuf, u32 vf)
memcpy(&xs->id.daddr.a4, sam->addr, sizeof(xs->id.daddr.a4));
xs->xso.dev = adapter->netdev;

- algo = xfrm_aead_get_byname(aes_gcm_name, IXGBE_IPSEC_AUTH_BITS, 1);
- if (unlikely(!algo)) {
- err = -ENOENT;
- goto err_xs;
- }
-
aead_len = sizeof(*xs->aead) + IXGBE_IPSEC_KEY_BITS / 8;
- xs->aead = kzalloc(aead_len, GFP_KERNEL);
+ xs->aead = kzalloc(aead_len, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (unlikely(!xs->aead)) {
err = -ENOMEM;
goto err_xs;
--
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