This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled [PATCH stable 5.9 08/24] net: dsa: microchip: fix race condition to the 5.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: net-dsa-microchip-fix-race-condition.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Sat Oct 17 08:52:03 AM CEST 2020 From: Christian Eggers <ceggers@xxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 10:39:42 +0200 Subject: [PATCH stable 5.9 08/24] net: dsa: microchip: fix race condition From: Christian Eggers <ceggers@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 8098bd69bc4e925070313b1b95d03510f4f24738 ] Between queuing the delayed work and finishing the setup of the dsa ports, the process may sleep in request_module() (via phy_device_create()) and the queued work may be executed prior to the switch net devices being registered. In ksz_mib_read_work(), a NULL dereference will happen within netof_carrier_ok(dp->slave). Not queuing the delayed work in ksz_init_mib_timer() makes things even worse because the work will now be queued for immediate execution (instead of 2000 ms) in ksz_mac_link_down() via dsa_port_link_register_of(). Call tree: ksz9477_i2c_probe() \--ksz9477_switch_register() \--ksz_switch_register() +--dsa_register_switch() | \--dsa_switch_probe() | \--dsa_tree_setup() | \--dsa_tree_setup_switches() | +--dsa_switch_setup() | | +--ksz9477_setup() | | | \--ksz_init_mib_timer() | | | |--/* Start the timer 2 seconds later. */ | | | \--schedule_delayed_work(&dev->mib_read, msecs_to_jiffies(2000)); | | \--__mdiobus_register() | | \--mdiobus_scan() | | \--get_phy_device() | | +--get_phy_id() | | \--phy_device_create() | | |--/* sleeping, ksz_mib_read_work() can be called meanwhile */ | | \--request_module() | | | \--dsa_port_setup() | +--/* Called for non-CPU ports */ | +--dsa_slave_create() | | +--/* Too late, ksz_mib_read_work() may be called beforehand */ | | \--port->slave = ... | ... | +--Called for CPU port */ | \--dsa_port_link_register_of() | \--ksz_mac_link_down() | +--/* mib_read must be initialized here */ | +--/* work is already scheduled, so it will be executed after 2000 ms */ | \--schedule_delayed_work(&dev->mib_read, 0); \-- /* here port->slave is setup properly, scheduling the delayed work should be safe */ Solution: 1. Do not queue (only initialize) delayed work in ksz_init_mib_timer(). 2. Only queue delayed work in ksz_mac_link_down() if init is completed. 3. Queue work once in ksz_switch_register(), after dsa_register_switch() has completed. Fixes: 7c6ff470aa86 ("net: dsa: microchip: add MIB counter reading support") Signed-off-by: Christian Eggers <ceggers@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/dsa/microchip/ksz_common.c | 16 +++++++++------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/dsa/microchip/ksz_common.c +++ b/drivers/net/dsa/microchip/ksz_common.c @@ -103,14 +103,8 @@ void ksz_init_mib_timer(struct ksz_devic INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&dev->mib_read, ksz_mib_read_work); - /* Read MIB counters every 30 seconds to avoid overflow. */ - dev->mib_read_interval = msecs_to_jiffies(30000); - for (i = 0; i < dev->mib_port_cnt; i++) dev->dev_ops->port_init_cnt(dev, i); - - /* Start the timer 2 seconds later. */ - schedule_delayed_work(&dev->mib_read, msecs_to_jiffies(2000)); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ksz_init_mib_timer); @@ -143,7 +137,9 @@ void ksz_mac_link_down(struct dsa_switch /* Read all MIB counters when the link is going down. */ p->read = true; - schedule_delayed_work(&dev->mib_read, 0); + /* timer started */ + if (dev->mib_read_interval) + schedule_delayed_work(&dev->mib_read, 0); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ksz_mac_link_down); @@ -450,6 +446,12 @@ int ksz_switch_register(struct ksz_devic return ret; } + /* Read MIB counters every 30 seconds to avoid overflow. */ + dev->mib_read_interval = msecs_to_jiffies(30000); + + /* Start the MIB timer. */ + schedule_delayed_work(&dev->mib_read, 0); + return 0; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(ksz_switch_register); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ceggers@xxxxxxx are queue-5.9/socket-fix-option-so_timestamping_new.patch queue-5.9/net-dsa-microchip-fix-race-condition.patch queue-5.9/socket-don-t-clear-sock_tstamp_new-when-so_timestampns-is-disabled.patch