This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
xen/netfront: stop tx queues during live migration
to the 4.4-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:
xen-netfront-stop-tx-queues-during-live-migration.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 7697dc689072e4a9853612fd00ef328a8ebab778
Author: Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Oct 22 16:31:39 2021 -0700
xen/netfront: stop tx queues during live migration
[ Upstream commit 042b2046d0f05cf8124c26ff65dbb6148a4404fb ]
The tx queues are not stopped during the live migration. As a result, the
ndo_start_xmit() may access netfront_info->queues which is freed by
talk_to_netback()->xennet_destroy_queues().
This patch is to netif_device_detach() at the beginning of xen-netfront
resuming, and netif_device_attach() at the end of resuming.
CPU A CPU B
talk_to_netback()
-> if (info->queues)
xennet_destroy_queues(info);
to free netfront_info->queues
xennet_start_xmit()
to access netfront_info->queues
-> err = xennet_create_queues(info, &num_queues);
The idea is borrowed from virtio-net.
Cc: Joe Jin <joe.jin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
index 7d4c0c46a889d..6d4bf37c660f7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
@@ -1454,6 +1454,10 @@ static int netfront_resume(struct xenbus_device *dev)
dev_dbg(&dev->dev, "%s\n", dev->nodename);
+ netif_tx_lock_bh(info->netdev);
+ netif_device_detach(info->netdev);
+ netif_tx_unlock_bh(info->netdev);
+
xennet_disconnect_backend(info);
return 0;
}
@@ -2014,6 +2018,10 @@ static int xennet_connect(struct net_device *dev)
* domain a kick because we've probably just requeued some
* packets.
*/
+ netif_tx_lock_bh(np->netdev);
+ netif_device_attach(np->netdev);
+ netif_tx_unlock_bh(np->netdev);
+
netif_carrier_on(np->netdev);
for (j = 0; j < num_queues; ++j) {
queue = &np->queues[j];
