This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
netpoll: Check for skb->queue_mapping
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:
netpoll-check-for-skb-queue_mapping.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.
>From foo@baz Sun Apr 30 15:46:17 CEST 2017
From: Tushar Dave <tushar.n.dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:57:31 -0700
Subject: netpoll: Check for skb->queue_mapping
From: Tushar Dave <tushar.n.dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit c70b17b775edb21280e9de7531acf6db3b365274 ]
Reducing real_num_tx_queues needs to be in sync with skb queue_mapping
otherwise skbs with queue_mapping greater than real_num_tx_queues
can be sent to the underlying driver and can result in kernel panic.
One such event is running netconsole and enabling VF on the same
device. Or running netconsole and changing number of tx queues via
ethtool on same device.
e.g.
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
tsk->{mm,active_mm}->context = 0000000000001525
tsk->{mm,active_mm}->pgd = fff800130ff9a000
\|/ ____ \|/
"@'/ .. \`@"
/_| \__/ |_\
\__U_/
kworker/48:1(475): Oops [#1]
CPU: 48 PID: 475 Comm: kworker/48:1 Tainted: G OE
4.11.0-rc3-davem-net+ #7
Workqueue: events queue_process
task: fff80013113299c0 task.stack: fff800131132c000
TSTATE: 0000004480e01600 TPC: 00000000103f9e3c TNPC: 00000000103f9e40 Y:
00000000 Tainted: G OE
TPC: <ixgbe_xmit_frame_ring+0x7c/0x6c0 [ixgbe]>
g0: 0000000000000000 g1: 0000000000003fff g2: 0000000000000000 g3:
0000000000000001
g4: fff80013113299c0 g5: fff8001fa6808000 g6: fff800131132c000 g7:
00000000000000c0
o0: fff8001fa760c460 o1: fff8001311329a50 o2: fff8001fa7607504 o3:
0000000000000003
o4: fff8001f96e63a40 o5: fff8001311d77ec0 sp: fff800131132f0e1 ret_pc:
000000000049ed94
RPC: <set_next_entity+0x34/0xb80>
l0: 0000000000000000 l1: 0000000000000800 l2: 0000000000000000 l3:
0000000000000000
l4: 000b2aa30e34b10d l5: 0000000000000000 l6: 0000000000000000 l7:
fff8001fa7605028
i0: fff80013111a8a00 i1: fff80013155a0780 i2: 0000000000000000 i3:
0000000000000000
i4: 0000000000000000 i5: 0000000000100000 i6: fff800131132f1a1 i7:
00000000103fa4b0
I7: <ixgbe_xmit_frame+0x30/0xa0 [ixgbe]>
Call Trace:
[00000000103fa4b0] ixgbe_xmit_frame+0x30/0xa0 [ixgbe]
[0000000000998c74] netpoll_start_xmit+0xf4/0x200
[0000000000998e10] queue_process+0x90/0x160
[0000000000485fa8] process_one_work+0x188/0x480
[0000000000486410] worker_thread+0x170/0x4c0
[000000000048c6b8] kthread+0xd8/0x120
[0000000000406064] ret_from_fork+0x1c/0x2c
[0000000000000000] (null)
Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
Caller[00000000103fa4b0]: ixgbe_xmit_frame+0x30/0xa0 [ixgbe]
Caller[0000000000998c74]: netpoll_start_xmit+0xf4/0x200
Caller[0000000000998e10]: queue_process+0x90/0x160
Caller[0000000000485fa8]: process_one_work+0x188/0x480
Caller[0000000000486410]: worker_thread+0x170/0x4c0
Caller[000000000048c6b8]: kthread+0xd8/0x120
Caller[0000000000406064]: ret_from_fork+0x1c/0x2c
Caller[0000000000000000]: (null)
Signed-off-by: Tushar Dave <tushar.n.dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/core/netpoll.c | 10 ++++++++--
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/net/core/netpoll.c
+++ b/net/core/netpoll.c
@@ -105,15 +105,21 @@ static void queue_process(struct work_st
while ((skb = skb_dequeue(&npinfo->txq))) {
struct net_device *dev = skb->dev;
struct netdev_queue *txq;
+ unsigned int q_index;
if (!netif_device_present(dev) || !netif_running(dev)) {
kfree_skb(skb);
continue;
}
- txq = skb_get_tx_queue(dev, skb);
-
local_irq_save(flags);
+ /* check if skb->queue_mapping is still valid */
+ q_index = skb_get_queue_mapping(skb);
+ if (unlikely(q_index >= dev->real_num_tx_queues)) {
+ q_index = q_index % dev->real_num_tx_queues;
+ skb_set_queue_mapping(skb, q_index);
+ }
+ txq = netdev_get_tx_queue(dev, q_index);
HARD_TX_LOCK(dev, txq, smp_processor_id());
if (netif_xmit_frozen_or_stopped(txq) ||
netpoll_start_xmit(skb, dev, txq) != NETDEV_TX_OK) {
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tushar.n.dave@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/netpoll-check-for-skb-queue_mapping.patch