This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
xen-netfront: Improve error handling during initialization
to the 4.9-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:
xen-netfront-improve-error-handling-during-initialization.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 Wed Dec 6 17:39:55 CET 2017
From: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 10:57:37 +0000
Subject: xen-netfront: Improve error handling during initialization
From: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit e2e004acc7cbe3c531e752a270a74e95cde3ea48 ]
This fixes a crash when running out of grant refs when creating many
queues across many netdevs.
* If creating queues fails (i.e. there are no grant refs available),
call xenbus_dev_fatal() to ensure that the xenbus device is set to the
closed state.
* If no queues are created, don't call xennet_disconnect_backend as
netdev->real_num_tx_queues will not have been set correctly.
* If setup_netfront() fails, ensure that all the queues created are
cleaned up, not just those that have been set up.
* If any queues were set up and an error occurs, call
xennet_destroy_queues() to clean up the napi context.
* If any fatal error occurs, unregister and destroy the netdev to avoid
leaving around a half setup network device.
Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/xen-netfront.c | 29 +++++++++++------------------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
@@ -1854,27 +1854,19 @@ static int talk_to_netback(struct xenbus
xennet_destroy_queues(info);
err = xennet_create_queues(info, &num_queues);
- if (err < 0)
- goto destroy_ring;
+ if (err < 0) {
+ xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, err, "creating queues");
+ kfree(info->queues);
+ info->queues = NULL;
+ goto out;
+ }
/* Create shared ring, alloc event channel -- for each queue */
for (i = 0; i < num_queues; ++i) {
queue = &info->queues[i];
err = setup_netfront(dev, queue, feature_split_evtchn);
- if (err) {
- /* setup_netfront() will tidy up the current
- * queue on error, but we need to clean up
- * those already allocated.
- */
- if (i > 0) {
- rtnl_lock();
- netif_set_real_num_tx_queues(info->netdev, i);
- rtnl_unlock();
- goto destroy_ring;
- } else {
- goto out;
- }
- }
+ if (err)
+ goto destroy_ring;
}
again:
@@ -1964,9 +1956,10 @@ abort_transaction_no_dev_fatal:
xenbus_transaction_end(xbt, 1);
destroy_ring:
xennet_disconnect_backend(info);
- kfree(info->queues);
- info->queues = NULL;
+ xennet_destroy_queues(info);
out:
+ unregister_netdev(info->netdev);
+ xennet_free_netdev(info->netdev);
return err;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ross.lagerwall@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/xen-netfront-improve-error-handling-during-initialization.patch