This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: fix race on decreasing number of TX queues to the 4.14-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-fix-race-on-decreasing-number-of-tx-queues.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 Tue Mar 6 19:02:12 PST 2018 From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 21:35:31 -0800 Subject: net: fix race on decreasing number of TX queues From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit ac5b70198adc25c73fba28de4f78adcee8f6be0b ] netif_set_real_num_tx_queues() can be called when netdev is up. That usually happens when user requests change of number of channels/rings with ethtool -L. The procedure for changing the number of queues involves resetting the qdiscs and setting dev->num_tx_queues to the new value. When the new value is lower than the old one, extra care has to be taken to ensure ordering of accesses to the number of queues vs qdisc reset. Currently the queues are reset before new dev->num_tx_queues is assigned, leaving a window of time where packets can be enqueued onto the queues going down, leading to a likely crash in the drivers, since most drivers don't check if TX skbs are assigned to an active queue. Fixes: e6484930d7c7 ("net: allocate tx queues in register_netdevice") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/core/dev.c | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -2343,8 +2343,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(netdev_set_num_tc); */ int netif_set_real_num_tx_queues(struct net_device *dev, unsigned int txq) { + bool disabling; int rc; + disabling = txq < dev->real_num_tx_queues; + if (txq < 1 || txq > dev->num_tx_queues) return -EINVAL; @@ -2360,15 +2363,19 @@ int netif_set_real_num_tx_queues(struct if (dev->num_tc) netif_setup_tc(dev, txq); - if (txq < dev->real_num_tx_queues) { + dev->real_num_tx_queues = txq; + + if (disabling) { + synchronize_net(); qdisc_reset_all_tx_gt(dev, txq); #ifdef CONFIG_XPS netif_reset_xps_queues_gt(dev, txq); #endif } + } else { + dev->real_num_tx_queues = txq; } - dev->real_num_tx_queues = txq; return 0; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(netif_set_real_num_tx_queues); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jakub.kicinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/net-fix-race-on-decreasing-number-of-tx-queues.patch