There is a bug when setting the RSS options in virtio_net that can break the whole machine, getting the kernel into an infinite loop. Running the following command in any QEMU virtual machine with virtionet will reproduce this problem: # ethtool -X eth0 hfunc toeplitz This is how the problem happens: 1) ethtool_set_rxfh() calls virtnet_set_rxfh() 2) virtnet_set_rxfh() calls virtnet_commit_rss_command() 3) virtnet_commit_rss_command() populates 4 entries for the rss scatter-gather 4) Since the command above does not have a key, then the last scatter-gatter entry will be zeroed, since rss_key_size == 0. sg_buf_size = vi->rss_key_size; 5) This buffer is passed to qemu, but qemu is not happy with a buffer with zero length, and do the following in virtqueue_map_desc() (QEMU function): if (!sz) { virtio_error(vdev, "virtio: zero sized buffers are not allowed"); 6) virtio_error() (also QEMU function) set the device as broken vdev->broken = true; 7) Qemu bails out, and do not repond this crazy kernel. 8) The kernel is waiting for the response to come back (function virtnet_send_command()) 9) The kernel is waiting doing the following : while (!virtqueue_get_buf(vi->cvq, &tmp) && !virtqueue_is_broken(vi->cvq)) cpu_relax(); 10) None of the following functions above is true, thus, the kernel loops here forever. Keeping in mind that virtqueue_is_broken() does not look at the qemu `vdev->broken`, so, it never realizes that the vitio is broken at QEMU side. Fix it by not sending the key scatter-gatter key if it is not set. Fixes: c7114b1249fa ("drivers/net/virtio_net: Added basic RSS support.") Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: qemu-devel@xxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 16 +++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c index d7ce4a1011ea..5a7700b103f8 100644 --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c @@ -3041,11 +3041,16 @@ static int virtnet_set_ringparam(struct net_device *dev, static bool virtnet_commit_rss_command(struct virtnet_info *vi) { struct net_device *dev = vi->dev; + int has_key = vi->rss_key_size; struct scatterlist sgs[4]; unsigned int sg_buf_size; + int nents = 3; + + if (has_key) + nents += 1; /* prepare sgs */ - sg_init_table(sgs, 4); + sg_init_table(sgs, nents); sg_buf_size = offsetof(struct virtio_net_ctrl_rss, indirection_table); sg_set_buf(&sgs[0], &vi->ctrl->rss, sg_buf_size); @@ -3057,8 +3062,13 @@ static bool virtnet_commit_rss_command(struct virtnet_info *vi) - offsetof(struct virtio_net_ctrl_rss, max_tx_vq); sg_set_buf(&sgs[2], &vi->ctrl->rss.max_tx_vq, sg_buf_size); - sg_buf_size = vi->rss_key_size; - sg_set_buf(&sgs[3], vi->ctrl->rss.key, sg_buf_size); + if (has_key) { + /* Only populate if key is available, otherwise + * populating a buffer with zero size breaks virtio + */ + sg_buf_size = vi->rss_key_size; + sg_set_buf(&sgs[3], vi->ctrl->rss.key, sg_buf_size); + } if (!virtnet_send_command(vi, VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MQ, vi->has_rss ? VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MQ_RSS_CONFIG -- 2.43.0