linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] xen/netback: handle empty rx queue in xenvif_rx_next

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Message-ID: <0e2772a3-3c3c-b447-ecb5-e2750959b527@suse.com>
Date:   Wed, 13 Jul 2022 09:59:06 +0200
From:   Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com>
To:     Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Cc:     Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>, Paul Durrant <paul@....org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen/netback: handle empty rx queue in
 xenvif_rx_next_skb()

On 13.07.2022 09:48, Juergen Gross wrote:
> xenvif_rx_next_skb() is expecting the rx queue not being empty, but
> in case the loop in xenvif_rx_action() is doing multiple iterations,
> the availability of another skb in the rx queue is not being checked.
> 
> This can lead to crashes:
> 
> [40072.537261] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000080
> [40072.537407] IP: xenvif_rx_skb+0x23/0x590 [xen_netback]
> [40072.537534] PGD 0 P4D 0
> [40072.537644] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
> [40072.537749] CPU: 0 PID: 12505 Comm: v1-c40247-q2-gu Not tainted 4.12.14-122.121-default #1 SLE12-SP5
> [40072.537867] Hardware name: HP ProLiant DL580 Gen9/ProLiant DL580 Gen9, BIOS U17 11/23/2021
> [40072.537999] task: ffff880433b38100 task.stack: ffffc90043d40000
> [40072.538112] RIP: e030:xenvif_rx_skb+0x23/0x590 [xen_netback]
> [40072.538217] RSP: e02b:ffffc90043d43de0 EFLAGS: 00010246
> [40072.538319] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffc90043cd7cd0 RCX: 00000000000000f7
> [40072.538430] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000006 RDI: ffffc90043d43df8
> [40072.538531] RBP: 000000000000003f R08: 000077ff80000000 R09: 0000000000000008
> [40072.538644] R10: 0000000000007ff0 R11: 00000000000008f6 R12: ffffc90043ce2708
> [40072.538745] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffc90043d43ed0 R15: ffff88043ea748c0
> [40072.538861] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880484600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> [40072.538988] CS: e033 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> [40072.539088] CR2: 0000000000000080 CR3: 0000000407ac8000 CR4: 0000000000040660
> [40072.539211] Call Trace:
> [40072.539319] xenvif_rx_action+0x71/0x90 [xen_netback]
> [40072.539429] xenvif_kthread_guest_rx+0x14a/0x29c [xen_netback]
> 
> Fix that by stopping the loop in case the rx queue becomes empty.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>

Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com>

Does this want a Fixes: tag and Cc: to stable@ (not the least since as per
above the issue was noticed with 4.12.x)?

> --- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/rx.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/rx.c
> @@ -495,6 +495,7 @@ void xenvif_rx_action(struct xenvif_queue *queue)
>  	queue->rx_copy.completed = &completed_skbs;
>  
>  	while (xenvif_rx_ring_slots_available(queue) &&
> +	       !skb_queue_empty(&queue->rx_queue) &&
>  	       work_done < RX_BATCH_SIZE) {
>  		xenvif_rx_skb(queue);
>  		work_done++;

I have to admit that I find the title a little misleading - you don't
deal with the issue _in_ xenvif_rx_next_skb(); you instead avoid
entering the function in such a case.

Jan