netdev - [PATCH net] sfc: limit the number of receive queues

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Date:   Wed, 12 Apr 2017 17:06:52 +0100
From:   Bert Kenward <bkenward@...arflare.com>
To:     Dave Miller <davem@...emloft.org>
CC:     <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Solarflare Linux Maintainers <linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] sfc: limit the number of receive queues

The number of rx queues is determined by the rss_cpus parameter
or the cpu topology. If that is higher than EFX_MAX_RX_QUEUES the
driver can corrupt state.

Fixes: 8ceee660aacb ("New driver "sfc" for Solarstorm SFC4000 controller.")
Signed-off-by: Bert Kenward <bkenward@...arflare.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c        | 7 +++++++
 drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/falcon/efx.c | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c
index 50d28261b6b9..b9cb697b2818 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c
@@ -1371,6 +1371,13 @@ static unsigned int efx_wanted_parallelism(struct efx_nic *efx)
 		free_cpumask_var(thread_mask);
 	}
 
+	if (count > EFX_MAX_RX_QUEUES) {
+		netif_cond_dbg(efx, probe, efx->net_dev, !rss_cpus, warn,
+			       "Reducing number of rx queues from %u to %u.\n",
+			       count, EFX_MAX_RX_QUEUES);
+		count = EFX_MAX_RX_QUEUES;
+	}
+
 	/* If RSS is requested for the PF *and* VFs then we can't write RSS
 	 * table entries that are inaccessible to VFs
 	 */
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/falcon/efx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/falcon/efx.c
index f5e5cd1659a1..29614da91cbf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/falcon/efx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/falcon/efx.c
@@ -1354,6 +1354,13 @@ static unsigned int ef4_wanted_parallelism(struct ef4_nic *efx)
 		free_cpumask_var(thread_mask);
 	}
 
+	if (count > EF4_MAX_RX_QUEUES) {
+		netif_cond_dbg(efx, probe, efx->net_dev, !rss_cpus, warn,
+			       "Reducing number of rx queues from %u to %u.\n",
+			       count, EF4_MAX_RX_QUEUES);
+		count = EF4_MAX_RX_QUEUES;
+	}
+
 	return count;
 }
 
-- 
2.7.4