netdev - Re: [PATCH iwl-net] idpf: protect shutdown from reset

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Message-ID: <20250411182940.GO395307@horms.kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 19:29:40 +0100
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Larysa Zaremba <larysa.zaremba@...el.com>
Cc: intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org,
	Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>,
	Michal Swiatkowski <michal.swiatkowski@...ux.intel.com>,
	Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@...el.com>,
	Madhu Chittim <madhu.chittim@...el.com>,
	Josh Hay <joshua.a.hay@...el.com>,
	Michal Kubiak <michal.kubiak@...el.com>,
	Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@...el.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iwl-net] idpf: protect shutdown from reset

On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 01:52:23PM +0200, Larysa Zaremba wrote:
> Before the referenced commit, the shutdown just called idpf_remove(),
> this way IDPF_REMOVE_IN_PROG was protecting us from the serv_task
> rescheduling reset. Without this flag set the shutdown process is
> vulnerable to HW reset or any other triggering conditions (such as
> default mailbox being destroyed).
> 
> When one of conditions checked in idpf_service_task becomes true,
> vc_event_task can be rescheduled during shutdown, this leads to accessing
> freed memory e.g. idpf_req_rel_vector_indexes() trying to read
> vport->q_vector_idxs. This in turn causes the system to become defunct
> during e.g. systemctl kexec.
> 
> Considering using IDPF_REMOVE_IN_PROG would lead to more heavy shutdown
> process, instead just cancel the serv_task before cancelling
> adapter->serv_task before cancelling adapter->vc_event_task to ensure that
> reset will not be scheduled while we are doing a shutdown.
> 
> Fixes: 4c9106f4906a ("idpf: fix adapter NULL pointer dereference on reboot")
> Reviewed-by: Michal Swiatkowski <michal.swiatkowski@...ux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Larysa Zaremba <larysa.zaremba@...el.com>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>