netdev - [PATCH net] i40e: fix IRQ freeing in i40e_vsi_request_irq

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Message-ID: <20250818153903.189079-1-mschmidt@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2025 17:39:03 +0200
From: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@...hat.com>
To: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...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>,
	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
Cc: intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net] i40e: fix IRQ freeing in i40e_vsi_request_irq_msix error path

If request_irq() in i40e_vsi_request_irq_msix() fails in an iteration
later than the first, the error path wants to free the IRQs requested
so far. However, it uses the wrong dev_id argument for free_irq(), so
it does not free the IRQs correctly and instead triggers the warning:

 Trying to free already-free IRQ 173
 WARNING: CPU: 25 PID: 1091 at kernel/irq/manage.c:1829 __free_irq+0x192/0x2c0
 Modules linked in: i40e(+) [...]
 CPU: 25 UID: 0 PID: 1091 Comm: NetworkManager Not tainted 6.17.0-rc1+ #1 PREEMPT(lazy)
 Hardware name: [...]
 RIP: 0010:__free_irq+0x192/0x2c0
 [...]
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  free_irq+0x32/0x70
  i40e_vsi_request_irq_msix.cold+0x63/0x8b [i40e]
  i40e_vsi_request_irq+0x79/0x80 [i40e]
  i40e_vsi_open+0x21f/0x2f0 [i40e]
  i40e_open+0x63/0x130 [i40e]
  __dev_open+0xfc/0x210
  __dev_change_flags+0x1fc/0x240
  netif_change_flags+0x27/0x70
  do_setlink.isra.0+0x341/0xc70
  rtnl_newlink+0x468/0x860
  rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x375/0x450
  netlink_rcv_skb+0x5c/0x110
  netlink_unicast+0x288/0x3c0
  netlink_sendmsg+0x20d/0x430
  ____sys_sendmsg+0x3a2/0x3d0
  ___sys_sendmsg+0x99/0xe0
  __sys_sendmsg+0x8a/0xf0
  do_syscall_64+0x82/0x2c0
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
  [...]
  </TASK>
 ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Use the same dev_id for free_irq() as for request_irq().

I tested this with inserting code to fail intentionally.

Fixes: 493fb30011b3 ("i40e: Move q_vectors from pointer to array to array of pointers")
Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@...hat.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
index b83f823e4917..dd21d93d39dd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
@@ -4156,7 +4156,7 @@ static int i40e_vsi_request_irq_msix(struct i40e_vsi *vsi, char *basename)
 		irq_num = pf->msix_entries[base + vector].vector;
 		irq_set_affinity_notifier(irq_num, NULL);
 		irq_update_affinity_hint(irq_num, NULL);
-		free_irq(irq_num, &vsi->q_vectors[vector]);
+		free_irq(irq_num, vsi->q_vectors[vector]);
 	}
 	return err;
 }
-- 
2.50.1