This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: fix race on decreasing number of TX queues
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: net-fix-race-on-decreasing-number-of-tx-queues.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Thu Mar 8 10:22:29 PST 2018
From: Jakub Kicinski jakub.kicinski@netronome.com Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 21:35:31 -0800 Subject: net: fix race on decreasing number of TX queues
From: Jakub Kicinski jakub.kicinski@netronome.com
[ Upstream commit ac5b70198adc25c73fba28de4f78adcee8f6be0b ]
netif_set_real_num_tx_queues() can be called when netdev is up. That usually happens when user requests change of number of channels/rings with ethtool -L. The procedure for changing the number of queues involves resetting the qdiscs and setting dev->num_tx_queues to the new value. When the new value is lower than the old one, extra care has to be taken to ensure ordering of accesses to the number of queues vs qdisc reset.
Currently the queues are reset before new dev->num_tx_queues is assigned, leaving a window of time where packets can be enqueued onto the queues going down, leading to a likely crash in the drivers, since most drivers don't check if TX skbs are assigned to an active queue.
Fixes: e6484930d7c7 ("net: allocate tx queues in register_netdevice") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski jakub.kicinski@netronome.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- net/core/dev.c | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -2183,8 +2183,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(netif_set_xps_queue); */ int netif_set_real_num_tx_queues(struct net_device *dev, unsigned int txq) { + bool disabling; int rc;
+ disabling = txq < dev->real_num_tx_queues; + if (txq < 1 || txq > dev->num_tx_queues) return -EINVAL;
@@ -2200,15 +2203,19 @@ int netif_set_real_num_tx_queues(struct if (dev->num_tc) netif_setup_tc(dev, txq);
- if (txq < dev->real_num_tx_queues) { + dev->real_num_tx_queues = txq; + + if (disabling) { + synchronize_net(); qdisc_reset_all_tx_gt(dev, txq); #ifdef CONFIG_XPS netif_reset_xps_queues_gt(dev, txq); #endif } + } else { + dev->real_num_tx_queues = txq; }
- dev->real_num_tx_queues = txq; return 0; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(netif_set_real_num_tx_queues);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jakub.kicinski@netronome.com are
queue-4.4/net-fix-race-on-decreasing-number-of-tx-queues.patch