This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
liquidio: fix kernel panic in VF driver
to the 4.14-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: liquidio-fix-kernel-panic-in-vf-driver.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 Mon Dec 18 13:28:59 CET 2017
From: Felix Manlunas felix.manlunas@cavium.com Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 16:46:36 -0700 Subject: liquidio: fix kernel panic in VF driver
From: Felix Manlunas felix.manlunas@cavium.com
[ Upstream commit aa28667cfbe4ff6f14454dda210b1f2e485f99b5 ]
Doing ifconfig down on VF driver in the middle of receiving line rate traffic causes a kernel panic:
LiquidIO_VF 0000:02:00.3: should not come here should not get rx when poll mode = 0 for vf BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) . . . Call Trace: <IRQ> ? tasklet_action+0x102/0x120 __do_softirq+0x91/0x292 irq_exit+0xb6/0xc0 do_IRQ+0x4f/0xd0 common_interrupt+0x93/0x93 </IRQ> RIP: 0010:cpuidle_enter_state+0x142/0x2f0 RSP: 0018:ffffffffa6403e20 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffff59 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 000000000000001f RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000002ab7519f RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: ffffffffa6403e58 R08: 0000000000000084 R09: 0000000000000018 R10: ffffffffa6403df0 R11: 00000000000003c7 R12: 0000000000000003 R13: ffffd27ebd806800 R14: ffffffffa64d40d8 R15: 0000007be072823f cpuidle_enter+0x17/0x20 call_cpuidle+0x23/0x40 do_idle+0x18c/0x1f0 cpu_startup_entry+0x64/0x70 rest_init+0xa5/0xb0 start_kernel+0x45e/0x46b x86_64_start_reservations+0x24/0x26 x86_64_start_kernel+0x6f/0x72 secondary_startup_64+0xa5/0xa5 Code: Bad RIP value. RIP: (null) RSP: ffff9246ed003f28 CR2: 0000000000000000 ---[ end trace 92731e80f31b7d7d ]--- Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt Kernel Offset: 0x24000000 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffffbfffffff) ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
Reason is: in the function assigned to net_device_ops->ndo_stop, the steps for bringing down the interface are done in the wrong order. The step that notifies the NIC firmware to stop forwarding packets to host is done too late. Fix it by moving that step to the beginning.
Signed-off-by: Felix Manlunas felix.manlunas@cavium.com Signed-off-by: Raghu Vatsavayi raghu.vatsavayi@cavium.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_vf_main.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_vf_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_vf_main.c @@ -1289,6 +1289,9 @@ static int liquidio_stop(struct net_devi struct octeon_device *oct = lio->oct_dev; struct napi_struct *napi, *n;
+ /* tell Octeon to stop forwarding packets to host */ + send_rx_ctrl_cmd(lio, 0); + if (oct->props[lio->ifidx].napi_enabled) { list_for_each_entry_safe(napi, n, &netdev->napi_list, dev_list) napi_disable(napi); @@ -1306,9 +1309,6 @@ static int liquidio_stop(struct net_devi netif_carrier_off(netdev); lio->link_changes++;
- /* tell Octeon to stop forwarding packets to host */ - send_rx_ctrl_cmd(lio, 0); - ifstate_reset(lio, LIO_IFSTATE_RUNNING);
txqs_stop(netdev);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from felix.manlunas@cavium.com are
queue-4.14/liquidio-fix-kernel-panic-in-vf-driver.patch