In an event where the platform running the device control plane is rebooted, reset is detected on the driver. It releases all the resources and waits for the reset to complete. Once the reset is done, it tries to build the resources back. At this time if the device control plane is not yet started, then the driver timeouts on the virtchnl message and retries to establish the mailbox again.

In the retry flow, mailbox is deinitialized but the mailbox workqueue is still alive and polling for the mailbox message. This results in accessing the released control queue leading to null-ptr-deref. Fix it by unrolling the work queue cancellation and mailbox deinitialization in the reverse order which they got initialized.

Fixes: 4930fbf419a7 ("idpf: add core init and interrupt request") Fixes: 34c21fa894a1 ("idpf: implement virtchnl transaction manager") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.9+ Reviewed-by: Tarun K Singh tarun.k.singh@intel.com Signed-off-by: Pavan Kumar Linga pavan.kumar.linga@intel.com --- v2: - remove changes which are not fixes for the actual issue from this patch --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_lib.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_virtchnl.c | 1 - 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_lib.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_lib.c index c3848e10e7db..b4fbb99bfad2 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_lib.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_lib.c @@ -1786,6 +1786,7 @@ static int idpf_init_hard_reset(struct idpf_adapter *adapter) */ err = idpf_vc_core_init(adapter); if (err) { + cancel_delayed_work_sync(&adapter->mbx_task); idpf_deinit_dflt_mbx(adapter); goto unlock_mutex; } diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_virtchnl.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_virtchnl.c index 3be883726b87..e7eee571d908 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_virtchnl.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_virtchnl.c @@ -3070,7 +3070,6 @@ int idpf_vc_core_init(struct idpf_adapter *adapter) adapter->state = __IDPF_VER_CHECK; if (adapter->vcxn_mngr) idpf_vc_xn_shutdown(adapter->vcxn_mngr); - idpf_deinit_dflt_mbx(adapter); set_bit(IDPF_HR_DRV_LOAD, adapter->flags); queue_delayed_work(adapter->vc_event_wq, &adapter->vc_event_task, msecs_to_jiffies(task_delay));