Patch "e1000: add dummy allocator to fix race condition between mtu change and netpoll" has been added to the 3.10-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

e1000: add dummy allocator to fix race condition between mtu change and netpoll

to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
e1000-add-dummy-allocator-to-fix-race-condition-between-mtu-change-and-netpoll.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Sabrina Dubroca <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 05:35:41 +0000
Subject: e1000: add dummy allocator to fix race condition between mtu change and netpoll

From: Sabrina Dubroca <[email protected]>

commit 08e8331654d1d7b2c58045e549005bc356aa7810 upstream.

There is a race condition between e1000_change_mtu's cleanups and netpoll, when we change the MTU across jumbo size:

Changing MTU frees all the rx buffers:

    e1000_change_mtu -> e1000_down -> e1000_clean_all_rx_rings ->
        e1000_clean_rx_ring

Then, close to the end of e1000_change_mtu:

    pr_info -> ... -> netpoll_poll_dev -> e1000_clean ->
        e1000_clean_rx_irq -> e1000_alloc_rx_buffers -> e1000_alloc_frag

And when we come back to do the rest of the MTU change:

    e1000_up -> e1000_configure -> e1000_configure_rx ->
        e1000_alloc_jumbo_rx_buffers

alloc_jumbo finds the buffers already != NULL, since data (shared with page in e1000_rx_buffer->rxbuf) has been re-alloc'd, but it's garbage, or at least not what is expected when in jumbo state.

This results in an unusable adapter (packets don't get through), and a NULL pointer dereference on the next call to e1000_clean_rx_ring (other mtu change, link down, shutdown):

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at           (null)
IP: [<ffffffff81194d6e>] put_compound_page+0x7e/0x330

    [...]

Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff81195445>] put_page+0x55/0x60
 [<ffffffff815d9f44>] e1000_clean_rx_ring+0x134/0x200
 [<ffffffff815da055>] e1000_clean_all_rx_rings+0x45/0x60
 [<ffffffff815df5e0>] e1000_down+0x1c0/0x1d0
 [<ffffffff811e2260>] ? deactivate_slab+0x7f0/0x840
 [<ffffffff815e21bc>] e1000_change_mtu+0xdc/0x170
 [<ffffffff81647050>] dev_set_mtu+0xa0/0x140
 [<ffffffff81664218>] do_setlink+0x218/0xac0
 [<ffffffff814459e9>] ? nla_parse+0xb9/0x120
 [<ffffffff816652d0>] rtnl_newlink+0x6d0/0x890
 [<ffffffff8104f000>] ? kvm_clock_read+0x20/0x40
 [<ffffffff810a2068>] ? sched_clock_cpu+0xa8/0x100
 [<ffffffff81663802>] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x92/0x260

By setting the allocator to a dummy version, netpoll can't mess up our rx buffers. The allocator is set back to a sane value in e1000_configure_rx.

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c |   10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -144,6 +144,11 @@ static bool e1000_clean_rx_irq(struct e1
 static bool e1000_clean_jumbo_rx_irq(struct e1000_adapter *adapter,
 				     struct e1000_rx_ring *rx_ring,
 				     int *work_done, int work_to_do);
+static void e1000_alloc_dummy_rx_buffers(struct e1000_adapter *adapter,
+					 struct e1000_rx_ring *rx_ring,
+					 int cleaned_count)
+{
+}
 static void e1000_alloc_rx_buffers(struct e1000_adapter *adapter,
 				   struct e1000_rx_ring *rx_ring,
 				   int cleaned_count);

@@ -3555,8 +3560,11 @@ static int e1000_change_mtu(struct net_d
 		msleep(1);
 	/* e1000_down has a dependency on max_frame_size */
 	hw->max_frame_size = max_frame;
-	if (netif_running(netdev))
+	if (netif_running(netdev)) {
+		/* prevent buffers from being reallocated */
+		adapter->alloc_rx_buf = e1000_alloc_dummy_rx_buffers;
 		e1000_down(adapter);
+	}
 
 	/* NOTE: netdev_alloc_skb reserves 16 bytes, and typically NET_IP_ALIGN
 	 * means we reserve 2 more, this pushes us to allocate from the next

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.10/e1000-add-dummy-allocator-to-fix-race-condition-between-mtu-change-and-netpoll.patch