From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	patches@lists.linux.dev,
	Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>,
	Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@broadcom.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Rahul Sharma <black.hawk@163.com>
Subject: [PATCH 6.1 393/481] eth: bnxt: always recalculate features after XDP clearing, fix null-deref
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:46:15 +0100
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6.1-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

[ Upstream commit f0aa6a37a3dbb40b272df5fc6db93c114688adcd ]

Recalculate features when XDP is detached.

Before:
  # ip li set dev eth0 xdp obj xdp_dummy.bpf.o sec xdp
  # ip li set dev eth0 xdp off
  # ethtool -k eth0 | grep gro
  rx-gro-hw: off [requested on]

After:
  # ip li set dev eth0 xdp obj xdp_dummy.bpf.o sec xdp
  # ip li set dev eth0 xdp off
  # ethtool -k eth0 | grep gro
  rx-gro-hw: on

The fact that HW-GRO doesn't get re-enabled automatically is just
a minor annoyance. The real issue is that the features will randomly
come back during another reconfiguration which just happens to invoke
netdev_update_features(). The driver doesn't handle reconfiguring
two things at a time very robustly.

Starting with commit 98ba1d931f61 ("bnxt_en: Fix RSS logic in
__bnxt_reserve_rings()") we only reconfigure the RSS hash table
if the "effective" number of Rx rings has changed. If HW-GRO is
enabled "effective" number of rings is 2x what user sees.
So if we are in the bad state, with HW-GRO re-enablement "pending"
after XDP off, and we lower the rings by / 2 - the HW-GRO rings
doing 2x and the ethtool -L doing / 2 may cancel each other out,
and the:

  if (old_rx_rings != bp->hw_resc.resv_rx_rings &&

condition in __bnxt_reserve_rings() will be false.
The RSS map won't get updated, and we'll crash with:

  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000168
  RIP: 0010:__bnxt_hwrm_vnic_set_rss+0x13a/0x1a0
    bnxt_hwrm_vnic_rss_cfg_p5+0x47/0x180
    __bnxt_setup_vnic_p5+0x58/0x110
    bnxt_init_nic+0xb72/0xf50
    __bnxt_open_nic+0x40d/0xab0
    bnxt_open_nic+0x2b/0x60
    ethtool_set_channels+0x18c/0x1d0

As we try to access a freed ring.

The issue is present since XDP support was added, really, but
prior to commit 98ba1d931f61 ("bnxt_en: Fix RSS logic in
__bnxt_reserve_rings()") it wasn't causing major issues.

Fixes: 1054aee82321 ("bnxt_en: Use NETIF_F_GRO_HW.")
Fixes: 98ba1d931f61 ("bnxt_en: Fix RSS logic in __bnxt_reserve_rings()")
Reviewed-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@broadcom.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250109043057.2888953-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
[ The context change is due to the commit 1f6e77cb9b32
("bnxt_en: Add bnxt_l2_filter hash table.") in v6.8 and the commit
8336a974f37d ("bnxt_en: Save user configured filters in a lookup list")
in v6.9 which are irrelevant to the logic of this patch. ]
Signed-off-by: Rahul Sharma <black.hawk@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c     |   25 ++++++++++++++++++++-----
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.h     |    2 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_xdp.c |    7 -------
 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c
@@ -4045,7 +4045,7 @@ void bnxt_set_ring_params(struct bnxt *b
 /* Changing allocation mode of RX rings.
  * TODO: Update when extending xdp_rxq_info to support allocation modes.
  */
-int bnxt_set_rx_skb_mode(struct bnxt *bp, bool page_mode)
+static void __bnxt_set_rx_skb_mode(struct bnxt *bp, bool page_mode)
 {
 	struct net_device *dev = bp->dev;
 
@@ -4066,15 +4066,30 @@ int bnxt_set_rx_skb_mode(struct bnxt *bp
 			bp->rx_skb_func = bnxt_rx_page_skb;
 		}
 		bp->rx_dir = DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL;
-		/* Disable LRO or GRO_HW */
-		netdev_update_features(dev);
 	} else {
 		dev->max_mtu = bp->max_mtu;
 		bp->flags &= ~BNXT_FLAG_RX_PAGE_MODE;
 		bp->rx_dir = DMA_FROM_DEVICE;
 		bp->rx_skb_func = bnxt_rx_skb;
 	}
-	return 0;
+}
+
+void bnxt_set_rx_skb_mode(struct bnxt *bp, bool page_mode)
+{
+	__bnxt_set_rx_skb_mode(bp, page_mode);
+
+	if (!page_mode) {
+		int rx, tx;
+
+		bnxt_get_max_rings(bp, &rx, &tx, true);
+		if (rx > 1) {
+			bp->flags &= ~BNXT_FLAG_NO_AGG_RINGS;
+			bp->dev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_LRO;
+		}
+	}
+
+	/* Update LRO and GRO_HW availability */
+	netdev_update_features(bp->dev);
 }
 
 static void bnxt_free_vnic_attributes(struct bnxt *bp)
@@ -13778,7 +13793,7 @@ static int bnxt_init_one(struct pci_dev
 	if (rc)
 		goto init_err_pci_clean;
 
-	bnxt_set_rx_skb_mode(bp, false);
+	__bnxt_set_rx_skb_mode(bp, false);
 	bnxt_set_tpa_flags(bp);
 	bnxt_set_ring_params(bp);
 	rc = bnxt_set_dflt_rings(bp, true);
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.h
@@ -2315,7 +2315,7 @@ void bnxt_reuse_rx_data(struct bnxt_rx_r
 u32 bnxt_fw_health_readl(struct bnxt *bp, int reg_idx);
 void bnxt_set_tpa_flags(struct bnxt *bp);
 void bnxt_set_ring_params(struct bnxt *);
-int bnxt_set_rx_skb_mode(struct bnxt *bp, bool page_mode);
+void bnxt_set_rx_skb_mode(struct bnxt *bp, bool page_mode);
 int bnxt_hwrm_func_drv_rgtr(struct bnxt *bp, unsigned long *bmap,
 			    int bmap_size, bool async_only);
 int bnxt_hwrm_func_drv_unrgtr(struct bnxt *bp);
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_xdp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_xdp.c
@@ -423,14 +423,7 @@ static int bnxt_xdp_set(struct bnxt *bp,
 	if (prog) {
 		bnxt_set_rx_skb_mode(bp, true);
 	} else {
-		int rx, tx;
-
 		bnxt_set_rx_skb_mode(bp, false);
-		bnxt_get_max_rings(bp, &rx, &tx, true);
-		if (rx > 1) {
-			bp->flags &= ~BNXT_FLAG_NO_AGG_RINGS;
-			bp->dev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_LRO;
-		}
 	}
 	bp->tx_nr_rings_xdp = tx_xdp;
 	bp->tx_nr_rings = bp->tx_nr_rings_per_tc * tc + tx_xdp;