Re: [PATCH v2] virtio_net: Fix probe failed when modprobe virtio_net

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Tue Nov 22 2022 - 15:07:58 EST


On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 11:00:46PM +0800, Li Zetao wrote:
> When doing the following test steps, an error was found:
> step 1: modprobe virtio_net succeeded
> # modprobe virtio_net <-- OK
>
> step 2: fault injection in register_netdevice()
> # modprobe -r virtio_net <-- OK
> # ...
> FAULT_INJECTION: forcing a failure.
> name failslab, interval 1, probability 0, space 0, times 0
> CPU: 0 PID: 3521 Comm: modprobe
> Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),
> Call Trace:
> <TASK>
> ...
> should_failslab+0xa/0x20
> ...
> dev_set_name+0xc0/0x100
> netdev_register_kobject+0xc2/0x340
> register_netdevice+0xbb9/0x1320
> virtnet_probe+0x1d72/0x2658 [virtio_net]
> ...
> </TASK>
> virtio_net: probe of virtio0 failed with error -22
>
> step 3: modprobe virtio_net failed
> # modprobe virtio_net <-- failed
> virtio_net: probe of virtio0 failed with error -2
>
> The root cause of the problem is that the queues are not
> disable

if you need to resend it:

not disabled

but that's minor, ok to ignore

> on the error handling path when register_netdevice()
> fails in virtnet_probe(), resulting in an error "-ENOENT"
> returned in the next modprobe call in setup_vq().
>
> virtio_pci_modern_device uses virtqueues to send or
> receive message, and "queue_enable" records whether the
> queues are available. In vp_modern_find_vqs(), all queues
> will be selected and activated, but once queues are enabled
> there is no way to go back except reset.
>
> Fix it by reset virtio device on error handling path. This
> makes error handling follow the same order as normal device
> cleanup in virtnet_remove() which does: unregister, destroy
> failover, then reset. And that flow is better tested than
> error handling so we can be reasonably sure it works well.
>
> Fixes: 024655555021 ("virtio_net: fix use after free on allocation failure")
> Signed-off-by: Li Zetao <lizetao1@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, LGTM, feel free to merge.



> ---
> v1 was posted at: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221121132935.2032325-1-lizetao1@xxxxxxxxxx/
> v1 -> v2: modify commit log and fixes tag
>
> drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> index 7106932c6f88..86e52454b5b5 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> @@ -3949,12 +3949,11 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
> return 0;
>
> free_unregister_netdev:
> - virtio_reset_device(vdev);
> -
> unregister_netdev(dev);
> free_failover:
> net_failover_destroy(vi->failover);
> free_vqs:
> + virtio_reset_device(vdev);
> cancel_delayed_work_sync(&vi->refill);
> free_receive_page_frags(vi);
> virtnet_del_vqs(vi);
> --
> 2.25.1