Re: [PATCH] vdpa/mlx5: Fix crash on shutdown for when no ndev exists

From: Dragos Tatulea
Date: Thu Jul 27 2023 - 12:02:30 EST


On Wed, 2023-07-26 at 15:26 -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 10:07:38PM +0300, Dragos Tatulea wrote:
> > The ndev was accessed on shutdown without a check if it actually exists.
> > This triggered the crash pasted below. This patch simply adds a check
> > before using ndev.
> >
> >  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000300
> >  #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
> >  #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
> >  PGD 0 P4D 0
> >  Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
> >  CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd-shutdow Not tainted 6.5.0-
> > rc2_for_upstream_min_debug_2023_07_17_15_05 #1
> >  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-
> > gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
> >  RIP: 0010:mlx5v_shutdown+0xe/0x50 [mlx5_vdpa]
> >  RSP: 0018:ffff8881003bfdc0 EFLAGS: 00010286
> >  RAX: ffff888103befba0 RBX: ffff888109d28008 RCX: 0000000000000017
> >  RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000212 RDI: ffff888109d28000
> >  RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000d3a3a3882 R09: 0000000000000001
> >  R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff888109d28000
> >  R13: ffff888109d28080 R14: 00000000fee1dead R15: 0000000000000000
> >  FS:  00007f4969e0be40(0000) GS:ffff88852c800000(0000)
> > knlGS:0000000000000000
> >  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> >  CR2: 0000000000000300 CR3: 00000001051cd006 CR4: 0000000000370eb0
> >  DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> >  DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> >  Call Trace:
> >   <TASK>
> >   ? __die+0x20/0x60
> >   ? page_fault_oops+0x14c/0x3c0
> >   ? exc_page_fault+0x75/0x140
> >   ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30
> >   ? mlx5v_shutdown+0xe/0x50 [mlx5_vdpa]
> >   device_shutdown+0x13e/0x1e0
> >   kernel_restart+0x36/0x90
> >   __do_sys_reboot+0x141/0x210
> >   ? vfs_writev+0xcd/0x140
> >   ? handle_mm_fault+0x161/0x260
> >   ? do_writev+0x6b/0x110
> >   do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x90
> >   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
> >  RIP: 0033:0x7f496990fb56
> >  RSP: 002b:00007fffc7bdde88 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a9
> >  RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f496990fb56
> >  RDX: 0000000001234567 RSI: 0000000028121969 RDI: fffffffffee1dead
> >  RBP: 00007fffc7bde1d0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
> >  R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 0000000000000000
> >  R13: 00007fffc7bddf10 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00007fffc7bde2b8
> >   </TASK>
> >  CR2: 0000000000000300
> >  ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
> >
> > Fixes: bc9a2b3e686e ("vdpa/mlx5: Support interrupt bypassing")
> > Signed-off-by: Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c | 3 ++-
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c
> > b/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c
> > index 9138ef2fb2c8..e2e7ebd71798 100644
> > --- a/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c
> > +++ b/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c
> > @@ -3556,7 +3556,8 @@ static void mlx5v_shutdown(struct auxiliary_device
> > *auxdev)
> >         mgtdev = auxiliary_get_drvdata(auxdev);
> >         ndev = mgtdev->ndev;
> >  
> > -       free_irqs(ndev);
> > +       if (ndev)
> > +               free_irqs(ndev);
> >  }
> >  
>
> something I don't get:
> irqs are allocated in mlx5_vdpa_dev_add
> why are they not freed in mlx5_vdpa_dev_del?
>
That is a good point. I will try to find out. I also don't get why free_irq is
called in the vdpa dev .free op instead of mlx5_vdpa_dev_del. Maybe I can change
that in a different refactoring.

> this is what's creating all this mess.
>
>
Not quite: mlx5_vdpa_dev_del (which is a .dev_del of for struct
vdpa_mgmtdev_ops) doesn't get called on shutdown. At least that's what I see. Or
am I missing something?

> >  static const struct auxiliary_device_id mlx5v_id_table[] = {
> > --
> > 2.41.0
>