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authorJon Maxwell <jmaxwell37@gmail.com>2016-05-05 09:55:51 +1000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-05-06 15:44:54 -0400
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cnic: call cp->stop_hw() in cnic_start_hw() on allocation failure
We recently had a system crash in the cnic module. Vmcore analysis confirmed that "ip link up" was executed which failed due to an allocation failure because of memory fragmentation. Futher analysis revealed that the cnic irq vector was still allocated after the "ip link up" that failed. When "ip link down" was executed it called free_msi_irqs() which crashed the system because the cnic irq was still inuse. PANIC: "kernel BUG at drivers/pci/msi.c:411!" The code execution was: cnic_netdev_event() if (event == NETDEV_UP) { . . ▹ if (!cnic_start_hw(dev)) cnic_start_hw() calls cnic_cm_open() which failed with -ENOMEM cnic_start_hw() then took the err1 path: err1:↩ cp->free_resc(dev);↩ <---- frees resources but not irq vector pci_dev_put(dev->pcidev);↩ return err;↩ }↩ This returns control back to cnic_netdev_event() but now the cnic irq vector is still allocated even although cnic_cm_open() failed. The next "ip link down" while trigger the crash. The cnic_start_hw() routine is not handling the allocation failure correctly. Fix this by checking whether CNIC_DRV_STATE_HANDLES_IRQ flag is set indicating that the hardware has been started in cnic_start_hw(). If it has then call cp->stop_hw() which frees the cnic irq vector and cnic resources. Otherwise just maintain the previous behaviour and free cnic resources. I reproduced this by injecting an ENOMEM error into cnic_cm_alloc_mem()s return code. # ip link set dev enpX down # ip link set dev enpX up <--- hit's allocation failure # ip link set dev enpX down <--- crashes here With this patch I confirmed there was no crash in the reproducer. Signed-off-by: Jon Maxwell <jmaxwell37@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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