From: "Durrant, Paul" <xadimgnik@gmail.com>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>, Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen/netback: handle empty rx queue in xenvif_rx_next_skb()
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 10:12:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <016536af-2ab8-b557-abe6-1c8f2b6d7e91@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220713074823.5679-1-jgross@suse.com>
On 13/07/2022 09:48, Juergen Gross wrote:
> xenvif_rx_next_skb() is expecting the rx queue not being empty, but
> in case the loop in xenvif_rx_action() is doing multiple iterations,
> the availability of another skb in the rx queue is not being checked.
>
> This can lead to crashes:
>
> [40072.537261] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000080
> [40072.537407] IP: xenvif_rx_skb+0x23/0x590 [xen_netback]
> [40072.537534] PGD 0 P4D 0
> [40072.537644] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
> [40072.537749] CPU: 0 PID: 12505 Comm: v1-c40247-q2-gu Not tainted 4.12.14-122.121-default #1 SLE12-SP5
> [40072.537867] Hardware name: HP ProLiant DL580 Gen9/ProLiant DL580 Gen9, BIOS U17 11/23/2021
> [40072.537999] task: ffff880433b38100 task.stack: ffffc90043d40000
> [40072.538112] RIP: e030:xenvif_rx_skb+0x23/0x590 [xen_netback]
> [40072.538217] RSP: e02b:ffffc90043d43de0 EFLAGS: 00010246
> [40072.538319] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffc90043cd7cd0 RCX: 00000000000000f7
> [40072.538430] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000006 RDI: ffffc90043d43df8
> [40072.538531] RBP: 000000000000003f R08: 000077ff80000000 R09: 0000000000000008
> [40072.538644] R10: 0000000000007ff0 R11: 00000000000008f6 R12: ffffc90043ce2708
> [40072.538745] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffc90043d43ed0 R15: ffff88043ea748c0
> [40072.538861] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880484600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> [40072.538988] CS: e033 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> [40072.539088] CR2: 0000000000000080 CR3: 0000000407ac8000 CR4: 0000000000040660
> [40072.539211] Call Trace:
> [40072.539319] xenvif_rx_action+0x71/0x90 [xen_netback]
> [40072.539429] xenvif_kthread_guest_rx+0x14a/0x29c [xen_netback]
>
> Fix that by stopping the loop in case the rx queue becomes empty.
>
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-13 8:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-13 7:48 Juergen Gross
2022-07-13 7:59 ` Jan Beulich
2022-07-13 9:31 ` Juergen Gross
2022-07-13 9:48 ` Jan Beulich
2022-07-13 8:12 ` Durrant, Paul [this message]
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