enic: prevent waking up stopped tx queues over watchdog reset

Recent months, our customer reported several kernel crashes all
preceding with following message:
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth2 (enic): transmit queue 0 timed out
Error message of one of those crashes:
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffa007e090

After analyzing severl vmcores, I found that most of crashes are
caused by memory corruption. And all the corrupted memory areas
are overwritten by data of network packets. Moreover, I also found
that the tx queues were enabled over watchdog reset.

After going through the source code, I found that in enic_stop(),
the tx queues stopped by netif_tx_disable() could be woken up over
a small time window between netif_tx_disable() and the
napi_disable() by the following code path:
napi_poll->
  enic_poll_msix_wq->
     vnic_cq_service->
        enic_wq_service->
           netif_wake_subqueue(enic->netdev, q_number)->
              test_and_clear_bit(__QUEUE_STATE_DRV_XOFF, &txq->state)
In turn, upper netowrk stack could queue skb to ENIC NIC though
enic_hard_start_xmit(). And this might introduce some race condition.

Our customer comfirmed that this kind of kernel crash doesn't occur over
90 days since they applied this patch.

Signed-off-by: Firo Yang <firo.yang@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cisco/enic/enic_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cisco/enic/enic_main.c
index bbd7b31..ddf60dc 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cisco/enic/enic_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cisco/enic/enic_main.c
@@ -2013,10 +2013,10 @@ static int enic_stop(struct net_device *netdev)
                napi_disable(&enic->napi[i]);
 
        netif_carrier_off(netdev);
-       netif_tx_disable(netdev);
        if (vnic_dev_get_intr_mode(enic->vdev) == VNIC_DEV_INTR_MODE_MSIX)
                for (i = 0; i < enic->wq_count; i++)
                        napi_disable(&enic->napi[enic_cq_wq(enic, i)]);
+       netif_tx_disable(netdev);
 
        if (!enic_is_dynamic(enic) && !enic_is_sriov_vf(enic))
                enic_dev_del_station_addr(enic);