RE: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net] ice: fix crash in ethtool offline loopback test

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Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net] ice: fix crash in ethtool
offline loopback test

Since the conversion of ice to page pool, the ethtool loopback test
crashes:

 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000000c
 #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page  PGD 1100f1067 P4D 0
 Oops: Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP NOPTI
 CPU: 23 UID: 0 PID: 5904 Comm: ethtool Kdump: loaded Not tainted
6.19.0-0.rc7.260128g1f97d9dcf5364.49.eln154.x86_64 #1 PREEMPT(lazy)
Hardware name: [...]
 RIP: 0010:ice_alloc_rx_bufs+0x1cd/0x310 [ice]
 Code: 83 6c 24 30 01 66 41 89 47 08 0f 84 c0 00 00 00 41 0f b7 dc 48
8b 44 24 18 48 c1 e3 04 41 bb 00 10 00 00 48 8d 2c 18 8b 04 24 <89> 45
0c 41 8b 4d 00 49 d3 e3 44 3b 5c 24 24 0f 83 ac fe ff ff 44
 RSP: 0018:ff7894738aa1f768 EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000700 RDI: 0000000000000000
 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ff16dcae79880200 R09: 0000000000000019
 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000001000 R12: 0000000000000000
 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ff16dcae6c670000
 FS:  00007fcf428850c0(0000) GS:ff16dcb149710000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 000000000000000c CR3: 0000000121227005 CR4: 0000000000773ef0
 PKRU: 55555554
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  ice_vsi_cfg_rxq+0xca/0x460 [ice]
  ice_vsi_cfg_rxqs+0x54/0x70 [ice]
  ice_loopback_test+0xa9/0x520 [ice]
  ice_self_test+0x1b9/0x280 [ice]
  ethtool_self_test+0xe5/0x200
  __dev_ethtool+0x1106/0x1a90
  dev_ethtool+0xbe/0x1a0
  dev_ioctl+0x258/0x4c0
  sock_do_ioctl+0xe3/0x130
  __x64_sys_ioctl+0xb9/0x100
  do_syscall_64+0x7c/0x700
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
  [...]

It crashes because we have not initialized libeth for the rx ring.

Fix it by treating ICE_VSI_LB VSIs slightly more like normal PF VSIs
and letting them have a q_vector. It's just a dummy, because the
loopback test does not use interrupts, but it contains a napi struct
that can be passed to libeth_rx_fq_create() called from
ice_vsi_cfg_rxq() -> ice_rxq_pp_create().

Fixes: 93f53db9f9dc ("ice: switch to Page Pool")
Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_base.c    |  5 ++++-
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ethtool.c |  4 ++++
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_lib.c     | 15 ++++++++++-----
 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_base.c

b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_base.c
index eadb1e3d12b3..f0da50df6791 100644

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_base.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_base.c

@@ -124,6 +124,8 @@ static int ice_vsi_alloc_q_vector(struct ice_vsi

*vsi, u16 v_idx)
 	if (vsi->type == ICE_VSI_VF) {