[PATCH net v2 2/2] net: macb: Protect access to net_device::ip_ptr with RCU lock
From: Kevin Hao <hidden>
Date: 2026-03-18 06:37:43
Also in:
stable
Subsystem:
atmel macb ethernet driver, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Théo Lebrun, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
Access to net_device::ip_ptr and its associated members must be
protected by an RCU lock. Since we are modifying this piece of code,
let's also move it to execute only when WAKE_ARP is enabled.
To minimize the duration of the RCU lock, a local variable is used to
temporarily store the IP address. This change resolves the following
RCU check warning:
WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
7.0.0-rc3-next-20260310-yocto-standard+ #122 Not tainted
-----------------------------
drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c:5944 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
other info that might help us debug this:
rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
5 locks held by rtcwake/518:
#0: ffff000803ab1408 (sb_writers#5){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: vfs_write+0xf8/0x368
#1: ffff0008090bf088 (&of->mutex#2){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: kernfs_fop_write_iter+0xbc/0x1c8
#2: ffff00080098d588 (kn->active#70){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: kernfs_fop_write_iter+0xcc/0x1c8
#3: ffff800081c84888 (system_transition_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: pm_suspend+0x1ec/0x290
#4: ffff0008009ba0f8 (&dev->mutex){....}-{4:4}, at: device_suspend+0x118/0x4f0
stack backtrace:
CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 518 Comm: rtcwake Not tainted 7.0.0-rc3-next-20260310-yocto-standard+ #122 PREEMPT
Hardware name: ZynqMP ZCU102 Rev1.1 (DT)
Call trace:
show_stack+0x24/0x38 (C)
__dump_stack+0x28/0x38
dump_stack_lvl+0x64/0x88
dump_stack+0x18/0x24
lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x134/0x1d8
macb_suspend+0xd8/0x4c0
device_suspend+0x218/0x4f0
dpm_suspend+0x244/0x3a0
dpm_suspend_start+0x50/0x78
suspend_devices_and_enter+0xec/0x560
pm_suspend+0x194/0x290
state_store+0x110/0x158
kobj_attr_store+0x1c/0x30
sysfs_kf_write+0xa8/0xd0
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x11c/0x1c8
vfs_write+0x248/0x368
ksys_write+0x7c/0xf8
__arm64_sys_write+0x28/0x40
invoke_syscall+0x4c/0xe8
el0_svc_common+0x98/0xf0
do_el0_svc+0x28/0x40
el0_svc+0x54/0x1e0
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0x130
el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x1a0
Fixes: 0cb8de39a776 ("net: macb: Add ARP support to WOL")
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao <redacted>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
---
drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
index 2d4304331e297accd91ab48813a9bd4722ce72dc..9856764402b17397928d0a61da61865a3b10484f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c@@ -5909,9 +5909,9 @@ static int __maybe_unused macb_suspend(struct device *dev) struct macb_queue *queue; struct in_device *idev; unsigned long flags; + u32 tmp, ifa_local; unsigned int q; int err; - u32 tmp; if (!device_may_wakeup(&bp->dev->dev)) phy_exit(bp->phy);
@@ -5920,14 +5920,21 @@ static int __maybe_unused macb_suspend(struct device *dev) return 0; if (bp->wol & MACB_WOL_ENABLED) { - /* Check for IP address in WOL ARP mode */ - idev = __in_dev_get_rcu(bp->dev); - if (idev) - ifa = rcu_dereference(idev->ifa_list); - if ((bp->wolopts & WAKE_ARP) && !ifa) { - netdev_err(netdev, "IP address not assigned as required by WoL walk ARP\n"); - return -EOPNOTSUPP; + if (bp->wolopts & WAKE_ARP) { + /* Check for IP address in WOL ARP mode */ + rcu_read_lock(); + idev = __in_dev_get_rcu(bp->dev); + if (idev) + ifa = rcu_dereference(idev->ifa_list); + if (!ifa) { + rcu_read_unlock(); + netdev_err(netdev, "IP address not assigned as required by WoL walk ARP\n"); + return -EOPNOTSUPP; + } + ifa_local = be32_to_cpu(ifa->ifa_local); + rcu_read_unlock(); } + spin_lock_irqsave(&bp->lock, flags); /* Disable Tx and Rx engines before disabling the queues,
@@ -5966,7 +5973,7 @@ static int __maybe_unused macb_suspend(struct device *dev) if (bp->wolopts & WAKE_ARP) { tmp |= MACB_BIT(ARP); /* write IP address into register */ - tmp |= MACB_BFEXT(IP, be32_to_cpu(ifa->ifa_local)); + tmp |= MACB_BFEXT(IP, ifa_local); } spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bp->lock, flags);
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2.53.0