[PATCH net 12/13] idpf: fix max_vport related crash on allocation error during init
From: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Date: 2026-07-17 18:53:53
Subsystem:
intel ethernet drivers, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Tony Nguyen, Przemek Kitszel, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
From: Emil Tantilov <redacted>
Set adapter->max_vports only after successful allocation of vports, netdevs
and vport_config buffers. This fixes possible crashes on reset or rmmod,
following failed allocation on init
[ 305.981402] idpf 0000:83:00.0: enabling device (0100 -> 0102)
[ 305.994464] idpf 0000:83:00.0: Device HW Reset initiated
[ 320.416872] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
[ 320.416918] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 320.416942] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 320.416963] PGD 2099657067 P4D 0
[ 320.416983] Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
...
[ 320.417093] RIP: 0010:idpf_remove+0x118/0x200 [idpf]
[ 320.417130] Code: 8b bb 98 09 00 00 e8 17 0f 5b e5 48 8b bb e8 08 00 00 e8 0b 0f 5b e5 66 83 bb 28 06 00 00 00 48 8b bb 20 06 00 00 74 49 31 ed <48> 8b 04 ef 48 85 c0 74 2f 48 8b 78 20 e8 66 58 91 e5 48 8b 83 20
[ 320.417183] RSP: 0018:ff7322212903fdb8 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 320.417205] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ff4463de40300000 RCX: ff7322212903fd4c
[ 320.417228] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffffa7f7d100 RDI: 0000000000000000
[ 320.417250] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 320.417272] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ff4463de3a638f58 R12: ff4463be89ac7000
[ 320.417294] R13: ff4463be89ac7198 R14: ff4463be94fc7198 R15: ffffffffc0f10f20
[ 320.417317] FS: 00007f963c0e6740(0000) GS:ff4463fdd65d8000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 320.417342] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 320.417362] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000020ba674002 CR4: 0000000000773ef0
[ 320.417385] PKRU: 55555554
[ 320.417398] Call Trace:
[ 320.417412] <TASK>
[ 320.417429] pci_device_remove+0x42/0xb0
[ 320.417459] device_release_driver_internal+0x1a9/0x210
[ 320.417492] driver_detach+0x4b/0x90
[ 320.417516] bus_remove_driver+0x70/0x100
[ 320.417539] pci_unregister_driver+0x2e/0xb0
[ 320.417564] __do_sys_delete_module.constprop.0+0x190/0x2f0
[ 320.417592] ? kmem_cache_free+0x31e/0x550
[ 320.417619] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0xde/0x190
[ 320.417644] ? do_syscall_64+0x38/0x6b0
[ 320.417665] do_syscall_64+0xc8/0x6b0
[ 320.417683] ? clear_bhb_loop+0x30/0x80
[ 320.417706] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
[ 320.417727] RIP: 0033:0x7f963bb30beb
Fixes: 0fe45467a104 ("idpf: add create vport and netdev configuration")
Reviewed-by: Madhu Chittim <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Emil Tantilov <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Samuel Salin <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_virtchnl.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_virtchnl.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_virtchnl.c
index be66f9b2e101..dc5ad784f456 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_virtchnl.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_virtchnl.c@@ -3555,7 +3555,6 @@ int idpf_vc_core_init(struct idpf_adapter *adapter) pci_sriov_set_totalvfs(adapter->pdev, idpf_get_max_vfs(adapter)); num_max_vports = idpf_get_max_vports(adapter); - adapter->max_vports = num_max_vports; adapter->vports = kzalloc_objs(*adapter->vports, num_max_vports); if (!adapter->vports) return -ENOMEM;
@@ -3576,6 +3575,12 @@ int idpf_vc_core_init(struct idpf_adapter *adapter) goto err_netdev_alloc; } + /* Set max_vports only after vports, netdevs and vport_config buffers + * are allocated to make sure max_vport bound loops don't end up + * crashing, following allocation errors on init. + */ + adapter->max_vports = num_max_vports; + /* Start the mailbox task before requesting vectors. This will ensure * vector information response from mailbox is handled */
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