In driver mlx5 function mlx5e_open_channel() does not handle error path correctly. (Tested by letting mlx5e_create_rq fail with -ENOMEM, propagates to mlx5e_open_rq)
This first seemed related to commit b5503b994ed5 ("net/mlx5e: XDP TX forwarding support"). As a failed call of mlx5e_open_rq() always calls mlx5e_close_sq(&c->xdp_sq) on "xdp_sq" even-though a XDP program is not attached. Fixing this like: @@ -1504,24 +1533,38 @@ static int mlx5e_open_channel(struct mlx5e_priv *priv, int ix, c->xdp = !!priv->xdp_prog; err = mlx5e_open_rq(c, &cparam->rq, &c->rq); - if (err) - goto err_close_xdp_sq; + if (err) { + if (c->xdp) + goto err_close_xdp_sq; + else + goto err_close_sqs; + } The fix does remove one problem, but the error path still cause the kernel to crash. This time it seems related to correct disabling of NAPI polling before disabling the queues. Now with another error: XXX: call mlx5e_close_sqs(c) BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) IP: [< (null)>] (null) PGD 401e00067 PUD 40746e067 PMD 0 Oops: 0010 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: mlx5_core coretemp kvm_intel kvm irqbypass intel_cstate mxm_wmi i2c_i801 i2c_smbus] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.9.0-rc3-page_pool04+ #124 Hardware name: To Be Filled By O.E.M./Z97 Extreme4, BIOS P2.10 05/12/2015 task: ffffffff81c0c4c0 task.stack: ffffffff81c00000 RIP: 0010:[<0000000000000000>] [< (null)>] (null) RSP: 0018:ffff88041fa03e70 EFLAGS: 00010286 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff880401ecc000 RCX: 0000000000000005 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff880401c38000 RDI: ffff880401ecc000 RBP: ffff88041fa03e88 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffff8803ea6a7230 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000040 R12: ffff880401c38000 R13: ffff880401ecf148 R14: 0000000000000040 R15: ffff880401ecc000 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88041fa00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000040c468000 CR4: 00000000001406f0 Stack: ffffffffa02e62e0 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 ffff88041fa03ed0 ffffffffa02e84c2 0000ffff00000000 ffffffff00000040 ffff880401ecf148 0000000000000040 0000000000000000 000000000000012c 0000000000000000 Call Trace: <IRQ> [ 428.032595] [<ffffffffa02e62e0>] ? mlx5e_post_rx_wqes+0x80/0xc0 [mlx5_core] [<ffffffffa02e84c2>] mlx5e_napi_poll+0xf2/0x530 [mlx5_core] [<ffffffff8160e50c>] net_rx_action+0x1fc/0x350 [<ffffffff8172aff8>] __do_softirq+0xc8/0x2c6 [<ffffffff8106728e>] irq_exit+0xbe/0xd0 [<ffffffff8172ad44>] do_IRQ+0x54/0xd0 [<ffffffff8172937f>] common_interrupt+0x7f/0x7f <EOI> [ 428.075157] [<ffffffff817285d0>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x10/0x20 [<ffffffff81086db8>] ? finish_task_switch+0x78/0x200 [<ffffffff81722dfa>] __schedule+0x17a/0x670 [<ffffffff8172332d>] schedule+0x3d/0x90 [<ffffffff817236a5>] schedule_preempt_disabled+0x15/0x20 [<ffffffff810a560c>] cpu_startup_entry+0x12c/0x1c0 [<ffffffff8171c274>] rest_init+0x84/0x90 [<ffffffff81d95f14>] start_kernel+0x3fe/0x40b [<ffffffff81d9528f>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x2a/0x2c [<ffffffff81d953f9>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x168/0x176 Code: Bad RIP value. RIP [< (null)>] (null) RSP <ffff88041fa03e70> CR2: 0000000000000000 ---[ end trace a871278f0d0523ac ]--- Could you please look at fixing your driver? Best regards, Jesper Dangaard Brouer MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat Author of http://www.iptv-analyzer.org LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer