On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 01:56:35PM +0200, Eelco Chaudron wrote:
> Currently, the per cpu upcall counters are allocated after the vport is
> created and inserted into the system. This could lead to the datapath
> accessing the counters before they are allocated resulting in a kernel
> Oops.
>
> Here is an example:
>
> PID: 59693 TASK: ffff0005f4f51500 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "ovs-vswitchd"
> #0 [ffff80000a39b5b0] __switch_to at ffffb70f0629f2f4
> #1 [ffff80000a39b5d0] __schedule at ffffb70f0629f5cc
> #2 [ffff80000a39b650] preempt_schedule_common at ffffb70f0629fa60
> #3 [ffff80000a39b670] dynamic_might_resched at ffffb70f0629fb58
> #4 [ffff80000a39b680] mutex_lock_killable at ffffb70f062a1388
> #5 [ffff80000a39b6a0] pcpu_alloc at ffffb70f0594460c
> #6 [ffff80000a39b750] __alloc_percpu_gfp at ffffb70f05944e68
> #7 [ffff80000a39b760] ovs_vport_cmd_new at ffffb70ee6961b90 [openvswitch]
> ...
>
> PID: 58682 TASK: ffff0005b2f0bf00 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "kworker/0:3"
> #0 [ffff80000a5d2f40] machine_kexec at ffffb70f056a0758
> #1 [ffff80000a5d2f70] __crash_kexec at ffffb70f057e2994
> #2 [ffff80000a5d3100] crash_kexec at ffffb70f057e2ad8
> #3 [ffff80000a5d3120] die at ffffb70f0628234c
> #4 [ffff80000a5d31e0] die_kernel_fault at ffffb70f062828a8
> #5 [ffff80000a5d3210] __do_kernel_fault at ffffb70f056a31f4
> #6 [ffff80000a5d3240] do_bad_area at ffffb70f056a32a4
> #7 [ffff80000a5d3260] do_translation_fault at ffffb70f062a9710
> #8 [ffff80000a5d3270] do_mem_abort at ffffb70f056a2f74
> #9 [ffff80000a5d32a0] el1_abort at ffffb70f06297dac
> #10 [ffff80000a5d32d0] el1h_64_sync_handler at ffffb70f06299b24
> #11 [ffff80000a5d3410] el1h_64_sync at ffffb70f056812dc
> #12 [ffff80000a5d3430] ovs_dp_upcall at ffffb70ee6963c84 [openvswitch]
> #13 [ffff80000a5d3470] ovs_dp_process_packet at ffffb70ee6963fdc
> [openvswitch]
> #14 [ffff80000a5d34f0] ovs_vport_receive at ffffb70ee6972c78 [openvswitch]
> #15 [ffff80000a5d36f0] netdev_port_receive at ffffb70ee6973948 [openvswitch]
> #16 [ffff80000a5d3720] netdev_frame_hook at ffffb70ee6973a28 [openvswitch]
> #17 [ffff80000a5d3730] __netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0 at
> ffffb70f06079f90
>
> We moved the per cpu upcall counter allocation to the existing vport
> alloc and free functions to solve this.
>
> Fixes: 95637d91fefd ("net: openvswitch: release vport resources on failure")
> Fixes: 1933ea365aa7 ("net: openvswitch: Add support to count upcall packets")
> Signed-off-by: Eelco Chaudron <echau...@redhat.com>
> ---
>
> v2: - Cleaned up error handling as Simon suggested.
Thanks!
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.hor...@corigine.com>
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