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authorEmil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@intel.com>2016-09-22 15:06:52 -0700
committerJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>2016-10-27 14:07:21 -0700
commita3b8cb1f84a0de95323902c76bab245675d6d218 (patch)
tree9f2c66cc3af0300efd028ac1423f8126ec9ec95e /drivers/net
parentd5d32e4b76687f4df9ad3ba8d3702b7347f51fa6 (diff)
ixgbe: fix panic when using macvlan with l2-fwd-offload enabled
Fix NULL pointer dereference in the case where a macvlan interface is brought up while the PF is still down: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000010 IP: [<ffffffffa0170fb2>] ixgbe_alloc_rx_buffers+0x42/0x1a0 [ixgbe] Call Trace: [<ffffffffa017336b>] ixgbe_configure_rx_ring+0x2eb/0x3d0 [ixgbe] [<ffffffffa0173811>] ixgbe_fwd_ring_up+0xd1/0x380 [ixgbe] [<ffffffffa0179709>] ixgbe_fwd_add+0x149/0x230 [ixgbe] [<ffffffffa0113480>] macvlan_open+0x260/0x2b0 [macvlan] Reported-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@coreos.com> Signed-off-by: Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@intel.com> Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c12
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
index a244d9a67264..bd93d823cc25 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
@@ -9135,10 +9135,14 @@ static void *ixgbe_fwd_add(struct net_device *pdev, struct net_device *vdev)
goto fwd_add_err;
fwd_adapter->pool = pool;
fwd_adapter->real_adapter = adapter;
- err = ixgbe_fwd_ring_up(vdev, fwd_adapter);
- if (err)
- goto fwd_add_err;
- netif_tx_start_all_queues(vdev);
+
+ if (netif_running(pdev)) {
+ err = ixgbe_fwd_ring_up(vdev, fwd_adapter);
+ if (err)
+ goto fwd_add_err;
+ netif_tx_start_all_queues(vdev);
+ }
+
return fwd_adapter;
fwd_add_err:
/* unwind counter and free adapter struct */