[PATCH net v3 0/6] net: mana: HW channel reliability and hardening fixes
Long Li <[email protected]> Mon, 3 Aug 2026 16:43:38 -0700
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.linux-hyperv,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-rdma,org.kernel.vger.netdev |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
This series fixes a set of latent bugs and robustness gaps in the MANA
Hardware Channel (HWC), the control path the driver uses to talk to the
device. The issues range from a use-after-free of completion queues
during teardown to buffer mis-sizing, unsafe teardown ordering, missing
validation of device-supplied RX metadata, and stale-response handling
after a command timeout.
Patch overview:
1 RCU-protect gc->cq_table lookups against concurrent CQ destroy
The EQ interrupt handler dereferences CQ pointers from gc->cq_table
while teardown can free them. Put the table under RCU and wait a
grace period before freeing, closing the use-after-free.
2 fix HWC RQ/SQ buffer size swap
init_queues() sized the RQ with max_req_msg_size and the SQ with
max_resp_msg_size -- backwards. A large response could overflow the
RQ buffer and the RX slot-index divide used the wrong stride. Also
store the queue dimensions before creating the CQ so the RX handler
never sees an uninitialised divisor.
3 free HWC comp_buf after destroying the EQ
Reorder teardown so the CQ/EQ are torn down (readers quiesced)
before comp_buf is freed, preventing a late EQ-handler access to
freed memory.
4 validate hardware-supplied values in the HWC RX path
Bounds-check the SGE, verify the recovered slot index and SGE
address, and validate response length and msg_id before use, so
malformed or hostile DMA metadata cannot cause wrong-slot completion
or out-of-bounds access.
5 fix HWC teardown safety with setup_active flag and destroy ordering
Track setup activation explicitly, tear the CQ down before the
TXQ/RXQ, and on an unrecoverable teardown failure leak the HWC
resources rather than free memory the device may still DMA into.
6 fix stale HWC response after command timeout
Replace the inflight-slot semaphore with a bitmap + waitqueue and
per-slot refcount/lock; latch the channel on timeout so no new slots
are handed out, drop duplicate/late responses, and ignore a zero
firmware-supplied timeout.
Follow-up feature work (net-next, sent separately)
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The original series also contained two patches that are improvements, not
fixes:
net: mana: support concurrent HWC requests
net: mana: add dynamic HWC queue depth with reinit path
Per the netdev tree rules, fixes go to 'net' and features/improvements go
to 'net-next', and the two must not be combined in a single submission.
Those two patches build on the locking and teardown groundwork in this
series, so they will be posted as a separate net-next series only after
these fixes have propagated from net into net-next through the usual
periodic merge.
Changes since v2
----------------
- Per maintainer feedback, split the original combined series: the six
fixes here target 'net'; the two feature patches now go to 'net-next'
and are sent separately (see above). Rebased the fixes onto net.
- Dropped the pcie_flr()-based reset fallback from the teardown path.
pcie_flr() resets device config without the save/restore that
pci_reset_function() provides, and cannot be used as a drop-in here.
On an unrecoverable teardown failure the driver now leaks the HWC
resources instead of touching memory the device may still DMA into.
- patch 2: store the HWC queue dimensions before creating the CQ so the
RX completion handler can never observe a zero max_resp_msg_size
divisor or a stale num_inflight_msg bound.
- Assorted commit-message and comment clarifications.
Long Li (6):
net: mana: RCU-protect gc->cq_table lookups against concurrent CQ
destroy
net: mana: fix HWC RQ/SQ buffer size swap
net: mana: free HWC comp_buf after destroying the EQ
net: mana: validate hardware-supplied values in the HWC RX path
net: mana: fix HWC teardown safety with setup_active flag and destroy
ordering
net: mana: fix stale HWC response after command timeout
drivers/infiniband/hw/mana/cq.c | 46 +-
.../net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/gdma_main.c | 25 +-
.../net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/hw_channel.c | 402 +++++++++++++++---
drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_en.c | 22 +-
include/net/mana/gdma.h | 29 +-
include/net/mana/hw_channel.h | 35 +-
6 files changed, 475 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-)
base-commit: af39eb111ce6b5eba9c08513b62c4868eb7e7fd5
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