[PATCH net v4 3/7] net: mana: free HWC comp_buf after destroying the EQ

Long Li <[email protected]> Fri, 7 Aug 2026 19:34:12 -0700
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-hyperv,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-rdma,org.kernel.vger.netdev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
mana_hwc_destroy_cq() freed hwc_cq->comp_buf and destroyed the CQ before
the EQ.  That was unsafe while the EQ was still registered: the EQ
interrupt handler reaches comp_buf via mana_hwc_comp_event() and the CQ
object (hwc->cq->gdma_cq) via mana_hwc_init_event_handler(), so a late
EQE dispatched after the free could touch freed memory.

Destroy the EQ first.  mana_gd_destroy_queue() on the EQ deregisters its
IRQ and waits out in-flight handlers, fencing all EQE dispatch; only then
free the CQ and comp_buf.

Fixes: ca9c54d2d6a5 ("net: mana: Add a driver for Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA)")
Signed-off-by: Long Li <[email protected]>
---
Changes in v4:
 - No functional change since v3; the teardown-ordering guarantees this
   patch relies on are made explicit in patch 5.

 .../net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/hw_channel.c   | 18 ++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/hw_channel.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/hw_channel.c
index 3f011ebbe7b3..19896bb5ce1a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/hw_channel.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/hw_channel.c
@@ -384,14 +384,24 @@ static void mana_hwc_comp_event(void *ctx, struct gdma_queue *q_self)
 
 static void mana_hwc_destroy_cq(struct gdma_context *gc, struct hwc_cq *hwc_cq)
 {
-	kfree(hwc_cq->comp_buf);
+	/* Destroy the EQ before the CQ.  mana_gd_destroy_queue() on the EQ
+	 * deregisters its IRQ and waits out in-flight handlers, fencing all
+	 * EQE dispatch — both the completion path and HWC init/reconfig
+	 * events.  Freeing the CQ first would leave the EQ live and able to
+	 * dispatch an event that dereferences hwc->cq->gdma_cq (e.g.
+	 * mana_hwc_init_event_handler()) after it has been freed.
+	 */
+	if (hwc_cq->gdma_eq)
+		mana_gd_destroy_queue(gc, hwc_cq->gdma_eq);
 
+	/* comp_buf is reached only by mana_hwc_comp_event(), invoked from
+	 * the now-fenced EQ handler, so it is safe to free once the EQ and
+	 * CQ are gone.
+	 */
 	if (hwc_cq->gdma_cq)
 		mana_gd_destroy_queue(gc, hwc_cq->gdma_cq);
 
-	if (hwc_cq->gdma_eq)
-		mana_gd_destroy_queue(gc, hwc_cq->gdma_eq);
-
+	kfree(hwc_cq->comp_buf);
 	kfree(hwc_cq);
 }
 
-- 
2.43.0