[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "virtio: delete napi structures from netdev before releasing memory" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    virtio: delete napi structures from netdev before releasing memory

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 25cbbd1389def5fffc835acca427c6c77251218f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrey Vagin <avagin at openvz.org>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 18:36:21 +0400
Subject: virtio: delete napi structures from netdev before releasing memory

commit d4fb84eefe5164f6a6ea51d0a9e26280c661a0dd upstream.

free_netdev calls netif_napi_del too, but it's too late, because napi
structures are placed on vi->rq. netif_napi_add() is called from
virtnet_alloc_queues.

general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP
Dumping ftrace buffer:
   (ftrace buffer empty)
Modules linked in: ip6table_filter ip6_tables iptable_filter ip_tables virtio_balloon pcspkr virtio_net(-) i2c_pii
CPU: 1 PID: 347 Comm: rmmod Not tainted 3.13.0-rc2+ #171
Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
task: ffff8800b779c420 ti: ffff8800379e0000 task.ti: ffff8800379e0000
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81322e19>]  [<ffffffff81322e19>] __list_del_entry+0x29/0xd0
RSP: 0018:ffff8800379e1dd0  EFLAGS: 00010a83
RAX: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b RBX: ffff8800379c2fd0 RCX: dead000000200200
RDX: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff8800379c2fd0
RBP: ffff8800379e1dd0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff8800379c2f90
R13: ffff880037839160 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00000000013352f0
FS:  00007f1400e34740(0000) GS:ffff8800bfb00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 00007f464124c763 CR3: 00000000b68cf000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Stack:
 ffff8800379e1df0 ffffffff8155beab 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b2b ffff8800378391c0
 ffff8800379e1e18 ffffffff8156499b ffff880037839be0 ffff880037839d20
 ffff88003779d3f0 ffff8800379e1e38 ffffffffa003477c ffff88003779d388
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8155beab>] netif_napi_del+0x1b/0x80
 [<ffffffff8156499b>] free_netdev+0x8b/0x110
 [<ffffffffa003477c>] virtnet_remove+0x7c/0x90 [virtio_net]
 [<ffffffff813ae323>] virtio_dev_remove+0x23/0x80
 [<ffffffff813f62ef>] __device_release_driver+0x7f/0xf0
 [<ffffffff813f6ca0>] driver_detach+0xc0/0xd0
 [<ffffffff813f5f28>] bus_remove_driver+0x58/0xd0
 [<ffffffff813f72ec>] driver_unregister+0x2c/0x50
 [<ffffffff813ae65e>] unregister_virtio_driver+0xe/0x10
 [<ffffffffa0036942>] virtio_net_driver_exit+0x10/0x6ce [virtio_net]
 [<ffffffff810d7cf2>] SyS_delete_module+0x172/0x220
 [<ffffffff810a732d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
 [<ffffffff810f5d4c>] ? __audit_syscall_entry+0x9c/0xf0
 [<ffffffff81677f69>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Code: 00 00 55 48 8b 17 48 b9 00 01 10 00 00 00 ad de 48 8b 47 08 48 89 e5 48 39 ca 74 29 48 b9 00 02 20 00 00 00
RIP  [<ffffffff81322e19>] __list_del_entry+0x29/0xd0
 RSP <ffff8800379e1dd0>
---[ end trace d5931cd3f87c9763 ]---

Fixes: 986a4f4d452d (virtio_net: multiqueue support)
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin at openvz.org>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 64cf702..5055eb7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -1285,6 +1285,11 @@ static void virtnet_config_changed(struct virtio_device *vdev)

 static void virtnet_free_queues(struct virtnet_info *vi)
 {
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < vi->max_queue_pairs; i++)
+		netif_napi_del(&vi->rq[i].napi);
+
 	kfree(vi->rq);
 	kfree(vi->sq);
 }
--
1.8.3.2