BUG: vnet0 selects TX queue 11, but real number of TX queues is 11

From: George Amanakis
Date: Tue Jan 29 2019 - 21:16:46 EST


Since 4.20.4 when running a KVM with vhost_net I am seeing in dmesg:
vnet0 selects TX queue 11, but real number of TX queues is 11

The corresponding part in the xml definition of the virtual machine is:
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<interface type='bridge'>
<mac address='xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx'/>
<source bridge='br0'/>
<model type='virtio'/>
<driver name='vhost' queues='12'>
</driver>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x01' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
</interface>
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Doing a git-bisect with 4.20.3 last known good, and 4.20.4 as bad, this
commit turned up:
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commit 9ff0436e2c3575ffe64d359fb3b67aee237dc519
Author: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Jan 7 13:38:38 2019 -0800

tun: publish tfile after it's fully initialized

[ Upstream commit 0b7959b6257322f7693b08a459c505d4938646f2 ]

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
00000000000000d1
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Applying the following patch corrects it in 4.20.5. Would this be the
correct thing to do?
---
drivers/net/tun.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index 6658658246d2..e0dc004c6483 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -862,8 +862,6 @@ static int tun_attach(struct tun_struct *tun, struct file *file,
if (rtnl_dereference(tun->xdp_prog))
sock_set_flag(&tfile->sk, SOCK_XDP);

- tun_set_real_num_queues(tun);
-
/* device is allowed to go away first, so no need to hold extra
* refcnt.
*/
@@ -875,6 +873,9 @@ static int tun_attach(struct tun_struct *tun, struct file *file,
rcu_assign_pointer(tfile->tun, tun);
rcu_assign_pointer(tun->tfiles[tun->numqueues], tfile);
tun->numqueues++;
+
+ tun_set_real_num_queues(tun);
+
out:
return err;
}
--
2.20.1