[PATCH RFC iwl-next 4/4] iavf: harden VLAN filter state machine race handling
From: Petr Oros
Date: Mon Mar 02 2026 - 06:42:07 EST
Address remaining race windows in the VLAN filter state machine that
were identified during cross-state analysis of ADD and DEL paths.
1. Add VIRTCHNL_OP_ADD_VLAN to the success completion handler.
The V1 ADD_VLAN opcode had no success handler -- filters sent via V1
stayed in ADDING state permanently. Add a fallthrough case so V1
filters also transition ADDING -> ACTIVE on PF confirmation.
Critically, add an `if (v_retval) break` guard: the error switch
in iavf_virtchnl_completion() does NOT return after handling errors,
it falls through to the success switch. Without this guard, a
PF-rejected ADD would incorrectly mark ADDING filters as ACTIVE,
creating a driver/HW mismatch where the driver believes the filter
is installed but the PF never accepted it.
For V2, this is harmless: iavf_vlan_add_reject() in the error
block already kfree'd all ADDING filters, so the success handler
finds nothing to transition.
2. Skip DEL on filters already in REMOVING state.
In iavf_del_vlan(), if a filter is in IAVF_VLAN_REMOVING (DEL
already sent to PF, waiting for response), do not overwrite to
REMOVE and schedule a redundant DEL. The pending DEL's
completion handler will either kfree the filter (PF confirms)
or revert to ACTIVE (PF rejects).
Without this, the sequence DEL(pending) -> user-del -> second DEL
could result in PF returning an error for the second DEL (filter
already gone), causing the completion handler to incorrectly revert
a deleted filter back to ACTIVE.
Signed-off-by: Petr Oros <poros@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_main.c | 5 ++++-
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_virtchnl.c | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_main.c
index 212a23ead20c57..9bcf34f581e748 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_main.c
@@ -816,11 +816,14 @@ static void iavf_del_vlan(struct iavf_adapter *adapter, struct iavf_vlan vlan)
list_del(&f->list);
kfree(f);
adapter->num_vlan_filters--;
- } else {
+ } else if (f->state != IAVF_VLAN_REMOVING) {
f->state = IAVF_VLAN_REMOVE;
iavf_schedule_aq_request(adapter,
IAVF_FLAG_AQ_DEL_VLAN_FILTER);
}
+ /* If REMOVING, DEL is already sent to PF; completion
+ * handler will free the filter when PF confirms.
+ */
}
spin_unlock_bh(&adapter->mac_vlan_list_lock);
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_virtchnl.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_virtchnl.c
index 9f2b64bb4ed9e7..d5264e1d5d5699 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_virtchnl.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_virtchnl.c
@@ -2877,9 +2877,13 @@ void iavf_virtchnl_completion(struct iavf_adapter *adapter,
spin_unlock_bh(&adapter->adv_rss_lock);
}
break;
+ case VIRTCHNL_OP_ADD_VLAN:
case VIRTCHNL_OP_ADD_VLAN_V2: {
struct iavf_vlan_filter *f;
+ if (v_retval)
+ break;
+
spin_lock_bh(&adapter->mac_vlan_list_lock);
list_for_each_entry(f, &adapter->vlan_filter_list, list) {
if (f->state == IAVF_VLAN_ADDING)
--
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