[PATCH net] ice: detach the VF representor when ice_start_vfs() fails
From: Linkui Xiao
Date: Sun Sep 20 2026 - 23:17:55 EST
From: Linkui Xiao <xiaolinkui@xxxxxxxxxx>
ice_start_vfs() attaches every VF it brings up to the eswitch with
ice_eswitch_attach_vf(), but the teardown path only undoes the queue
mappings and the VF VSI. Nothing calls ice_eswitch_detach_vf() for the
VFs that were attached before the failure, and the caller, ice_ena_vfs(),
goes straight to ice_free_vf_entries(), which drops its reference to
every VF.
The port representors created for those VFs therefore outlive the
failed VF creation:
- the representor netdev stays registered and its devlink port stays
registered too. That port is embedded in struct ice_vf, so it ends
up pointing into the memory that ice_sriov_free_vf() releases;
- repr->vf keeps pointing at the freed struct ice_vf, and repr->src_vsi
at the VF VSI that ice_vf_vsi_release() tore down. The leftover
netdev is still visible to the user, so even a plain
"ip -s link show" of it reaches ice_repr_get_stats64(), which calls
repr->ops.ready() -> ice_check_vf_ready_for_cfg(repr->vf) and then
reads repr->src_vsi through ice_update_eth_stats();
- the virtchnl ops of that VF, which ice_repr_add_vf() replaced with
ice_virtchnl_set_repr_ops(), are never handed back to
ice_virtchnl_set_dflt_ops();
- pf->eswitch.reprs never becomes empty, so ice_eswitch_detach() never
calls ice_eswitch_disable_switchdev(). pf->eswitch.is_running stays
true, with the bridge offloads and the devlink rate topology still
up, and ice_eswitch_release_env() is skipped, so the uplink VSI is
left in the switchdev configuration that ice_eswitch_setup_env()
gave it.
Detach the representor in the teardown loop the way ice_free_vfs() does,
ahead of ice_vf_vsi_release(), because ice_repr_rem_vf() and
ice_eswitch_release_repr() both need repr->src_vsi to still be valid.
Every VF the teardown loop walks completed ice_eswitch_attach_vf()
successfully, and ice_eswitch_detach_vf() already returns early for a VF
without a representor, so no extra condition is needed.
Fixes: fff292b47ac1 ("ice: add VF representors one by one")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Linkui Xiao <xiaolinkui@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_sriov.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_sriov.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_sriov.c
index e04de0215596..1b563aba3bbd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_sriov.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_sriov.c
@@ -508,6 +508,7 @@ static int ice_start_vfs(struct ice_pf *pf)
if (it_cnt == 0)
break;
+ ice_eswitch_detach_vf(pf, vf);
ice_dis_vf_mappings(vf);
ice_vf_vsi_release(vf);
it_cnt--;
--
2.25.1