[PATCH net] netdevsim: check the driver is bound in new_port/del_port

From: Nguyen Ngoc Thang

Date: Sun Nov 01 2026 - 08:59:06 EST


new_port and del_port are attributes of the bus device, so they stay
reachable after the driver is unbound. nsim_drv_remove() clears
drvdata, yet both handlers pass it straight to priv_to_devlink() and
devl_lock(), which faults on a small negative pointer:

BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffffffffffeb0
RIP: 0010:__lock_acquire+0x41/0x2de0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5140
Call Trace:
lock_acquire+0x115/0x350
mutex_lock_nested+0x55/0x1d0
nsim_drv_port_add+0x5a/0x140 drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:1760
new_port_store+0x1a5/0x280 drivers/net/netdevsim/bus.c:96
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3a5/0x540

The nsim_bus_dev->init check does not help: it is only cleared when
the whole device is deleted, not on unbind.

Do what sriov_numvfs already does: take device_lock() so the driver
cannot be unbound underneath us, and return -ENOENT if drvdata is
NULL.

Fixes: 794b2c05ca1c ("netdevsim: extend device attrs to support port addition and deletion")
Reported-by: syzbot+b3fca27eb4005f0111f4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=b3fca27eb4005f0111f4
Signed-off-by: Nguyen Ngoc Thang <ngocthang2710.1999@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Reproduced in QEMU (x86_64, KASAN + lockdep) with the syzbot C repro:
the unpatched kernel oopses in nsim_drv_port_add() right after unbind.
With the patch, the write to new_port returns -ENOENT, a 40s stress of
bind/unbind + new_device/del_device racing with new_port/del_port/
sriov_numvfs runs clean (no splat, no lockdep report, no hung task),
and new_port/del_port still work as before on a bound device.
drivers/net/netdevsim/bus.c | 17 ++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/netdevsim/bus.c b/drivers/net/netdevsim/bus.c
index 5c55c308487b..d843b3c985cf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netdevsim/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netdevsim/bus.c
@@ -93,8 +93,13 @@ new_port_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
return -EINVAL;
}

- ret = nsim_drv_port_add(nsim_bus_dev, NSIM_DEV_PORT_TYPE_PF, port_index,
- addr_set ? eth_addr : NULL);
+ device_lock(dev);
+ ret = -ENOENT;
+ if (dev_get_drvdata(dev))
+ ret = nsim_drv_port_add(nsim_bus_dev, NSIM_DEV_PORT_TYPE_PF,
+ port_index, addr_set ? eth_addr : NULL);
+ device_unlock(dev);
+
return ret ? ret : count;
}

@@ -115,7 +120,13 @@ del_port_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
if (ret)
return ret;

- ret = nsim_drv_port_del(nsim_bus_dev, NSIM_DEV_PORT_TYPE_PF, port_index);
+ device_lock(dev);
+ ret = -ENOENT;
+ if (dev_get_drvdata(dev))
+ ret = nsim_drv_port_del(nsim_bus_dev, NSIM_DEV_PORT_TYPE_PF,
+ port_index);
+ device_unlock(dev);
+
return ret ? ret : count;
}

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