Re: [PATCH net] virtio-net: Skip set_features on non-cvq devices

From: Willem de Bruijn
Date: Sun Dec 22 2019 - 09:22:40 EST


On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 8:11 AM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 10:08:41PM -0500, Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 4:22 PM Alistair Delva <adelva@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On devices without control virtqueue support, such as the virtio_net
> > > implementation in crosvm[1], attempting to configure LRO will panic the
> > > kernel:
> > >
> > > kernel BUG at drivers/net/virtio_net.c:1591!
> > > invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
> > > CPU: 1 PID: 483 Comm: Binder:330_1 Not tainted 5.4.5-01326-g19463e9acaac #1
> > > Hardware name: ChromiumOS crosvm, BIOS 0
> > > RIP: 0010:virtnet_send_command+0x15d/0x170 [virtio_net]
> > > Code: d8 00 00 00 80 78 02 00 0f 94 c0 65 48 8b 0c 25 28 00 00 00 48 3b 4c 24 70 75 11 48 8d 65 d8 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 <0f> 0b e8 ec a4 12 c8 66 90 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 55 48 89
> > > RSP: 0018:ffffb97940e7bb50 EFLAGS: 00010246
> > > RAX: ffffffffc0596020 RBX: ffffa0e1fc8ea840 RCX: 0000000000000017
> > > RDX: ffffffffc0596110 RSI: 0000000000000011 RDI: 000000000000000d
> > > RBP: ffffb97940e7bbf8 R08: ffffa0e1fc8ea0b0 R09: ffffa0e1fc8ea0b0
> > > R10: ffffffffffffffff R11: ffffffffc0590940 R12: 0000000000000005
> > > R13: ffffa0e1ffad2c00 R14: ffffb97940e7bc08 R15: 0000000000000000
> > > FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa0e1fd100000(006b) knlGS:00000000e5ef7494
> > > CS: 0010 DS: 002b ES: 002b CR0: 0000000080050033
> > > CR2: 00000000e5eeb82c CR3: 0000000079b06001 CR4: 0000000000360ee0
> > > DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> > > DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> > > Call Trace:
> > > ? preempt_count_add+0x58/0xb0
> > > ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x36/0x70
> > > ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x1a/0x40
> > > ? __wake_up+0x70/0x190
> > > virtnet_set_features+0x90/0xf0 [virtio_net]
> > > __netdev_update_features+0x271/0x980
> > > ? nlmsg_notify+0x5b/0xa0
> > > dev_disable_lro+0x2b/0x190
> > > ? inet_netconf_notify_devconf+0xe2/0x120
> > > devinet_sysctl_forward+0x176/0x1e0
> > > proc_sys_call_handler+0x1f0/0x250
> > > proc_sys_write+0xf/0x20
> > > __vfs_write+0x3e/0x190
> > > ? __sb_start_write+0x6d/0xd0
> > > vfs_write+0xd3/0x190
> > > ksys_write+0x68/0xd0
> > > __ia32_sys_write+0x14/0x20
> > > do_fast_syscall_32+0x86/0xe0
> > > entry_SYSENTER_compat+0x7c/0x8e
> > >
> > > This happens because virtio_set_features() does not check the presence
> > > of the control virtqueue feature, which is sanity checked by a BUG_ON
> > > in virtnet_send_command().
> > >
> > > Fix this by skipping any feature processing if the control virtqueue is
> > > missing. This should be OK for any future feature that is added, as
> > > presumably all of them would require control virtqueue support to notify
> > > the endpoint that offload etc. should begin.
> > >
> > > [1] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/crosvm/
> > >
> > > Fixes: a02e8964eaf9 ("virtio-net: ethtool configurable LRO")
> > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [4.20+]
> > > Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: kernel-team@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Cc: virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Signed-off-by: Alistair Delva <adelva@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Thanks for debugging this, Alistair.
> >
> > > ---
> > > drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 3 +++
> > > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > > index 4d7d5434cc5d..709bcd34e485 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > > @@ -2560,6 +2560,9 @@ static int virtnet_set_features(struct net_device *dev,
> > > u64 offloads;
> > > int err;
> > >
> > > + if (!vi->has_cvq)
> > > + return 0;
> > > +
> >
> > Instead of checking for this in virtnet_set_features, how about we
> > make configurability contingent on cvq in virtnet_probe:
> >
> > - if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_GUEST_OFFLOADS))
> > + if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_GUEST_OFFLOADS) &&
> > + virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VQ))
> > dev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_LRO;
> >
> > Based on this logic a little below in the same function
> >
> > if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VQ))
> > vi->has_cvq = true;
>
>
> This would be a regression on old hypervisors which didn't have
> CTL VQ - suddenly they will lose offloads.

dev->features still correctly displays whether offloads are enabled.
Removing it from dev->hw_features just renders it non-configurable.

Note that before the patch that is being fixed the offloads were
enabled, but ethtool would show them as off.