Re: [PATCH net] net/mlx5e: add missing cpu_to_node to kvzalloc_node in mlx5e_open_xdpredirect_sq

From: Joe Damato
Date: Wed Jan 22 2025 - 19:46:42 EST


On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 04:04:07PM -0800, Stanislav Fomichev wrote:
> kvzalloc_node is not doing a runtime check on the node argument
> (__alloc_pages_node_noprof does have a VM_BUG_ON, but it expands to
> nothing on !CONFIG_DEBUG_VM builds), so doing any ethtool/netlink
> operation that calls mlx5e_open on a CPU that's larger that MAX_NUMNODES
> triggers OOB access and panic (see the trace below).
>
> Add missing cpu_to_node call to convert cpu id to node id.
>
> [ 165.427394] mlx5_core 0000:5c:00.0 beth1: Link up
> [ 166.479327] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000800000010
> [ 166.494592] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
> [ 166.505995] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
> ...
> [ 166.816958] Call Trace:
> [ 166.822380] <TASK>
> [ 166.827034] ? __die_body+0x64/0xb0
> [ 166.834774] ? page_fault_oops+0x2cd/0x3f0
> [ 166.843862] ? exc_page_fault+0x63/0x130
> [ 166.852564] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30
> [ 166.861843] ? __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x43/0xd0
> [ 166.871897] ? get_partial_node+0x1c/0x320
> [ 166.880983] ? deactivate_slab+0x269/0x2b0
> [ 166.890069] ___slab_alloc+0x521/0xa90
> [ 166.898389] ? __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x43/0xd0
> [ 166.908442] __kmalloc_node_noprof+0x216/0x3f0
> [ 166.918302] ? __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x43/0xd0
> [ 166.928354] __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x43/0xd0
> [ 166.938021] mlx5e_open_channels+0x5e2/0xc00
> [ 166.947496] mlx5e_open_locked+0x3e/0xf0
> [ 166.956201] mlx5e_open+0x23/0x50
> [ 166.963551] __dev_open+0x114/0x1c0
> [ 166.971292] __dev_change_flags+0xa2/0x1b0
> [ 166.980378] dev_change_flags+0x21/0x60
> [ 166.988887] do_setlink+0x38d/0xf20
> [ 166.996628] ? ep_poll_callback+0x1b9/0x240
> [ 167.005910] ? __nla_validate_parse.llvm.10713395753544950386+0x80/0xd70
> [ 167.020782] ? __wake_up_sync_key+0x52/0x80
> [ 167.030066] ? __mutex_lock+0xff/0x550
> [ 167.038382] ? security_capable+0x50/0x90
> [ 167.047279] rtnl_setlink+0x1c9/0x210
> [ 167.055403] ? ep_poll_callback+0x1b9/0x240
> [ 167.064684] ? security_capable+0x50/0x90
> [ 167.073579] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x2f9/0x310
> [ 167.082667] ? rtnetlink_bind+0x30/0x30
> [ 167.091173] netlink_rcv_skb+0xb1/0xe0
> [ 167.099492] netlink_unicast+0x20f/0x2e0
> [ 167.108191] netlink_sendmsg+0x389/0x420
> [ 167.116896] __sys_sendto+0x158/0x1c0
> [ 167.125024] __x64_sys_sendto+0x22/0x30
> [ 167.133534] do_syscall_64+0x63/0x130
> [ 167.141657] ? __irq_exit_rcu.llvm.17843942359718260576+0x52/0xd0
> [ 167.155181] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
>
> Fixes: bb135e40129d ("net/mlx5e: move XDP_REDIRECT sq to dynamic allocation")
> Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c
> index bd41b75d246e..a814b63ed97e 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c
> @@ -2087,7 +2087,7 @@ static struct mlx5e_xdpsq *mlx5e_open_xdpredirect_sq(struct mlx5e_channel *c,
> struct mlx5e_xdpsq *xdpsq;
> int err;
>
> - xdpsq = kvzalloc_node(sizeof(*xdpsq), GFP_KERNEL, c->cpu);
> + xdpsq = kvzalloc_node(sizeof(*xdpsq), GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(c->cpu));
> if (!xdpsq)
> return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);

Nice catch!

Just out of curiosity, I looked at the other calls to kvzalloc_node
in mlx5 and they seem fine, as far as I can tell.

Reviewed-by: Joe Damato <jdamato@xxxxxxxxxx>