[PATCH 2/2] ice: clear Flow Director entries before reset cleanup
From: Aaron Ma
Date: Thu Sep 03 2026 - 04:06:23 EST
Flow Director profiles retain handles to generic flow entries. Reset calls
ice_clear_hw_tbls() to free those entries, but leaves the Flow Director
handles unchanged until replay replaces them.
If rebuild fails before replay completes, later driver removal follows a
stale handle and dereferences a freed flow entry in ice_flow_rem_entry().
KASAN reports a wild access to list poison from
ice_fdir_erase_flow_from_hw().
The failure is reported as:
KASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range [0xdead000000000108-...]
RIP: ice_flow_rem_entry+0xaf/0x170 [ice]
ice_fdir_erase_flow_from_hw+0x1ee/0x420 [ice]
Clear the Flow Director handles before the hardware tables free their
entries. A successful replay installs new handles, while a failed rebuild
leaves them invalid for later cleanup.
Fixes: 148beb612031 ("ice: Initialize Flow Director resources")
Signed-off-by: Aaron Ma <aaron.ma@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice.h | 1 +
.../net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ethtool_fdir.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c | 2 ++
3 files changed, 24 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice.h
index db3c7015c56c4..4739ff882b9ec 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice.h
@@ -1029,6 +1029,7 @@ ice_get_fdir_fltr_ids(struct ice_hw *hw, struct ethtool_rxnfc *cmd,
u32 *rule_locs);
void ice_fdir_rem_adq_chnl(struct ice_hw *hw, u16 vsi_idx);
void ice_fdir_release_flows(struct ice_hw *hw);
+void ice_fdir_clear_flow_handles(struct ice_hw *hw);
void ice_fdir_replay_flows(struct ice_hw *hw);
void ice_fdir_replay_fltrs(struct ice_pf *pf);
int ice_fdir_create_dflt_rules(struct ice_pf *pf);
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ethtool_fdir.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ethtool_fdir.c
index aceec184e89b2..faa16b5a12c0d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ethtool_fdir.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ethtool_fdir.c
@@ -428,6 +428,27 @@ void ice_fdir_release_flows(struct ice_hw *hw)
ice_fdir_erase_flow_from_hw(hw, ICE_BLK_FD, flow);
}
+/**
+ * ice_fdir_clear_flow_handles - clear handles freed during reset
+ * @hw: pointer to HW instance
+ */
+void ice_fdir_clear_flow_handles(struct ice_hw *hw)
+{
+ int flow;
+
+ for (flow = 0; flow < ICE_FLTR_PTYPE_MAX; flow++) {
+ struct ice_fd_hw_prof *prof = hw->fdir_prof[flow];
+ int tun, i;
+
+ if (!prof)
+ continue;
+
+ for (tun = 0; tun < ICE_FD_HW_SEG_MAX; tun++)
+ for (i = 0; i < prof->cnt; i++)
+ prof->entry_h[i][tun] = 0;
+ }
+}
+
/**
* ice_fdir_replay_flows - replay HW Flow Director filter info
* @hw: pointer to HW instance
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c
index a97a1941cec6a..7aa1235447310 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c
@@ -601,6 +601,8 @@ ice_prepare_for_reset(struct ice_pf *pf, enum ice_reset_req reset_type)
netif_device_detach(vsi->netdev);
skip:
+ if (hw->fdir_prof)
+ ice_fdir_clear_flow_handles(hw);
/* clear SW filtering DB */
ice_clear_hw_tbls(hw);
/* disable the VSIs and their queues that are not already DOWN */
--
2.43.0