RE: [PATCH v2 2/2] ice: clear Flow Director entries before reset cleanup
From: Loktionov, Aleksandr
Date: Tue Sep 08 2026 - 09:55:04 EST
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Ma <aaron.ma@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 1:52 PM
> To: Nguyen, Anthony L <anthony.l.nguyen@xxxxxxxxx>; Kitszel,
> Przemyslaw <przemyslaw.kitszel@xxxxxxxxx>; Andrew Lunn
> <andrew+netdev@xxxxxxx>; David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Eric
> Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>; Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>; Paolo
> Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>; netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-
> kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Henry Tieman <henry.w.tieman@xxxxxxxxx>; moderated list:INTEL
> ETHERNET DRIVERS <intel-wired-lan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] ice: clear Flow Director entries before reset
> cleanup
>
> 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 while holding hw->fdir_fltr_lock
> 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")
> Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Ma <aaron.ma@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v1 -> v2:
> - Acquire hw->fdir_fltr_lock in ice_fdir_clear_flow_handles() to
> synchronize with concurrent ethtool filter add/del.
>
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice.h | 1 +
> .../net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ethtool_fdir.c | 26
> +++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c | 2 ++
> 3 files changed, 29 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..04510b36aa56b 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ethtool_fdir.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ethtool_fdir.c
> @@ -428,6 +428,32 @@ 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;
> +
> + if (!hw->fdir_prof)
> + return;
> +
> + mutex_lock(&hw->fdir_fltr_lock);
> + 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;
> + }
> + mutex_unlock(&hw->fdir_fltr_lock);
> +}
> +
> /**
> * 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 abb6e850ec09f..164428ba116a0 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
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@xxxxxxxxx>