Whenever the igb driver detects the result of a read operation returns
a value composed only by F's (like 0xFFFFFFFF), it will detach the
net_device, clear the hw_addr pointer and warn to the user that adapter's
link is lost - those steps happen on igb_rd32().
In case a PCI error happens on Power architecture, there's a recovery
mechanism called EEH, that will reset the PCI slot and call driver's
handlers to reset the adapter and network functionality as well.
We observed that once hw_addr is NULL after the error is detected on
igb_rd32(), it's never assigned back, so in the process of resetting
the network functionality we got a NULL pointer dereference in both
igb_configure_tx_ring() and igb_configure_rx_ring(). In order to avoid
such bug, this patch re-assigns the hw_addr value in the slot_reset
handler.
Reported-by: Anthony H. Thai <aht...@us.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Harsha Thyagaraja <hathy...@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpicc...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
index edc9a6a..136ee9e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
@@ -7878,6 +7878,11 @@ static pci_ers_result_t igb_io_slot_reset(struct pci_dev
*pdev)
pci_enable_wake(pdev, PCI_D3hot, 0);
pci_enable_wake(pdev, PCI_D3cold, 0);
+ /* In case of PCI error, adapter lose its HW address
+ * so we should re-assign it here.
+ */
+ hw->hw_addr = adapter->io_addr;
+
igb_reset(adapter);
wr32(E1000_WUS, ~0);
result = PCI_ERS_RESULT_RECOVERED;
--
2.1.0
