i40e: Fix NULL ptr dereference on VSI filter sync
authorMichal Maloszewski <michal.maloszewski@intel.com>
Wed, 24 Feb 2021 12:07:48 +0000 (12:07 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 26 Nov 2021 09:39:17 +0000 (10:39 +0100)
commitf866513ead4370402428ef724b03c3312295c178
treee9aad4b3521a946cca8804e77d9941987d68943b
parent0719488565878d05b5075e99af537f737f698f74
i40e: Fix NULL ptr dereference on VSI filter sync

[ Upstream commit 37d9e304acd903a445df8208b8a13d707902dea6 ]

Remove the reason of null pointer dereference in sync VSI filters.
Added new I40E_VSI_RELEASING flag to signalize deleting and releasing
of VSI resources to sync this thread with sync filters subtask.
Without this patch it is possible to start update the VSI filter list
after VSI is removed, that's causing a kernel oops.

Fixes: 41c445ff0f48 ("i40e: main driver core")
Signed-off-by: Grzegorz Szczurek <grzegorzx.szczurek@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Maloszewski <michal.maloszewski@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Przemyslaw Patynowski <przemyslawx.patynowski@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Witold Fijalkowski <witoldx.fijalkowski@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jaroslaw Gawin <jaroslawx.gawin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
Tested-by: Tony Brelinski <tony.brelinski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e.h
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c