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authorNaman Gulati <namangulati@google.com>2026-10-06 23:51:13 +0000
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2026-10-08 10:53:08 -0700
commit4e3b56eb2ed879353de392acec7b485b123840a4 (patch)
tree96c3e51878d9391c0fa281d9ebaf81dd08c841c6 /include/linux
parentc16411fff03b29a806898b20338ed3ef27124f96 (diff)
net: gro_cells: prevent enabling threaded NAPI on gro_cells
gro_cells allocates a per-CPU struct gro_cell with per-CPU queues (cell->napi_skbs), per-CPU local_lock_t (cell->bh_lock), and per-CPU napi_struct (cell->napi). On !CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT, local_lock_t only provides lockdep annotation (and is a complete no-op when CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC is disabled), relying on per-CPU locality and disabled BH context for mutual exclusion; it does not provide cross-CPU synchronization. When threaded NAPI is enabled on a device backed by gro_cells (e.g. gre0, vxlan, geneve) via sysfs, unbound kernel threads are created for each per-CPU NAPI. When gro_cells_receive() on CPU A enqueues a packet to cell_A and calls napi_schedule(&cell_A->napi) while holding cell_A->bh_lock, the woken kthread can run concurrently on remote CPU B. When CPU B runs gro_cell_poll(&cell_A->napi) and calls __local_lock_nested_bh(&cell_A->bh_lock), lockdep detects that the lock is already held by CPU A's task and triggers a warning: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 377 at net/core/gro_cells.c:66 gro_cell_poll DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(l->owner) CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 377 Comm: napi/gre0-0 Not tainted 7.3.0-rc2 Call Trace: <TASK> __local_lock_nested_bh include/linux/local_lock_internal.h:92 gro_cell_poll+0x5aa/0x6c0 net/core/gro_cells.c:66 napi_threaded_poll+0x39b/0x600 net/core/dev.c:7048 kthread+0x71e/0x870 kernel/kthread.c:464 ret_from_fork+0x5d/0x90 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:167 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:264 </TASK> On !CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT kernels without lockdep, concurrent execution of __skb_queue_tail() on CPU A and __skb_dequeue() on CPU B without cross-CPU locks leads to silent queue corruption. Virtual per-CPU NAPIs cannot support unbound threaded NAPI. While gro_cells also sets NAPI_STATE_NO_BUSY_POLL (which skips napi_hash_add() and prevents configuring them via Netlink), NAPI_STATE_NO_BUSY_POLL cannot be used to reject threaded NAPI in sysfs because drivers such as WireGuard set NAPI_STATE_NO_BUSY_POLL on per-peer NAPIs while running them in threaded mode by default. Introduce NAPI_STATE_PERCPU to mark per-CPU NAPIs that cannot run in unbound threaded mode. Set NAPI_STATE_PERCPU in gro_cells_init(), and fail early with -EOPNOTSUPP in modify_napi_threaded() and netdev_nl_napi_set_config() when trying to enable threaded NAPI on NAPI_STATE_PERCPU NAPIs, while still allowing disabling (writing 0) as a no-op. Fixes: 25718fdcbdd2 ("net: gro_cells: Use nested-BH locking for gro_cell") Fixes: 29863d41bb6e ("net: implement threaded-able napi poll loop support") Reported-by: syzbot+f0661448aa9511ce744a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/6aad6d7b.0c43d342.320d00.0001.GAE@google.com Signed-off-by: Naman Gulati <namangulati@google.com> Reviewed-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261006235113.2394030-1-namangulati@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netdevice.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 8cae9b00211e..5b4b92e76b67 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -433,6 +433,7 @@ enum {
NAPI_STATE_SCHED_THREADED, /* Napi is currently scheduled in threaded mode */
NAPI_STATE_HAS_NOTIFIER, /* Napi has an IRQ notifier */
NAPI_STATE_THREADED_BUSY_POLL, /* The threaded NAPI poller will busy poll */
+ NAPI_STATE_PERCPU, /* NAPI handler is run per-CPU - incompatible with threaded mode */
};
enum {
@@ -448,6 +449,7 @@ enum {
NAPIF_STATE_SCHED_THREADED = BIT(NAPI_STATE_SCHED_THREADED),
NAPIF_STATE_HAS_NOTIFIER = BIT(NAPI_STATE_HAS_NOTIFIER),
NAPIF_STATE_THREADED_BUSY_POLL = BIT(NAPI_STATE_THREADED_BUSY_POLL),
+ NAPIF_STATE_PERCPU = BIT(NAPI_STATE_PERCPU),
};
enum gro_result {