gve: prevent ethtool ops after shutdown

[ Upstream commit 75a9a46d67f46d608205888f9b34e315c1786345 ]

A crash can occur if an ethtool operation is invoked
after shutdown() is called.

shutdown() is invoked during system shutdown to stop DMA operations
without performing expensive deallocations. It is discouraged to
unregister the netdev in this path, so the device may still be visible
to userspace and kernel helpers.

In gve, shutdown() tears down most internal data structures. If an
ethtool operation is dispatched after shutdown(), it will dereference
freed or NULL pointers, leading to a kernel panic. While graceful
shutdown normally quiesces userspace before invoking the reboot
syscall, forced shutdowns (as observed on GCP VMs) can still trigger
this path.

Fix by calling netif_device_detach() in shutdown().
This marks the device as detached so the ethtool ioctl handler
will skip dispatching operations to the driver.

Fixes: 974365e51861 ("gve: Implement suspend/resume/shutdown")
Signed-off-by: Jordan Rhee <jordanrhee@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeroen de Borst <jeroendb@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250818211245.1156919-1-jeroendb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_main.c
index d1aeb722d48f3022c58caaa05b41a02a25342703..36a6d766b63863e91420462cfe149e5f50fd7f62 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_main.c
@@ -2726,6 +2726,8 @@ static void gve_shutdown(struct pci_dev *pdev)
        struct gve_priv *priv = netdev_priv(netdev);
        bool was_up = netif_running(priv->dev);
 
+       netif_device_detach(netdev);
+
        rtnl_lock();
        netdev_lock(netdev);
        if (was_up && gve_close(priv->dev)) {