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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 10:36:22 +0000 (11:36 +0100)
commit87c421ab4a43433cb009fea44bbbc77f46913e1d
treec85175b1823e6edbaf4f6ee3ce8a4373a1731636
parent86ae0dfff1a7163c15c61badbf0360495c7fe9d4
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