virtio_net: correct netdev_tx_reset_queue() invocation point
CVE: CVE-2024-56674
Component: kernel
CWE: CWE-672
Severity: Moderate
CVSS v3: 5.6/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Release date: 2024-12-27T00:00:00+00:00

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

virtio_net: correct netdev_tx_reset_queue() invocation point

When virtnet_close is followed by virtnet_open, some TX completions can
possibly remain unconsumed, until they are finally processed during the
first NAPI poll after the netdev_tx_reset_queue(), resulting in a crash
[1]. Commit b96ed2c97c79 ("virtio_net: move netdev_tx_reset_queue() call
before RX napi enable") was not sufficient to eliminate all BQL crash
cases for virtio-net.

This issue can be reproduced with the latest net-next master by running:
`while :; do ip l set DEV down; ip l set DEV up; done` under heavy network
TX load from inside the machine.

netdev_tx_reset_queue() can actually be dropped from virtnet_open path;
the device is not stopped in any case. For BQL core part, it's just like
traffic nearly ceases to exist for some period. For stall detector added
to BQL, even if virtnet_close could somehow lead to some TX completions
delayed for long, followed by virtnet_open, we can just take it as stall
as mentioned in commit 6025b9135f7a ("net: dqs: add NIC stall detector
based on BQL"). Note also that users can still reset stall_max via sysfs.

So, drop netdev_tx_reset_queue() from virtnet_enable_queue_pair(). This
eliminates the BQL crashes. As a result, netdev_tx_reset_queue() is now
explicitly required in freeze/restore path. This patch adds it to
immediately after free_unused_bufs(), following the rule of thumb:
netdev_tx_reset_queue() should follow any SKB freeing not followed by
netdev_tx_completed_queue(). This seems the most consistent and
streamlined approach, and now netdev_tx_reset_queue() runs whenever
free_unused_bufs() is done.

[1]:
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kernel BUG at lib/dynamic_queue_limits.c:99!
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 1598 Comm: ip Tainted: G    N 6.12.0net-next_main+ #2
Tainted: [N]=TEST
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), \
BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:dql_completed+0x26b/0x290
Code: b7 c2 49 89 e9 44 89 da 89 c6 4c 89 d7 e8 ed 17 47 00 58 65 ff 0d
4d 27 90 7e 0f 85 fd fe ff ff e8 ea 53 8d ff e9 f3 fe ff ff <0f> 0b 01
d2 44 89 d1 29 d1 ba 00 00 00 00 0f 48 ca e9 28 ff ff ff
RSP: 0018:ffffc900002b0d08 EFLAGS: 00010297
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888102398c80 RCX: 0000000080190009
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000006a RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffff888102398c00 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 00000000000000ca R11: 0000000000015681 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: ffffc900002b0d68 R14: ffff88811115e000 R15: ffff8881107aca40
FS:  00007f41ded69500(0000) GS:ffff888667dc0000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000556ccc2dc1a0 CR3: 0000000104fd8003 CR4: 0000000000772ef0
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 ? die+0x32/0x80
 ? do_trap+0xd9/0x100
 ? dql_completed+0x26b/0x290
 ? dql_completed+0x26b/0x290
 ? do_error_trap+0x6d/0xb0
 ? dql_completed+0x26b/0x290
 ? exc_invalid_op+0x4c/0x60
 ? dql_completed+0x26b/0x290
 ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20
 ? dql_completed+0x26b/0x290
 __free_old_xmit+0xff/0x170 [virtio_net]
 free_old_xmit+0x54/0xc0 [virtio_net]
 virtnet_poll+0xf4/0xe30 [virtio_net]
 ? __update_load_avg_cfs_rq+0x264/0x2d0
 ? update_curr+0x35/0x260
 ? reweight_entity+0x1be/0x260
 __napi_poll.constprop.0+0x28/0x1c0
 net_rx_action+0x329/0x420
 ? enqueue_hrtimer+0x35/0x90
 ? trace_hardirqs_on+0x1d/0x80
 ? kvm_sched_clock_read+0xd/0x20
 ? sched_clock+0xc/0x30
 ? kvm_sched_clock_read+0xd/0x20
 ? sched_clock+0xc/0x30
 ? sched_clock_cpu+0xd/0x1a0
 handle_softirqs+0x138/0x3e0
 do_softirq.part.0+0x89/0xc0
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 __local_bh_enable_ip+0xa7/0xb0
 virtnet_open+0xc8/0x310 [virtio_net]
 __dev_open+0xfa/0x1b0
 __dev_change_flags+0x1de/0x250
 dev_change_flags+0x22/0x60
 do_setlink.isra.0+0x2df/0x10b0
 ? rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x34f/0x3f0
 ? netlink_rcv_skb+0x54/0x100
 ? netlink_unicas
---truncated---


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