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In such case the vport acl ingress\ntable is not properly destroyed.\n\nECVF functionality is independent of ecpf_vport_exists capability and\nthus functions mlx5_eswitch_(enable|disable)_pf_vf_vports() should not\ntest it when enabling/disabling ECVF vports.\n\nkernel log:\n[] refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.\n[] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 1 at lib/refcount.c:28\n refcount_warn_saturate+0x124/0x220\n----------------\n[] Call trace:\n[] refcount_warn_saturate+0x124/0x220\n[] tree_put_node+0x164/0x1e0 [mlx5_core]\n[] mlx5_destroy_flow_table+0x98/0x2c0 [mlx5_core]\n[] esw_acl_ingress_table_destroy+0x28/0x40 [mlx5_core]\n[] esw_acl_ingress_lgcy_cleanup+0x80/0xf4 [mlx5_core]\n[] esw_legacy_vport_acl_cleanup+0x44/0x60 [mlx5_core]\n[] esw_vport_cleanup+0x64/0x90 [mlx5_core]\n[] mlx5_esw_vport_disable+0xc0/0x1d0 [mlx5_core]\n[] mlx5_eswitch_unload_ec_vf_vports+0xcc/0x150 [mlx5_core]\n[] mlx5_eswitch_disable_sriov+0x198/0x2a0 [mlx5_core]\n[] mlx5_device_disable_sriov+0xb8/0x1e0 [mlx5_core]\n[] mlx5_sriov_detach+0x40/0x50 [mlx5_core]\n[] mlx5_unload+0x40/0xc4 [mlx5_core]\n[] mlx5_unload_one_devl_locked+0x6c/0xe4 [mlx5_core]\n[] mlx5_unload_one+0x3c/0x60 [mlx5_core]\n[] shutdown+0x7c/0xa4 [mlx5_core]\n[] pci_device_shutdown+0x3c/0xa0\n[] device_shutdown+0x170/0x340\n[] __do_sys_reboot+0x1f4/0x2a0\n[] __arm64_sys_reboot+0x2c/0x40\n[] invoke_syscall+0x78/0x100\n[] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x54/0x184\n[] do_el0_svc+0x30/0xac\n[] el0_svc+0x48/0x160\n[] el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa4/0x12c\n[] el0t_64_sync+0x1a4/0x1a8\n[] --[ end trace 9c4601d68c70030e ]---"}], "affected": [{"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch.c"], "versions": [{"version": "a7719b29a82199b90ebbf355d3332e0fbfbf6045", "lessThan": "5953ae44dfe5dbad374318875be834c3b7b71ee6", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "a7719b29a82199b90ebbf355d3332e0fbfbf6045", "lessThan": "da15ca0553325acf68039015f2f4db750c8e2b96", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "a7719b29a82199b90ebbf355d3332e0fbfbf6045", "lessThan": "24db585d369f949f698e03d7d8017e5ae19d0497", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "a7719b29a82199b90ebbf355d3332e0fbfbf6045", "lessThan": "687560d8a9a2d654829ad0da1ec24242f1de711d", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}]}, {"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch.c"], "versions": [{"version": "6.5", "status": "affected"}, {"version": "0", "lessThan": "6.5", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.6.94", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.6.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.12.34", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.12.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.15.3", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.15.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.16-rc2", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"}]}], "cpeApplicability": [{"nodes": [{"operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [{"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.5", "versionEndExcluding": "6.6.94"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.5", "versionEndExcluding": "6.12.34"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.5", "versionEndExcluding": "6.15.3"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.5", "versionEndExcluding": "6.16-rc2"}]}]}], "references": [{"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5953ae44dfe5dbad374318875be834c3b7b71ee6"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da15ca0553325acf68039015f2f4db750c8e2b96"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24db585d369f949f698e03d7d8017e5ae19d0497"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/687560d8a9a2d654829ad0da1ec24242f1de711d"}], "title": "net/mlx5: Fix ECVF vports unload on shutdown flow", "x_generator": {"engine": "bippy-1.2.0"}}}}

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