e1000_request_msix() requests the RX, TX, and other-cause interrupt handlers sequentially. If a later request_irq() fails, the function returns without releasing handlers that were registered earlier. The caller then disables MSI-X and falls back to MSI or legacy interrupts, leaving those handlers registered against disabled MSI-X vectors. Free all handlers registered before the failing request in reverse order before returning the error. The failed vector is not freed, and the existing fallback path can then disable MSI-X without retaining stale handlers. This can be reproduced with a QEMU e1000e device and a kernel built with CONFIG_E1000E=y, CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION=y, CONFIG_FAILSLAB=y, CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS=y, CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER=y, and CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL=y. Start QEMU with an e1000e device, for example using the -device e1000e option, then run the following commands as root inside the guest. Replace with the actual interface name, such as enp0s3: mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug ip link set down failslab=/sys/kernel/debug/failslab req=$(awk '$3 == "request_threaded_irq" { print $1; exit }' \ /proc/kallsyms) req_end=$(printf '%x' $((0x$req + 0x2000))) echo N > "$failslab/ignore-gfp-wait" echo 0 > "$failslab/probability" echo 0 > "$failslab/interval" echo 0 > "$failslab/times" echo 32 > "$failslab/stacktrace-depth" echo "0x$req" > "$failslab/require-start" echo "0x$req_end" > "$failslab/require-end" echo 3 > "$failslab/interval" echo 1 > "$failslab/times" echo 100 > "$failslab/probability" echo 2 > "$failslab/verbose" ip link set up dmesg | grep -E 'remove_proc_entry|WARNING: fs/proc/generic.c' The third qualifying allocation in request_threaded_irq() then fails, after the RX and TX handlers have been installed. On an unfixed kernel, the last command reports a warning such as: remove_proc_entry: removing non-empty directory 'irq/' WARNING: fs/proc/generic.c: at remove_proc_entry The fixed kernel reaches the MSI or legacy interrupt fallback without this warning. The failure is deliberately injected to exercise the error path; it does not claim that a third request_irq() failure occurs spontaneously during normal operation. Fixes: 4662e82b2cb4 ("e1000e: add support for new 82574L part") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Assisted-by: LLM Codex Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov Signed-off-by: Runyu Xiao --- v2: - Add exact QEMU/failslab reproduction steps and the expected warning. --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c index 844f31ab37ad4..f55aec340342b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c @@ -2139,7 +2139,7 @@ static int e1000_request_msix(struct e1000_adapter *adapter) e1000_intr_msix_tx, 0, adapter->tx_ring->name, netdev); if (err) - return err; + goto err_irq; adapter->tx_ring->itr_register = adapter->hw.hw_addr + E1000_EITR_82574(vector); adapter->tx_ring->itr_val = adapter->itr; @@ -2148,11 +2148,16 @@ static int e1000_request_msix(struct e1000_adapter *adapter) err = request_irq(adapter->msix_entries[vector].vector, e1000_msix_other, 0, netdev->name, netdev); if (err) - return err; + goto err_irq; e1000_configure_msix(adapter); return 0; + +err_irq: + while (vector) + free_irq(adapter->msix_entries[--vector].vector, netdev); + return err; } /** -- 2.34.1