From: "Théo Lebrun" <theo.lebrun@bootlin.com>
To: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>,
Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@linux.dev>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Nicolai Buchwitz" <nb@tipi-net.de>,
"Vladimir Kondratiev" <vladimir.kondratiev@mobileye.com>,
"Gregory CLEMENT" <gregory.clement@bootlin.com>,
"Tawfik Bayouk" <tawfik.bayouk@mobileye.com>,
"Thomas Petazzoni" <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, "Théo Lebrun" <theo.lebrun@bootlin.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] net: macb: fix dma_alloc_coherent() leak on macb_alloc() error paths
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:53:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260918-macb-alloc-leak-v1-1-aba9a3d4f6e3@bootlin.com> (raw)
Fix 3 leaks in macb_alloc() error paths:
- Tx buffer allocated but crossing a 4G boundary: Tx leaked.
- Rx buffer allocation fails: Tx leaked.
- Rx buffer allocated but crossing a 4G boundary: Tx & Rx leaked.
This is because our error handling calls macb_free(bp) which in turn
frees the buffers stored in bp->queues[0], but nothing has been stored
in there. Fix by storing allocated buffers into bp->queues[0] ASAP.
Fixes: 78d901897b3c ("net: macb: single dma_alloc_coherent() for DMA descriptors")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Théo Lebrun <theo.lebrun@bootlin.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
index b8234ac4b602..8e5c034dc3a4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
@@ -2749,14 +2749,24 @@ static int macb_alloc(struct macb *bp)
size = bp->num_queues * macb_tx_ring_size_per_queue(bp);
tx = dma_alloc_coherent(dev, size, &tx_dma, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!tx || upper_32_bits(tx_dma) != upper_32_bits(tx_dma + size - 1))
+ if (!tx)
+ goto out_err;
+ /* Record the buffer so that the error path frees it. */
+ bp->queues[0].tx_ring = tx;
+ bp->queues[0].tx_ring_dma = tx_dma;
+ if (upper_32_bits(tx_dma) != upper_32_bits(tx_dma + size - 1))
goto out_err;
netdev_dbg(bp->netdev, "Allocated %zu bytes for %u TX rings at %08lx (mapped %p)\n",
size, bp->num_queues, (unsigned long)tx_dma, tx);
size = bp->num_queues * macb_rx_ring_size_per_queue(bp);
rx = dma_alloc_coherent(dev, size, &rx_dma, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!rx || upper_32_bits(rx_dma) != upper_32_bits(rx_dma + size - 1))
+ if (!rx)
+ goto out_err;
+ /* Record the buffer so that the error path frees it. */
+ bp->queues[0].rx_ring = rx;
+ bp->queues[0].rx_ring_dma = rx_dma;
+ if (upper_32_bits(rx_dma) != upper_32_bits(rx_dma + size - 1))
goto out_err;
netdev_dbg(bp->netdev, "Allocated %zu bytes for %u RX rings at %08lx (mapped %p)\n",
size, bp->num_queues, (unsigned long)rx_dma, rx);
---
base-commit: 994db8ab9d90c64dd641b7ead6efe2eaea7a50dc
change-id: 20260918-macb-alloc-leak-ef38989605c7
Best regards,
--
Théo Lebrun <theo.lebrun@bootlin.com>
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