From: Ding Hui <dinghui1111@163.com>
To: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com>,
Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@foss.st.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org (open list:STMMAC ETHERNET DRIVER),
linux-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com (moderated
list:ARM/STM32 ARCHITECTURE),
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org (moderated list:ARM/STM32
ARCHITECTURE), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
Cc: dinghui@lixiang.com, xiasanbo@lixiang.com,
yangchen11@lixiang.com, liuxuanjun@lixiang.com
Subject: [PATCH net-next v6 1/4] net: stmmac: guard against NULL pointers when freeing TX/RX buffers
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2026 15:13:15 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261024071319.875921-2-dinghui1111@163.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261024071319.875921-1-dinghui1111@163.com>
From: Ding Hui <dinghui@lixiang.com>
The DMA resource free helpers may be invoked on queues whose buffers
were never allocated:
- dma_free_rx_skbufs() and dma_free_rx_xskbufs() dereference
rx_q->buf_pool[i] via stmmac_free_rx_buffer(), but buf_pool may
be NULL if its kzalloc_objs() failed.
- dma_free_tx_skbufs() dereferences tx_q->tx_skbuff_dma[i] via
stmmac_free_tx_buffer(), but tx_skbuff_dma may be NULL if its
kzalloc_objs() failed.
- stmmac_free_tx_buffer() dereferences tx_q->xdpf[i] and
tx_q->tx_skbuff[i] (aliased through a union), but tx_skbuff may
be NULL if its allocation failed while tx_skbuff_dma succeeded.
Add NULL checks in the free helpers as a defensive measure, since they may
be called on partially-initialized queues.
Additionally, make __free_dma_rx_desc_resources() and
__free_dma_tx_desc_resources() clear the pointers they free, so that
the NULL guards in the free helpers hold reliably when the long-lived
priv->dma_conf is reused across XDP open/release cycles.
Signed-off-by: Ding Hui <dinghui@lixiang.com>
---
.../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
index b20e5038eead..2f03600cc5bd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
@@ -1766,7 +1766,7 @@ static void stmmac_free_tx_buffer(struct stmmac_priv *priv,
DMA_TO_DEVICE);
}
- if (tx_q->xdpf[i] &&
+ if (tx_q->xdpf && tx_q->xdpf[i] &&
(tx_q->tx_skbuff_dma[i].buf_type == STMMAC_TXBUF_T_XDP_TX ||
tx_q->tx_skbuff_dma[i].buf_type == STMMAC_TXBUF_T_XDP_NDO)) {
xdp_return_frame(tx_q->xdpf[i]);
@@ -1778,7 +1778,7 @@ static void stmmac_free_tx_buffer(struct stmmac_priv *priv,
tx_q->tx_skbuff_dma[i].buf_type = STMMAC_TXBUF_T_SKB;
}
- if (tx_q->tx_skbuff[i] &&
+ if (tx_q->tx_skbuff && tx_q->tx_skbuff[i] &&
tx_q->tx_skbuff_dma[i].buf_type == STMMAC_TXBUF_T_SKB) {
dev_kfree_skb_any(tx_q->tx_skbuff[i]);
tx_q->tx_skbuff[i] = NULL;
@@ -1801,6 +1801,10 @@ static void dma_free_rx_skbufs(struct stmmac_priv *priv,
struct stmmac_rx_queue *rx_q = &dma_conf->rx_queue[queue];
int i;
+ /* buf_pool may not be allocated if alloc failed early */
+ if (!rx_q->buf_pool)
+ return;
+
for (i = 0; i < dma_conf->dma_rx_size; i++)
stmmac_free_rx_buffer(priv, rx_q, i);
}
@@ -1842,6 +1846,10 @@ static void dma_free_rx_xskbufs(struct stmmac_priv *priv,
struct stmmac_rx_queue *rx_q = &dma_conf->rx_queue[queue];
int i;
+ /* buf_pool may not be allocated if alloc failed early */
+ if (!rx_q->buf_pool)
+ return;
+
for (i = 0; i < dma_conf->dma_rx_size; i++) {
struct stmmac_rx_buffer *buf = &rx_q->buf_pool[i];
@@ -2137,6 +2145,10 @@ static void dma_free_tx_skbufs(struct stmmac_priv *priv,
struct stmmac_tx_queue *tx_q = &dma_conf->tx_queue[queue];
int i;
+ /* tx_skbuff_dma may not be allocated if alloc failed early */
+ if (!tx_q->tx_skbuff_dma)
+ return;
+
tx_q->xsk_frames_done = 0;
for (i = 0; i < dma_conf->dma_tx_size; i++)
@@ -2194,13 +2206,20 @@ static void __free_dma_rx_desc_resources(struct stmmac_priv *priv,
size = stmmac_get_rx_desc_size(priv) * dma_conf->dma_rx_size;
dma_free_coherent(priv->device, size, addr, rx_q->dma_rx_phy);
+ rx_q->dma_erx = NULL;
+ rx_q->dma_rx = NULL;
+ rx_q->dma_rx_phy = 0;
if (xdp_rxq_info_is_reg(&rx_q->xdp_rxq))
xdp_rxq_info_unreg(&rx_q->xdp_rxq);
kfree(rx_q->buf_pool);
- if (rx_q->page_pool)
+ rx_q->buf_pool = NULL;
+
+ if (rx_q->page_pool) {
page_pool_destroy(rx_q->page_pool);
+ rx_q->page_pool = NULL;
+ }
}
static void free_dma_rx_desc_resources(struct stmmac_priv *priv,
@@ -2242,9 +2261,16 @@ static void __free_dma_tx_desc_resources(struct stmmac_priv *priv,
size = stmmac_get_tx_desc_size(priv, tx_q) * dma_conf->dma_tx_size;
dma_free_coherent(priv->device, size, addr, tx_q->dma_tx_phy);
+ tx_q->dma_etx = NULL;
+ tx_q->dma_entx = NULL;
+ tx_q->dma_tx = NULL;
+ tx_q->dma_tx_phy = 0;
kfree(tx_q->tx_skbuff_dma);
+ tx_q->tx_skbuff_dma = NULL;
+
kfree(tx_q->tx_skbuff);
+ tx_q->tx_skbuff = NULL;
}
static void free_dma_tx_desc_resources(struct stmmac_priv *priv,
--
2.34.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-24 7:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-24 7:13 [PATCH net-next v6 0/4] net: stmmac: fix DMA descriptor ring cleanup issues Ding Hui
2026-10-24 7:13 ` Ding Hui [this message]
2026-10-24 7:13 ` [PATCH net-next v6 2/4] net: stmmac: clean up partially allocated DMA rings on error Ding Hui
2026-10-24 7:13 ` [PATCH net-next v6 3/4] net: stmmac: release descriptor resources through priv->dma_conf on open failure Ding Hui
2026-10-24 7:13 ` [PATCH net-next v6 4/4] net: stmmac: hold RTNL when reading descriptor rings in descriptors_status Ding Hui
2026-10-24 7:21 ` [PATCH net-next v6 0/4] net: stmmac: fix DMA descriptor ring cleanup issues netdev-bot+sinfo
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