* [PATCH net] net: ibm: emac: fix TX skb double free in emac_full_tx_reset()
@ 2026-11-05 23:15 Rosen Penev
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From: Rosen Penev @ 2026-11-05 23:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: netdev
Cc: Andrew Lunn, David S. Miller, Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski,
Paolo Abeni, David Gibson, Jeff Garzik, open list
emac_full_tx_reset() cleans the TX ring without the TX lock.
emac_netif_stop() only keeps MAL NAPI from polling RX for this EMAC,
mal_poll() still calls emac_poll_tx() for it. A descriptor cleaned by
emac_clean_tx_ring() has MAL_TX_CTRL_READY clear and looks completed,
so emac_poll_tx() can free the same skb a second time and both race on
tx_cnt and ack_slot.
On a Cisco Meraki MX60, each MTU change to or from a jumbo MTU does a full
TX reset. Toggling the MTU while forwarding traffic corrupted skbs within
minutes (list_del corruption in GRO). With the ring cleaned under the TX
lock it survived 10 minutes of the same test.
Fixes: 1d3bb996481e ("Device tree aware EMAC driver")
Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c
index b676b286e339..75e51ace16f7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c
@@ -745,8 +745,15 @@ static void emac_full_tx_reset(struct emac_instance *dev)
emac_tx_disable(dev);
mal_disable_tx_channel(dev->mal, dev->mal_tx_chan);
+
+ /* MAL NAPI runs emac_poll_tx() even while polling of this EMAC is
+ * disabled. A cleaned descriptor reads as completed, so clean the
+ * ring under the TX lock or emac_poll_tx() frees the skbs again.
+ */
+ netif_tx_lock_bh(dev->ndev);
emac_clean_tx_ring(dev);
dev->tx_cnt = dev->tx_slot = dev->ack_slot = 0;
+ netif_tx_unlock_bh(dev->ndev);
emac_configure(dev);
--
2.56.0
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