From: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
To: Wentao Liang <vulab@iscas.ac.cn>
Cc: Jian Shen <shenjian15@huawei.com>,
Jijie Shao <shaojijie@huawei.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>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: hns3: destroy the page pool if RX buffer allocation fails
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2026 18:03:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261106180307.GM865646@horms.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261103100533.1310018-1-vulab@iscas.ac.cn>
On Tue, Nov 03, 2026 at 10:05:33AM +0000, Wentao Liang wrote:
> hns3_alloc_ring_memory() creates the page pool and then fills the RX
> ring with buffers from it. If filling the ring fails, the error path
> only frees the descriptors and the descriptor callbacks, so the page
> pool created a moment earlier is leaked.
>
> The page pool is normally destroyed by hns3_fini_ring(), but
> hns3_init_all_ring() only cleans up the rings that were set up before
> the failing one, so the pool of the failing ring is never released.
>
> Destroy the page pool on the buffer allocation failure path too.
>
> Fixes: 93188e9642c3 ("net: hns3: support skb's frag page recycling based on page pool")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Assisted-by: DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash and OpenAI Codex
> Signed-off-by: Wentao Liang <vulab@iscas.ac.cn>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3_enet.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3_enet.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3_enet.c
> index 47788be64be6..fe339ddc6379 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3_enet.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3_enet.c
> @@ -5073,6 +5073,10 @@ static int hns3_alloc_ring_memory(struct hns3_enet_ring *ring)
>
> out_with_desc:
> hns3_free_desc(ring);
> + if (ring->page_pool) {
> + page_pool_destroy(ring->page_pool);
> + ring->page_pool = NULL;
> + }
The condition is not necessary as as page_pool_destroy is a no-op when
passed NULL. Please remove it to simplify the code-flow.
> out_with_desc_cb:
> devm_kfree(ring_to_dev(ring), ring->desc_cb);
> ring->desc_cb = NULL;
> --
> 2.34.1
You will also need to answer the questions about providence posed by the
bot. Ideally in the patch description if you post a v2.
--
pw-bot: changes-requested
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-06 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-03 10:05 Wentao Liang
2026-11-03 10:10 ` netdev-bot+sinfo
2026-11-03 10:25 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2026-11-06 18:03 ` Simon Horman [this message]
2026-11-07 6:40 ` Wentao Liang
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