From: "Kordian Chmielewski (mlody1212)" <kudzo51@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Rafał Miłecki" <rafal@milecki.pl>,
bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.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>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net 3/7] net: bcm4908_enet: release the TX ring on stop
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:56:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261109235700.2586821-4-kudzo51@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261109235700.2586821-1-kudzo51@gmail.com>
bcm4908_enet_stop() disables the TX DMA but leaves the ring as it is:
the skbs of frames not completed yet stay mapped and are never freed,
and their descriptors keep DMA_CTL_STATUS_OWN. The next open starts
the indexes from 0 again over those descriptors, so the DMA can send
from a buffer that has been freed, and start_xmit() finds OWN set on a
slot it is about to use.
Unmap and free the skbs left in the TX ring on stop, clear slot->skb
once poll_tx() has freed it, and clear the TX descriptors when the ring
is initialised.
Fixes: 4feffeadbcb2 ("net: broadcom: bcm4908enet: add BCM4908 controller driver")
Signed-off-by: Kordian Chmielewski (mlody1212) <kudzo51@gmail.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcm4908_enet.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcm4908_enet.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcm4908_enet.c
index 727ad1e96..8008b44a4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcm4908_enet.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcm4908_enet.c
@@ -312,6 +312,10 @@ static void bcm4908_enet_dma_ring_init(struct bcm4908_enet *enet,
enet_write(enet, ring->st_ram_block + ENET_DMA_CH_STATE_RAM_BASE_DESC_PTR,
(uint32_t)ring->dma_addr);
+ /* A descriptor the stopped DMA never completed still carries OWN */
+ if (ring->is_tx)
+ memset(ring->cpu_addr, 0, ring->length * sizeof(*ring->buf_desc));
+
ring->read_idx = 0;
ring->write_idx = 0;
}
@@ -495,6 +499,23 @@ static int bcm4908_enet_open(struct net_device *netdev)
return 0;
}
+static void bcm4908_enet_tx_ring_clean(struct bcm4908_enet *enet)
+{
+ struct bcm4908_enet_dma_ring *tx_ring = &enet->tx_ring;
+ struct device *dev = enet->dev;
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < tx_ring->length; i++) {
+ struct bcm4908_enet_dma_ring_slot *slot = &tx_ring->slots[i];
+
+ if (!slot->skb)
+ continue;
+ dma_unmap_single(dev, slot->dma_addr, slot->len, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
+ dev_kfree_skb_any(slot->skb);
+ slot->skb = NULL;
+ }
+}
+
static int bcm4908_enet_stop(struct net_device *netdev)
{
struct bcm4908_enet *enet = netdev_priv(netdev);
@@ -510,6 +531,7 @@ static int bcm4908_enet_stop(struct net_device *netdev)
bcm4908_enet_dma_rx_ring_disable(enet, &enet->rx_ring);
bcm4908_enet_dma_tx_ring_disable(enet, &enet->tx_ring);
+ bcm4908_enet_tx_ring_clean(enet);
bcm4908_enet_dma_uninit(enet);
free_irq(enet->irq_tx, enet);
@@ -686,6 +708,7 @@ static int bcm4908_enet_poll_tx(struct napi_struct *napi, int weight)
dma_unmap_single(dev, slot->dma_addr, slot->len, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
dev_kfree_skb(slot->skb);
+ slot->skb = NULL;
handled++;
bytes += slot->len;
--
2.56.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-09 23:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-09 23:56 [PATCH net 0/7] net: bcm4908_enet: TX ring and DMA fixes Kordian Chmielewski (mlody1212)
2026-11-09 23:56 ` [PATCH net 1/7] net: bcm4908_enet: fix the TX ring wrap Kordian Chmielewski (mlody1212)
2026-11-09 23:56 ` [PATCH net 2/7] net: bcm4908_enet: drop a TX frame whose DMA mapping failed Kordian Chmielewski (mlody1212)
2026-11-09 23:56 ` Kordian Chmielewski (mlody1212) [this message]
2026-11-09 23:56 ` [PATCH net 4/7] net: bcm4908_enet: unmap the buffer of a dropped RX frame Kordian Chmielewski (mlody1212)
2026-11-09 23:56 ` [PATCH net 5/7] net: bcm4908_enet: unmap RX buffers on stop with their mapped size Kordian Chmielewski (mlody1212)
2026-11-09 23:56 ` [PATCH net 6/7] net: bcm4908_enet: publish the buffer address before OWN Kordian Chmielewski (mlody1212)
2026-11-09 23:57 ` [PATCH net 7/7] net: bcm4908_enet: drop RX frames longer than the buffer Kordian Chmielewski (mlody1212)
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