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From: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi@oss.qualcomm.com>
To: ZhaoJinming <zhaojinming@uniontech.com>
Cc: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.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>,
	Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com>,
	Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@foss.st.com>,
	Jose Abreu <Jose.Abreu@synopsys.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: stmmac: fix stale descriptors and DMA mapping leak on Tx map failure
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:22:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aqJ2vGaushx4EL5q@lore-desk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260910-stmmac-fix-vlan-desc-leak-v1-1-6b07dca5e5e8@uniontech.com>

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> In stmmac_xmit(), when the DMA mapping of the linear part or of a

[...]

>  	if (unlikely(is_jumbo)) {
> -		entry = stmmac_jumbo_frm(priv, tx_q, skb, csum_insertion);
> -		if (unlikely(entry < 0) && (entry != -EINVAL))
> +		ret = stmmac_jumbo_frm(priv, tx_q, skb, csum_insertion);

if jumbo_frm() returns an error on the subsequent frames, entry is not updated
here, so we will end up with a DMA leak. Am I missing something?


> +		if (unlikely(ret < 0) && (ret != -EINVAL))
>  			goto dma_map_err;
> +		entry = ret;
>  	} else {
>  		bool last_segment = (nfrags == 0);
>  
> @@ -4984,6 +4985,26 @@ static netdev_tx_t stmmac_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
>  
>  dma_map_err:
>  	netdev_err(priv->dev, "Tx DMA map failed\n");
> +
> +	/* entry points one past the last descriptor written for this frame:
> +	 * on failure it is the descriptor whose DMA mapping failed, so walk
> +	 * from first_entry up to, but not including, entry.  Reset cur_tx
> +	 * unconditionally as both stmmac_vlan_insert() and stmmac_jumbo_frm()
> +	 * may have advanced it, and release the VLAN context descriptor.
> +	 */
> +	while (first_entry != entry) {
> +		desc = stmmac_get_tx_desc(priv, tx_q, first_entry);
> +		stmmac_release_tx_desc(priv, desc, priv->descriptor_mode);
> +		stmmac_free_tx_buffer(priv, &priv->dma_conf, queue, first_entry);
> +		first_entry = STMMAC_NEXT_ENTRY(first_entry,
> +						priv->dma_conf.dma_tx_size);
> +	}
> +
> +	tx_q->cur_tx = first_tx;

do we really need to update tx_q->cur_tx here?

Regards,
Lorenzo

> +	if (has_vlan) {
> +		desc = stmmac_get_tx_desc(priv, tx_q, first_tx);
> +		stmmac_release_tx_desc(priv, desc, priv->descriptor_mode);
> +	}
>  max_sdu_err:
>  	dev_kfree_skb(skb);
>  	priv->xstats.tx_dropped++;
> 
> ---
> base-commit: 893e11787f78e43b534e252249ac3fff4d1333f8
> change-id: 20260909-stmmac-fix-vlan-desc-leak-f057bb061daa
> 
> Best regards,
> -- 
> ZhaoJinming <zhaojinming@uniontech.com>
> 
> 

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-10  9:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-10  5:19 ZhaoJinming
2026-09-10  8:51 ` Maxime Chevallier
2026-09-11  8:40   ` 赵金明
2026-09-10  9:22 ` Lorenzo Bianconi [this message]
2026-09-11  8:34   ` 赵金明

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