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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next prev 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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