From: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi@oss.qualcomm.com>
To: netdev-bot+sashiko@kernel.org
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v8 1/5] net: stmmac: take ownership of saved RX state at poll entry
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:16:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <atdpwITVxsWcDIWG@lore-desk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <179243151310.3135.16032115262445521338@kernel.org>
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> Thank you for your contribution! Sashiko AI review found more severe
> issue(s) in other patches of this series. This mail is only an FYI, in case
> you want to address the nit picks below when you respin.
>
> Low priority / nit picks for your consideration:
>
> - [Low] The authorship and Signed-off-by chain disagree.
>
> Pre-existing issues:
> - [High] At this commit, stmmac_rx() still uses `skb == NULL` to decide
> that a descriptor starts a new frame.
> - [High] This problem wasn't introduced by this patch, but the commit
> message relies on it being absent.
>
> --
>
> net: stmmac: take ownership of saved RX state at poll entry
>
> This commit makes stmmac_rx() and stmmac_rx_zc() take the saved
> partial-frame state at poll entry. A new in_progress flag tracks whether
> a frame is still incomplete, and the state is saved again only in that
> case. It also frees the saved skb in stmmac_reset_rx_queue() and in
> __free_dma_rx_desc_resources().
>
> > Signed-off-by: James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@gmail.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Nicolai Buchwitz <nb@tipi-net.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi@oss.qualcomm.com>
>
> [Severity: Low]
> This isn't a bug, but the author field and the Signed-off-by chain don't
> match. The commit author is Lorenzo Bianconi. The first Signed-off-by is
> James Hilliard, and there is no Co-developed-by tag.
I will fix in the next revision.
>
> If James wrote the patch, should it carry a "From: James Hilliard
> <james.hilliard1@gmail.com>" line so git credits him as the author? If
> Lorenzo is the author, does James's sign-off need a matching
> Co-developed-by tag?
>
> The other patches in the series carry only Lorenzo's sign-off. That
> suggests this patch was written by James and picked into the series.
>
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
> > index 53782ab55e125..8fd2acb25fb60 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
>
> [ ... ]
>
> > @@ -5958,9 +5970,7 @@ static int stmmac_rx(struct stmmac_priv *priv, int limit, u32 queue)
> > STMMAC_XDP_REDIRECT)) {
> > xdp_status |= xdp_res;
> > buf->page = NULL;
> > - skb = NULL;
> > - count++;
> > - continue;
> > + goto next;
> > }
> > }
> > }
>
> [Severity: High]
> This is a pre-existing issue, and this patch doesn't change how it
> behaves. What happens here when the XDP verdict is taken on a descriptor
> that still has rx_not_ls set?
Since this issue has not been introduced by this patch I guess we can fix it
with a dedicated patch.
>
> stmmac_rx() uses skb == NULL to mean a new frame is starting. The goto
> next now also clears in_progress, and error stays 0. The remaining
> descriptors of the same hardware frame would then each be handled as the
> first descriptor of a new frame.
>
> The XDP_CONSUMED branch just above has the same shape:
>
> skb = NULL;
>
> if (unlikely((status & rx_not_ls)))
> goto read_again;
>
> So does the napi_build_skb() failure path:
>
> if (!skb) {
> page_pool_recycle_direct(rx_q->page_pool,
> buf->page);
> buf->page = NULL;
> rx_dropped++;
> count++;
> goto drain_data;
> }
>
> In each of these three cases, could the middle and tail descriptors be
> passed to XDP and built into an skb with a stale or zero len? Could
> buf1_len then underflow and produce an skb length near 4G?
>
> An on-link peer can reach this by sending a frame that spans several
> descriptors while an XDP program returns a non-PASS verdict. A
> napi_build_skb() failure on such a frame reaches it too.
>
> Later patches in this series seem to fix it. "net: stmmac: drop
> multi-buffer frames in XDP mode" sets error on non-last descriptors when
> XDP is attached. "net: stmmac: rework stmmac_rx to support XDP rx
> multi-buff" runs XDP and stmmac_build_skb() only on the last descriptor
> and sends build failures to error_free_frag.
>
> [ ... ]
>
> > @@ -8399,6 +8408,9 @@ static void stmmac_reset_rx_queue(struct stmmac_priv *priv, u32 queue)
> > {
> > struct stmmac_rx_queue *rx_q = &priv->dma_conf.rx_queue[queue];
> >
> > + dev_kfree_skb_any(rx_q->state.skb);
> > + rx_q->state.skb = NULL;
> > + rx_q->state_saved = false;
> > rx_q->cur_rx = 0;
> > rx_q->dirty_rx = 0;
> > }
>
> [Severity: High]
> This isn't a bug introduced by this patch, but the commit message says
> that, without this change, the first poll "resumes that stale skb with
> descriptors from the freshly initialized ring". Is the ring actually
> re-initialized on the stmmac_resume() path?
Since this issue has not been introduced by this patch I guess we can fix it
with a dedicated patch.
Regards,
Lorenzo
>
> stmmac_resume() does:
>
> stmmac_reset_queues_param(priv);
>
> stmmac_free_tx_skbufs(priv);
> stmmac_clear_descriptors(priv, &priv->dma_conf);
>
> ret = stmmac_hw_setup(ndev);
>
> None of these calls refills buf_pool or rewrites the descriptor buffer
> addresses. stmmac_clear_rx_descriptors() calls stmmac_init_rx_desc() on
> every entry. On dwmac4 that only sets the owner bits:
>
> static void dwmac4_rd_init_rx_desc(struct dma_desc *p, int disable_rx_ic,
> u8 descriptor_mode, int end, int bfsize)
> {
> dwmac4_set_rx_owner(p, disable_rx_ic);
> }
>
> Suppose stmmac_rx_refill() hit a page_pool allocation failure before
> suspend:
>
> if (!buf->page) {
> buf->page = page_pool_alloc_pages(rx_q->page_pool, gfp);
> if (!buf->page)
> break;
> }
>
> Then the entries between dirty_rx and cur_rx still have buf->page ==
> NULL. On resume, cur_rx and dirty_rx are reset to 0 and every descriptor
> goes back to the DMA. When one of those entries completes, can
> stmmac_rx() call page_address(buf->page) and napi_build_skb() on a NULL
> page?
>
> There is a similar problem on dwmac4/xgmac. Descriptors that the hardware
> writes back between napi_disable() in stmmac_suspend() and
> stmmac_stop_all_dma() have RDES0/RDES1 overwritten with status words.
> If those descriptors are given back to the DMA, would it write to a
> bogus buffer address?
>
> The resume sequence is the same at the end of the series.
>
> --
> Sashiko AI review · https://netdev-ai.bots.linux.dev/sashiko/#/patchset/20261018-stmmac-rx-mb-v8-0-5f58c0b25849%40oss.qualcomm.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-20 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-18 17:06 [PATCH net-next v8 0/5] net: stmmac: introduce XDP rx multi-buff support Lorenzo Bianconi
2026-10-18 17:06 ` [PATCH net-next v8 1/5] net: stmmac: take ownership of saved RX state at poll entry Lorenzo Bianconi
2026-10-19 17:38 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-20 13:16 ` Lorenzo Bianconi [this message]
2026-10-18 17:07 ` [PATCH net-next v8 2/5] net: stmmac: drop split frames on AF_XDP zero-copy RX Lorenzo Bianconi
2026-10-19 11:16 ` Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-10-19 12:17 ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2026-10-19 12:30 ` Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-10-19 17:38 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-20 13:20 ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2026-10-18 17:07 ` [PATCH net-next v8 3/5] net: stmmac: drop multi-buffer frames in XDP mode Lorenzo Bianconi
2026-10-19 11:08 ` Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-10-19 17:38 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-20 13:25 ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2026-10-18 17:07 ` [PATCH net-next v8 4/5] net: stmmac: fix VLAN tag stripping on non-linear RX frames Lorenzo Bianconi
2026-10-19 11:08 ` Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-10-19 17:07 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-19 17:38 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-20 13:29 ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2026-10-18 17:07 ` [PATCH net-next v8 5/5] net: stmmac: rework stmmac_rx to support XDP rx multi-buff Lorenzo Bianconi
2026-10-19 11:10 ` Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-10-19 17:38 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-20 13:32 ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2026-10-18 17:08 ` [PATCH net-next v8 0/5] net: stmmac: introduce XDP rx multi-buff support netdev-bot+sinfo
2026-10-18 17:19 ` Lorenzo Bianconi
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