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From: Joshua Washington <joshwash@google.com>
To: Jeroen de Borst <jeroendb@google.com>,
	Joshua Washington <joshwash@google.com>,
	 Xiaoyun Li <xiaoyun.li@intel.com>,
	Junfeng Guo <junfengg@nvidia.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, stable@dpdk.org,
	 "Jasper Tran O'Leary" <jtranoleary@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/9] net/gve: delay adding mbuf head to software ring
Date: Wed,  1 Jul 2026 11:35:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260701183528.2443032-3-joshwash@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260701183528.2443032-1-joshwash@google.com>

The GQ TX datapath was set up to write the mbuf head into the sw_ring
before writing the descriptors. This poses a problem because it's
possible for the packet to be dropped due to lacking the FIFO space to
do a proper TX. In such a case, the packet won't be sent, and will lead
to leaked mbufs in the subsequent segments.

There is also no real reason that the head mbuf must be set in the
sw_ring separately from the others; the mbuf chain is not actually
walked as part of GQ TX.

Fixes: a46583cf43c8 ("net/gve: support Rx/Tx")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Joshua Washington <joshwash@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jasper Tran O'Leary <jtranoleary@google.com>
---
 drivers/net/gve/gve_tx.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/gve/gve_tx.c b/drivers/net/gve/gve_tx.c
index 5c73c21b8d..59c82b04ed 100644
--- a/drivers/net/gve/gve_tx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/gve/gve_tx.c
@@ -301,7 +301,6 @@ gve_tx_burst_qpl(void *tx_queue, struct rte_mbuf **tx_pkts, uint16_t nb_pkts)
 			(uint32_t)(tx_offload.l2_len + tx_offload.l3_len + tx_offload.l4_len) :
 			tx_pkt->pkt_len;
 
-		sw_ring[sw_id] = tx_pkt;
 		if (!is_fifo_avail(txq, hlen)) {
 			gve_tx_clean(txq);
 			if (!is_fifo_avail(txq, hlen))
@@ -344,13 +343,14 @@ gve_tx_burst_qpl(void *tx_queue, struct rte_mbuf **tx_pkts, uint16_t nb_pkts)
 		}
 
 		/* record mbuf in sw_ring for free */
-		for (i = 1; i < first->nb_segs; i++) {
+		for (i = 0; i < first->nb_segs; i++) {
+			if (!tx_pkt)
+				break;
+			sw_ring[sw_id] = tx_pkt;
 			sw_id = (sw_id + 1) & mask;
 			tx_pkt = tx_pkt->next;
-			sw_ring[sw_id] = tx_pkt;
 		}
 
-		sw_id = (sw_id + 1) & mask;
 		tx_id = (tx_id + 1) & mask;
 
 		txq->nb_free -= nb_used;
-- 
2.55.0.rc0.799.gd6f94ed593-goog


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-07-01 18:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-01 18:35 [PATCH 0/9] Stability fixes for GVE Joshua Washington
2026-07-01 18:35 ` [PATCH 1/9] net/gve: clear out shared memory region for stats report Joshua Washington
2026-07-01 18:35 ` Joshua Washington [this message]
2026-07-01 18:35 ` [PATCH 3/9] net/gve: copy data to QPL buffer when mbuf read does not Joshua Washington
2026-07-01 18:35 ` [PATCH 4/9] net/gve: validate buf ID before processing Rx packet Joshua Washington
2026-07-01 18:35 ` [PATCH 5/9] net/gve: set mbuf to null in software ring after use Joshua Washington
2026-07-01 18:35 ` [PATCH 6/9] net/gve: free ctx mbuf if packet dropped after first segment Joshua Washington
2026-07-01 18:35 ` [PATCH 7/9] net/gve: increase range of DMA memzone ids to 64 bits Joshua Washington
2026-07-01 18:35 ` [PATCH 8/9] net/gve: don't reset ring size bounds to default on reset Joshua Washington
2026-07-01 18:35 ` [PATCH 9/9] net/gve: restrict max ring size in GQ QPL to 2K Joshua Washington
2026-07-01 18:50 ` [PATCH 0/9] Stability fixes for GVE Stephen Hemminger
2026-07-01 19:59   ` Joshua Washington
2026-07-03  4:36     ` Stephen Hemminger

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