[PATCH 6.6 149/283] net: hns3: fix double free issue for tx spare buffer

Sasha Levin
2026-02-28T18:09:14Z

From: Jian Shen <shenjian15@huawei.com>

[ Upstream commit 6d2f142b1e4b203387a92519d9d2e34752a79dbb ]

In hns3_set_ringparam(), a temporary copy (tmp_rings) of the ring structure
is created for rollback. However, the tx_spare pointer in the original
ring handle is incorrectly left pointing to the old backup memory.

Later, if memory allocation fails in hns3_init_all_ring() during the setup,
the error path attempts to free all newly allocated rings. Since tx_spare
contains a stale (non-NULL) pointer from the backup, it is mistaken for
a newly allocated buffer and is erroneously freed, leading to a double-free
of the backup memory.

The root cause is that the tx_spare field was not cleared after its value
was saved in tmp_rings, leaving a dangling pointer.

Fix this by setting tx_spare to NULL in the original ring structure
when the creation of the new `tx_spare` fails. This ensures the
error cleanup path only frees genuinely newly allocated buffers.

Fixes: 907676b130711 ("net: hns3: use tx bounce buffer for small packets")
Signed-off-by: Jian Shen <shenjian15@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jijie Shao <shaojijie@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260205121719.3285730-1-shaojijie@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3_enet.c | 11 +++++++++--
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3_enet.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3_enet.c
index 34627de2e311e..107e692e8c87a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3_enet.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3_enet.c
@@ -1048,13 +1048,13 @@ static void hns3_init_tx_spare_buffer(struct hns3_enet_ring *ring)
int order;

if (!alloc_size)
- return;
+ goto not_init;

order = get_order(alloc_size);
if (order > MAX_ORDER) {
if (net_ratelimit())
dev_warn(ring_to_dev(ring), "failed to allocate tx spare buffer, exceed to max order\n");
- return;
+ goto not_init;
}

tx_spare = devm_kzalloc(ring_to_dev(ring), sizeof(*tx_spare),
@@ -1092,6 +1092,13 @@ static void hns3_init_tx_spare_buffer(struct hns3_enet_ring *ring)
devm_kfree(ring_to_dev(ring), tx_spare);
devm_kzalloc_error:
ring->tqp->handle->kinfo.tx_spare_buf_size = 0;
+not_init:
+ /* When driver init or reset_init, the ring->tx_spare is always NULL;
+ * but when called from hns3_set_ringparam, it's usually not NULL, and
+ * will be restored if hns3_init_all_ring() failed. So it's safe to set
+ * ring->tx_spare to NULL here.
+ */
+ ring->tx_spare = NULL;
}

/* Use hns3_tx_spare_space() to make sure there is enough buffer
--
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