[PATCH 6.12 075/460] e1000/e1000e: Fix leak in DMA error cleanup

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-23T14:16:13Z

6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Matt Vollrath <tactii@gmail.com>

[ Upstream commit e94eaef11142b01f77bf8ba4d0b59720b7858109 ]

If an error is encountered while mapping TX buffers, the driver should
unmap any buffers already mapped for that skb.

Because count is incremented after a successful mapping, it will always
match the correct number of unmappings needed when dma_error is reached.
Decrementing count before the while loop in dma_error causes an
off-by-one error. If any mapping was successful before an unsuccessful
mapping, exactly one DMA mapping would leak.

In these commits, a faulty while condition caused an infinite loop in
dma_error:
Commit 03b1320dfcee ("e1000e: remove use of skb_dma_map from e1000e
driver")
Commit 602c0554d7b0 ("e1000: remove use of skb_dma_map from e1000 driver")

Commit c1fa347f20f1 ("e1000/e1000e/igb/igbvf/ixgb/ixgbe: Fix tests of
unsigned in *_tx_map()") fixed the infinite loop, but introduced the
off-by-one error.

This issue may still exist in the igbvf driver, but I did not address it
in this patch.

Fixes: c1fa347f20f1 ("e1000/e1000e/igb/igbvf/ixgb/ixgbe: Fix tests of unsigned in *_tx_map()")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-4.6-opus
Signed-off-by: Matt Vollrath <tactii@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c | 2 --
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c | 2 --
2 files changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
index 67d7651b6411d..8072aa8f05e38 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
@@ -2948,8 +2948,6 @@ static int e1000_tx_map(struct e1000_adapter *adapter,
dma_error:
dev_err(&pdev->dev, "TX DMA map failed\n");
buffer_info->dma = 0;
- if (count)
- count--;

while (count--) {
if (i == 0)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
index 5fe54e9b71e25..4d9dcb0001d21 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
@@ -5633,8 +5633,6 @@ static int e1000_tx_map(struct e1000_ring *tx_ring, struct sk_buff *skb,
dma_error:
dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Tx DMA map failed\n");
buffer_info->dma = 0;
- if (count)
- count--;

while (count--) {
if (i == 0)
--
2.51.0