From: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
To: MD Danish Anwar <danishanwar@ti.com>,
Roger Quadros <rogerq@kernel.org>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] net: ti: icssg-prueth: fix use-after-free of CPPI descriptor in RX path
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:12:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260319181236.14526-1-devnexen@gmail.com> (raw)
cppi5_hdesc_get_psdata() returns a pointer into the CPPI descriptor.
In both emac_rx_packet() and emac_rx_packet_zc(), the descriptor is
freed via k3_cppi_desc_pool_free() before the psdata pointer is used
by emac_rx_timestamp(), which dereferences psdata[0] and psdata[1].
This constitutes a use-after-free on every received packet that goes
through the timestamp path.
Defer the descriptor free until after all accesses through the psdata
pointer are complete. For emac_rx_packet(), this means freeing in each
early-exit path and after emac_rx_timestamp() in the success path. For
emac_rx_packet_zc(), move the free to the end of the loop body after
emac_dispatch_skb_zc() (which calls emac_rx_timestamp()) has returned.
Fixes: 46eeb90f03e0 ("net: ti: icssg-prueth: Use page_pool API for RX buffer allocation")
Signed-off-by: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg/icssg_common.c | 11 ++++++++---
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg/icssg_common.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg/icssg_common.c
index 0a3cf2f848a5..31003962ecf7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg/icssg_common.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg/icssg_common.c
@@ -962,7 +962,6 @@ static int emac_rx_packet_zc(struct prueth_emac *emac, u32 flow_id,
pkt_len -= 4;
cppi5_desc_get_tags_ids(&desc_rx->hdr, &port_id, NULL);
psdata = cppi5_hdesc_get_psdata(desc_rx);
- k3_cppi_desc_pool_free(rx_chn->desc_pool, desc_rx);
count++;
xsk_buff_set_size(xdp, pkt_len);
xsk_buff_dma_sync_for_cpu(xdp);
@@ -988,6 +987,7 @@ static int emac_rx_packet_zc(struct prueth_emac *emac, u32 flow_id,
emac_dispatch_skb_zc(emac, xdp, psdata);
xsk_buff_free(xdp);
}
+ k3_cppi_desc_pool_free(rx_chn->desc_pool, desc_rx);
}
if (xdp_status & ICSSG_XDP_REDIR)
@@ -1057,7 +1057,6 @@ static int emac_rx_packet(struct prueth_emac *emac, u32 flow_id, u32 *xdp_state)
/* firmware adds 4 CRC bytes, strip them */
pkt_len -= 4;
cppi5_desc_get_tags_ids(&desc_rx->hdr, &port_id, NULL);
- k3_cppi_desc_pool_free(rx_chn->desc_pool, desc_rx);
/* if allocation fails we drop the packet but push the
* descriptor back to the ring with old page to prevent a stall
@@ -1066,6 +1065,7 @@ static int emac_rx_packet(struct prueth_emac *emac, u32 flow_id, u32 *xdp_state)
if (unlikely(!new_page)) {
new_page = page;
ndev->stats.rx_dropped++;
+ k3_cppi_desc_pool_free(rx_chn->desc_pool, desc_rx);
goto requeue;
}
@@ -1077,11 +1077,14 @@ static int emac_rx_packet(struct prueth_emac *emac, u32 flow_id, u32 *xdp_state)
*xdp_state = emac_run_xdp(emac, &xdp, &pkt_len);
if (*xdp_state == ICSSG_XDP_CONSUMED) {
page_pool_recycle_direct(pool, page);
+ k3_cppi_desc_pool_free(rx_chn->desc_pool, desc_rx);
goto requeue;
}
- if (*xdp_state != ICSSG_XDP_PASS)
+ if (*xdp_state != ICSSG_XDP_PASS) {
+ k3_cppi_desc_pool_free(rx_chn->desc_pool, desc_rx);
goto requeue;
+ }
headroom = xdp.data - xdp.data_hard_start;
pkt_len = xdp.data_end - xdp.data;
} else {
@@ -1093,6 +1096,7 @@ static int emac_rx_packet(struct prueth_emac *emac, u32 flow_id, u32 *xdp_state)
if (!skb) {
ndev->stats.rx_dropped++;
page_pool_recycle_direct(pool, page);
+ k3_cppi_desc_pool_free(rx_chn->desc_pool, desc_rx);
goto requeue;
}
@@ -1105,6 +1109,7 @@ static int emac_rx_packet(struct prueth_emac *emac, u32 flow_id, u32 *xdp_state)
if (emac->rx_ts_enabled)
emac_rx_timestamp(emac, skb, psdata);
+ k3_cppi_desc_pool_free(rx_chn->desc_pool, desc_rx);
if (emac->prueth->is_switch_mode)
skb->offload_fwd_mark = emac->offload_fwd_mark;
skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, ndev);
--
2.53.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-03-19 18:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-19 18:12 David Carlier [this message]
2026-03-20 17:27 ` [PATCH net] net: ti: icssg-prueth: fix use-after-free of CPPI descriptor in RX path Simon Horman
2026-03-20 17:44 ` [PATCH] " David Carlier
2026-03-21 10:31 ` Simon Horman
2026-03-24 11:30 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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