From: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
To: Boon Khai Ng <boon.khai.ng@altera.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Vince Bridgers <vbridgers2013@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] net: altera-tse: fix skb leak on DMA mapping error in tse_start_xmit()
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2026 22:12:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260401211218.279185-1-devnexen@gmail.com> (raw)
When dma_map_single() fails in tse_start_xmit(), the function returns
NETDEV_TX_OK without freeing the skb. Since NETDEV_TX_OK tells the
stack the packet was consumed, the skb is never freed, leaking memory
on every DMA mapping failure.
Add dev_kfree_skb_any() before returning to properly free the skb.
Fixes: bbd2190ce96d ("Altera TSE: Add main and header file for Altera Ethernet Driver")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_main.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_main.c
index 4342e2d026f8..9eed0be4411e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_main.c
@@ -570,6 +570,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t tse_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
DMA_TO_DEVICE);
if (dma_mapping_error(priv->device, dma_addr)) {
netdev_err(priv->dev, "%s: DMA mapping error\n", __func__);
+ dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
ret = NETDEV_TX_OK;
goto out;
}
--
2.53.0
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2026-04-03 1:30 ` [PATCH] net: altera-tse: fix skb leak on DMA mapping error in tse_start_xmit() patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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