From: "Théo Lebrun" <theo.lebrun@bootlin.com>
To: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>,
Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@tuxon.dev>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>,
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: "Paolo Valerio" <pvalerio@redhat.com>,
"Conor Dooley" <conor@kernel.org>,
"Nicolai Buchwitz" <nb@tipi-net.de>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Vladimir Kondratiev" <vladimir.kondratiev@mobileye.com>,
"Gregory CLEMENT" <gregory.clement@bootlin.com>,
"Benoît Monin" <benoit.monin@bootlin.com>,
"Tawfik Bayouk" <tawfik.bayouk@mobileye.com>,
"Thomas Petazzoni" <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>,
"Maxime Chevallier" <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>,
"Théo Lebrun" <theo.lebrun@bootlin.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] net: macb: drop in-flight Tx SKBs on close
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:01:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260424-macb-drop-tx-v1-1-b3ecb787d84d@bootlin.com> (raw)
The MACB driver has since forever leaked the outgoing SKBs that have not
yet been marked as completed. They live in queue->tx_skb which gets
freed without remorse nor checking.
macb_free_consistent() gets called in a few codepaths, but only
close will trigger the added expressions. In macb_open() and
macb_alloc_consistent() failure cases, tx_skb just got allocated
and is empty.
Fixes: 89e5785fc8a6 ("[PATCH] Atmel MACB ethernet driver")
Signed-off-by: Théo Lebrun <theo.lebrun@bootlin.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
index a12aa21244e8..3ffd60b852f8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
@@ -2649,6 +2649,7 @@ static unsigned int macb_rx_ring_size_per_queue(struct macb *bp)
static void macb_free_consistent(struct macb *bp)
{
struct device *dev = &bp->pdev->dev;
+ unsigned int dropped, tail;
struct macb_queue *queue;
unsigned int q;
size_t size;
@@ -2668,6 +2669,14 @@ static void macb_free_consistent(struct macb *bp)
dma_free_coherent(dev, size, bp->queues[0].rx_ring, bp->queues[0].rx_ring_dma);
for (q = 0, queue = bp->queues; q < bp->num_queues; ++q, ++queue) {
+ dropped = CIRC_CNT(queue->tx_head, queue->tx_tail,
+ bp->tx_ring_size);
+ queue->stats.tx_dropped += dropped;
+ bp->dev->stats.tx_dropped += dropped;
+
+ for (tail = queue->tx_tail; tail != queue->tx_head; tail++)
+ macb_tx_unmap(bp, macb_tx_skb(queue, tail), 0);
+
kfree(queue->tx_skb);
queue->tx_skb = NULL;
queue->tx_ring = NULL;
---
base-commit: 41517b5a932a35c6f59a997ab3b7fa7746c273bd
change-id: 20260423-macb-drop-tx-f9ce72720d05
Best regards,
--
Théo Lebrun <theo.lebrun@bootlin.com>
next reply other threads:[~2026-04-24 10:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-24 10:01 Théo Lebrun [this message]
2026-04-24 10:30 ` [PATCH net] net: macb: drop in-flight Tx SKBs on close Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-04-24 11:45 ` Théo Lebrun
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