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* [PATCH iwl-net v1] i40e: fix set_ringparam error path freeing live Tx rings
@ 2026-07-10  6:55 Aleksandr Loktionov
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From: Aleksandr Loktionov @ 2026-07-10  6:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: intel-wired-lan, anthony.l.nguyen, aleksandr.loktionov; +Cc: netdev

The free_tx: error label in i40e_set_ringparam() is supposed to release
the temporary tx_rings[] array built before i40e_down() is called.
Instead it passes vsi->tx_rings[i] to i40e_free_tx_resources() - a
pointer to the live, NAPI-active ring - rather than &tx_rings[i].

i40e_free_tx_resources() unconditionally NULLs out ring->desc and
ring->tx_bi.  Because i40e_down() has not run at this point, NAPI is
still scheduled and the next i40e_clean_tx_irq() call hits a NULL
descriptor pointer:

    BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000000002000
    RIP: i40e_napi_poll (i40e_txrx.c:942 i40e_txrx.c:2769)
    RAX: 0000000000000000  RBX: ffff8d0a53ea9800

The trigger is ethtool -G with a TX descriptor count change (so
tx_rings[] is allocated) followed by i40e_alloc_rx_buffers() returning
failure, e.g. under memory pressure.

Pass &tx_rings[i] instead so the temporary rings' DMA descriptors and
software buffer arrays are freed, leaving the live VSI rings intact.

Fixes: 74608d17fe29 ("i40e: add support for XDP_TX action")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c
index 3da9ec4..6d2b076 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c
@@ -2249,7 +2249,7 @@ static int i40e_set_ringparam(struct net_device *netdev,
 	if (tx_rings) {
 		for (i = 0; i < tx_alloc_queue_pairs; i++) {
 			if (i40e_active_tx_ring_index(vsi, i))
-				i40e_free_tx_resources(vsi->tx_rings[i]);
+				i40e_free_tx_resources(&tx_rings[i]);
 		}
 		kfree(tx_rings);
 		tx_rings = NULL;
-- 
2.52.0


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