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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>, Wei Fang <wei.fang@nxp.com>,
	Shenwei Wang <shenwei.wang@nxp.com>,
	Clark Wang <xiaoning.wang@nxp.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, imx@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mehmet Fide <mehmet.fide@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.18.y] net: fec: do not release NULL pages when RX buffer allocation fails
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:55:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260811184500.stable-0011-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260810123902.2611897-1-mehmet.fide@gmail.com>

> That helper walks the whole ring and
> hands every rx_skb_info[i].page to page_pool_put_full_page(), including
> the entries the allocation loop never reached.

Hm... I think that the patch makes sense.

Wei, Shenwei, Clark - could one of you ack this? It is a stable-only fix
with no upstream commit to point at, so I would rather not queue it on
my own judgement.

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha

  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-08-11 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-10 12:39 [PATCH 6.18.y] net: fec: do not release NULL pages when RX buffer allocation fails Mehmet Fide
2026-08-10 13:16 ` Mehmet Fide
2026-08-11 18:55 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2026-08-12  2:13 ` Wei Fang

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