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From: Kordian Chmielewski <kudzo51@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Florian Fainelli" <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	"Florian Fainelli" <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>,
	"Rafał Miłecki" <rafal@milecki.pl>,
	bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com,
	"Andrew Lunn" <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@kernel.org>,
	"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
	"Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net v2 3/6] net: bcm4908_enet: release the TX ring on stop
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2026 20:50:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261112195051.597102-4-kudzo51@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261112195051.597102-1-kudzo51@gmail.com>

bcm4908_enet_stop() disables the TX DMA but leaves the ring as it is:
the skbs that poll_tx() has not freed yet stay mapped and are never
freed, and the descriptors the DMA has not sent yet keep
DMA_CTL_STATUS_OWN. The skbs, the socket memory they hold and their
mappings leak. The next open starts the indexes from 0 again over
those descriptors, so the DMA may send stale frames from before the
stop, and if the first descriptor still has OWN, start_xmit() stops
the queue before it enables the DMA, with nothing left to wake it.

Wait for the TX DMA channel to stop, as is already done for RX, then
unmap and free the skbs between read_idx and write_idx, and clear the
TX descriptors when the ring is initialised. A descriptor that
start_xmit() is about to use then never carries OWN, so drop the check
that stopped the queue on one. The RX helper's timeout warning said
TX; make it say RX.

Found by reading the code; I have not seen these on the hardware.

Fixes: 4feffeadbcb2 ("net: broadcom: bcm4908enet: add BCM4908 controller driver")
Signed-off-by: Kordian Chmielewski <kudzo51@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcm4908_enet.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcm4908_enet.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcm4908_enet.c
index b1738d954..a28adef03 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcm4908_enet.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcm4908_enet.c
@@ -313,6 +313,11 @@ static void bcm4908_enet_dma_ring_init(struct bcm4908_enet *enet,
 	enet_write(enet, ring->st_ram_block + ENET_DMA_CH_STATE_RAM_BASE_DESC_PTR,
 		   (uint32_t)ring->dma_addr);
 
+	/* A descriptor the stopped DMA never completed still carries OWN */
+	if (ring->is_tx)
+		memset(ring->buf_desc, 0,
+		       ring->length * sizeof(*ring->buf_desc));
+
 	ring->read_idx = 0;
 	ring->write_idx = 0;
 }
@@ -365,7 +370,22 @@ static void bcm4908_enet_dma_tx_ring_enable(struct bcm4908_enet *enet,
 static void bcm4908_enet_dma_tx_ring_disable(struct bcm4908_enet *enet,
 					     struct bcm4908_enet_dma_ring *ring)
 {
+	unsigned long deadline;
+	u32 tmp;
+
 	enet_write(enet, ring->cfg_block + ENET_DMA_CH_CFG, 0);
+
+	/* Wait for the channel to stop, as for RX, before freeing buffers */
+	deadline = jiffies + usecs_to_jiffies(2000);
+	do {
+		tmp = enet_read(enet, ring->cfg_block + ENET_DMA_CH_CFG);
+		if (!(tmp & ENET_DMA_CH_CFG_ENABLE))
+			return;
+		enet_write(enet, ring->cfg_block + ENET_DMA_CH_CFG, 0);
+		usleep_range(10, 30);
+	} while (!time_after_eq(jiffies, deadline));
+
+	dev_warn(enet->dev, "Timeout waiting for DMA TX stop\n");
 }
 
 static void bcm4908_enet_dma_rx_ring_enable(struct bcm4908_enet *enet,
@@ -391,7 +411,7 @@ static void bcm4908_enet_dma_rx_ring_disable(struct bcm4908_enet *enet,
 		usleep_range(10, 30);
 	} while (!time_after_eq(jiffies, deadline));
 
-	dev_warn(enet->dev, "Timeout waiting for DMA TX stop\n");
+	dev_warn(enet->dev, "Timeout waiting for DMA RX stop\n");
 }
 
 /***
@@ -496,6 +516,21 @@ static int bcm4908_enet_open(struct net_device *netdev)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static void bcm4908_enet_tx_ring_clean(struct bcm4908_enet *enet)
+{
+	struct bcm4908_enet_dma_ring *tx_ring = &enet->tx_ring;
+	struct device *dev = enet->dev;
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = tx_ring->read_idx; i != tx_ring->write_idx;
+	     i = i == tx_ring->length - 1 ? 0 : i + 1) {
+		struct bcm4908_enet_dma_ring_slot *slot = &tx_ring->slots[i];
+
+		dma_unmap_single(dev, slot->dma_addr, slot->len, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
+		dev_kfree_skb_any(slot->skb);
+	}
+}
+
 static int bcm4908_enet_stop(struct net_device *netdev)
 {
 	struct bcm4908_enet *enet = netdev_priv(netdev);
@@ -511,6 +546,7 @@ static int bcm4908_enet_stop(struct net_device *netdev)
 	bcm4908_enet_dma_rx_ring_disable(enet, &enet->rx_ring);
 	bcm4908_enet_dma_tx_ring_disable(enet, &enet->tx_ring);
 
+	bcm4908_enet_tx_ring_clean(enet);
 	bcm4908_enet_dma_uninit(enet);
 
 	free_irq(enet->irq_tx, enet);
@@ -549,13 +585,6 @@ static netdev_tx_t bcm4908_enet_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_devic
 	if (!netif_txq_maybe_stop(txq, bcm4908_enet_tx_free_descs(ring), 1, 1))
 		return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
 
-	/* Hardware removes OWN bit after sending data */
-	buf_desc = &ring->buf_desc[ring->write_idx];
-	if (unlikely(le32_to_cpu(buf_desc->ctl) & DMA_CTL_STATUS_OWN)) {
-		netif_stop_queue(netdev);
-		return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
-	}
-
 	dma_addr = dma_map_single(dev, skb->data, skb->len, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
 	if (unlikely(dma_mapping_error(dev, dma_addr))) {
 		dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
@@ -563,6 +592,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t bcm4908_enet_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_devic
 		return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 	}
 
+	buf_desc = &ring->buf_desc[ring->write_idx];
 	slot = &ring->slots[ring->write_idx];
 	slot->skb = skb;
 	slot->len = skb->len;
-- 
2.56.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-11-12 19:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-12 19:50 [PATCH net v2 0/6] net: bcm4908_enet: TX ring and DMA fixes Kordian Chmielewski
2026-11-12 19:50 ` [PATCH net v2 1/6] net: bcm4908_enet: fix the TX ring wrap Kordian Chmielewski
2026-11-12 19:50 ` [PATCH net v2 2/6] net: bcm4908_enet: drop a TX frame whose DMA mapping failed Kordian Chmielewski
2026-11-12 19:50 ` Kordian Chmielewski [this message]
2026-11-12 19:50 ` [PATCH net v2 4/6] net: bcm4908_enet: unmap the buffer of a dropped RX frame Kordian Chmielewski
2026-11-12 19:50 ` [PATCH net v2 5/6] net: bcm4908_enet: unmap RX buffers on stop with their mapped size Kordian Chmielewski
2026-11-12 19:50 ` [PATCH net v2 6/6] net: bcm4908_enet: publish the buffer address before OWN Kordian Chmielewski

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