From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@foss.st.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 2/2] net: stmmac: fix transmit interrupt coalescing
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:41:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1vuUJz-0000000AfEU-3KIy@rmk-PC.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aZw86hpjQ-3w3xqJ@shell.armlinux.org.uk>
The accounting for transmit frames does not count the descriptors
correctly. It uses:
tx_packets = (tx_q->cur_tx + 1) - first_tx;
however, these are indexes into a circular buffer, so cur_tx can be
less than first_tx, and when that happens, tx_packets becomes a very
large unsigned integer. When this is added to tx_q->tx_count_frames,
it has the effect of reducing the count of frames, possibly causing
it to also wrap to a very large unsigned integer.
Fix this by using CIRC_CNT() to calculate the number of descriptors
used.
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
index 3277aecc5454..baf2ff577f45 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
@@ -4503,7 +4503,8 @@ static netdev_tx_t stmmac_tso_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
tx_q->tx_skbuff_dma[tx_q->cur_tx].buf_type = STMMAC_TXBUF_T_SKB;
/* Manage tx mitigation */
- tx_packets = (tx_q->cur_tx + 1) - first_tx;
+ tx_packets = CIRC_CNT(tx_q->cur_tx + 1, first_tx,
+ priv->dma_conf.dma_tx_size);
tx_q->tx_count_frames += tx_packets;
if ((skb_shinfo(skb)->tx_flags & SKBTX_HW_TSTAMP) && priv->hwts_tx_en)
@@ -4562,7 +4563,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t stmmac_tso_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
/* If we only have one entry used, then the first entry is the last
* segment.
*/
- is_last_segment = CIRC_CNT(tx_q->cur_tx, first_entry,,
+ is_last_segment = CIRC_CNT(tx_q->cur_tx, first_entry,
priv->dma_conf.dma_tx_size) == 1;
/* Complete the first descriptor before granting the DMA */
@@ -4781,7 +4782,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t stmmac_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
* This approach takes care about the fragments: desc is the first
* element in case of no SG.
*/
- tx_packets = (entry + 1) - first_tx;
+ tx_packets = CIRC_CNT(entry + 1, first_tx, priv->dma_conf.dma_tx_size);
tx_q->tx_count_frames += tx_packets;
if ((skb_shinfo(skb)->tx_flags & SKBTX_HW_TSTAMP) && priv->hwts_tx_en)
--
2.47.3
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-23 11:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-23 11:41 [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: stmmac: fix interrupt coalescing Russell King (Oracle)
2026-02-23 11:41 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: stmmac: use circ_buf helpers for descriptors Russell King (Oracle)
2026-02-23 12:02 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2026-02-23 11:41 ` Russell King (Oracle) [this message]
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