From: 赵金明 <zhaojinming@uniontech.com>
To: maxime.chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>,
andrew+netdev <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
davem <davem@davemloft.net>, edumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
kuba <kuba@kernel.org>, pabeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
mcoquelin.stm32 <mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com>,
alexandre.torgue <alexandre.torgue@foss.st.com>,
jose.abreu <Jose.Abreu@synopsys.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-stm32 <linux-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: stmmac: fix stale descriptors and DMA mapping leak on Tx map failure
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:40:33 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E92AD2C7F9C27CD6+202609111640319095245@uniontech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4a07a3d6-b515-43b6-918d-87806c479430@bootlin.com
>Hi,
>
>On 9/10/26 07:19, ZhaoJinming wrote:
>> In stmmac_xmit(), when the DMA mapping of the linear part or of a
>> fragment fails, the error path only frees the skb.? This leaves behind
>> the DMA mappings already created for the linear part and for the
>> fragments mapped before the failure, which are never unmapped.
>>
>> The VLAN context descriptor programmed by stmmac_vlan_insert() is also
>> left behind with its OWN bit set while tx_q->cur_tx has been advanced
>> past it, so the DMA engine later consumes the orphaned descriptor and
>> applies its stale VLAN tag to an unrelated frame.
>>
>> Release the descriptors and their DMA mappings in the dma_map_err path
>> with stmmac_release_tx_desc() and stmmac_free_tx_buffer(), walking from
>> first_entry to entry, then roll back tx_q->cur_tx and release the VLAN
>> context descriptor.
>>
>> Fixes: 30d932279dc2 ("net: stmmac: Add support for VLAN Insertion Offload")
>> Signed-off-by: ZhaoJinming <zhaojinming@uniontech.com>
>> ---
>>? drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++----
>>? 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
>> index 24656b35350b14454fb10deced6516eb89e2c0c9..2e36c27e2cfb436af3566cf1c3e70d32ce9830a0 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
>> @@ -4769,12 +4769,12 @@ static netdev_tx_t stmmac_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
>>? unsigned int nopaged_len = skb_headlen(skb);
>>? u32 queue = skb_get_queue_mapping(skb);
>>? int nfrags = skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags;
>> - unsigned int first_entry, tx_packets;
>> + unsigned int first_entry, entry, tx_packets;
>>? struct stmmac_txq_stats *txq_stats;
>>? struct dma_desc *desc, *first_desc;
>>? struct stmmac_tx_queue *tx_q;
>>? int i, csum_insertion = 0;
>> - int entry, first_tx;
>> + int first_tx, ret;
>>? dma_addr_t dma_addr;
>>? u32 sdu_len;
>
>Please follow the reverse xmas tree ordering, from longest line to shortest
Done in v2: the variable declarations in stmmac_xmit() are now ordered
from longest to shortest line.
>
>The rest seems OK. By any chance, do you have a reproducer ?
>
>Maxime
>
>
No runtime reproducer, sorry. This was found by code review / static
analysis. The trigger requires a DMA mapping failure (dma_map_single /
skb_frag_dma_map) combined with VLAN insertion offload or fragmented
SKBs, which needs IOMMU pressure or fault injection to reproduce
reliably.
Thanks for the review.
Regards,
ZhaoJinming
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-11 8:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-10 5:19 [PATCH net] net: stmmac: fix stale descriptors and DMA mapping leak on Tx map failure ZhaoJinming
2026-09-10 8:51 ` Maxime Chevallier
2026-09-11 8:40 ` 赵金明 [this message]
2026-09-10 9:22 ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2026-09-11 8:34 ` 赵金明
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