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[23.234.93.211]) by smtp.gmail.com with UTF8SMTPSA id a92af1059eb24-12ab970da7fsm2819438c88.0.2026.03.28.12.25.28 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:25:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Sam Edwards X-Google-Original-From: Sam Edwards To: Andrew Lunn , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni Cc: Maxime Coquelin , Alexandre Torgue , "Russell King (Oracle)" , Maxime Chevallier , Ovidiu Panait , Vladimir Oltean , Baruch Siach , Serge Semin , Giuseppe Cavallaro , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sam Edwards , stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: [RESEND PATCH net v3 2/2] net: stmmac: Prevent indefinite RX stall on buffer exhaustion Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:25:03 -0700 Message-ID: <20260328192503.520689-3-CFSworks@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.52.0 In-Reply-To: <20260328192503.520689-1-CFSworks@gmail.com> References: <20260328192503.520689-1-CFSworks@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The stmmac driver handles interrupts in the usual NAPI way: an interrupt arrives, the NAPI instance is scheduled and interrupts are masked, and the actual work occurs in the NAPI polling function. Once no further work remains, interrupts are unmasked and the NAPI instance is put to sleep to await a future interrupt. In the receive case, the MAC only sends the interrupt when a DMA operation completes; thus the driver must make sure a usable RX DMA descriptor exists before expecting a future interrupt. The main receive loop in stmmac_rx() exits under one of 3 conditions: 1) It encounters a DMA descriptor with OWN=1, indicating that no further pending data exists. The MAC will use this descriptor for the next RX DMA operation, so the driver can expect a future interrupt. 2) It exhausts the NAPI budget. In this case, the driver doesn't know whether the MAC has any usable DMA descriptors. But when the driver consumes its full budget, that signals NAPI to keep polling, so the question is moot. 3) It runs out of (non-dirty) descriptors in the RX ring. In this case, the MAC will only have a usable descriptor if stmmac_rx_refill() succeeds (at least partially). Currently, stmmac_rx() lacks any check against scenario #3 and stmmac_rx_refill() failing: it will stop NAPI polling and unmask interrupts to await an interrupt that will never arrive, stalling the receive pipeline indefinitely. Fix this by checking stmmac_rx_dirty(): it will return 0 if stmmac_rx_refill() fully succeeded and we can safely await an interrupt. Any nonzero value means some allocations failed, in which case we risk dropping frames if a large traffic burst exhausts the surviving non-dirties. Therefore, simply return the full budget (to keep polling) until all allocations succeed. Fixes: 47dd7a540b8a ("net: add support for STMicroelectronics Ethernet controllers.") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sam Edwards --- drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c index f98b070073c0..81f764352f3d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c @@ -5604,6 +5604,7 @@ static int stmmac_rx(struct stmmac_priv *priv, int limit, u32 queue) unsigned int desc_size; struct sk_buff *skb = NULL; struct stmmac_xdp_buff ctx; + int budget = limit; int xdp_status = 0; int bufsz; @@ -5870,6 +5871,10 @@ static int stmmac_rx(struct stmmac_priv *priv, int limit, u32 queue) priv->xstats.rx_dropped += rx_dropped; priv->xstats.rx_errors += rx_errors; + /* If stmmac_rx_refill() failed, keep trying until it doesn't. */ + if (unlikely(stmmac_rx_dirty(priv, queue) > 0)) + return budget; + return count; } -- 2.52.0