Re: [PATCH net] net: stmmac: fix completely hung TX when using TSO

From: Florian Fainelli
Date: Tue Jun 06 2017 - 10:31:31 EST




On 06/06/2017 12:25 AM, Niklas Cassel wrote:
> stmmac_tso_allocator can fail to set the Last Descriptor bit
> on a descriptor that actually was the last descriptor.
>
> This happens when the buffer of the last descriptor ends
> up having a size of exactly TSO_MAX_BUFF_SIZE.
>
> When the IP eventually reaches the next last descriptor,
> which actually has the bit set, the DMA will hang.
>
> When the DMA hangs, we get a tx timeout, however,
> since stmmac does not do a complete reset of the IP
> in stmmac_tx_timeout, we end up in a state with
> completely hung TX.
>
> Signed-off-by: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@xxxxxxxx>

This should have:

Fixes: f748be531d70 ("stmmac: support new GMAC4")

right?

> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
> index 68a188e74c54..440bea049a7f 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
> @@ -2723,7 +2723,7 @@ static void stmmac_tso_allocator(struct stmmac_priv *priv, unsigned int des,
>
> priv->hw->desc->prepare_tso_tx_desc(desc, 0, buff_size,
> 0, 1,
> - (last_segment) && (buff_size < TSO_MAX_BUFF_SIZE),
> + (last_segment) && (tmp_len <= TSO_MAX_BUFF_SIZE),
> 0, 0);
>
> tmp_len -= TSO_MAX_BUFF_SIZE;
>

--
Florian