[PATCH 6.1.y] net: stmmac: fix TSO DMA API usage causing oops

From: Rahul Sharma

Date: Fri Mar 06 2026 - 01:18:29 EST


From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 4c49f38e20a57f8abaebdf95b369295b153d1f8e ]

Commit 66600fac7a98 ("net: stmmac: TSO: Fix unbalanced DMA map/unmap
for non-paged SKB data") moved the assignment of tx_skbuff_dma[]'s
members to be later in stmmac_tso_xmit().

The buf (dma cookie) and len stored in this structure are passed to
dma_unmap_single() by stmmac_tx_clean(). The DMA API requires that
the dma cookie passed to dma_unmap_single() is the same as the value
returned from dma_map_single(). However, by moving the assignment
later, this is not the case when priv->dma_cap.addr64 > 32 as "des"
is offset by proto_hdr_len.

This causes problems such as:

dwc-eth-dwmac 2490000.ethernet eth0: Tx DMA map failed

and with DMA_API_DEBUG enabled:

DMA-API: dwc-eth-dwmac 2490000.ethernet: device driver tries to +free DMA memory it has not allocated [device address=0x000000ffffcf65c0] [size=66 bytes]

Fix this by maintaining "des" as the original DMA cookie, and use
tso_des to pass the offset DMA cookie to stmmac_tso_allocator().

Full details of the crashes can be found at:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/d8112193-0386-4e14-b516-37c2d838171a@xxxxxxxxxx/
https://lore.kernel.org/all/klkzp5yn5kq5efgtrow6wbvnc46bcqfxs65nz3qy77ujr5turc@bwwhelz2l4dw/

Reported-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 66600fac7a98 ("net: stmmac: TSO: Fix unbalanced DMA map/unmap for non-paged SKB data")
Tested-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Furong Xu <0x1207@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/E1tJXcx-006N4Z-PC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ The context change is due to the commit 041cc86b3653
("net: stmmac: Enable TSO on VLANs") in v6.11 which is irrelevant to
the logic of this patch. ]
Signed-off-by: Rahul Sharma <black.hawk@xxxxxxx>
---
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 b5de07b84f77..ca95944f247f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
@@ -4126,10 +4126,10 @@ static netdev_tx_t stmmac_tso_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
int tmp_pay_len = 0, first_tx;
struct stmmac_tx_queue *tx_q;
bool has_vlan, set_ic;
+ dma_addr_t tso_des, des;
u8 proto_hdr_len, hdr;
unsigned long flags;
u32 pay_len, mss;
- dma_addr_t des;
int i;

tx_q = &priv->dma_conf.tx_queue[queue];
@@ -4214,14 +4214,15 @@ static netdev_tx_t stmmac_tso_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)

/* If needed take extra descriptors to fill the remaining payload */
tmp_pay_len = pay_len - TSO_MAX_BUFF_SIZE;
+ tso_des = des;
} else {
stmmac_set_desc_addr(priv, first, des);
tmp_pay_len = pay_len;
- des += proto_hdr_len;
+ tso_des = des + proto_hdr_len;
pay_len = 0;
}

- stmmac_tso_allocator(priv, des, tmp_pay_len, (nfrags == 0), queue);
+ stmmac_tso_allocator(priv, tso_des, tmp_pay_len, (nfrags == 0), queue);

/* In case two or more DMA transmit descriptors are allocated for this
* non-paged SKB data, the DMA buffer address should be saved to
--
2.34.1