[PATCH] net: qualcomm: qca_uart: report the consumed byte on RX skb allocation failure

From: Pengpeng Hou

Date: Thu Apr 02 2026 - 03:19:05 EST


qca_tty_receive() consumes each input byte before checking whether a
completed frame needs a fresh receive skb. When the current byte completes
a frame, the driver delivers that frame and then allocates a new skb for
the next one.

If that allocation fails, the current code returns i even though data[i]
has already been consumed and may already have completed the delivered
frame. Since serdev interprets the return value as the number of accepted
bytes, this under-reports progress by one byte and can replay the final
byte of the completed frame into a fresh parser state on the next call.

Return i + 1 in that failure path so the accepted-byte count matches the
actual receive-state progress.

Fixes: dfc768fbe618 ("net: qualcomm: add QCA7000 UART driver")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Pengpeng Hou <pengpeng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_uart.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_uart.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_uart.c
index 37efb1ea9fcd..847a5f928e41 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_uart.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_uart.c
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ qca_tty_receive(struct serdev_device *serdev, const u8 *data, size_t count)
if (!qca->rx_skb) {
netdev_dbg(netdev, "recv: out of RX resources\n");
n_stats->rx_errors++;
- return i;
+ return i + 1;
}
}
}
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2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)