[PATCH] net: mvneta_bm: add suspend/resume to prevent crash after resume

From: Yun Zhou

Date: Wed Jun 10 2026 - 22:10:52 EST


The mvneta driver uses the hardware Buffer Manager (BM) for RX buffer
allocation. During suspend, mvneta disables its clock, causing BM to
lose all buffer address state. On resume, mvneta_bm_port_init() re-
attaches the BM pool to the NIC, but BM hardware returns stale/garbage
buffer addresses. When NAPI poll processes these buffers, DMA cache
sync hits an invalid virtual address causing a kernel panic:

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address b0000080
PC is at v7_dma_inv_range
Call trace:
v7_dma_inv_range from arch_sync_dma_for_cpu+0x94/0x158
arch_sync_dma_for_cpu from __dma_sync_single_for_cpu+0xc4/0x15c
__dma_sync_single_for_cpu from mvneta_rx_swbm+0x6c8/0xf48
mvneta_rx_swbm from mvneta_poll+0x6fc/0x70c
mvneta_poll from __napi_poll.constprop.0+0x2c/0x1e0
__napi_poll.constprop.0 from net_rx_action+0x160/0x2c4
net_rx_action from handle_softirqs+0xd8/0x2b8
handle_softirqs from run_ksoftirqd+0x30/0x94
run_ksoftirqd from smpboot_thread_fn+0x100/0x204
smpboot_thread_fn from kthread+0xf4/0x110
kthread from ret_from_fork+0x14/0x28

Fix by adding suspend/resume callbacks to the BM driver:
- suspend: stop BM unit and disable clock
- resume: enable clock, reinitialize BM defaults and restart pools

Signed-off-by: Yun Zhou <yun.zhou@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta_bm.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta_bm.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta_bm.c
index 6bb380494919..a0800b99c007 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta_bm.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta_bm.c
@@ -477,6 +477,30 @@ static void mvneta_bm_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
clk_disable_unprepare(priv->clk);
}

+#ifdef CONFIG_PM_SLEEP
+static int mvneta_bm_suspend(struct device *dev)
+{
+ struct mvneta_bm *priv = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
+
+ mvneta_bm_write(priv, MVNETA_BM_COMMAND_REG, MVNETA_BM_STOP_MASK);
+ clk_disable_unprepare(priv->clk);
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int mvneta_bm_resume(struct device *dev)
+{
+ struct mvneta_bm *priv = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
+
+ clk_prepare_enable(priv->clk);
+ mdelay(1);
+ mvneta_bm_default_set(priv);
+ mvneta_bm_pools_init(priv);
+ return 0;
+}
+#endif
+
+static SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS(mvneta_bm_pm_ops, mvneta_bm_suspend, mvneta_bm_resume);
+
static const struct of_device_id mvneta_bm_match[] = {
{ .compatible = "marvell,armada-380-neta-bm" },
{ }
@@ -489,6 +513,7 @@ static struct platform_driver mvneta_bm_driver = {
.driver = {
.name = MVNETA_BM_DRIVER_NAME,
.of_match_table = mvneta_bm_match,
+ .pm = &mvneta_bm_pm_ops,
},
};

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