[PATCH 7.0.y 5/5] net: stmmac: fix transmit interrupt coalescing
From: Arbab Haider
Date: Wed Aug 05 2026 - 06:06:21 EST
From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
The accounting for transmit frames does not count the descriptors
correctly. It uses:
tx_packets = (tx_q->cur_tx + 1) - first_tx;
however, these are indexes into a circular buffer, so cur_tx can be
less than first_tx, and when that happens, tx_packets becomes a very
large unsigned integer. When this is added to tx_q->tx_count_frames,
it has the effect of reducing the count of frames, possibly causing
it to also wrap to a very large unsigned integer.
Fix this by using CIRC_CNT() to calculate the number of descriptors
used.
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/E1vuoIl-0000000Aouz-0ttb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit dd53a0e85969c6b2a5a4e4e46ba05b3187231017 ]
---
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
index 81a6ab19a45b..0266b09f0faf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
https://bugzilla.stlinux.com/
*******************************************************************************/
+#include <linux/circ_buf.h>
#include <linux/clk.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
@@ -4511,7 +4512,8 @@ static netdev_tx_t stmmac_tso_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
tx_q->tx_skbuff_dma[tx_q->cur_tx].buf_type = STMMAC_TXBUF_T_SKB;
/* Manage tx mitigation */
- tx_packets = (tx_q->cur_tx + 1) - first_tx;
+ tx_packets = CIRC_CNT(tx_q->cur_tx + 1, first_tx,
+ priv->dma_conf.dma_tx_size);
tx_q->tx_count_frames += tx_packets;
if ((skb_shinfo(skb)->tx_flags & SKBTX_HW_TSTAMP) && priv->hwts_tx_en)
@@ -4789,7 +4791,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t stmmac_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
* This approach takes care about the fragments: desc is the first
* element in case of no SG.
*/
- tx_packets = (entry + 1) - first_tx;
+ tx_packets = CIRC_CNT(entry + 1, first_tx, priv->dma_conf.dma_tx_size);
tx_q->tx_count_frames += tx_packets;
if ((skb_shinfo(skb)->tx_flags & SKBTX_HW_TSTAMP) && priv->hwts_tx_en)
--
2.53.0