[PATCH 6.18.y] net: fec: do not release NULL pages when RX buffer allocation fails
From: Mehmet Fide
Date: Mon Aug 10 2026 - 08:49:17 EST
From: Mehmet Fide <mehmet.fide@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
fec_enet_alloc_rxq_buffers() leaves the loop as soon as
page_pool_dev_alloc_pages() returns NULL and jumps to err_alloc, which
calls fec_enet_free_buffers(). That helper walks the whole ring and
hands every rx_skb_info[i].page to page_pool_put_full_page(), including
the entries the allocation loop never reached. Those are still NULL,
because the queue was allocated with kzalloc(), and
page_pool_put_full_page() dereferences the page, so an open that runs
out of memory oopses instead of returning -ENOMEM:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000014 when read
Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] SMP ARM
CPU: 0 PID: 384 Comm: connmand Not tainted 6.18.43 #1
Hardware name: Freescale Vybrid VF5xx/VF6xx (Device Tree)
PC is at fec_enet_free_buffers+0xb0/0x2a8
Call trace:
fec_enet_free_buffers from fec_enet_open+0x1e0/0x504
fec_enet_open from __dev_open+0x114/0x238
__dev_open from __dev_change_flags+0x190/0x208
__dev_change_flags from netif_change_flags+0x1c/0x58
netif_change_flags from dev_change_flags+0x44/0x74
dev_change_flags from devinet_ioctl+0x3a4/0x768
Seen on a Colibri VF50, 128 MiB of RAM, on the first ifup after boot.
Skip the entries that hold no page, and clear the ones that do after
releasing them, so that a later failed open cannot release the same page
a second time.
Mainline is not affected. Commit a2ae70c0efe4 ("net: fec: add
fec_alloc_rxq_buffers_pp() to allocate buffers from page pool") replaced
this loop with fec_free_rxq_buffers(), which skips and clears the empty
entries. That commit is part of the XDP zero copy series and is not a
stable candidate, so this is the equivalent minimal fix for 6.18.y.
Fixes: 95698ff6177b ("net: fec: using page pool to manage RX buffers")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Mehmet Fide <mehmet.fide@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
@@ -3341,8 +3341,15 @@
for (q = 0; q < fep->num_rx_queues; q++) {
rxq = fep->rx_queue[q];
- for (i = 0; i < rxq->bd.ring_size; i++)
- page_pool_put_full_page(rxq->page_pool, rxq->rx_skb_info[i].page, false);
+ for (i = 0; i < rxq->bd.ring_size; i++) {
+ struct page *page = rxq->rx_skb_info[i].page;
+
+ if (!page)
+ continue;
+
+ page_pool_put_full_page(rxq->page_pool, page, false);
+ rxq->rx_skb_info[i].page = NULL;
+ }
for (i = 0; i < XDP_STATS_TOTAL; i++)
rxq->stats[i] = 0;
--
2.43.0