[PATCH net-next] net/ionic: avoid OOB TX partner lookup for hwstamp RXQ
From: Anand Khoje
Date: Wed Aug 12 2026 - 08:05:56 EST
The dedicated hardware timestamp RX queue is allocated with q->index
equal to lif->ionic->nrxqs_per_lif. The normal txqcqs array only
contains the regular queue pairs, so using that index to set rxq->partner
can read one entry past txqcqs[] and then write through the derived
pointer.
Only link RX/TX partners for normal queue-pair indexes. Leave the hwstamp
RX queue unpaired, and make the XDP_TX path abort cleanly if an RX queue
has no TX partner.
Fixes: e1615dda41144 ("net/ethernet/pensando: Add out-of-tree network drivers")
Signed-off-by: Anand Khoje <anand.a.khoje@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Si-Wei Liu <si-wei.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_lif.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_txrx.c | 7 ++++++-
2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_lif.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_lif.c
index fd3ee9820531..1822361e1070 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_lif.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_lif.c
@@ -920,9 +920,23 @@ static int ionic_lif_rxq_init(struct ionic_lif *lif, struct ionic_qcq *qcq)
};
int err;
+ q->partner = NULL;
+
+ /* Only normal RX queues have matching TX queue partners,
+ * skip partner pairing for hwstamp RX queue.
+ */
+ if (q->index >= lif->nxqs)
+ goto skip_partner;
+
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!lif->txqcqs ||
+ q->index >= lif->ionic->ntxqs_per_lif ||
+ !lif->txqcqs[q->index]))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
q->partner = &lif->txqcqs[q->index]->q;
q->partner->partner = q;
+skip_partner:
if (!lif->xdp_prog ||
(lif->xdp_prog->aux && lif->xdp_prog->aux->xdp_has_frags))
ctx.cmd.q_init.flags |= cpu_to_le16(IONIC_QINIT_F_SG);
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_txrx.c
index 301ebee2fdc5..73998d61593a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_txrx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_txrx.c
@@ -545,13 +545,18 @@ static bool ionic_run_xdp(struct ionic_rx_stats *stats,
break;
case XDP_TX:
+ txq = rxq->partner;
+ if (unlikely(!txq)) {
+ err = -EIO;
+ break;
+ }
+
xdpf = xdp_convert_buff_to_frame(&xdp_buf);
if (!xdpf) {
err = -ENOSPC;
break;
}
- txq = rxq->partner;
nq = netdev_get_tx_queue(netdev, txq->index);
__netif_tx_lock(nq, smp_processor_id());
txq_trans_cond_update(nq);
--
2.52.0