[PATCH net] octeontx2-pf: fix null RX segment address free

From: nshettyj

Date: Thu Sep 03 2026 - 10:48:48 EST


From: Geetha sowjanya <gakula@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Avoid freeing RX segment addresses when the segment address is null.
This prevents passing an invalid pointer to aura_freeptr().

Fixes: b1bc8457e9d0 ("octeontx2-pf: Cleanup all receive buffers in SG descriptor")
Signed-off-by: Nitin Shetty J <nshettyj@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Geetha sowjanya <gakula@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_txrx.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_txrx.c
index 8d2d607bc92f..a9aefd14ae52 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_txrx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_txrx.c
@@ -256,9 +256,12 @@ static void otx2_free_rcv_seg(struct otx2_nic *pfvf, struct nix_cqe_rx_s *cqe,
while (start < end) {
sg = (struct nix_rx_sg_s *)start;
seg_addr = &sg->seg_addr;
- for (seg = 0; seg < sg->segs; seg++, seg_addr++)
+ for (seg = 0; seg < sg->segs; seg++, seg_addr++) {
+ if (unlikely(!*seg_addr))
+ return;
pfvf->hw_ops->aura_freeptr(pfvf, qidx,
*seg_addr & ~0x07ULL);
+ }
start += sizeof(*sg);
}
}
--
2.48.1