[PATCH] net: spacemit: clear TX descriptor on fragment mapping failure

From: Muhammad Bilal

Date: Sat Sep 19 2026 - 15:20:17 EST


emac_tx_mem_map() writes TX_DESC_0_OWN into the ring descriptor for
every slot beyond old_head as soon as that slot's memset()'d local
copy is committed with "*tx_desc_addr = tx_desc", i.e. before the
buffers for that slot have necessarily all been mapped successfully.
If emac_tx_map_frag() then fails on a later fragment, the err_free_skb
path calls emac_free_tx_buf() to unmap and drop the skb, but leaves
the already-written descriptor memory untouched, and tx_ring->head is
never advanced past old_head (the "tx_ring->head = head" store is
skipped by the goto).

So a slot between old_head and the rolled-back head can be left with
TX_DESC_0_OWN set and buffer_addr_{1,2} pointing at DMA mappings that
emac_free_tx_buf() just tore down, while software considers that slot
free again. The next successful emac_tx_mem_map() call only rebuilds
old_head itself; if the DMA engine auto-advances into the following
descriptor once it finishes old_head's packet, it will fetch that
stale, already-unmapped address.

emac_tx_clean_desc() already treats emac_free_tx_buf() and clearing
the descriptor as a pair when reclaiming completed descriptors; do
the same in the mapping failure path.

Fixes: bfec6d7f2001 ("net: spacemit: Add K1 Ethernet MAC")
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Bilal <meatuni001@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/spacemit/k1_emac.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/spacemit/k1_emac.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/spacemit/k1_emac.c
index f7f16397a2c2..d641ac26a1e8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/spacemit/k1_emac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/spacemit/k1_emac.c
@@ -803,6 +803,9 @@ static void emac_tx_mem_map(struct emac_priv *priv, struct sk_buff *skb)
while (i != head) {
emac_free_tx_buf(priv, i);

+ tx_desc_addr = &((struct emac_desc *)tx_ring->desc_addr)[i];
+ memset(tx_desc_addr, 0, sizeof(*tx_desc_addr));
+
if (++i == tx_ring->total_cnt)
i = 0;
}
--
2.55.0