[PATCH net] net: macb: drop in-flight Tx SKBs on close

From: Théo Lebrun

Date: Fri Apr 24 2026 - 06:05:42 EST


The MACB driver has since forever leaked the outgoing SKBs that have not
yet been marked as completed. They live in queue->tx_skb which gets
freed without remorse nor checking.

macb_free_consistent() gets called in a few codepaths, but only
close will trigger the added expressions. In macb_open() and
macb_alloc_consistent() failure cases, tx_skb just got allocated
and is empty.

Fixes: 89e5785fc8a6 ("[PATCH] Atmel MACB ethernet driver")
Signed-off-by: Théo Lebrun <theo.lebrun@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
index a12aa21244e8..3ffd60b852f8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
@@ -2649,6 +2649,7 @@ static unsigned int macb_rx_ring_size_per_queue(struct macb *bp)
static void macb_free_consistent(struct macb *bp)
{
struct device *dev = &bp->pdev->dev;
+ unsigned int dropped, tail;
struct macb_queue *queue;
unsigned int q;
size_t size;
@@ -2668,6 +2669,14 @@ static void macb_free_consistent(struct macb *bp)
dma_free_coherent(dev, size, bp->queues[0].rx_ring, bp->queues[0].rx_ring_dma);

for (q = 0, queue = bp->queues; q < bp->num_queues; ++q, ++queue) {
+ dropped = CIRC_CNT(queue->tx_head, queue->tx_tail,
+ bp->tx_ring_size);
+ queue->stats.tx_dropped += dropped;
+ bp->dev->stats.tx_dropped += dropped;
+
+ for (tail = queue->tx_tail; tail != queue->tx_head; tail++)
+ macb_tx_unmap(bp, macb_tx_skb(queue, tail), 0);
+
kfree(queue->tx_skb);
queue->tx_skb = NULL;
queue->tx_ring = NULL;

---
base-commit: 41517b5a932a35c6f59a997ab3b7fa7746c273bd
change-id: 20260423-macb-drop-tx-f9ce72720d05

Best regards,
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Théo Lebrun <theo.lebrun@xxxxxxxxxxx>