Re: [PATCH net] net: stmmac: fix stale descriptors and DMA mapping leak on Tx map failure
From: 赵金明
Date: Fri Sep 11 2026 - 04:41:21 EST
>> In stmmac_xmit(), when the DMA mapping of the linear part or of a
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>>? if (unlikely(is_jumbo)) {
>> - entry = stmmac_jumbo_frm(priv, tx_q, skb, csum_insertion);
>> - if (unlikely(entry < 0) && (entry != -EINVAL))
>> + ret = stmmac_jumbo_frm(priv, tx_q, skb, csum_insertion);
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>if jumbo_frm() returns an error on the subsequent frames, entry is not updated
>here, so we will end up with a DMA leak. Am I missing something?
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You're right, that was a real leak in v1. If jumbo_frm() failed while mapping a subsequent jumbo buffer, the buffers mapped before the failure were never unmapped, because jumbo_frm() returns -1 without reporting how many buffers it had already mapped, so the error path in stmmac_xmit() could not release them.
v2 fixes this inside jumbo_frm() itself: it now saves the starting entry and, when a subsequent dma_map_single() fails, unmaps the buffers it has already mapped before returning an error, in both ring and chain modes. This keeps the stmmac_xmit() error path unchanged and avoids changing jumbo_frm()'s return semantics.
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>> + if (unlikely(ret < 0) && (ret != -EINVAL))
>>? goto dma_map_err;
>> + entry = ret;
>>? } else {
>>? bool last_segment = (nfrags == 0);
>>?
>> @@ -4984,6 +4985,26 @@ static netdev_tx_t stmmac_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
>>?
>>? dma_map_err:
>>? netdev_err(priv->dev, "Tx DMA map failed\n");
>> +
>> + /* entry points one past the last descriptor written for this frame:
>> + * on failure it is the descriptor whose DMA mapping failed, so walk
>> + * from first_entry up to, but not including, entry.? Reset cur_tx
>> + * unconditionally as both stmmac_vlan_insert() and stmmac_jumbo_frm()
>> + * may have advanced it, and release the VLAN context descriptor.
>> + */
>> + while (first_entry != entry) {
>> + desc = stmmac_get_tx_desc(priv, tx_q, first_entry);
>> + stmmac_release_tx_desc(priv, desc, priv->descriptor_mode);
>> + stmmac_free_tx_buffer(priv, &priv->dma_conf, queue, first_entry);
>> + first_entry = STMMAC_NEXT_ENTRY(first_entry,
>> + priv->dma_conf.dma_tx_size);
>> + }
>> +
>> + tx_q->cur_tx = first_tx;
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>do we really need to update tx_q->cur_tx here?
Yes, it is needed. Two helpers advance tx_q->cur_tx before we reach the error path: stmmac_vlan_insert() (when a VLAN tag is present) moves it past the context descriptor, and stmmac_jumbo_frm() moves it past the jumbo head descriptors on success.
If we do not roll it back to first_tx, the released VLAN context descriptor (and any jumbo head descriptors) would be left inside the [dirty_tx, cur_tx) in-flight window, so stmmac_tx_clean() would treat them as completed frames, and the next xmit would skip those slots.
Unlike the TSO path, where the allocator uses a local entry and tx_q->cur_tx is only assigned on success, these are shared helpers that advance cur_tx as a side effect, so rolling it back here is the minimal correct fix.
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>Regards,
>Lorenzo
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>> + if (has_vlan) {
>> + desc = stmmac_get_tx_desc(priv, tx_q, first_tx);
>> + stmmac_release_tx_desc(priv, desc, priv->descriptor_mode);
>> + }
>>? max_sdu_err:
>>? dev_kfree_skb(skb);
>>? priv->xstats.tx_dropped++;
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>> ---
>> base-commit: 893e11787f78e43b534e252249ac3fff4d1333f8
>> change-id: 20260909-stmmac-fix-vlan-desc-leak-f057bb061daa
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>> Best regards,
>> --
>> ZhaoJinming <zhaojinming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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