[PATCH net-next v2 2/2] net: stmmac: fix transmit interrupt coalescing
From: Russell King (Oracle) <hidden>
Date: 2026-02-24 09:02:11
Also in:
netdev
Subsystem:
networking drivers, stmmac ethernet driver, the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
The accounting for transmit frames does not count the descriptors correctly. It uses: tx_packets = (tx_q->cur_tx + 1) - first_tx; however, these are indexes into a circular buffer, so cur_tx can be less than first_tx, and when that happens, tx_packets becomes a very large unsigned integer. When this is added to tx_q->tx_count_frames, it has the effect of reducing the count of frames, possibly causing it to also wrap to a very large unsigned integer. Fix this by using CIRC_CNT() to calculate the number of descriptors used. Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <redacted> --- drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
index 2d74fe98ad61..baf2ff577f45 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c@@ -4503,7 +4503,8 @@ static netdev_tx_t stmmac_tso_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) tx_q->tx_skbuff_dma[tx_q->cur_tx].buf_type = STMMAC_TXBUF_T_SKB; /* Manage tx mitigation */ - tx_packets = (tx_q->cur_tx + 1) - first_tx; + tx_packets = CIRC_CNT(tx_q->cur_tx + 1, first_tx, + priv->dma_conf.dma_tx_size); tx_q->tx_count_frames += tx_packets; if ((skb_shinfo(skb)->tx_flags & SKBTX_HW_TSTAMP) && priv->hwts_tx_en)
@@ -4781,7 +4782,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t stmmac_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) * This approach takes care about the fragments: desc is the first * element in case of no SG. */ - tx_packets = (entry + 1) - first_tx; + tx_packets = CIRC_CNT(entry + 1, first_tx, priv->dma_conf.dma_tx_size); tx_q->tx_count_frames += tx_packets; if ((skb_shinfo(skb)->tx_flags & SKBTX_HW_TSTAMP) && priv->hwts_tx_en)
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