[PATCH net] net: mana: never hand a non-page_pool buffer to XDP

From: Gunter Woytowitz <redacted>

mana_create_rxq() registers MEM_TYPE_PAGE_POOL for the rxq
unconditionally, so every buffer XDP can see must be owned by that
page_pool: on XDP_REDIRECT the frame is freed through __xdp_return()
-> page_pool_put_full_page().

mana_xdp_set() assigns apc->bpf_prog before calling
mana_pre_alloc_rxbufs(), which allocates with dev_alloc_pages(), and
mana_fill_rx_oob() prefers those buffers whenever mpc->rxbufs_pre is
set, leaving from_pool false. So for a port that is up when a program
is attached, the entire re-created ring is filled with pages the
page_pool does not own.

The page_pool then sees pp_ref_count == 0 when such a frame is
returned, so the atomic_long_sub_return() in page_pool_unref_netmem()
goes negative and trips its WARN_ON(ret < 0), once per redirected
frame. Observed on a 5.14-based distro kernel, where that warning sits
at helpers.h:269:

  WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 0 at include/net/page_pool/helpers.h:269
                                            __xdp_return+0x2b3/0x2c0
  mana_process_rx_cqe -> mana_run_xdp -> mana_rx_skb -> xsk_map_redirect
                                            -> __xdp_return

On a VM booted with console=ttyS0 the resulting stack traces peg the
console thread and the machine becomes unusable.

Fill from the page_pool when a program is attached, using
mana_xdp_get() -- the predicate mana_get_rxbuf_cfg() already uses to
choose the XDP buffer geometry. With no program attached nothing
changes, so the pre-allocation still does its job of keeping
mana_attach() from failing on allocation.

Leaving the pre-allocated buffers unconsumed is safe:
mana_pre_dealloc_rxbufs() dma-unmaps and put_page()s the remainder,
and every caller (mana_xdp_set(), mana_change_mtu(), and both ethtool
ring and channel paths) already runs it after mana_attach().

The rxq->xdp_save_va reuse in mana_get_rxfrag() also leaves from_pool
false, but that cache is fed only by the drop path's non-pool branch,
which this change makes unreachable while a program is attached, so
it needs no fix.

Found and fixed on a 5.14-based distro kernel running AF_XDP over
MANA in copy mode: 24M+ redirected frames with no warnings, where the
unpatched driver warned on essentially every redirected frame. All of
the code involved is unchanged in mainline.

Fixes: b1d13f7a3b53 ("net: mana: Add page pool for RX buffers")
Signed-off-by: Gunter Woytowitz <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_en.c | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_en.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_en.c
index 7a1ac853e..a2cb66753 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_en.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_en.c

@@ -2925,7 +2925,14 @@ static int mana_fill_rx_oob(struct mana_recv_buf_oob *rx_oob, u32 mem_key,
 	dma_addr_t da;
 	void *va;
 
-	if (mpc->rxbufs_pre)
+	/* The pre-allocated buffers come from dev_alloc_pages(), not from the
+	 * rxq's page_pool. With a program attached any buffer can reach
+	 * __xdp_return(), which returns it to the pool the rxq registered, so
+	 * fill from the pool instead. The unused pre-allocated buffers are
+	 * released by the mana_pre_dealloc_rxbufs() every caller already runs
+	 * after mana_attach().
+	 */
+	if (mpc->rxbufs_pre && !mana_xdp_get(mpc))
 		va = mana_get_rxbuf_pre(rxq, &da);
 	else
 		va = mana_get_rxfrag(rxq, dev, &da, &from_pool, &pp_page,

---
base-commit: 50d05c7c76c96b90462f24debacca971d2e86713
change-id: 20260910-mana-xdp-pagepool-d61a74902b9f

Best regards,
--  
Gunter Woytowitz [off-list ref]