Thread (9 messages) flat view 9 messages, 4 authors, 2025-08-11
STALE405d

[PATCH net] net: xilinx: axienet: Increment Rx skb ring head pointer after BD is successfully allocated in dmaengine flow

From: Suraj Gupta <hidden>
Date: 2025-08-05 19:20:12
Also in: linux-arm-kernel, lkml
Subsystem: networking drivers, the rest, xilinx axi ethernet driver · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds, Radhey Shyam Pandey

In DMAengine flow, AXI DMA driver invokes callback before freeing BD in
irq handling path.
In Rx callback (axienet_dma_rx_cb()), axienet driver tries to allocate
new BD after processing skb.
This will be problematic if both AXI-DMA and AXI ethernet have same
BD count as all Rx BDs will be allocated initially and it won't be
able to allocate new one after Rx irq. Incrementing head pointer w/o
checking for BD allocation will result in garbage values in skb BD and
cause the below kernel crash:

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fffffffffffffffa
<snip>
Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000006 [#1]  SMP
pc : axienet_dma_rx_cb+0x78/0x150
lr : axienet_dma_rx_cb+0x78/0x150
 Call trace:
  axienet_dma_rx_cb+0x78/0x150 (P)
  xilinx_dma_do_tasklet+0xdc/0x290
  tasklet_action_common+0x12c/0x178
  tasklet_action+0x30/0x3c
  handle_softirqs+0xf8/0x230
<snip>

Fixes: 6a91b846af85 ("net: axienet: Introduce dmaengine support")
Signed-off-by: Suraj Gupta <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c
index 6011d7eae0c7..acd5be60afec 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c
@@ -1457,7 +1457,6 @@ static void axienet_rx_submit_desc(struct net_device *ndev)
 	if (!skbuf_dma)
 		return;
 
-	lp->rx_ring_head++;
 	skb = netdev_alloc_skb(ndev, lp->max_frm_size);
 	if (!skb)
 		return;
@@ -1482,6 +1481,7 @@ static void axienet_rx_submit_desc(struct net_device *ndev)
 	skbuf_dma->desc = dma_rx_desc;
 	dma_rx_desc->callback_param = lp;
 	dma_rx_desc->callback_result = axienet_dma_rx_cb;
+	lp->rx_ring_head++;
 	dmaengine_submit(dma_rx_desc);
 
 	return;
-- 
2.25.1
Keyboard shortcuts
hback out one level
jnext message in thread
kprevious message in thread
ldrill in
Escclose help / fold thread tree
?toggle this help