# Re: \[PATCH\] net: ethernet: sun4i-emac: free dma descriptor

- From: Conley Lee \<hidden\>
- Date: 2025-09-10 10:47:28 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2025/09/3210082
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2025/08/3193410/t.md

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On 09/09/25 at 06:15下午, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2025 18:15:47 -0700
> From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
> To: 李克斯 <redacted>
> Cc: vkoul@kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, <redacted>,
>  mripard@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, dmaengine@vger.kernel.org,
>  linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: sun4i-emac: free dma descriptor
> 
> On Tue, 9 Sep 2025 14:36:42 +0800 李克斯 wrote:
> > Thank you for the suggestion. I've reviewed the documentation, and
> > setting the reuse flag while reusing descriptors might be a good
> > optimization. I'll make the changes and run some tests. If everything
> > works well, I'll submit a new patch.
> 
> To be clear if you're saying the driver is buggy and can crash right
> now we need to fix it first and then optimize it later, as separate
> commits. So that LTS kernels can backport the fix.
> 
> The questions I'm asking are because I don't understand whether the
> upstream kernel is buggy and how exactly..

After carefully reviewing the documentation and how other drivers use
dmaengine, I think that if the reuse flag is not set for the descriptor,
manual release is unnecessary. Therefore, the current driver implementation
does not contain a bug. This fix patch was a mistake.

Thank you for your thorough review.

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