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[PATCH] i40e: fix freeing of TX rings on RX allocation failure

From: Filip Balluch <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-15 12:26:59
Also in: intel-wired-lan, lkml
Subsystem: intel ethernet drivers, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Tony Nguyen, Przemek Kitszel, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

When ethtool -G is used to change ring buffer sizes while the interface is up, i40e_set_ringparam()
allocates temporary TX and RX rings. If the RX ring allocation fails, the error path at the
free_tx label incorrectly calls i40e_free_tx_resources(vsi->tx_rings[i]), freeing the live TX rings
instead of the temporary tx_rings[i].

Since the interface is still up, the next TX completion interrupt causes i40e_clean_tx_irq() to dereference
the freed ring descriptors, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference in IRQ context and a kernel panic.

This can be reproduced on systems with Intel X710 NICs under memory pressure, where
the second port's DMA allocation fails after the first port succeeds.

Fix by freeing the temporary tx_rings[i] in the error path instead of
the live vsi->tx_rings[i].

Signed-off-by: Filip Balluch <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c
index 3da9ec49cc74..6d2b076049f7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c
@@ -2249,7 +2249,7 @@ static int i40e_set_ringparam(struct net_device *netdev,
 	if (tx_rings) {
 		for (i = 0; i < tx_alloc_queue_pairs; i++) {
 			if (i40e_active_tx_ring_index(vsi, i))
-				i40e_free_tx_resources(vsi->tx_rings[i]);
+				i40e_free_tx_resources(&tx_rings[i]);
 		}
 		kfree(tx_rings);
 		tx_rings = NULL;
-- 
2.55.0
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