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[PATCH net-next v8 3/5] net: stmmac: drop multi-buffer frames in XDP mode

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From: Lorenzo Bianconi <hidden>
Date: 2026-10-18 17:07:21
Also in: bpf, linux-arm-kernel
Subsystem: networking drivers, stmmac ethernet driver, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Maxime Chevallier, Linus Torvalds

Revision v8 of 4 in this series.

Revisions (4)
  1. v5 [diff vs current]
  2. v6 [diff vs current]
  3. v7 [diff vs current]
  4. v8 current
stmmac_rx() runs the XDP program once per descriptor buffer and uses
skb == NULL as the only marker for the start of a frame. A frame larger
than one buffer is split by the hardware across several descriptors;
GMAC4 enables jumbo frames unconditionally (GMAC_CONFIG_JE in
GMAC_CORE_INIT), so an on-link peer can deliver such a frame even when
the interface MTU is left at 1500.

When an XDP verdict ends a non-last descriptor, skb is cleared and the
next descriptor of the same hardware frame is parsed as a new frame.
For XDP_CONSUMED this happens via read_again with len preserved, so
stmmac_rx_buf1_len() then returns min(dma_buf_sz, plen - len) for the
last descriptor, which can be as small as 0-3 bytes. buf1_len -=
ETH_FCS_LEN underflows and xdp_prepare_buff() puts data_end far past
data; on XDP_PASS this produces an skb whose length is close to 4G that
reaches the network stack (skb->tail and skb->len are 32-bit and wrap
below skb->end, so skb_over_panic() does not fire). A 4+ byte tail is
instead offered to the XDP program and delivered as a standalone
mid-payload Ethernet frame on XDP_PASS. XDP_TX/XDP_REDIRECT instead
falls through to the next iteration, resetting the running length, so
the tail is re-parsed as a full-size new frame.

The same fault exists when a single descriptor uses its second buffer:
GMAC4/XGMAC always provide a second data buffer per descriptor, so a
frame up to 2 * dma_buf_sz can land on a single descriptor while the XDP
program still only sees the first buffer. XDP_TX then transmits a
truncated frame, and XDP_PASS appends the second buffer only after the
program has already run over the first one.

XDP does not support scatter-gather frames until the multi-buffer
rework, so drop the whole frame instead: mark it as errored as soon as
a non-last descriptor, or a descriptor using its second buffer, is seen
while an XDP program is attached, drain and release every descriptor -
including the last. Removing the re-parse lets both XDP verdict branches
simply complete the packet via next.

Note: the subsequent "net: stmmac: rework stmmac_rx to support XDP rx
multi-buff" accumulates the whole frame into a single xdp_buff and
supersedes this patch; the fix is kept so the net portion of the series
stands on its own.

Fixes: 5fabb01207a2 ("net: stmmac: Add initial XDP support")
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 35 ++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
index efa88cd359da..e929cc0f2312 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
@@ -5888,18 +5888,23 @@ static int stmmac_rx(struct stmmac_priv *priv, int limit, u32 queue)
 		if (priv->extend_desc)
 			stmmac_rx_extended_status(priv, &priv->xstats, rx_q->dma_erx + entry);
 
-		if (unlikely(status & discard_frame)) {
-			page_pool_put_page(rx_q->page_pool, buf->page, 0, true);
-			buf->page = NULL;
+		if (unlikely(!error && (status & discard_frame))) {
 			error = 1;
 			if (!priv->hwts_rx_en)
 				rx_errors++;
 		}
 
-		if (unlikely(error && (status & rx_not_ls)))
-			goto read_again;
+		/* We do not support SG in XDP mode */
+		if (unlikely(!error && (status & rx_not_ls) &&
+			     stmmac_xdp_is_enabled(priv))) {
+			rx_dropped++;
+			error = 1;
+		}
 
 		if (unlikely(error)) {
+			if (status & rx_not_ls)
+				goto read_again;
+
 			dev_kfree_skb(skb);
 			goto next;
 		}
@@ -5911,6 +5916,14 @@ static int stmmac_rx(struct stmmac_priv *priv, int limit, u32 queue)
 		buf2_len = stmmac_rx_buf2_len(priv, p, status, len);
 		len += buf2_len;
 
+		/* Drop the packet if it is split over buf1 and buf2 on a
+		 * single descriptor if the interface is running in XDP mode.
+		 */
+		if (unlikely(stmmac_xdp_is_enabled(priv) && buf2_len)) {
+			rx_dropped++;
+			goto next;
+		}
+
 		/* ACS is disabled; strip manually. */
 		if (likely(!(status & rx_not_ls)))
 			len -= ETH_FCS_LEN;
@@ -5960,17 +5973,7 @@ static int stmmac_rx(struct stmmac_priv *priv, int limit, u32 queue)
 							   sync_len, true);
 					buf->page = NULL;
 					rx_dropped++;
-
-					/* Clear skb as it was set as
-					 * status by XDP program.
-					 */
-					skb = NULL;
-
-					if (unlikely((status & rx_not_ls)))
-						goto read_again;
-
-					count++;
-					continue;
+					goto next;
 				} else if (xdp_res & (STMMAC_XDP_TX |
 						      STMMAC_XDP_REDIRECT)) {
 					xdp_status |= xdp_res;
-- 
2.56.0
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