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[PATCH net v2 2/6] net: stmmac: drop split frames on AF_XDP zero-copy RX

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From: Lorenzo Bianconi <hidden>
Date: 2026-10-27 13:49:01
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

Status: Reviewed.

Revision v2 (2 revisions archived); 1 review trailer.

Revisions (2)
  1. v1
  2. v2 current [diff against previous]
stmmac_rx_zc() assumes a 1:1 mapping between a received frame and an
XSK pool buffer and drops any frame that spans more than one RX
descriptor:

        /* XSK pool expects RX frame 1:1 mapped to XSK buffer */
        if (likely(status & rx_not_ls)) {
                xsk_buff_free(buf->xdp);
                buf->xdp = NULL;
                dirty++;
                count++;
                goto read_again;
        }

The non-last descriptors are freed and dropped, but the frame is not
marked as errored. When the poll reaches the last descriptor of the
same frame, error is still 0, so the fragment is handled as a complete
frame: it is passed to the XDP program, copied into an skb on XDP_PASS,
or converted for XDP_TX. The tail starts in the middle of the original
payload at a predictable offset and, parsed as a fresh frame (len == 0),
stmmac_rx_buf1_len() reports the full dma_buf_sz length for it even
though the DMA engine only wrote the tail remainder into that buffer, so
the reads extend past the received bytes and can reach beyond the end of
the XSK pool buffer. GMAC4 always enables jumbo frames (GMAC_CONFIG_JE
in GMAC_CORE_INIT), so an on-link peer can trigger such a split even
when the interface MTU is left at 1500.

Set error when the 1:1 mapping check drops a descriptor, so the
remaining descriptors of the frame - including the last one - are
drained and released with xsk_buff_free() instead of being processed as
a new frame. Account every freed buffer with dirty and count the
dropped frame once in the poll budget / rx_pkt_n. The direct 1:1
mapping drop also increments rx_dropped.

Use a bit test instead of an equality test for discard_frame.
Commit 644b8437ccef9e ("net: stmmac: dwmac4: report Rx checksum errors
in status") made dwmac4_wrback_get_rx_status() set discard_frame on
RDES3_ERROR_SUMMARY and OR in csum_none on RDES1_IP_HDR_ERROR or
RDES1_IP_PAYLOAD_ERROR, so it can return discard_frame | csum_none.
The old "status == discard_frame" test missed that value and delivered
frames with CRC, overflow, watchdog or giant errors to the stack in
stmmac_rx() - or to XDP/XSK in stmmac_rx_zc() - when they also failed
the IP checksum. The change therefore affects the regular RX path, not
only zero-copy. The bit test is also required for the
discard_frame | rx_not_ls value returned for non-last legacy
descriptors below.

Normalize the legacy normal and enhanced descriptor callbacks to report
rx_not_ls together with discard_frame for non-last descriptors. This
allows both stmmac_rx_zc() and stmmac_rx() to drain split frames on
dwmac100 and dwmac1000 instead of reparsing the final fragment as a new
packet.

Fixes: bba2556efad6 ("net: stmmac: Enable RX via AF_XDP zero-copy")
Fixes: 644b8437ccef9e ("net: stmmac: dwmac4: report Rx checksum errors in status")
Reviewed-by: Nicolai Buchwitz <nb@tipi-net.de>
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/enh_desc.c    |  2 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/norm_desc.c   |  2 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 21 +++++++++++++--------
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/enh_desc.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/enh_desc.c
index 023b54b72478..7ece8d4157a8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/enh_desc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/enh_desc.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ static int enh_desc_get_rx_status(struct stmmac_extra_stats *x,
 
 	if (unlikely(!(rdes0 & RDES0_LAST_DESCRIPTOR))) {
 		x->rx_length++;
-		return discard_frame;
+		return discard_frame | rx_not_ls;
 	}
 
 	if (unlikely(rdes0 & RDES0_ERROR_SUMMARY)) {
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/norm_desc.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/norm_desc.c
index c4b613564f87..d19bf7ca4db3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/norm_desc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/norm_desc.c
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ static int ndesc_get_rx_status(struct stmmac_extra_stats *x,
 
 	if (unlikely(!(rdes0 & RDES0_LAST_DESCRIPTOR))) {
 		x->rx_length++;
-		return discard_frame;
+		return discard_frame | rx_not_ls;
 	}
 
 	if (unlikely(rdes0 & RDES0_ERROR_SUMMARY)) {
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
index fa7108919e90..33814672c842 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
@@ -5714,18 +5714,21 @@ static int stmmac_rx_zc(struct stmmac_priv *priv, int limit, u32 queue)
 							   &rx_q->dma_erx[entry],
 							   status);
 		}
-		if (unlikely(status == discard_frame)) {
-			xsk_buff_free(buf->xdp);
-			buf->xdp = NULL;
-			dirty++;
+
+		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;
 		if (unlikely(error)) {
+			xsk_buff_free(buf->xdp);
+			buf->xdp = NULL;
+			dirty++;
+
+			if (status & rx_not_ls)
+				goto read_again;
+
 			count++;
 			continue;
 		}
@@ -5734,8 +5737,9 @@ static int stmmac_rx_zc(struct stmmac_priv *priv, int limit, u32 queue)
 		if (likely(status & rx_not_ls)) {
 			xsk_buff_free(buf->xdp);
 			buf->xdp = NULL;
+			rx_dropped++;
+			error = 1;
 			dirty++;
-			count++;
 			goto read_again;
 		}
 
@@ -5907,7 +5911,8 @@ static int stmmac_rx(struct stmmac_priv *priv, int limit, u32 queue)
 							   &rx_q->dma_erx[entry],
 							   status);
 		}
-		if (unlikely(status == discard_frame)) {
+
+		if (unlikely(status & discard_frame)) {
 			page_pool_put_page(rx_q->page_pool, buf->page, 0, true);
 			buf->page = NULL;
 			error = 1;
-- 
2.56.0
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