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realtek: eth: avoid TX buffer memory leak

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Although never observed, a transmit timeout might happen.
In that case there is a resource leak inside rteth_tx_timeout().
This happens when rteth_setup_ring_buffer() reinitializes the
transmit buffers and overwrites all transmit slots. Any linked
SKB is lost and leaked at this point.

Be defensive and add a cleanup rteth_free_tx_buffers() function.
Call this alongside rteth_free_rx_buffers() where needed.

Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/23483
Signed-off-by: Markus Stockhausen <markus.stockhausen@gmx.de>
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Markus Stockhausen 2026-05-24 10:41:55 +02:00
parent b0e263a5ed
commit 8fd3e2fbec
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target/linux/realtek/files-6.18/drivers/net/ethernet/rtl838x_eth.c
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@ -603,6 +603,24 @@ static void rteth_931x_hw_en_rxtx(struct rteth_ctrl *ctrl)
regmap_write(ctrl->map, ctrl->r->mac_force_mode_ctrl, 0x2a1d);
}
static void rteth_free_tx_buffers(struct rteth_ctrl *ctrl)
{
struct rteth_packet *packet;
for (int r = 0; r < RTETH_TX_RINGS; r++) {
for (int i = 0; i < RTETH_TX_RING_SIZE; i++) {
packet = &ctrl->tx_data[r].packet[i];
if (!packet->skb)
continue;
dma_unmap_single(&ctrl->pdev->dev, packet->dma,
packet->skb->len, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
dev_kfree_skb_any(packet->skb);
packet->skb = NULL;
}
}
}
static int rteth_setup_ring_buffer(struct rteth_ctrl *ctrl)
{
dma_addr_t rx_buf_dma = ctrl->rx_buf_dma;
@ -817,6 +835,7 @@ static int rteth_stop(struct net_device *dev)
for (int i = 0; i < RTETH_RX_RINGS; i++)
napi_disable(&ctrl->rx_qs[i].napi);
rteth_free_tx_buffers(ctrl);
netif_tx_stop_all_queues(dev);
return 0;
@ -916,6 +935,7 @@ static void rteth_tx_timeout(struct net_device *dev, unsigned int txqueue)
pr_warn("%s\n", __func__);
scoped_guard(spinlock_irqsave, &ctrl->lock) {
rteth_hw_stop(ctrl);
rteth_free_tx_buffers(ctrl);
rteth_hw_ring_setup(ctrl);
ctrl->r->hw_en_rxtx(ctrl);
netif_trans_update(dev);