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[23.234.93.211]) by smtp.gmail.com with UTF8SMTPSA id 5a478bee46e88-2c3c79722e0sm2905771eec.31.2026.03.28.12.25.24 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:25:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Sam Edwards X-Google-Original-From: Sam Edwards To: Andrew Lunn , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni Cc: Maxime Coquelin , Alexandre Torgue , "Russell King (Oracle)" , Maxime Chevallier , Ovidiu Panait , Vladimir Oltean , Baruch Siach , Serge Semin , Giuseppe Cavallaro , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sam Edwards , stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: [RESEND PATCH net v3 1/2] net: stmmac: Prevent NULL deref when RX memory exhausted Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:25:02 -0700 Message-ID: <20260328192503.520689-2-CFSworks@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.52.0 In-Reply-To: <20260328192503.520689-1-CFSworks@gmail.com> References: <20260328192503.520689-1-CFSworks@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" The CPU receives frames from the MAC through conventional DMA: the CPU allocates buffers for the MAC, then the MAC fills them and returns ownership to the CPU. For each hardware RX queue, the CPU and MAC coordinate through a shared ring array of DMA descriptors: one descriptor per DMA buffer. Each descriptor includes the buffer's physical address and a status flag ("OWN") indicating which side owns the buffer: OWN=3D0 for CPU, OWN=3D1 for MAC. The CPU is only allowed to set the flag and the MAC is only allowed to clear it, and both must move through the ring in sequence: thus the ring is used for both "submissions" and "completions." In the stmmac driver, stmmac_rx() bookmarks its position in the ring with the `cur_rx` index. The main receive loop in that function checks for rx_descs[cur_rx].own=3D0, gives the corresponding buffer to the network stack (NULLing the pointer), and increments `cur_rx` modulo the ring size. After the loop exits, stmmac_rx_refill(), which bookmarks its position with `dirty_rx`, allocates fresh buffers and rearms the descriptors (setting OWN=3D1). If it fails any allocation, it simply stops early (leaving OWN=3D0) and will retry where it left off when next called. This means descriptors have a three-stage lifecycle (terms my own): - `empty` (OWN=3D1, buffer valid) - `full` (OWN=3D0, buffer valid and populated) - `dirty` (OWN=3D0, buffer NULL) But because stmmac_rx() only checks OWN, it confuses `full`/`dirty`. In the past (see 'Fixes:'), there was a bug where the loop could cycle `cur_rx` all the way back to the first descriptor it dirtied, resulting in a NULL dereference when mistaken for `full`. The aforementioned commit resolved that *specific* failure by capping the loop's iteration limit at `dma_rx_size - 1`, but this is only a partial fix: if the previous stmmac_rx_refill() didn't complete, then there are leftover `dirty` descriptors that the loop might encounter without needing to cycle fully around. The current code therefore panics (see 'Closes:') when stmmac_rx_refill() is memory-starved long enough for `cur_rx` to catch up to `dirty_rx`. Fix this by further tightening the clamp from `dma_rx_size - 1` to `dma_rx_size - stmmac_rx_dirty() - 1`, subtracting any remnant dirty entries and limiting the loop so that `cur_rx` cannot catch back up to `dirty_rx`. This carries no risk of arithmetic underflow: since the maximum possible return value of stmmac_rx_dirty() is `dma_rx_size - 1`, the worst the clamp can do is prevent the loop from running at all. Fixes: b6cb4541853c7 ("net: stmmac: avoid rx queue overrun") Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D221010 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sam Edwards --- drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c b/drivers/ne= t/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c index 6827c99bde8c..f98b070073c0 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c @@ -5609,7 +5609,8 @@ static int stmmac_rx(struct stmmac_priv *priv, int li= mit, u32 queue) =20 dma_dir =3D page_pool_get_dma_dir(rx_q->page_pool); bufsz =3D DIV_ROUND_UP(priv->dma_conf.dma_buf_sz, PAGE_SIZE) * PAGE_SIZE; - limit =3D min(priv->dma_conf.dma_rx_size - 1, (unsigned int)limit); + limit =3D min(priv->dma_conf.dma_rx_size - stmmac_rx_dirty(priv, queue) -= 1, + (unsigned int)limit); =20 if (netif_msg_rx_status(priv)) { void *rx_head; --=20 2.52.0