[PATCH net] net: stmmac: fix the crash issue for zero copy XDP_TX action
Hariprasad Kelam
hkelam at marvell.com
Wed Dec 17 03:08:13 PST 2025
On 2025-12-04 at 12:43:32, Wei Fang (wei.fang at nxp.com) wrote:
> There is a crash issue when running zero copy XDP_TX action, the crash
> log is shown below.
>
> [ 216.122464] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fffeffff80000000
> [ 216.187524] Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000144 [#1] SMP
> [ 216.301694] Call trace:
> [ 216.304130] dcache_clean_poc+0x20/0x38 (P)
> [ 216.308308] __dma_sync_single_for_device+0x1bc/0x1e0
> [ 216.313351] stmmac_xdp_xmit_xdpf+0x354/0x400
> [ 216.317701] __stmmac_xdp_run_prog+0x164/0x368
> [ 216.322139] stmmac_napi_poll_rxtx+0xba8/0xf00
> [ 216.326576] __napi_poll+0x40/0x218
> [ 216.408054] Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops: Fatal exception in interrupt
>
> For XDP_TX action, the xdp_buff is converted to xdp_frame by
> xdp_convert_buff_to_frame(). The memory type of the resulting xdp_frame
> depends on the memory type of the xdp_buff. For page pool based xdp_buff
> it produces xdp_frame with memory type MEM_TYPE_PAGE_POOL. For zero copy
> XSK pool based xdp_buff it produces xdp_frame with memory type
> MEM_TYPE_PAGE_ORDER0. However, stmmac_xdp_xmit_back() does not check the
> memory type and always uses the page pool type, this leads to invalid
> mappings and causes the crash. Therefore, check the xdp_buff memory type
> in stmmac_xdp_xmit_back() to fix this issue.
>
> Fixes: bba2556efad6 ("net: stmmac: Enable RX via AF_XDP zero-copy")
> Signed-off-by: Wei Fang <wei.fang at nxp.com>
> ---
> .../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 17 +++++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
> index 7b90ecd3a55e..a6664f300e4a 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
> @@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(phyaddr, "Physical device address");
> #define STMMAC_XDP_CONSUMED BIT(0)
> #define STMMAC_XDP_TX BIT(1)
> #define STMMAC_XDP_REDIRECT BIT(2)
> +#define STMMAC_XSK_CONSUMED BIT(3)
>
> static int flow_ctrl = 0xdead;
> module_param(flow_ctrl, int, 0644);
> @@ -4988,6 +4989,7 @@ static int stmmac_xdp_get_tx_queue(struct stmmac_priv *priv,
> static int stmmac_xdp_xmit_back(struct stmmac_priv *priv,
> struct xdp_buff *xdp)
> {
> + bool zc = !!(xdp->rxq->mem.type == MEM_TYPE_XSK_BUFF_POOL);
> struct xdp_frame *xdpf = xdp_convert_buff_to_frame(xdp);
> int cpu = smp_processor_id();
> struct netdev_queue *nq;
> @@ -5004,9 +5006,18 @@ static int stmmac_xdp_xmit_back(struct stmmac_priv *priv,
> /* Avoids TX time-out as we are sharing with slow path */
> txq_trans_cond_update(nq);
>
> - res = stmmac_xdp_xmit_xdpf(priv, queue, xdpf, false);
> - if (res == STMMAC_XDP_TX)
> + /* For zero copy XDP_TX action, dma_map is true */
> + res = stmmac_xdp_xmit_xdpf(priv, queue, xdpf, zc);
Seems stmmac_xdp_xmit_xdpf is using dma_map_single if we pass zc is true.
Ideally in case of zc, driver can use page_pool_get_dma_addr, may be you
need pass zc param as false. Please check
Thanks,
Hariprasad k
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