[PATCH] net: ethernet: sun4i-emac: free dma descriptor

Jakub Kicinski kuba at kernel.org
Mon Sep 8 13:26:15 PDT 2025


On Sun,  7 Sep 2025 19:29:30 +0800 Conley Lee wrote:
> In the current implementation of the sun4i-emac driver, when using DMA to
> receive data packets, the descriptor for the current DMA request is not
> released in the rx_done_callback.

I wish you elaborated more on the reuse flag not being set :\

> Fix this by properly releasing the descriptor.
> 
> Fixes: 47869e82c8b8 ("sun4i-emac.c: add dma support")
> Signed-off-by: Conley Lee <conleylee at foxmail.com>

Hi Vinod, could you TAL? Is this fix legit or there's something wrong
with how the DMA engine API is used on this platform?
https://lore.kernel.org/all/tencent_D434891410B0717BB0BDCB1434969E6EB50A@qq.com/



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