5.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Lad Prabhakar prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com
[ Upstream commit 5370c31e84b0e0999c7b5ff949f4e104def35584 ]
Ensure the TX descriptor type fields are published in a safe order so the DMA engine never begins processing a descriptor chain before all descriptor fields are fully initialised.
For multi-descriptor transmits the driver writes DT_FEND into the last descriptor and DT_FSTART into the first. The DMA engine begins processing when it observes DT_FSTART. Move the dma_wmb() barrier so it executes immediately after DT_FEND and immediately before writing DT_FSTART (and before DT_FSINGLE in the single-descriptor case). This guarantees that all prior CPU writes to the descriptor memory are visible to the device before DT_FSTART is seen.
This avoids a situation where compiler/CPU reordering could publish DT_FSTART ahead of DT_FEND or other descriptor fields, allowing the DMA to start on a partially initialised chain and causing corrupted transmissions or TX timeouts. Such a failure was observed on RZ/G2L with an RT kernel as transmit queue timeouts and device resets.
Fixes: 2f45d1902acf ("ravb: minimize TX data copying") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Co-developed-by: Fabrizio Castro fabrizio.castro.jz@renesas.com Signed-off-by: Fabrizio Castro fabrizio.castro.jz@renesas.com Signed-off-by: Lad Prabhakar prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com Reviewed-by: Niklas Söderlund niklas.soderlund+renesas@ragnatech.se Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251017151830.171062-4-prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp... Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org [ kept unconditional skb_tx_timestamp() ] Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c | 16 ++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c @@ -1593,13 +1593,25 @@ static netdev_tx_t ravb_start_xmit(struc }
skb_tx_timestamp(skb); - /* Descriptor type must be set after all the above writes */ - dma_wmb(); + if (num_tx_desc > 1) { desc->die_dt = DT_FEND; desc--; + /* When using multi-descriptors, DT_FEND needs to get written + * before DT_FSTART, but the compiler may reorder the memory + * writes in an attempt to optimize the code. + * Use a dma_wmb() barrier to make sure DT_FEND and DT_FSTART + * are written exactly in the order shown in the code. + * This is particularly important for cases where the DMA engine + * is already running when we are running this code. If the DMA + * sees DT_FSTART without the corresponding DT_FEND it will enter + * an error condition. + */ + dma_wmb(); desc->die_dt = DT_FSTART; } else { + /* Descriptor type must be set after all the above writes */ + dma_wmb(); desc->die_dt = DT_FSINGLE; }