It has been noticed that running the speed test at
www.speedtest.net occasionally causes a kernel panic.

Investigation revealed that under this test RX buffer allocation
sometimes fails and returns NULL. But the lan743x driver did
not handle this case.

This patch fixes this issue by attempting to allocate a buffer
before sending the new rx packet to the OS. If the allocation
fails then the new rx packet is dropped and the existing buffer
is reused in the DMA ring.

Fixes: 23f0703c125b ("lan743x: Add main source files for new lan743x driver")
Signed-off-by: Bryan Whitehead <bryan.whiteh...@microchip.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c 
b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c
index 4d1b4a2..3d33eaf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c
@@ -1902,7 +1902,17 @@ static int lan743x_rx_next_index(struct lan743x_rx *rx, 
int index)
        return ((++index) % rx->ring_size);
 }
 
-static int lan743x_rx_allocate_ring_element(struct lan743x_rx *rx, int index)
+static struct sk_buff *lan743x_rx_allocate_skb(struct lan743x_rx *rx)
+{
+       int length = 0;
+
+       length = (LAN743X_MAX_FRAME_SIZE + ETH_HLEN + 4 + RX_HEAD_PADDING);
+       return __netdev_alloc_skb(rx->adapter->netdev,
+                                 length, GFP_ATOMIC | GFP_DMA);
+}
+
+static int lan743x_rx_init_ring_element(struct lan743x_rx *rx, int index,
+                                       struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
        struct lan743x_rx_buffer_info *buffer_info;
        struct lan743x_rx_descriptor *descriptor;
@@ -1911,9 +1921,7 @@ static int lan743x_rx_allocate_ring_element(struct 
lan743x_rx *rx, int index)
        length = (LAN743X_MAX_FRAME_SIZE + ETH_HLEN + 4 + RX_HEAD_PADDING);
        descriptor = &rx->ring_cpu_ptr[index];
        buffer_info = &rx->buffer_info[index];
-       buffer_info->skb = __netdev_alloc_skb(rx->adapter->netdev,
-                                             length,
-                                             GFP_ATOMIC | GFP_DMA);
+       buffer_info->skb = skb;
        if (!(buffer_info->skb))
                return -ENOMEM;
        buffer_info->dma_ptr = dma_map_single(&rx->adapter->pdev->dev,
@@ -2060,8 +2068,19 @@ static int lan743x_rx_process_packet(struct lan743x_rx 
*rx)
                /* packet is available */
                if (first_index == last_index) {
                        /* single buffer packet */
+                       struct sk_buff *new_skb = NULL;
                        int packet_length;
 
+                       new_skb = lan743x_rx_allocate_skb(rx);
+                       if (!new_skb) {
+                               /* failed to allocate next skb.
+                                * Memory is very low.
+                                * Drop this packet and reuse buffer.
+                                */
+                               lan743x_rx_reuse_ring_element(rx, first_index);
+                               goto process_extension;
+                       }
+
                        buffer_info = &rx->buffer_info[first_index];
                        skb = buffer_info->skb;
                        descriptor = &rx->ring_cpu_ptr[first_index];
@@ -2081,8 +2100,9 @@ static int lan743x_rx_process_packet(struct lan743x_rx 
*rx)
                        skb_put(skb, packet_length - 4);
                        skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb,
                                                       rx->adapter->netdev);
-                       lan743x_rx_allocate_ring_element(rx, first_index);
+                       lan743x_rx_init_ring_element(rx, first_index, new_skb);
                } else {
+                       struct sk_buff *new_skb = NULL;
                        int index = first_index;
 
                        /* multi buffer packet not supported */
@@ -2096,8 +2116,9 @@ static int lan743x_rx_process_packet(struct lan743x_rx 
*rx)
                                       (index <= last_index)) {
                                        lan743x_rx_release_ring_element(rx,
                                                                        index);
-                                       lan743x_rx_allocate_ring_element(rx,
-                                                                        index);
+                                       new_skb = lan743x_rx_allocate_skb(rx);
+                                       lan743x_rx_init_ring_element(rx, index,
+                                                                    new_skb);
                                        index = lan743x_rx_next_index(rx,
                                                                      index);
                                }
@@ -2106,14 +2127,16 @@ static int lan743x_rx_process_packet(struct lan743x_rx 
*rx)
                                       (index <= last_index)) {
                                        lan743x_rx_release_ring_element(rx,
                                                                        index);
-                                       lan743x_rx_allocate_ring_element(rx,
-                                                                        index);
+                                       new_skb = lan743x_rx_allocate_skb(rx);
+                                       lan743x_rx_init_ring_element(rx, index,
+                                                                    new_skb);
                                        index = lan743x_rx_next_index(rx,
                                                                      index);
                                }
                        }
                }
 
+process_extension:
                if (extension_index >= 0) {
                        descriptor = &rx->ring_cpu_ptr[extension_index];
                        buffer_info = &rx->buffer_info[extension_index];
@@ -2290,7 +2313,9 @@ static int lan743x_rx_ring_init(struct lan743x_rx *rx)
 
        rx->last_head = 0;
        for (index = 0; index < rx->ring_size; index++) {
-               ret = lan743x_rx_allocate_ring_element(rx, index);
+               struct sk_buff *new_skb = lan743x_rx_allocate_skb(rx);
+
+               ret = lan743x_rx_init_ring_element(rx, index, new_skb);
                if (ret)
                        goto cleanup;
        }
-- 
2.7.4

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