RE: [PATCH 02/14] net: axienet: Propagate failure of DMA descriptor setup

[Radhey Shyam Pandey <radheys@xilinx.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2020 5:24 PM
> To: David S . Miller <davem@davemloft.net>; Radhey Shyam Pandey
> <radheys@xilinx.com>
> Cc: Michal Simek <michals@xilinx.com>; Robert Hancock
> <hancock@sedsystems.ca>; netdev@vger.kernel.org; linux-arm-
> kernel@lists.infradead.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: [PATCH 02/14] net: axienet: Propagate failure of DMA descriptor
> setup
> 
> When we fail allocating the DMA buffers in axienet_dma_bd_init(), we
> report this error, but carry on with initialisation nevertheless.
> 
> This leads to a kernel panic when the driver later wants to send a
> packet, as it uses uninitialised data structures.
> 
> Make the axienet_device_reset() routine return an error value, as it
> contains the DMA buffer initialisation. Make sure we propagate the error
> up the chain and eventually fail the driver initialisation, to avoid
> relying on non-initialised buffers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Radhey Shyam Pandey <radhey.shyam.pandey@xilinx.com>

> ---
>  .../net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c | 25 +++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c
> index 20746b801959..97482cf093ce 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c
> @@ -437,9 +437,10 @@ static void axienet_setoptions(struct net_device
> *ndev, u32 options)
>  	lp->options |= options;
>  }
> 
> -static void __axienet_device_reset(struct axienet_local *lp)
> +static int __axienet_device_reset(struct axienet_local *lp)
>  {
>  	u32 timeout;
> +
>  	/* Reset Axi DMA. This would reset Axi Ethernet core as well. The
> reset
>  	 * process of Axi DMA takes a while to complete as all pending
>  	 * commands/transfers will be flushed or completed during this
> @@ -455,9 +456,11 @@ static void __axienet_device_reset(struct
> axienet_local *lp)
>  		if (--timeout == 0) {
>  			netdev_err(lp->ndev, "%s: DMA reset timeout!\n",
>  				   __func__);
> -			break;
> +			return -ETIMEDOUT;
>  		}
>  	}
> +
> +	return 0;
>  }
> 
>  /**
> @@ -471,12 +474,15 @@ static void __axienet_device_reset(struct
> axienet_local *lp)
>   * Ethernet core. No separate hardware reset is done for the Axi Ethernet
>   * core.
>   */
> -static void axienet_device_reset(struct net_device *ndev)
> +static int axienet_device_reset(struct net_device *ndev)
>  {
>  	u32 axienet_status;
>  	struct axienet_local *lp = netdev_priv(ndev);
> +	int ret;
> 
> -	__axienet_device_reset(lp);
> +	ret = __axienet_device_reset(lp);
> +	if (ret)
> +		return ret;
> 
>  	lp->max_frm_size = XAE_MAX_VLAN_FRAME_SIZE;
>  	lp->options |= XAE_OPTION_VLAN;
> @@ -491,9 +497,11 @@ static void axienet_device_reset(struct net_device
> *ndev)
>  			lp->options |= XAE_OPTION_JUMBO;
>  	}
> 
> -	if (axienet_dma_bd_init(ndev)) {
> +	ret = axienet_dma_bd_init(ndev);
> +	if (ret) {
>  		netdev_err(ndev, "%s: descriptor allocation failed\n",
>  			   __func__);
> +		return ret;
>  	}
> 
>  	axienet_status = axienet_ior(lp, XAE_RCW1_OFFSET);
> @@ -518,6 +526,8 @@ static void axienet_device_reset(struct net_device
> *ndev)
>  	axienet_setoptions(ndev, lp->options);
> 
>  	netif_trans_update(ndev);
> +
> +	return 0;
>  }
> 
>  /**
> @@ -921,8 +931,9 @@ static int axienet_open(struct net_device *ndev)
>  	 */
>  	mutex_lock(&lp->mii_bus->mdio_lock);
>  	axienet_mdio_disable(lp);
> -	axienet_device_reset(ndev);
> -	ret = axienet_mdio_enable(lp);
> +	ret = axienet_device_reset(ndev);
> +	if (ret == 0)
> +		ret = axienet_mdio_enable(lp);
>  	mutex_unlock(&lp->mii_bus->mdio_lock);
>  	if (ret < 0)
>  		return ret;
> --
> 2.17.1