Subject: Re: [PATCH net] bnxt_en: Fix potential data corruption with HW GRO/LRO

From: Leon Romanovsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2025 14:52:29 +0200

On Wed, Dec 24, 2025 at 11:11:16AM -0800, Michael Chan wrote:
> From: Srijit Bose <[email-masked]>
> 
> Fix the max number of bits passed to find_first_zero_bit() in
> bnxt_alloc_agg_idx().  We were incorrectly passing the number of
> long words.  find_first_zero_bit() may fail to find a zero bit and
> cause a wrong ID to be used.  If the wrong ID is already in use, this
> can cause data corruption.  Sometimes an error like this can also be
> seen:
> 
> bnxt_en 0000:83:00.0 enp131s0np0: TPA end agg_buf 2 != expected agg_bufs 1
> 
> Fix it by passing the correct number of bits MAX_TPA_P5.  Add a sanity
> BUG_ON() check if find_first_zero_bit() fails.  It should never happen.

Things that should never occur are flagged with WARN_ON(), not BUG_ON().
Using BUG_ON() would unnecessarily crash the system just because something
unexpected happened in the networking driver.

Thanks

> 
> Fixes: ec4d8e7cf024 ("bnxt_en: Add TPA ID mapping logic for 57500 chips.")
> Reviewed-by: Ray Jui <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Srijit Bose <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c | 7 ++++---
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c
> index d17d0ea89c36..6704cbbc1b24 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c
> @@ -1482,9 +1482,10 @@ static u16 bnxt_alloc_agg_idx(struct bnxt_rx_ring_info *rxr, u16 agg_id)
>  	struct bnxt_tpa_idx_map *map = rxr->rx_tpa_idx_map;
>  	u16 idx = agg_id & MAX_TPA_P5_MASK;
>  
> -	if (test_bit(idx, map->agg_idx_bmap))
> -		idx = find_first_zero_bit(map->agg_idx_bmap,
> -					  BNXT_AGG_IDX_BMAP_SIZE);
> +	if (test_bit(idx, map->agg_idx_bmap)) {
> +		idx = find_first_zero_bit(map->agg_idx_bmap, MAX_TPA_P5);
> +		BUG_ON(idx >= MAX_TPA_P5);
> +	}
>  	__set_bit(idx, map->agg_idx_bmap);
>  	map->agg_id_tbl[agg_id] = idx;
>  	return idx;
> -- 
> 2.51.0
> 
>