Subject: Re: [v4,net-next,12/15] net: fec: move xdp_rxq_info* APIs out of fec_enet_create_page_pool()

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2026 13:45:16 -0800

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net: fec: add fec_alloc_rxq_buffers_pp() to allocate buffers from page pool

This commit extracts fec_alloc_rxq_buffers_pp() from fec_enet_alloc_rxq_buffers()
to prepare for XDP zero copy mode support. It also adds fec_free_rxq_buffers()
helper for cleanup.

> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
> index c5ba532e00a8..867694d6d54d 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c

[ ... ]

> +static int
> +fec_enet_alloc_rxq_buffers(struct net_device *ndev, unsigned int queue)
> +{
> +	struct fec_enet_private *fep = netdev_priv(ndev);
> +	struct fec_enet_priv_rx_q *rxq;
> +	int err;
> +
> +	rxq = fep->rx_queue[queue];
> +	err = fec_alloc_rxq_buffers_pp(fep, rxq);
> +	if (err)
> +		return err;
> +
> +	err = fec_xdp_rxq_info_reg(fep, rxq);
> +	if (err) {
> +		fec_free_rxq_buffers(rxq);
> +
> +		return err;
> +	}
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}

Could there be a memory leak here on systems with multiple RX queues? The
old code had:

     err_alloc:
         fec_enet_free_buffers(ndev);
         return -ENOMEM;

which freed all queues (both RX and TX). The new code calls
fec_free_rxq_buffers(rxq), which only frees the current queue.

If fec_enet_alloc_buffers() calls this function in a loop for multiple
queues and queue N fails after queues 0 through N-1 succeeded, only queue
N gets cleaned up. The caller fec_enet_alloc_buffers() just returns
-ENOMEM without freeing the previously allocated queues:

    for (i = 0; i < fep->num_rx_queues; i++)
        if (fec_enet_alloc_rxq_buffers(ndev, i))
            return -ENOMEM;

And fec_enet_open() jumps to err_enet_alloc which does not call
fec_enet_free_buffers(), leaving the page pools and pages from the
successfully allocated queues leaked.