Subject: [PATCH] net: ti: icssg-prueth: fix use-after-free of CPPI descriptor in RX path

From: David Carlier <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:44:39 +0000

cppi5_hdesc_get_psdata() returns a pointer into the CPPI descriptor.
In both emac_rx_packet() and emac_rx_packet_zc(), the descriptor is
freed via k3_cppi_desc_pool_free() before the psdata pointer is used
by emac_rx_timestamp(), which dereferences psdata[0] and psdata[1].
This constitutes a use-after-free on every received packet that goes
through the timestamp path.

Defer the descriptor free until after all accesses through the psdata
pointer are complete. For emac_rx_packet(), move the free into the
requeue label so both early-exit and success paths free the descriptor
after all accesses are done. For emac_rx_packet_zc(), move the free to
the end of the loop body after emac_dispatch_skb_zc() (which calls
emac_rx_timestamp()) has returned.

Fixes: 46eeb90f03e0 ("net: ti: icssg-prueth: Use page_pool API for RX buffer allocation")
Signed-off-by: David Carlier <[email-masked]>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg/icssg_common.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg/icssg_common.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg/icssg_common.c
index 0a3cf2f848a5..fd4e7622f123 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg/icssg_common.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg/icssg_common.c
@@ -962,7 +962,6 @@ static int emac_rx_packet_zc(struct prueth_emac *emac, u32 flow_id,
 		pkt_len -= 4;
 		cppi5_desc_get_tags_ids(&desc_rx->hdr, &port_id, NULL);
 		psdata = cppi5_hdesc_get_psdata(desc_rx);
-		k3_cppi_desc_pool_free(rx_chn->desc_pool, desc_rx);
 		count++;
 		xsk_buff_set_size(xdp, pkt_len);
 		xsk_buff_dma_sync_for_cpu(xdp);
@@ -988,6 +987,7 @@ static int emac_rx_packet_zc(struct prueth_emac *emac, u32 flow_id,
 			emac_dispatch_skb_zc(emac, xdp, psdata);
 			xsk_buff_free(xdp);
 		}
+		k3_cppi_desc_pool_free(rx_chn->desc_pool, desc_rx);
 	}
 
 	if (xdp_status & ICSSG_XDP_REDIR)
@@ -1057,7 +1057,6 @@ static int emac_rx_packet(struct prueth_emac *emac, u32 flow_id, u32 *xdp_state)
 	/* firmware adds 4 CRC bytes, strip them */
 	pkt_len -= 4;
 	cppi5_desc_get_tags_ids(&desc_rx->hdr, &port_id, NULL);
-	k3_cppi_desc_pool_free(rx_chn->desc_pool, desc_rx);
 
 	/* if allocation fails we drop the packet but push the
 	 * descriptor back to the ring with old page to prevent a stall
@@ -1115,6 +1114,7 @@ static int emac_rx_packet(struct prueth_emac *emac, u32 flow_id, u32 *xdp_state)
 	ndev->stats.rx_packets++;
 
 requeue:
+	k3_cppi_desc_pool_free(rx_chn->desc_pool, desc_rx);
 	/* queue another RX DMA */
 	ret = prueth_dma_rx_push_mapped(emac, &emac->rx_chns, new_page,
 					PRUETH_MAX_PKT_SIZE);
-- 
2.53.0