[SRU][Q][PATCH 1/1] net: bcmgenet: fix racing timeout handler

Cengiz Can cengiz.can at canonical.com
Fri Jul 17 11:10:49 UTC 2026


From: Justin Chen <justin.chen at broadcom.com>

The bcmgenet_timeout handler tries to take down all tx queues when
a single queue times out. This is over zealous and causes many race
conditions with queues that are still chugging along. Instead lets
only restart the timed out queue.

Fixes: 13ea657806cf ("net: bcmgenet: improve TX timeout")
Signed-off-by: Justin Chen <justin.chen at broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli at broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolai Buchwitz <nb at tipi-net.de>
Tested-by: Nicolai Buchwitz <nb at tipi-net.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260406175756.134567-4-justin.chen@broadcom.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org>
(cherry picked from commit 5393b2b5bee2ac51a0043dc7f4ac3475f053d08d)
CVE-2026-53086
Assisted-by: kybele:claude-opus-4.8
Signed-off-by: Cengiz Can <cengiz.can at canonical.com>
---
 .../net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c    | 22 ++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
index 98971ae4f87d..1a1fe53b4fbd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
@@ -3480,27 +3480,23 @@ static void bcmgenet_dump_tx_queue(struct bcmgenet_tx_ring *ring)
 static void bcmgenet_timeout(struct net_device *dev, unsigned int txqueue)
 {
 	struct bcmgenet_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
-	u32 int1_enable = 0;
-	unsigned int q;
+	struct bcmgenet_tx_ring *ring = &priv->tx_rings[txqueue];
+	struct netdev_queue *txq = netdev_get_tx_queue(dev, txqueue);
 
 	netif_dbg(priv, tx_err, dev, "bcmgenet_timeout\n");
 
-	for (q = 0; q <= priv->hw_params->tx_queues; q++)
-		bcmgenet_dump_tx_queue(&priv->tx_rings[q]);
-
-	bcmgenet_tx_reclaim_all(dev);
+	bcmgenet_dump_tx_queue(ring);
 
-	for (q = 0; q <= priv->hw_params->tx_queues; q++)
-		int1_enable |= (1 << q);
+	bcmgenet_tx_reclaim(dev, ring, true);
 
-	/* Re-enable TX interrupts if disabled */
-	bcmgenet_intrl2_1_writel(priv, int1_enable, INTRL2_CPU_MASK_CLEAR);
+	/* Re-enable the TX interrupt for this ring */
+	bcmgenet_intrl2_1_writel(priv, 1 << txqueue, INTRL2_CPU_MASK_CLEAR);
 
-	netif_trans_update(dev);
+	txq_trans_cond_update(txq);
 
-	BCMGENET_STATS64_INC((&priv->tx_rings[txqueue].stats64), errors);
+	BCMGENET_STATS64_INC((&ring->stats64), errors);
 
-	netif_tx_wake_all_queues(dev);
+	netif_tx_wake_queue(txq);
 }
 
 #define MAX_MDF_FILTER	17
-- 
2.43.0




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