[PATCH net v2] net: bcmgenet: stop Tx NAPI before disabling the queues

From: Nicolai Buchwitz

Date: Tue Sep 22 2026 - 09:18:00 EST


bcmgenet_netif_stop() and the Wake-on-LAN branch of bcmgenet_suspend()
both disable the Tx queues first and stop Tx NAPI several steps later. A
completion in flight calls netif_tx_wake_queue() in between, and nothing
stops the queue again, so a transmit can reach the rings after they have
been freed.

Close is safe because dev_deactivate_many() stops the qdisc first.
bcmgenet_suspend() does not, so stop Tx NAPI before the queues on both
paths.

KASAN on a Raspberry Pi CM4, driven from an MTU change because suspend
freezes user space before the callback runs:

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in bcmgenet_xmit+0x17f8/0x2258
Write of size 8 at addr ffffff8055844a68 by task ksoftirqd/0/14
bcmgenet_xmit+0x17f8/0x2258
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x13c/0x588
sch_direct_xmit+0x108/0x340
__dev_queue_xmit+0x1190/0x3848

Fixes: 254f3239dd07 ("net: bcmgenet: revise suspend/resume")
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Buchwitz <nb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Found this, while I was preparing my jumbo frame series for genet.
The MTU change in my test comes from that series and is not in tree
yet.

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260921124435.974581-1-nb@xxxxxxxxxxx/

v2: also reorder the Wake-on-LAN branch of bcmgenet_suspend() (Clashiko)

drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
index b916080f4ff1..ca62041efecd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
@@ -3441,6 +3441,8 @@ static void bcmgenet_netif_stop(struct net_device *dev, bool stop_phy)
{
struct bcmgenet_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev);

+ /* Stop completion polling before it can wake a stopped queue */
+ bcmgenet_disable_tx_napi(priv);
netif_tx_disable(dev);

/* Disable MAC receive */
@@ -3455,7 +3457,6 @@ static void bcmgenet_netif_stop(struct net_device *dev, bool stop_phy)
/* Disable MAC transmit. TX DMA disabled must be done before this */
umac_enable_set(priv, CMD_TX_EN, false);

- bcmgenet_disable_tx_napi(priv);
bcmgenet_disable_rx_napi(priv);
bcmgenet_intr_disable(priv);

@@ -4320,6 +4321,8 @@ static int bcmgenet_suspend(struct device *d)
netif_device_detach(dev);

if (device_may_wakeup(d) && priv->wolopts) {
+ /* Stop completion polling before it can wake a stopped queue */
+ bcmgenet_disable_tx_napi(priv);
netif_tx_disable(dev);

/* Suspend non-wake Rx data flows */
@@ -4348,7 +4351,6 @@ static int bcmgenet_suspend(struct device *d)
netdev_warn(priv->dev,
"Timed out while disabling TX DMA\n");

- bcmgenet_disable_tx_napi(priv);
bcmgenet_disable_rx_napi(priv);
disable_irq(priv->irq1);
bcmgenet_tx_reclaim_all(dev);
--
2.53.0