Re: [PATCH net] ethernet: ionic: Fix DMA mapping test in `ionic_xdp_post_frame()`

[Brett Creeley]

On 6/17/2025 2:18 AM, Thomas Fourier wrote:
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> The `ionic_tx_map_frag()` wrapper function is used which returns 0 or a
> valid DMA address.  Testing that pointer with `dma_mapping_error()`could
> be eroneous since the error value exptected by `dma_mapping_error()` is
> not 0 but `DMA_MAPPING_ERROR` which is often ~0.
>
> Fixes: ac8813c0ab7d ("ionic: convert Rx queue buffers to use page_pool")
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Fourier <fourier.thomas@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_txrx.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_txrx.c
> index 2ac59564ded1..beefdc43013e 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_txrx.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_txrx.c
> @@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ static int ionic_xdp_post_frame(struct ionic_queue *q, struct xdp_frame *frame,
>                          } else {
>                                  dma_addr = ionic_tx_map_frag(q, frag, 0,
>                                                               skb_frag_size(frag));
> -                               if (dma_mapping_error(q->dev, dma_addr)) {
> +                               if (!dma_addr) {

Thanks for the fix.

After looking at this and Olek's comment, I think it makes the most 
sense to return DMA_MAPPING_ERROR from ionic_tx_map_frag() and 
ionic_tx_map_single() instead of 0 on failures.

Then any callers would do the following check:

	if (unlikely(dma_addr == DMA_MAPPING_ERROR))
		/* failure path */

Another option is always returning dma_addr regardless of 
success/failure from the ionic_tx_map* functions, but then I'd be 
inclined to use dma_mapping_error() again in the caller. This approach 
seems wrong to me, especially when CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG is enabled.

Thanks,

Brett



>                                          ionic_tx_desc_unmap_bufs(q, desc_info);
>                                          return -EIO;
>                                  }
> --
> 2.43.0