From: Brett Creeley <bcreeley@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2025 09:56:55 -0700
> 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.
Yup, I'd agree that dma_mapping_error() should be used only for checking
return values of the generic DMA API functions and only once per one
mapping. Otherwise, it's fine to pass DMA_MAPPING_ERROR and test against
it directly (after dma_mapping_error() was called already).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brett
Thanks,
Olek
