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Ovidiu Panait 3452796efb staging: axis-fifo: fix maximum TX packet length check
commit 52ff2b840b upstream.

Since commit 2ca34b5087 ("staging: axis-fifo: Correct handling of
tx_fifo_depth for size validation"), write() operations with packets
larger than 'tx_fifo_depth - 4' words are no longer rejected with -EINVAL.

Fortunately, the packets are not actually getting transmitted to hardware,
otherwise they would be raising a 'Transmit Packet Overrun Error'
interrupt, which requires a reset of the TX circuit to recover from.

Instead, the request times out inside wait_event_interruptible_timeout()
and always returns -EAGAIN, since the wake up condition can never be true
for these packets. But still, they unnecessarily block other tasks from
writing to the FIFO and the EAGAIN return code signals userspace to retry
the write() call, even though it will always fail and time out.

According to the AXI4-Stream FIFO reference manual (PG080), the maximum
valid packet length is 'tx_fifo_depth - 4' words, so attempting to send
larger packets is invalid and should not be happening in the first place:

> The maximum packet that can be transmitted is limited by the size of
> the FIFO, which is (C_TX_FIFO_DEPTH–4)*(data interface width/8) bytes.

Therefore, bring back the old behavior and outright reject packets larger
than 'tx_fifo_depth - 4' with -EINVAL. Add a comment to explain why the
check is necessary. The dev_err() message was removed to avoid cluttering
the dmesg log if an invalid packet is received from userspace.

Fixes: 2ca34b5087 ("staging: axis-fifo: Correct handling of tx_fifo_depth for size validation")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ovidiu Panait <ovidiu.panait.oss@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250817171350.872105-1-ovidiu.panait.oss@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2025-10-12 13:01:56 +02:00
arch ARM fixes for 6.17 2025-09-28 13:24:43 -07:00
block blk-mq: fix blk_mq_tags double free while nr_requests grown 2025-10-06 11:20:04 +02:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto This push fixes a NULL pointer dereference in ccp and a couple of 2025-09-19 09:58:21 -07:00
Documentation i2c-for-6.17-rc8 2025-09-28 13:19:23 -07:00
drivers staging: axis-fifo: fix maximum TX packet length check 2025-10-12 13:01:56 +02:00
fs 7 hotfixes. 4 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.16 issues or 2025-09-28 09:32:00 -07:00
include 7 hotfixes. 4 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.16 issues or 2025-09-28 09:32:00 -07:00
init kbuild: Disable CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT on clang < 17 2025-09-24 09:29:15 +02:00
io_uring io_uring-6.17-20250919 2025-09-19 12:10:49 -07:00
ipc vfs-6.17-rc1.mmap_prepare 2025-07-28 13:43:25 -07:00
kernel tracing fixes for v6.17 2025-09-28 10:26:35 -07:00
lib hardening fixes for v6.17-rc4 2025-08-31 08:56:45 -07:00
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mm mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA 2025-10-06 11:20:05 +02:00
net nexthop: Forbid FDB status change while nexthop is in a group 2025-09-23 17:01:05 -07:00
rust rust: pci: fix incorrect platform reference in PCI driver unbind doc comment 2025-10-12 13:01:55 +02:00
samples 15 hotfixes. 11 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.16 issues 2025-09-17 21:34:26 -07:00
scripts gcc-plugins: Remove TODO_verify_il for GCC >= 16 2025-10-06 11:20:04 +02:00
security + Features 2025-08-04 08:17:28 -07:00
sound ASoC: qcom: audioreach: fix potential null pointer dereference 2025-10-06 11:20:06 +02:00
tools Two fixes for rtla in v6.17: 2025-09-27 09:50:46 -07:00
usr usr/include: openrisc: don't HDRTEST bpf_perf_event.h 2025-05-12 15:03:17 +09:00
virt Merge tag 'kvm-x86-no_assignment-6.17' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD 2025-07-29 08:36:42 -04:00
.clang-format Linux 6.15-rc5 2025-05-06 16:39:25 +10:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: remove Alyssa Rosenzweig 2025-09-18 21:17:31 +02:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore gitignore: allow .pylintrc to be tracked 2025-07-02 17:10:04 -06:00
.mailmap 7 hotfixes. 4 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.16 issues or 2025-09-28 09:32:00 -07:00
.pylintrc docs: add a .pylintrc file with sys path for docs scripts 2025-04-09 12:10:33 -06:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: retire Boris from TLS maintainers 2025-08-26 17:36:01 -07:00
Kbuild drm: ensure drm headers are self-contained and pass kernel-doc 2025-02-12 10:44:43 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS i2c-for-6.17-rc8 2025-09-28 13:19:23 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.17.1 2025-10-06 11:20:06 +02:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.