net: enetc: fix NTMP DMA use-after-free issue

The AI-generated review reported a potential DMA use-after-free issue
[1]. If netc_xmit_ntmp_cmd() times out and returns an error, the pending
command is not explicitly aborted, while ntmp_free_data_mem()
unconditionally frees the DMA buffer. If the buffer has already been
reallocated elsewhere, this may lead to silent memory corruption. Because
the hardware eventually processes the pending command and perform a DMA
write of the response to the physical address of the freed buffer.

To resolve this issue, this patch does the following modifications:

1. Convert cbdr->ring_lock from a spinlock to a mutex

The lock was originally a spinlock in case NTMP operations might be
invoked from atomic context. After downstream support for all NTMP
tables, no such usage has materialized. A mutex lock is now required
because the driver now needs to reclaim used BDs and release associated
DMA memory within the lock's context, while dma_free_coherent() might
sleep.

2. Introduce software command BD (struct netc_swcbd)

The hardware write-back overwrites the addr and len fields of the BD,
so the driver cannot rely on the hardware BD to free the associated DMA
memory. The driver now maintains a software shadow BD storing the DMA
buffer pointer, DMA address, and size. And netc_xmit_ntmp_cmd() only
reclaims older BDs when the number of used BDs reaches
NETC_CBDR_CLEAN_WORK (16). The software BD enables correct DMA memory
release. With this, struct ntmp_dma_buf and ntmp_free_data_mem() are no
longer needed and are removed.

3. Require callers to hold ring_lock across netc_xmit_ntmp_cmd()

netc_xmit_ntmp_cmd() releases the ring_lock before the caller finishes
consuming the response. At this point, if a concurrent thread submits
a new command, it may trigger ntmp_clean_cbdr() and free the DMA buffer
while it is still in use. Move ring_lock ownership to the caller to
ensure the response buffer cannot be reclaimed prematurely. So the
helpers ntmp_select_and_lock_cbdr() and ntmp_unlock_cbdr() are added.

These changes eliminate the DMA use-after-free condition and ensure safe
and consistent BD reclamation and DMA buffer lifecycle management.

Fixes: 4701073c3deb ("net: enetc: add initial netc-lib driver to support NTMP")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260403011729.1795413-1-kuba@kernel.org/ # [1]
Signed-off-by: Wei Fang <wei.fang@nxp.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260415060833.2303846-3-wei.fang@nxp.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/fsl/ntmp.h b/include/linux/fsl/ntmp.h
index 916dc4fe7de3..83a449b4d6ec 100644
--- a/include/linux/fsl/ntmp.h
+++ b/include/linux/fsl/ntmp.h
@@ -31,6 +31,12 @@ struct netc_tbl_vers {
 	u8 rsst_ver;
 };
 
+struct netc_swcbd {
+	void *buf;
+	dma_addr_t dma;
+	size_t size;
+};
+
 struct netc_cbdr {
 	struct device *dev;
 	struct netc_cbdr_regs regs;
@@ -44,9 +50,10 @@ struct netc_cbdr {
 	void *addr_base_align;
 	dma_addr_t dma_base;
 	dma_addr_t dma_base_align;
+	struct netc_swcbd *swcbd;
 
 	/* Serialize the order of command BD ring */
-	spinlock_t ring_lock;
+	struct mutex ring_lock;
 };
 
 struct ntmp_user {