commit a09721dd47c8468b3f2fdd73f40422699ffe26dd upstream. The following happened on an i.MX25 using flexcan with many packets on the bus: The rx-offload queue reached a length more than skb_queue_len_max. In can_rx_offload_offload_one() the drop variable was set to true which made the call to .mailbox_read() (here: flexcan_mailbox_read()) to _always_ return ERR_PTR(-ENOBUFS) and drop the rx'ed CAN frame. So can_rx_offload_offload_one() returned ERR_PTR(-ENOBUFS), too. can_rx_offload_irq_offload_fifo() looks as follows: | while (1) { | skb = can_rx_offload_offload_one(offload, 0); | if (IS_ERR(skb)) | continue; | if (!skb) | break; | ... | } The flexcan driver wrongly always returns ERR_PTR(-ENOBUFS) if drop is requested, even if there is no CAN frame pending. As the i.MX25 is a single core CPU, while the rx-offload processing is active, there is no thread to process packets from the offload queue. So the queue doesn't get any shorter and this results is a tight loop. Instead of always returning ERR_PTR(-ENOBUFS) if drop is requested, return NULL if no CAN frame is pending. Changes since v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220810144536.389237-1-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de - don't break in can_rx_offload_irq_offload_fifo() in case of an error, return NULL in flexcan_mailbox_read() in case of no pending CAN frame instead Fixes: 4e9c9484b085 ("can: rx-offload: Prepare for CAN FD support") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220811094254.1864367-1-mkl@pengutronix.de Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.5 Suggested-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Tested-by: Thorsten Scherer <t.scherer@eckelmann.de> Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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