5.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Koichiro Den commit 873ce713fef5dde0939220f04f3484ec86a16fba upstream. Commit f195a1a6fe41 ("ntb: Drop packets when qp link is down") meant to make ntb_transport_tx_enqueue() drop packets submitted while the QP link is down, but it only returns 0 without consuming the packet. Zero means success by this function's contract, so ntb_netdev reports NETDEV_TX_OK and forgets the skb: nothing queued it, nothing frees it, and it leaks, one skb for every transmit racing a link-down. Return -ENOLINK instead, restoring the contract that a non-zero return leaves the buffer owned by the caller. With the preceding patch, ntb_netdev frees the skb on non-retryable enqueue failures and returns NETDEV_TX_OK, so a packet racing with link-down is dropped without leaking or entering a busy retry loop. Fixes: f195a1a6fe41 ("ntb: Drop packets when qp link is down") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Koichiro Den Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260817053519.4135287-4-den@valinux.co.jp Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c +++ b/drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c @@ -2293,9 +2293,8 @@ int ntb_transport_tx_enqueue(struct ntb_ if (!qp || !len) return -EINVAL; - /* If the qp link is down already, just ignore. */ if (!qp->link_is_up) - return 0; + return -ENOLINK; entry = ntb_list_rm(&qp->ntb_tx_free_q_lock, &qp->tx_free_q); if (!entry) {