patch 'net/gve: free context mbuf on later segment drop' has been queued to stable release 24.11.7

[luca.boccassi at gmail.com]

Hi,

FYI, your patch has been queued to stable release 24.11.7

Note it hasn't been pushed to http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable yet.
It will be pushed if I get no objections before 07/15/26. So please
shout if anyone has objections.

Also note that after the patch there's a diff of the upstream commit vs the
patch applied to the branch. This will indicate if there was any rebasing
needed to apply to the stable branch. If there were code changes for rebasing
(ie: not only metadata diffs), please double check that the rebase was
correctly done.

Queued patches are on a temporary branch at:
https://github.com/bluca/dpdk-stable

This queued commit can be viewed at:
https://github.com/bluca/dpdk-stable/commit/7ab32c6998c48df70a9510a35c8c73417be51930

Thanks.

Luca Boccassi

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>From 7ab32c6998c48df70a9510a35c8c73417be51930 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joshua Washington <joshwash at google.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2026 21:07:34 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] net/gve: free context mbuf on later segment drop

[ upstream commit 52e58f2ab6667debf2bdfa919830dd6bca1dca0f ]

GVE GQ has support for multi-descriptor RX. It is possible for a packet
to be dropped after the first descriptor has been processed an mbuf has
been added to the context. In such a case, the mbuf head should be freed
before clearing the context so that mbufs aren't leaked.

In addition, clear mbuf from sw_ring after adding the packet to the
context to avoid double-freeing buffers that have not been reposted, but
have been reported to the application.

Fixes: 496d4d2c8b54 ("net/gve: support jumbo frame for GQI")

Signed-off-by: Joshua Washington <joshwash at google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jasper Tran O'Leary <jtranoleary at google.com>
---
 drivers/net/gve/gve_rx.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/gve/gve_rx.c b/drivers/net/gve/gve_rx.c
index a151a9dfe2..8fd044e583 100644
--- a/drivers/net/gve/gve_rx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/gve/gve_rx.c
@@ -205,6 +205,8 @@ gve_rx_burst(void *rx_queue, struct rte_mbuf **rx_pkts, uint16_t nb_pkts)
 		if (gve_rx(rxq, rxd, rx_id)) {
 			if (!ctx->drop_pkt)
 				rx_pkts[nb_rx++] = ctx->mbuf_head;
+			else if (ctx->mbuf_head != NULL)
+				rte_pktmbuf_free(ctx->mbuf_head);
 			rxq->nb_avail += ctx->total_frags;
 			gve_rx_ctx_clear(ctx);
 		}
-- 
2.47.3

---
  Diff of the applied patch vs upstream commit (please double-check if non-empty:
---
--- -	2026-07-13 18:17:05.959213605 +0100
+++ 0010-net-gve-free-context-mbuf-on-later-segment-drop.patch	2026-07-13 18:17:05.578282907 +0100
@@ -1 +1 @@
-From 52e58f2ab6667debf2bdfa919830dd6bca1dca0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From 7ab32c6998c48df70a9510a35c8c73417be51930 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
@@ -5,0 +6,2 @@
+[ upstream commit 52e58f2ab6667debf2bdfa919830dd6bca1dca0f ]
+
@@ -16 +17,0 @@
-Cc: stable at dpdk.org
@@ -25 +26 @@
-index cda87af294..567b82d020 100644
+index a151a9dfe2..8fd044e583 100644