Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 5 authors, 2021-08-13

Re: [PATCH] net: drop skbs in napi->rx_list when removing the napi context.

From: Eric Dumazet via Linux-kernel-mentees <hidden>
Date: 2021-08-12 07:07:40
Also in: bpf, lkml, netdev

On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 2:00 AM Nguyen Dinh Phi [off-list ref] wrote:
The napi->rx_list is used to hold the GRO_NORMAL skbs before passing
them to the stack, these skbs only passed to stack at the flush time or
when the list's weight matches the predefined condition. In case the
rx_list contains pending skbs when we remove the napi context, we need
to clean out this list, otherwise, a memory leak will happen.

Signed-off-by: Nguyen Dinh Phi <redacted>
Reported-by: syzbot+989efe781c74de1ddb54@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Thank you for working on this.

Please add a Fixes: tag, otherwise you are asking maintainers and
stable teams to find the original bug,
while you are in a much better position, since you spent time on
fixing the issue.

Also I object to this fix.

If packets have been stored temporarily in GRO, they should be
released at some point,
normally at the end of a napi poll.

By released, I mean that these packets should reach the upper stack,
instead of being dropped without
any notification.

It seems a call to gro_normal_list() is missing somewhere.

Can you find where ?

Thanks !
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 net/core/dev.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index b51e41d0a7fe..319fffc62ce6 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -7038,6 +7038,13 @@ void __netif_napi_del(struct napi_struct *napi)
        list_del_rcu(&napi->dev_list);
        napi_free_frags(napi);

+       if (napi->rx_count) {
+               struct sk_buff *skb, *n;
+
+               list_for_each_entry_safe(skb, n, &napi->rx_list, list)
+                       kfree_skb(skb);
+       }
+
        flush_gro_hash(napi);
        napi->gro_bitmask = 0;

--
2.25.1
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