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

From: Eric Dumazet <hidden>
Date: 2021-08-13 10:16:49
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On 8/12/21 9:17 PM, Phi Nguyen wrote:
On 8/12/2021 3:07 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
quoted
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 !
H Eric,
I think the location that should have a call to gro_normal_list() is __netif_napi_del(). Let say, if the driver call a function that lead to gro_normal_one(), and add a skb to the rx_list while the napi poll is not scheduled, and the driver remove the napi context before a napi poll could be triggered, then the added skb will be lost.

Actually, this was the first solution that I tried with syzbot (It passed the test too).
Best regards,
Phi
I think the real bug is in drivers/net/tun.c

It can call napi_gro_frags() and I do not see corresponding napi_complete()

This seems completely bogus.

Your patch only works around one the many bugs caused by 
commit 90e33d45940793def6f773b2d528e9f3c84ffdc7 tun: enable napi_gro_frags() for TUN/TAP driver

I suggest not adding your patch, because we should fix the root cause.

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