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[PATCH net v4 3/3] net: skbuff: don't touch shared zerocopy state in skb_tx_error()

From: Norbert Szetei <hidden>
Date: 2026-08-22 09:15:22
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Subsystem: networking [general], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

skb_tx_error() completes the zerocopy uarg and clears
SKBFL_ALL_ZEROCOPY, and skb_zcopy_downgrade_managed() clears
SKBFL_MANAGED_FRAG_REFS. Both live in skb_shinfo(), which every clone
shares, while the caller only owns the reference it is about to drop.
Through a clone it tells the producer its pages are free and drops
SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG for an skb that is still in flight.

Open vSwitch reaches this with a non-last OVS_ACTION_ATTR_RECIRC:
clone_execute() sends a skb_clone() into ovs_dp_process_packet() while
do_execute_actions() keeps forwarding the original, and skb_clone()
does not privatise the frags here -- skb_orphan_frags() returns early
on SKBFL_DONT_ORPHAN. A flow miss on the clone then strips the marker
from the packet still being forwarded, and a later local ESP delivery
decrypts in place over frags it does not own privately.

Skip it for a cloned skb. Nothing is lost: skb_release_data() clears
the zerocopy state once the last reference to the shared data goes.

Fixes: 25121173f7b1 ("skb: api to report errors for zero copy skbs")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: Norbert Szetei <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Tested-by: Jongmin Jang <redacted>
---
 net/core/skbuff.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index ab3d161247b9..b9541329f1a7 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -1417,10 +1417,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(skb_dump);
  *
  *	Report xmit error if a device callback is tracking this skb.
  *	skb must be freed afterwards.
+ *
+ *	Does nothing for a cloned skb: the zerocopy state lives in
+ *	skb_shinfo(), which the clones share.
  */
 void skb_tx_error(struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
-	if (skb) {
+	if (skb && !skb_cloned(skb)) {
 		skb_zcopy_downgrade_managed(skb);
 		skb_zcopy_clear(skb, true);
 	}
-- 
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