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skbuff: Fix a potential race while recycling page_pool packets

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As Alexander points out, when we are trying to recycle a cloned/expanded
SKB we might trigger a race.  The recycling code relies on the
pp_recycle bit to trigger,  which we carry over to cloned SKBs.
If that cloned SKB gets expanded or if we get references to the frags,
call skb_release_data() and overwrite skb->head, we are creating separate
instances accessing the same page frags.  Since the skb_release_data()
will first try to recycle the frags,  there's a potential race between
the original and cloned SKB, since both will have the pp_recycle bit set.

Fix this by explicitly those SKBs not recyclable.
The atomic_sub_return effectively limits us to a single release case,
and when we are calling skb_release_data we are also releasing the
option to perform the recycling, or releasing the pages from the page pool.

Fixes: 6a5bcd84e886 ("page_pool: Allow drivers to hint on SKB recycling")
Reported-by: Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@fb.com>
Suggested-by: Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@fb.com>
Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Ilias Apalodimas 2021-07-16 10:02:18 +03:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 20192d9c9f
commit 2cc3aeb5ec
1 changed files with 12 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -663,7 +663,7 @@ static void skb_release_data(struct sk_buff *skb)
if (skb->cloned &&
atomic_sub_return(skb->nohdr ? (1 << SKB_DATAREF_SHIFT) + 1 : 1,
&shinfo->dataref))
return;
goto exit;
skb_zcopy_clear(skb, true);
@ -674,6 +674,17 @@ static void skb_release_data(struct sk_buff *skb)
kfree_skb_list(shinfo->frag_list);
skb_free_head(skb);
exit:
/* When we clone an SKB we copy the reycling bit. The pp_recycle
* bit is only set on the head though, so in order to avoid races
* while trying to recycle fragments on __skb_frag_unref() we need
* to make one SKB responsible for triggering the recycle path.
* So disable the recycling bit if an SKB is cloned and we have
* additional references to to the fragmented part of the SKB.
* Eventually the last SKB will have the recycling bit set and it's
* dataref set to 0, which will trigger the recycling
*/
skb->pp_recycle = 0;
}
/*