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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: [PATCH] virtio-net: fix data corruption with OOM
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:03:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091025170340.GA22099@redhat.com> (raw)

virtio net used to unlink skbs from send queues on error,
but ever since 48925e372f04f5e35fec6269127c62b2c71ab794
we do not do this. This causes guest data corruption and crashes
with vhost since net core can requeue the skb or free it without
it being taken off the list.

This patch fixes this by queueing the skb after successfull
transmit.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
---

Rusty, here's a fix for another data corrupter I saw.
This fixes a regression from 2.6.31, so definitely
2.6.32 I think. Comments?

 drivers/net/virtio_net.c |    8 +++++---
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 8d00976..be459e1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -517,8 +517,7 @@ again:
 	/* Free up any pending old buffers before queueing new ones. */
 	free_old_xmit_skbs(vi);
 
-	/* Put new one in send queue and do transmit */
-	__skb_queue_head(&vi->send, skb);
+	/* Try to transmit */
 	capacity = xmit_skb(vi, skb);
 
 	/* This can happen with OOM and indirect buffers. */
@@ -532,8 +531,11 @@ again:
 		}
 		return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
 	}
-
 	vi->svq->vq_ops->kick(vi->svq);
+
+	/* Put new one in send queue */
+	__skb_queue_head(&vi->send, skb);
+
 	/* Don't wait up for transmitted skbs to be freed. */
 	skb_orphan(skb);
 	nf_reset(skb);
-- 
1.6.5.rc2

             reply	other threads:[~2009-10-25 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-25 17:03 Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2009-10-26  1:41 ` [PATCH] virtio-net: fix data corruption with OOM Rusty Russell
2009-10-26  8:54   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-26  9:00   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-26  9:07   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-27  1:27     ` David Miller
2009-10-26 18:42   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-26 19:34     ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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