Re: [PATCH] xen-netfront: handle NULL returned by xdp_convert_buff_to_frame()

Jürgen Groß
2025-04-17T13:22:38Z

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On 17.04.25 13:19, Alexey wrote:
>
> On 17.04.2025 13:23, Jürgen Groß wrote:
>> On 17.04.25 12:06, Alexey wrote:
>>>
>>> On 17.04.2025 11:51, Juergen Gross wrote:
>>>> On 17.04.25 10:45, Alexey wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 17.04.2025 10:12, Jürgen Groß wrote:
>>>>>> On 17.04.25 09:00, Alexey wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 17.04.2025 03:58, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Mon, 14 Apr 2025 18:34:01 +0000 Alexey Nepomnyashih wrote:
>>>>>>>>>           get_page(pdata);
>>>>>>>> Please notice this get_page() here.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>           xdpf = xdp_convert_buff_to_frame(xdp);
>>>>>>>>> +        if (unlikely(!xdpf)) {
>>>>>>>>> + trace_xdp_exception(queue->info->netdev, prog, act);
>>>>>>>>> +            break;
>>>>>>>>> +        }
>>>>>>> Do you mean that it would be better to move the get_page(pdata) call lower,
>>>>>>> after checking for NULL in xdpf, so that the reference count is only
>>>>>>> increased
>>>>>>> after a successful conversion?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think the error handling here is generally broken (or at least very
>>>>>> questionable).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I suspect that in case of at least some errors the get_page() is leaking
>>>>>> even without this new patch.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In case I'm wrong a comment reasoning why there is no leak should be
>>>>>> added.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Juergen
>>>>>
>>>>> I think pdata is freed in xdp_return_frame_rx_napi() -> __xdp_return()
>>>>
>>>> Agreed. But what if xennet_xdp_xmit() returns an error < 0?
>>>>
>>>> In this case xdp_return_frame_rx_napi() won't be called.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Juergen
>>>
>>> Agreed. There is no explicit freed pdata in the calling function
>>> xennet_get_responses(). Without this, the page referenced by pdata
>>> could be leaked.
>>>
>>> I suggest:
>>
>> Could you please merge the two if () blocks, as they share the
>> call of xdp_return_frame_rx_napi() now? Something like:
>>
>> if (unlikely(err <= 0)) {
>>     if (err < 0)
>>         trace_xdp_exception(queue->info->netdev, prog, act);
>>     xdp_return_frame_rx_napi(xdpf);
>> }
>>
>> Juergen
>>
>> P.S.: please don't use HTML in emails
>
> I can't do this because xennet_xdp_xmit() can return a value > 0

Yes, this is what the "if (unlikely(err <= 0))" is for.

Juergen

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