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* [PATCH net] net: sched: do not requeue a NULL skb
@ 2016-04-06 13:10 Lars Persson
  2016-04-06 17:14 ` Cong Wang
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Lars Persson @ 2016-04-06 13:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev; +Cc: jhs, linux-kernel, Lars Persson

A failure in validate_xmit_skb_list() triggered an unconditional call
to dev_requeue_skb with skb=NULL. This slowly grows the queue
discipline's qlen count until all traffic through the queue stops.

Fixes: 55a93b3ea780 ("qdisc: validate skb without holding lock")
Signed-off-by: Lars Persson <larper@axis.com>
---
 net/sched/sch_generic.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/sched/sch_generic.c b/net/sched/sch_generic.c
index f18c350..1031536 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_generic.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_generic.c
@@ -165,6 +165,9 @@ int sch_direct_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct Qdisc *q,
 			skb = dev_hard_start_xmit(skb, dev, txq, &ret);
 
 		HARD_TX_UNLOCK(dev, txq);
+	} else {
+		spin_lock(root_lock);
+		return qdisc_qlen(q);
 	}
 	spin_lock(root_lock);
 
-- 
2.1.4

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* Re: [PATCH net] net: sched: do not requeue a NULL skb
  2016-04-06 13:10 [PATCH net] net: sched: do not requeue a NULL skb Lars Persson
@ 2016-04-06 17:14 ` Cong Wang
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Cong Wang @ 2016-04-06 17:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Lars Persson
  Cc: Linux Kernel Network Developers, Jamal Hadi Salim, LKML,
	Lars Persson

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 6:10 AM, Lars Persson <lars.persson@axis.com> wrote:
> A failure in validate_xmit_skb_list() triggered an unconditional call
> to dev_requeue_skb with skb=NULL. This slowly grows the queue
> discipline's qlen count until all traffic through the queue stops.
>

Sounds reasonable.

> Fixes: 55a93b3ea780 ("qdisc: validate skb without holding lock")
> Signed-off-by: Lars Persson <larper@axis.com>
> ---
>  net/sched/sch_generic.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/net/sched/sch_generic.c b/net/sched/sch_generic.c
> index f18c350..1031536 100644
> --- a/net/sched/sch_generic.c
> +++ b/net/sched/sch_generic.c
> @@ -165,6 +165,9 @@ int sch_direct_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct Qdisc *q,
>                         skb = dev_hard_start_xmit(skb, dev, txq, &ret);
>
>                 HARD_TX_UNLOCK(dev, txq);
> +       } else {
> +               spin_lock(root_lock);
> +               return qdisc_qlen(q);

I think we should return 0 for this failure case so that qdisc_restart()
will stop. How about teaching dev_requeue_skb() to skip skb==NULL
case?

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