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From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: pskb_expand_head() optimization
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 09:16:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100907091614.GA8245@ff.dom.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1283835729.2585.499.camel@edumazet-laptop>

On 2010-09-07 07:02, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le lundi 06 septembre 2010 Ă  19:20 -0700, David Miller a ĂŠcrit :
> 
>> Eric, this goes on top of your patch and demonstrates the idea.
>>
>> Please review if you have a chance:
>>
>> diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
>> index 2d1bc76..aeb56af 100644
>> --- a/net/core/skbuff.c
>> +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
>> @@ -327,6 +327,32 @@ static void skb_clone_fraglist(struct sk_buff *skb)
>>  		skb_get(list);
>>  }
>>  
>> +static struct sk_buff *skb_copy_fraglist(struct sk_buff *parent,
>> +					 gfp_t gfp_mask)
>> +{
>> +	struct sk_buff *first_skb = NULL;
>> +	struct sk_buff *prev_skb = NULL;
>> +	struct sk_buff *skb;
>> +
>> +	skb_walk_frags(parent, skb) {
>> +		struct sk_buff *nskb = pskb_copy(skb, gfp_mask);
>> +
>> +		if (!nskb)
>> +			goto fail;
>> +		if (!first_skb)
>> +			first_skb = skb;
>> +		else
>> +			prev_skb->next = skb;
>> +		prev_skb = skb;
>> +	}
>> +
>> +	return first_skb;
>> +
>> +fail:
>> +	skb_drop_list(&first_skb);
>> +	return NULL;
>> +}
>> +
>>  static void skb_release_data(struct sk_buff *skb)
>>  {
>>  	if (!skb->cloned ||
>> @@ -812,17 +838,22 @@ int pskb_expand_head(struct sk_buff *skb, int nhead, int ntail,
>>  		fastpath = atomic_read(&skb_shinfo(skb)->dataref) == delta;
>>  	}
>>  
>> -	if (fastpath) {
>> -		kfree(skb->head);
>> -	} else {
>> +	if (!fastpath) {
>> +		if (skb_has_frag_list(skb)) {
>> +			struct sk_buff *new_list;
>> +
>> +			new_list = skb_copy_fraglist(skb, gfp_mask);
>> +			if (!new_list)
>> +				goto free_data;
>> +			skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list = new_list;
> 
> Here, skb_shinfo(skb) still points to old shinfo, you should not touch
> it. An other user might need it :)

Even if there were no users this is written to the area freed with
kfree(skb->head) a few lines later, isn't it?

> 
>> +		}
>>  		for (i = 0; i < skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags; i++)
>>  			get_page(skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i].page);
>>  
>> -		if (skb_has_frag_list(skb))
>> -			skb_clone_fraglist(skb);
>> -
>> -		skb_release_data(skb);
>>  	}
> 
> I believe you cannot remove skb_release_data() call, we really need to
> perform the atomic operation, and test the result on it, or a double
> free could happen.
> 
>> +
>> +	kfree(skb->head);
>> +
>>  	off = (data + nhead) - skb->head;
>>  
>>  	skb->head     = data;
>> @@ -848,6 +879,8 @@ int pskb_expand_head(struct sk_buff *skb, int nhead, int ntail,
>>  	atomic_set(&skb_shinfo(skb)->dataref, 1);
>>  	return 0;
>>  
>> +free_data:
>> +	kfree(data);
> 
> is it a leftover ?
> 
>>  nodata:
>>  	return -ENOMEM;
>>  }
> 
> I understand what you want to do, but problem is we need to perform a
> CAS2 operation : atomically changes two values (dataref and frag_list)

Alas I can't understand why do you think these clone and atomic tests
in skb_release_data() don't protect skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list enough.

Jarek P.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-07  9:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-03  3:43 [PATCH] net: Frag list lost on head expansion David Miller
2010-09-03  5:48 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-03  6:19   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-03  9:09   ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: pskb_expand_head() optimization Eric Dumazet
2010-09-03 13:46     ` David Miller
2010-09-07  2:20       ` David Miller
2010-09-07  5:02         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-07  5:05           ` David Miller
2010-09-07  9:16           ` Jarek Poplawski [this message]
2010-09-07  9:37             ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-10 19:54               ` David Miller
2010-09-11 12:31                 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-09-12  3:30                   ` David Miller
2010-09-12 10:45                     ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-09-12 10:58                       ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-09-12 15:58                       ` David Miller
2010-09-12 16:13                         ` David Miller
2010-09-12 20:57                           ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-09-12 22:08                             ` David Miller
2010-09-13  7:49                               ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-09-12 19:55                         ` Ben Pfaff
2010-09-12 20:24                           ` David Miller
2010-09-12 20:45                         ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-09-20  0:17                   ` David Miller
2010-09-20  7:21                     ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-09-20  9:02                       ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-20  9:14                         ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-09-20 12:12                           ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-09-20 12:40                             ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-20 16:59                       ` David Miller
2010-09-07  1:25     ` David Miller
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-07-22 19:12 [PATCH] Fix corruption of skb csum field in pskb_expand_head() of net/core/skbuff.c Andrea Shepard
2010-07-23  5:09 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: pskb_expand_head() optimization Eric Dumazet
2010-07-25  4:06   ` David Miller

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