[PATCH v4] skbuff: Fix a race between coalescing and releasing SKBs

[PATCH v4] skbuff: Fix a race between coalescing and releasing SKBs

[Liang Chen]

Commit 1effe8ca4e34 ("skbuff: fix coalescing for page_pool fragment
recycling") allowed coalescing to proceed with non page pool page and page
pool page when @from is cloned, i.e.

to->pp_recycle    --> false
from->pp_recycle  --> true
skb_cloned(from)  --> true

However, it actually requires skb_cloned(@from) to hold true until
coalescing finishes in this situation. If the other cloned SKB is
released while the merging is in process, from_shinfo->nr_frags will be
set to 0 toward the end of the function, causing the increment of frag
page _refcount to be unexpectedly skipped resulting in inconsistent
reference counts. Later when SKB(@to) is released, it frees the page
directly even though the page pool page is still in use, leading to
use-after-free or double-free errors. So it should be prohibited.

The double-free error message below prompted us to investigate:
BUG: Bad page state in process swapper/1  pfn:0e0d1
page:00000000c6548b28 refcount:-1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000
index:0x2 pfn:0xe0d1
flags: 0xfffffc0000000(node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)
raw: 000fffffc0000000 0000000000000000 ffffffff00000101 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000002 0000000000000000 ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: nonzero _refcount

CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Tainted: G            E      6.2.0+
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
dump_stack_lvl+0x32/0x50
bad_page+0x69/0xf0
free_pcp_prepare+0x260/0x2f0
free_unref_page+0x20/0x1c0
skb_release_data+0x10b/0x1a0
napi_consume_skb+0x56/0x150
net_rx_action+0xf0/0x350
? __napi_schedule+0x79/0x90
__do_softirq+0xc8/0x2b1
__irq_exit_rcu+0xb9/0xf0
common_interrupt+0x82/0xa0
</IRQ>
<TASK>
asm_common_interrupt+0x22/0x40
RIP: 0010:default_idle+0xb/0x20

Fixes: 53e0961da1c7 ("page_pool: add frag page recycling support in page pool")

Signed-off-by: Liang Chen <liangchen.linux@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
---
Changes from v3:
- make the comment more precise and add fixes and reviewed-by tags
---
 net/core/skbuff.c | 16 ++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index 050a875d09c5..91bac9a6d693 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -5597,18 +5597,18 @@ bool skb_try_coalesce(struct sk_buff *to, struct sk_buff *from,
 	if (skb_cloned(to))
 		return false;
 
-	/* In general, avoid mixing slab allocated and page_pool allocated
-	 * pages within the same SKB. However when @to is not pp_recycle and
-	 * @from is cloned, we can transition frag pages from page_pool to
-	 * reference counted.
-	 *
-	 * On the other hand, don't allow coalescing two pp_recycle SKBs if
-	 * @from is cloned, in case the SKB is using page_pool fragment
+	/* In general, avoid mixing page_pool and non-page_pool allocated
+	 * pages within the same SKB. Additionally avoid dealing with clones
+	 * containing page_pool pages, in case the SKB is using page_pool fragment
 	 * references (PP_FLAG_PAGE_FRAG). Since we only take full page
 	 * references for cloned SKBs at the moment that would result in
 	 * inconsistent reference counts.
+	 * In theory we could take full references if from is cloned and
+	 * !@to->pp_recycle but its tricky (due to potential race with the clone
+	 * disappearing) and rare, so not worth dealing with.
 	 */
-	if (to->pp_recycle != (from->pp_recycle && !skb_cloned(from)))
+	if (to->pp_recycle != from->pp_recycle ||
+	    (from->pp_recycle && skb_cloned(from)))
 		return false;
 
 	if (len <= skb_tailroom(to)) {
-- 
2.18.2

Re: [PATCH v4] skbuff: Fix a race between coalescing and releasing SKBs

[Paolo Abeni]

Hi,

On Thu, 2023-04-13 at 16:18 +0800, Liang Chen wrote:
> Fixes: 53e0961da1c7 ("page_pool: add frag page recycling support in page pool")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Liang Chen <liangchen.linux@gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

I'm sorry for nit-picking, but you must avoid empty lines in the tags
area, between the Fixes and SoB tags.

Thanks!

Paolo