Re: [PATCH net] gro_cells: Avoid packet re-ordering for cloned skbs

[Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@suse.de>]

On Thu, 9 Jan 2025 15:56:24 +0100
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM Thomas Bogendoerfer
> <tbogendoerfer@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> > gro_cells_receive() passes a cloned skb directly up the stack and
> > could cause re-ordering against segments still in GRO. To avoid
> > this copy the skb and let GRO do it's work.
> >
> > Fixes: c9e6bc644e55 ("net: add gro_cells infrastructure")
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@suse.de>
> > ---
> >  net/core/gro_cells.c | 11 ++++++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/net/core/gro_cells.c b/net/core/gro_cells.c
> > index ff8e5b64bf6b..2f8d688f9d82 100644
> > --- a/net/core/gro_cells.c
> > +++ b/net/core/gro_cells.c
> > @@ -20,11 +20,20 @@ int gro_cells_receive(struct gro_cells *gcells, struct sk_buff *skb)
> >         if (unlikely(!(dev->flags & IFF_UP)))
> >                 goto drop;
> >
> > -       if (!gcells->cells || skb_cloned(skb) || netif_elide_gro(dev)) {
> > +       if (!gcells->cells || netif_elide_gro(dev)) {
> > +netif_rx:
> >                 res = netif_rx(skb);
> >                 goto unlock;
> >         }
> > +       if (skb_cloned(skb)) {
> > +               struct sk_buff *n;
> >
> > +               n = skb_copy(skb, GFP_KERNEL);  
> 
> I do not think we want this skb_copy(). This is going to fail too often.

ok

> Can you remind us why we have this skb_cloned() check here ?

some fields of the ip/tcp header are going to be changed in the first gro
segment

Thomas.


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