From: Chenyuan Yang <chenyuan0y@gmail.com>
To: sgoutham@marvell.com, gakula@marvell.com, sbhatta@marvell.com,
hkelam@marvell.com, bbhushan2@marvell.com, andrew+netdev@lunn.ch,
davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org,
pabeni@redhat.com, ast@kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net,
hawk@kernel.org, john.fastabend@gmail.com, sdf@fomichev.me,
sumang@marvell.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org, zzjas98@gmail.com,
Chenyuan Yang <chenyuan0y@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] net: otx2: handle NULL returned by xdp_convert_buff_to_frame()
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 19:32:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250723003243.1245357-1-chenyuan0y@gmail.com> (raw)
The xdp_convert_buff_to_frame() function can return NULL when there is
insufficient headroom in the buffer to store the xdp_frame structure
or when the driver didn't reserve enough tailroom for skb_shared_info.
Currently, the otx2 driver does not check for this NULL return value
in two critical paths within otx2_xdp_rcv_pkt_handler():
1. XDP_TX case: Passes potentially NULL xdpf to otx2_xdp_sq_append_pkt()
2. XDP_REDIRECT error path: Calls xdp_return_frame() with potentially NULL
This can lead to kernel crashes due to NULL pointer dereference.
Fix by adding proper NULL checks in both paths. For XDP_TX, return false
to indicate packet should be dropped. For XDP_REDIRECT error path, only
call xdp_return_frame() if conversion succeeded, otherwise manually free
the page.
Please correct me if any error path is incorrect.
This is similar to the commit cc3628dcd851
("xen-netfront: handle NULL returned by xdp_convert_buff_to_frame()").
Signed-off-by: Chenyuan Yang <chenyuan0y@gmail.com>
Fixes: 94c80f748873 ("octeontx2-pf: use xdp_return_frame() to free xdp buffers")
---
drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_txrx.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_txrx.c
index 99ace381cc78..0c4c050b174a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_txrx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_txrx.c
@@ -1534,6 +1534,9 @@ static bool otx2_xdp_rcv_pkt_handler(struct otx2_nic *pfvf,
qidx += pfvf->hw.tx_queues;
cq->pool_ptrs++;
xdpf = xdp_convert_buff_to_frame(&xdp);
+ if (unlikely(!xdpf))
+ return false;
+
return otx2_xdp_sq_append_pkt(pfvf, xdpf,
cqe->sg.seg_addr,
cqe->sg.seg_size,
@@ -1558,7 +1561,10 @@ static bool otx2_xdp_rcv_pkt_handler(struct otx2_nic *pfvf,
otx2_dma_unmap_page(pfvf, iova, pfvf->rbsize,
DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
xdpf = xdp_convert_buff_to_frame(&xdp);
- xdp_return_frame(xdpf);
+ if (likely(xdpf))
+ xdp_return_frame(xdpf);
+ else
+ put_page(page);
break;
default:
bpf_warn_invalid_xdp_action(pfvf->netdev, prog, act);
--
2.34.1
next reply other threads:[~2025-07-23 0:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-23 0:32 Chenyuan Yang [this message]
2025-07-23 3:29 ` [EXTERNAL] [PATCH] net: otx2: handle NULL returned by xdp_convert_buff_to_frame() Geethasowjanya Akula
2025-07-23 3:36 ` Geethasowjanya Akula
2025-07-24 10:11 ` Paolo Abeni
2025-07-26 20:21 ` Chenyuan Yang
2025-07-28 8:38 ` Geethasowjanya Akula
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