Re: [PATCH v6 net 3/8] xsk: fix XDP_UMEM_SG_FLAG issues

[Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>]

On Thu,  2 Apr 2026 17:49:53 +0200 Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
> Currently xp_assign_dev_shared() is missing XDP_USE_SG being propagated
> to flags so set it in order to preserve mtu check that is supposed to be
> done only when no multi-buffer setup is in picture.
> 
> Also, this flag has the same value as XDP_UMEM_TX_SW_CSUM so we could
> get unexpected SG setups for software Tx checksums. Since csum flag is
> UAPI, modify value of XDP_UMEM_SG_FLAG.

should we maybe add:

BUILD_BUG_ON(XDP_UMEM_SG_FLAG & XDP_UMEM_FLAGS_VALID)

somewhere or use a hack like this ?

#define XDP_UMEM_SG_FLAG	(XDP_UMEM_FLAGS_VALID + 1)

> diff --git a/include/net/xdp_sock.h b/include/net/xdp_sock.h
> index 23e8861e8b25..ebac60a3d8a1 100644
> --- a/include/net/xdp_sock.h
> +++ b/include/net/xdp_sock.h
> @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
>  #include <linux/mm.h>
>  #include <net/sock.h>
>  
> -#define XDP_UMEM_SG_FLAG (1 << 1)
> +#define XDP_UMEM_SG_FLAG BIT(3)
>  
>  struct net_device;
>  struct xsk_queue;
> diff --git a/net/xdp/xsk_buff_pool.c b/net/xdp/xsk_buff_pool.c
> index 37b7a68b89b3..729602a3cec0 100644
> --- a/net/xdp/xsk_buff_pool.c
> +++ b/net/xdp/xsk_buff_pool.c
> @@ -247,6 +247,10 @@ int xp_assign_dev_shared(struct xsk_buff_pool *pool, struct xdp_sock *umem_xs,
>  	struct xdp_umem *umem = umem_xs->umem;
>  
>  	flags = umem->zc ? XDP_ZEROCOPY : XDP_COPY;
> +
> +	if (umem->flags & XDP_UMEM_SG_FLAG)
> +		flags |= XDP_USE_SG;
> +
>  	if (umem_xs->pool->uses_need_wakeup)
>  		flags |= XDP_USE_NEED_WAKEUP;
>