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From: John Ousterhout <ouster@cs.stanford.edu>
To: anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com
Cc: intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, John Ousterhout <ouster@cs.stanford.edu>
Subject: [PATCH net v2] ice: fix packet corruption due to extraneous page flip
Date: Thu,  7 May 2026 11:38:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260507183843.1457-1-ouster@cs.stanford.edu> (raw)

Consider the following sequence of events:
* The bottom half of a buffer page is filled with data from
  packet A. The page has a net reference count (reference count
  - bias) of 1. The page is returned to the NIC, flipped to
  use the top half.
* Before the reference on the page is released, the NIC returns
  the page with no data in it ('size' is zero in ice_clean_rx_irq).
  In this case the bias does not get decremented. The page still
  has a net reference count of 1, so it gets returned to the NIC.
  However, ice_put_rx_mbuf flipped the page so that the bottom
  half is active.
* If the NIC stores another packet in the page before packet A
  has released its reference, the data in packet A will be
  overwritten with data from the new packet.
The fix is for ice_put_rx_mbuf not to flip pages that have a
size of 0.

Note: major revisions to the ice driver make this patch irrelevant
for recent versions. It applies to longterm stable versions
6.18.27 and 6.12.86; it also seems relevant for 6.6.137, but would
need modifications for that version. I have not examined earlier
versions

Signed-off-by: John Ousterhout <ouster@cs.stanford.edu>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.c
index 51c459a3e722..081c7a7392b7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.c
@@ -1215,6 +1215,13 @@ static void ice_put_rx_mbuf(struct ice_rx_ring *rx_ring, struct xdp_buff *xdp,
 		xdp_frags = xdp_get_shared_info_from_buff(xdp)->nr_frags;
 
 	while (idx != ntc) {
+		union ice_32b_rx_flex_desc *rx_desc;
+		unsigned int size;
+
+		rx_desc = ICE_RX_DESC(rx_ring, idx);
+		size = le16_to_cpu(rx_desc->wb.pkt_len) &
+		       ICE_RX_FLX_DESC_PKT_LEN_M;
+
 		buf = &rx_ring->rx_buf[idx];
 		if (++idx == cnt)
 			idx = 0;
@@ -1224,10 +1231,20 @@ static void ice_put_rx_mbuf(struct ice_rx_ring *rx_ring, struct xdp_buff *xdp,
 		 * To do this, only adjust pagecnt_bias for fragments up to
 		 * the total remaining after the XDP program has run.
 		 */
-		if (verdict != ICE_XDP_CONSUMED)
-			ice_rx_buf_adjust_pg_offset(buf, xdp->frame_sz);
-		else if (i++ <= xdp_frags)
+		if (verdict != ICE_XDP_CONSUMED) {
+			/* Don't "flip" the page if size is 0: in this case
+			 * the data in the current half will not be used so
+			 * it's OK to reuse that half. And, since the bias
+			 * didn't get decremented for this half, the page can
+			 * be returned to the NIC even if the other half is
+			 * still in use, so flipping the page could cause
+			 * live packet data to be overwritten.
+			 */
+			if (size != 0)
+				ice_rx_buf_adjust_pg_offset(buf, xdp->frame_sz);
+		} else if (i++ <= xdp_frags) {
 			buf->pagecnt_bias++;
+		}
 
 		ice_put_rx_buf(rx_ring, buf);
 	}
-- 
2.43.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-05-07 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-07 18:38 John Ousterhout [this message]
2026-05-07 22:11 ` [PATCH net v2] ice: fix packet corruption due to extraneous page flip Jacob Keller
2026-05-08  2:37   ` John Ousterhout
2026-05-08 21:55     ` Jacob Keller
2026-05-08 21:59       ` John Ousterhout
2026-05-08 22:34         ` Jacob Keller

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