From: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com, jasowang@redhat.com,
pabeni@redhat.com, kuba@kernel.org, edumazet@google.com,
dongli.zhang@oracle.com, xmei5@asu.edu,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] tap: free page on error paths in tap_get_user_xdp()
Date: Thu, 21 May 2026 09:32:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260521163230.1478627-2-bestswngs@gmail.com> (raw)
tap_get_user_xdp() rejects a frame shorter than ETH_HLEN with -EINVAL,
and returns -ENOMEM when build_skb() fails. Both paths jump to the err
label without freeing the page that vhost_net_build_xdp() allocated for
the frame. tap_sendmsg() discards the per-buffer return value and always
returns 0, so vhost_tx_batch() takes the success path and never frees
the page; each rejected frame in a batch leaks one page-frag chunk.
Free the page on both error paths, before the skb is built. This is the
tap counterpart of the same leak in tun_xdp_one().
Fixes: 0efac27791ee ("tap: accept an array of XDP buffs through sendmsg()")
Fixes: ed7f2afdd0e0 ("tap: add missing verification for short frame")
Reported-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
---
drivers/net/tap.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/tap.c b/drivers/net/tap.c
index b8240737dc51..2e75846d1072 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tap.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tap.c
@@ -1052,6 +1052,7 @@ static int tap_get_user_xdp(struct tap_queue *q, struct xdp_buff *xdp)
int err, depth;
if (unlikely(xdp->data_end - xdp->data < ETH_HLEN)) {
+ put_page(virt_to_head_page(xdp->data));
err = -EINVAL;
goto err;
}
@@ -1061,6 +1062,7 @@ static int tap_get_user_xdp(struct tap_queue *q, struct xdp_buff *xdp)
skb = build_skb(xdp->data_hard_start, buflen);
if (!skb) {
+ put_page(virt_to_head_page(xdp->data));
err = -ENOMEM;
goto err;
}
--
2.43.0
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2026-05-21 16:32 Weiming Shi [this message]
2026-05-21 21:04 ` [PATCH net] tap: free page on error paths in tap_get_user_xdp() Dongli Zhang
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