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From: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	 Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>,
	Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>,  Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com>,
	Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>,
	 Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
	 Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
	 Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>,
	 Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>,
	 Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>,
	 Manish Chopra <manishc@marvell.com>,
	Rahul Verma <rahulv@marvell.com>,
	 GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@marvell.com,
	Shahed Shaikh <shshaikh@marvell.com>,
	 Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org,  linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,  xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
	intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org,
	 Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next v2 05/10] xen/netfront: check for failure when pulling in xennet_fill_frags()
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2026 21:02:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261008-b4-pskb-pull-tail-drivers-v2-5-8f2bd9bee138@toxicpanda.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261008-b4-pskb-pull-tail-drivers-v2-0-8f2bd9bee138@toxicpanda.com>

When the skb already has MAX_SKB_FRAGS frags, xennet_fill_frags() calls
__pskb_pull_tail() to free up a frag slot.  That frees slots in two
ways: it pulls the start of the packet into the head, and it releases
empty frags, even when there's nothing left to pull.  The second part
is what commit d81c5054a5d1 ("xen/netfront: tolerate frags with no
data") relies on.  The return value is ignored, which works out only
because the nr_frags check right after it drops the packet if no slot
was freed.

Use pskb_may_pull() followed by skb_drop_empty_frags(), and take the
error path explicitly if either fails.  pskb_may_pull() does nothing if
the head already holds pull_to bytes, so the BUG_ON() for pull_to <
skb_headlen(skb), which protected the subtraction, can go.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
---
 drivers/net/xen-netfront.c | 26 ++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
index 2ed673649c48..007fa3bbc9e6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
@@ -1174,18 +1174,15 @@ static int xennet_fill_frags(struct netfront_queue *queue,
 
 		RING_COPY_RESPONSE(&queue->rx, ++cons, &rx);
 
-		if (skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags == MAX_SKB_FRAGS) {
-			unsigned int pull_to = NETFRONT_SKB_CB(skb)->pull_to;
-
-			BUG_ON(pull_to < skb_headlen(skb));
-			__pskb_pull_tail(skb, pull_to - skb_headlen(skb));
-		}
-		if (unlikely(skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags >= MAX_SKB_FRAGS)) {
-			xennet_set_rx_rsp_cons(queue,
-					       ++cons + skb_queue_len(list));
-			kfree_skb(nskb);
-			return -ENOENT;
-		}
+		/* Out of frag slots: pull the start of the packet into the
+		 * head and drop empty frags to make room.
+		 */
+		if (skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags == MAX_SKB_FRAGS &&
+		    unlikely(!pskb_may_pull(skb, NETFRONT_SKB_CB(skb)->pull_to) ||
+			     skb_drop_empty_frags(skb, GFP_ATOMIC)))
+			goto err;
+		if (unlikely(skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags >= MAX_SKB_FRAGS))
+			goto err;
 
 		skb_add_rx_frag(skb, skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags,
 				skb_frag_page(nfrag),
@@ -1198,6 +1195,11 @@ static int xennet_fill_frags(struct netfront_queue *queue,
 	xennet_set_rx_rsp_cons(queue, cons);
 
 	return 0;
+
+err:
+	xennet_set_rx_rsp_cons(queue, ++cons + skb_queue_len(list));
+	kfree_skb(nskb);
+	return -ENOENT;
 }
 
 static int checksum_setup(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)

-- 
2.55.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-10-08 21:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-08 21:02 [PATCH net-next v2 00/10] net: stop calling __pskb_pull_tail() from drivers Josef Bacik
2026-10-08 21:02 ` [PATCH net-next v2 01/10] net: skbuff: add skb_drop_empty_frags() Josef Bacik
2026-10-08 21:02 ` [PATCH net-next v2 02/10] net: ftmac100: check for failure when pulling in the RX header Josef Bacik
2026-10-08 21:02 ` [PATCH net-next v2 03/10] net/mlx5e: check for failure when pulling the Ethernet header after XDP Josef Bacik
2026-10-08 21:02 ` [PATCH net-next v2 04/10] net: niu: check for failure when pulling in the RX header Josef Bacik
2026-10-08 21:02 ` Josef Bacik [this message]
2026-10-08 21:02 ` [PATCH net-next v2 06/10] e1000: use pskb_may_pull() in the 82544 TSO workaround Josef Bacik
2026-10-08 21:02 ` [PATCH net-next v2 07/10] e1000e: use pskb_may_pull() in the 82571/2/3 " Josef Bacik
2026-10-08 21:02 ` [PATCH net-next v2 08/10] netxen: use pskb_may_pull() to pull excess TX frags into the head Josef Bacik
2026-10-08 21:02 ` [PATCH net-next v2 09/10] qlcnic: " Josef Bacik
2026-10-08 21:02 ` [PATCH net-next v2 10/10] net: skbuff: don't reset truesize in skb_condense() if the pull fails Josef Bacik
2026-10-08 21:11 ` [PATCH net-next v2 00/10] net: stop calling __pskb_pull_tail() from drivers Jakub Kicinski

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