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From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>
To: Felix Maurer <fmaurer@redhat.com>, bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: bjorn@kernel.org, magnus.karlsson@intel.com,
	maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com, jonathan.lemon@gmail.com,
	davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org,
	pabeni@redhat.com, horms@kernel.org, ast@kernel.org,
	daniel@iogearbox.net, hawk@kernel.org, john.fastabend@gmail.com,
	yoong.siang.song@intel.com, sdf@fomichev.me,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf] xsk: Free skb when TX metadata options are invalid
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 14:13:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87jzd6q7q4.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <edb9b00fb19e680dff5a3350cd7581c5927975a8.1731581697.git.fmaurer@redhat.com>

Felix Maurer <fmaurer@redhat.com> writes:

> When a new skb is allocated for transmitting an xsk descriptor, i.e., for
> every non-multibuf descriptor or the first frag of a multibuf descriptor,
> but the descriptor is later found to have invalid options set for the TX
> metadata, the new skb is never freed. This can leak skbs until the send
> buffer is full which makes sending more packets impossible.
>
> Fix this by freeing the skb in the error path if we are currently dealing
> with the first frag, i.e., an skb allocated in this iteration of
> xsk_build_skb.
>
> Fixes: 48eb03dd2630 ("xsk: Add TX timestamp and TX checksum offload support")
> Reported-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Felix Maurer <fmaurer@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>


  reply	other threads:[~2024-11-14 13:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-14 11:30 [PATCH bpf] xsk: Free skb when TX metadata options are invalid Felix Maurer
2024-11-14 13:13 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2024-11-14 18:39 ` Stanislav Fomichev
2024-11-14 21:43 ` Martin KaFai Lau
2024-11-15  2:22   ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-11-15 23:10 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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