From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>
To: Larysa Zaremba <larysa.zaremba@intel.com>, bpf@vger.kernel.org
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"Aleksandr Loktionov" <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf 1/6] xdp: produce a warning when calculated tailroom is negative
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:26:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zf5q109e.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260203105417.2302672-2-larysa.zaremba@intel.com>
Larysa Zaremba <larysa.zaremba@intel.com> writes:
> Many ethernet drivers report xdp Rx queue frag size as being the same as
> DMA write size. However, the only user of this field, namely
> bpf_xdp_frags_increase_tail(), clearly expects a truesize.
>
> Such difference leads to unspecific memory corruption issues under certain
> circumstances, e.g. in ixgbevf maximum DMA write size is 3 KB, so when
> running xskxceiver's XDP_ADJUST_TAIL_GROW_MULTI_BUFF, 6K packet fully uses
> all DMA-writable space in 2 buffers. This would be fine, if only
> rxq->frag_size was properly set to 4K, but value of 3K results in a
> negative tailroom, because there is a non-zero page offset.
>
> We could return -EINVAL and be done with it in such case, but due to
> tailroom being stored as an unsigned int, it is reported to be somewhere
> near UINT_MAX, resulting in a tail being grown, even if the requested
> offset is too much (it is around 2K in the abovementioned test). This later
> leads to all kinds of unspecific calltraces.
>
> [ 7340.337579] xskxceiver[1440]: segfault at 1da718 ip 00007f4161aeac9d sp 00007f41615a6a00 error 6
> [ 7340.338040] xskxceiver[1441]: segfault at 7f410000000b ip 00000000004042b5 sp 00007f415bffecf0 error 4
> [ 7340.338179] in libc.so.6[61c9d,7f4161aaf000+160000]
> [ 7340.339230] in xskxceiver[42b5,400000+69000]
> [ 7340.340300] likely on CPU 6 (core 0, socket 6)
> [ 7340.340302] Code: ff ff 01 e9 f4 fe ff ff 0f 1f 44 00 00 4c 39 f0 74 73 31 c0 ba 01 00 00 00 f0 0f b1 17 0f 85 ba 00 00 00 49 8b 87 88 00 00 00 <4c> 89 70 08 eb cc 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 8d bd f0 fe ff ff 89 85 ec fe
> [ 7340.340888] likely on CPU 3 (core 0, socket 3)
> [ 7340.345088] Code: 00 00 00 ba 00 00 00 00 be 00 00 00 00 89 c7 e8 31 ca ff ff 89 45 ec 8b 45 ec 85 c0 78 07 b8 00 00 00 00 eb 46 e8 0b c8 ff ff <8b> 00 83 f8 69 74 24 e8 ff c7 ff ff 8b 00 83 f8 0b 74 18 e8 f3 c7
> [ 7340.404334] Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0x6d255010bdffc: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
> [ 7340.405972] CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 1439 Comm: xskxceiver Not tainted 6.19.0-rc1+ #21 PREEMPT(lazy)
> [ 7340.408006] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.17.0-5.fc42 04/01/2014
> [ 7340.409716] RIP: 0010:lookup_swap_cgroup_id+0x44/0x80
> [ 7340.410455] Code: 83 f8 1c 73 39 48 ba ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 03 48 8b 04 c5 20 55 fa bd 48 21 d1 48 89 ca 83 e1 01 48 d1 ea c1 e1 04 48 8d 04 90 <8b> 00 48 83 c4 10 d3 e8 c3 cc cc cc cc 31 c0 e9 98 b7 dd 00 48 89
> [ 7340.412787] RSP: 0018:ffffcc5c04f7f6d0 EFLAGS: 00010202
> [ 7340.413494] RAX: 0006d255010bdffc RBX: ffff891f477895a8 RCX: 0000000000000010
> [ 7340.414431] RDX: 0001c17e3fffffff RSI: 00fa070000000000 RDI: 000382fc7fffffff
> [ 7340.415354] RBP: 00fa070000000000 R08: ffffcc5c04f7f8f8 R09: ffffcc5c04f7f7d0
> [ 7340.416283] R10: ffff891f4c1a7000 R11: ffffcc5c04f7f9c8 R12: ffffcc5c04f7f7d0
> [ 7340.417218] R13: 03ffffffffffffff R14: 00fa06fffffffe00 R15: ffff891f47789500
> [ 7340.418229] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff891ffdfaa000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> [ 7340.419489] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> [ 7340.420286] CR2: 00007f415bfffd58 CR3: 0000000103f03002 CR4: 0000000000772ef0
> [ 7340.421237] PKRU: 55555554
> [ 7340.421623] Call Trace:
> [ 7340.421987] <TASK>
> [ 7340.422309] ? softleaf_from_pte+0x77/0xa0
> [ 7340.422855] swap_pte_batch+0xa7/0x290
> [ 7340.423363] zap_nonpresent_ptes.constprop.0.isra.0+0xd1/0x270
> [ 7340.424102] zap_pte_range+0x281/0x580
> [ 7340.424607] zap_pmd_range.isra.0+0xc9/0x240
> [ 7340.425177] unmap_page_range+0x24d/0x420
> [ 7340.425714] unmap_vmas+0xa1/0x180
> [ 7340.426185] exit_mmap+0xe1/0x3b0
> [ 7340.426644] __mmput+0x41/0x150
> [ 7340.427098] exit_mm+0xb1/0x110
> [ 7340.427539] do_exit+0x1b2/0x460
> [ 7340.427992] do_group_exit+0x2d/0xc0
> [ 7340.428477] get_signal+0x79d/0x7e0
> [ 7340.428957] arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x34/0x100
> [ 7340.429571] exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x8e/0x4c0
> [ 7340.430159] do_syscall_64+0x188/0x6b0
> [ 7340.430672] ? __do_sys_clone3+0xd9/0x120
> [ 7340.431212] ? switch_fpu_return+0x4e/0xd0
> [ 7340.431761] ? arch_exit_to_user_mode_prepare.isra.0+0xa1/0xc0
> [ 7340.432498] ? do_syscall_64+0xbb/0x6b0
> [ 7340.433015] ? __handle_mm_fault+0x445/0x690
> [ 7340.433582] ? count_memcg_events+0xd6/0x210
> [ 7340.434151] ? handle_mm_fault+0x212/0x340
> [ 7340.434697] ? do_user_addr_fault+0x2b4/0x7b0
> [ 7340.435271] ? clear_bhb_loop+0x30/0x80
> [ 7340.435788] ? clear_bhb_loop+0x30/0x80
> [ 7340.436299] ? clear_bhb_loop+0x30/0x80
> [ 7340.436812] ? clear_bhb_loop+0x30/0x80
> [ 7340.437323] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
> [ 7340.437973] RIP: 0033:0x7f4161b14169
> [ 7340.438468] Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0x7f4161b1413f.
> [ 7340.439242] RSP: 002b:00007ffc6ebfa770 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000ca
> [ 7340.440173] RAX: fffffffffffffe00 RBX: 00000000000005a1 RCX: 00007f4161b14169
> [ 7340.441061] RDX: 00000000000005a1 RSI: 0000000000000109 RDI: 00007f415bfff990
> [ 7340.441943] RBP: 00007ffc6ebfa7a0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00000000ffffffff
> [ 7340.442824] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
> [ 7340.443707] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00007f415bfff990 R15: 00007f415bfff6c0
> [ 7340.444586] </TASK>
> [ 7340.444922] Modules linked in: rfkill intel_rapl_msr intel_rapl_common intel_uncore_frequency_common skx_edac_common nfit libnvdimm kvm_intel vfat fat kvm snd_pcm irqbypass rapl iTCO_wdt snd_timer intel_pmc_bxt iTCO_vendor_support snd ixgbevf virtio_net soundcore i2c_i801 pcspkr libeth_xdp net_failover i2c_smbus lpc_ich failover libeth virtio_balloon joydev 9p fuse loop zram lz4hc_compress lz4_compress 9pnet_virtio 9pnet netfs ghash_clmulni_intel serio_raw qemu_fw_cfg
> [ 7340.449650] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
>
> The issue can be fixed in all in-tree drivers, but we cannot just trust OOT
> drivers to not do this. Therefore, make tailroom a signed int and produce a
> warning when it is negative to prevent such mistakes in the future.
>
> Fixes: bf25146a5595 ("bpf: add frags support to the bpf_xdp_adjust_tail() API")
> Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Larysa Zaremba <larysa.zaremba@intel.com>
> ---
> net/core/filter.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/core/filter.c b/net/core/filter.c
> index 616e0520a0bb..9715d957e3c5 100644
> --- a/net/core/filter.c
> +++ b/net/core/filter.c
> @@ -4149,12 +4149,13 @@ static int bpf_xdp_frags_increase_tail(struct xdp_buff *xdp, int offset)
> struct skb_shared_info *sinfo = xdp_get_shared_info_from_buff(xdp);
> skb_frag_t *frag = &sinfo->frags[sinfo->nr_frags - 1];
> struct xdp_rxq_info *rxq = xdp->rxq;
> - unsigned int tailroom;
> + int tailroom;
>
> if (!rxq->frag_size || rxq->frag_size > xdp->frame_sz)
> return -EOPNOTSUPP;
>
> tailroom = rxq->frag_size - skb_frag_size(frag) - skb_frag_off(frag);
> + WARN_ON_ONCE(tailroom < 0);
> if (unlikely(offset > tailroom))
> return -EINVAL;
>
Why can't we do both? I.e., WARN_ON_ONCE() *and* return -EINVAL?
-Toke
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-03 12:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-03 10:53 [PATCH bpf 0/6] Address XDP frags having negative tailroom Larysa Zaremba
2026-02-03 10:53 ` [PATCH bpf 1/6] xdp: produce a warning when calculated tailroom is negative Larysa Zaremba
2026-02-03 12:26 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2026-02-03 12:31 ` Larysa Zaremba
2026-02-03 12:38 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2026-02-03 12:54 ` Larysa Zaremba
2026-02-03 13:37 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2026-02-04 22:52 ` Martin KaFai Lau
2026-02-03 10:53 ` [PATCH bpf 2/6] ice: fix rxq info registering in mbuf packets Larysa Zaremba
2026-02-03 10:53 ` [PATCH bpf 3/6] ice: change XDP RxQ frag_size from DMA write length to truesize Larysa Zaremba
2026-02-03 10:53 ` [PATCH bpf 4/6] i40e: use truesize as XDP RxQ info frag_size Larysa Zaremba
2026-02-03 10:53 ` [PATCH bpf 5/6] idpf: " Larysa Zaremba
2026-02-03 10:53 ` [PATCH bpf 6/6] net: enetc: " Larysa Zaremba
2026-02-05 0:59 ` Vladimir Oltean
2026-02-05 1:34 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-02-05 12:29 ` Vladimir Oltean
2026-02-05 12:41 ` Larysa Zaremba
2026-02-05 12:46 ` Vladimir Oltean
2026-02-05 13:23 ` Larysa Zaremba
2026-02-05 13:40 ` Vladimir Oltean
2026-02-06 1:54 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-02-06 8:36 ` Larysa Zaremba
2026-02-07 2:57 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-02-09 9:46 ` Larysa Zaremba
2026-02-08 12:59 ` Vladimir Oltean
2026-02-10 17:27 ` Dragos Tatulea
2026-02-04 22:57 ` [PATCH bpf 0/6] Address XDP frags having negative tailroom Martin KaFai Lau
2026-02-05 1:23 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-02-05 1:26 ` Jakub Kicinski
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