From: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf.kernel@gmail.com>
To: Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@gmail.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org,
pabeni@redhat.com, bjorn@kernel.org, magnus.karlsson@intel.com,
maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com, jonathan.lemon@gmail.com,
sdf@fomichev.me, ast@kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net,
hawk@kernel.org, john.fastabend@gmail.com, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jason Xing <kernelxing@tencent.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2 7/8] xsk: fix xsk_addrs slab leak on multi-buffer error path
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:58:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aeaFeyOTtxgY2Kus@devvm17672.vll0.facebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260420082805.14844-8-kerneljasonxing@gmail.com>
On 04/20, Jason Xing wrote:
> From: Jason Xing <kernelxing@tencent.com>
>
> When xsk_build_skb() / xsk_build_skb_zerocopy() sees the first
> continuation descriptor, it promotes destructor_arg from an inlined
> address to a freshly allocated xsk_addrs (num_descs = 1). The counter
> is bumped to >= 2 only at the very end of a successful build (by calling
> xsk_inc_num_desc()).
>
> If the build fails in between (e.g. alloc_page() returns NULL with
> -EAGAIN, or the MAX_SKB_FRAGS overflow hits), we jump to free_err, skip
> calling xsk_inc_num_desc() to increment num_descs and leave the half-built
> skb attached to xs->skb for the app to retry. The skb now has
> 1) destructor_arg = a real xsk_addrs pointer,
> 2) num_descs = 1
>
> If the app never retries and just close()s the socket, xsk_release()
> calls xsk_drop_skb() -> xsk_consume_skb(), which decides whether to
> free xsk_addrs by testing num_descs > 1:
>
> if (unlikely(num_descs > 1))
> kmem_cache_free(xsk_tx_generic_cache, destructor_arg);
>
> Because num_descs is exactly 1 the branch is skipped and the
> xsk_addrs object is leaked to the xsk_tx_generic_cache slab.
>
> Fix it by directly testing if destructor_arg is still addr. Or else it
> is modified and used to store the newly allocated memory from
> xsk_tx_generic_cache regardless of increment of num_desc, which we
> need to handle.
>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260419045824.D9E5EC2BCAF@smtp.kernel.org/
> Fixes: 0ebc27a4c67d ("xsk: avoid data corruption on cq descriptor number")
> Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kernelxing@tencent.com>
> ---
> net/xdp/xsk.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/xdp/xsk.c b/net/xdp/xsk.c
> index 9236ec32b54a..6b17974ca825 100644
> --- a/net/xdp/xsk.c
> +++ b/net/xdp/xsk.c
> @@ -605,7 +605,7 @@ static void xsk_cq_submit_addr_locked(struct xsk_buff_pool *pool,
> spin_lock_irqsave(&pool->cq_prod_lock, flags);
> idx = xskq_get_prod(pool->cq);
>
> - if (unlikely(num_descs > 1)) {
> + if (unlikely(!xsk_skb_destructor_is_addr(skb))) {
> xsk_addr = (struct xsk_addrs *)skb_shinfo(skb)->destructor_arg;
>
> for (i = 0; i < num_descs; i++) {
> @@ -660,7 +660,7 @@ static void xsk_consume_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)
> u32 num_descs = xsk_get_num_desc(skb);
> struct xsk_addrs *xsk_addr;
>
> - if (unlikely(num_descs > 1)) {
> + if (unlikely(!xsk_skb_destructor_is_addr(skb))) {
> xsk_addr = (struct xsk_addrs *)skb_shinfo(skb)->destructor_arg;
> kmem_cache_free(xsk_tx_generic_cache, xsk_addr);
> }
> --
> 2.41.3
>
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-20 19:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-20 8:27 [PATCH net v2 0/8] xsk: fix bugs around xsk skb allocation Jason Xing
2026-04-20 8:27 ` [PATCH net v2 1/8] xsk: reject sw-csum UMEM binding to IFF_TX_SKB_NO_LINEAR devices Jason Xing
2026-04-20 19:34 ` Stanislav Fomichev
2026-04-20 23:51 ` Jason Xing
2026-04-20 8:27 ` [PATCH net v2 2/8] xsk: handle NULL dereference of the skb without frags issue Jason Xing
2026-04-20 19:34 ` Stanislav Fomichev
2026-04-20 8:28 ` [PATCH net v2 3/8] xsk: fix use-after-free of xs->skb in xsk_build_skb() free_err path Jason Xing
2026-04-20 19:34 ` Stanislav Fomichev
2026-04-21 0:01 ` Jason Xing
2026-04-20 8:28 ` [PATCH net v2 4/8] xsk: prevent CQ desync when freeing half-built skbs in xsk_build_skb() Jason Xing
2026-04-20 19:34 ` Stanislav Fomichev
2026-04-21 0:51 ` Jason Xing
2026-04-20 8:28 ` [PATCH net v2 5/8] xsk: avoid skb leak in XDP_TX_METADATA case Jason Xing
2026-04-20 8:28 ` [PATCH net v2 6/8] xsk: free the skb when hitting the upper bound MAX_SKB_FRAGS Jason Xing
2026-04-20 8:28 ` [PATCH net v2 7/8] xsk: fix xsk_addrs slab leak on multi-buffer error path Jason Xing
2026-04-20 19:58 ` Stanislav Fomichev [this message]
2026-04-20 8:28 ` [PATCH net v2 8/8] xsk: fix u64 descriptor address truncation on 32-bit architectures Jason Xing
2026-04-20 19:49 ` Stanislav Fomichev
2026-04-21 0:49 ` Jason Xing
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