From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
To: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>, 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: Re: [PATCH net] tun: free page on build_skb failure in tun_xdp_one()
Date: Fri, 22 May 2026 09:40:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <willemdebruijn.kernel.32cb5503b979c@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260521163312.1479805-2-bestswngs@gmail.com>
Weiming Shi wrote:
> When build_skb() fails in tun_xdp_one(), the function sets ret to
> -ENOMEM and jumps to the out label, which returns without freeing the
> page that vhost_net_build_xdp() allocated for the frame. As with the
> short-frame rejection path, tun_sendmsg() discards the per-buffer error
> and still returns total_len, so vhost_tx_batch() takes the success path
> and never frees the page. Each build_skb() failure in a batch leaks one
> page-frag chunk.
>
> Free the page before taking the error path, matching the put_page() the
> other error exits of tun_xdp_one() already perform.
>
> Fixes: 043d222f93ab ("tuntap: accept an array of XDP buffs through sendmsg()")
> Reported-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
> Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-22 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-21 16:33 [PATCH net] tun: free page on build_skb failure in tun_xdp_one() Weiming Shi
2026-05-21 21:02 ` Dongli Zhang
2026-05-22 13:40 ` Willem de Bruijn [this message]
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