netdev - Re: Data corruption issue with splice() on 2.6.27.10

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Date:	Wed, 7 Jan 2009 23:24:07 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Cc:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>,
	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Data corruption issue with splice() on 2.6.27.10

On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 01:22:05PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>
> > diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
> > index 5110b35..4c080cd 100644
> > --- a/net/core/skbuff.c
> > +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
> > @@ -73,17 +73,13 @@ static struct kmem_cache *skbuff_fclone_cache __read_mostly;
> >  static void sock_pipe_buf_release(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
> >  				  struct pipe_buffer *buf)
> >  {
> > -	struct sk_buff *skb = (struct sk_buff *) buf->private;
> > -
> > -	kfree_skb(skb);
> > +	put_page(buf->page);
> >  }
> >  
> >  static void sock_pipe_buf_get(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
> >  				struct pipe_buffer *buf)
> >  {
> > -	struct sk_buff *skb = (struct sk_buff *) buf->private;
> > -
> > -	skb_get(skb);
> > +	get_page(buf->page);
> >  }

Well this patch can only make it worse because not only are you
still ref counting skb->head with get_page, but you've also
completely removed the skb ref count which means that the corruption
can only occur sooner.

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