netdev - Re: Regression, bisected: reference leak with IPSec since ~2.6.31

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Date:	Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:21:00 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
Cc:	Nick Bowler <nbowler@...iptictech.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: Regression, bisected: reference leak with IPSec since ~2.6.31

Le mardi 21 septembre 2010 à 09:12 +0000, Jarek Poplawski a écrit :
> On 2010-09-20 23:31, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> ...
> > [PATCH] ip : fix truesize mismatch in ip fragmentation
> > 
> > We should not set frag->destructor to sock_wkfree() until we are sure we
> > dont hit slow path in ip_fragment(). Or we risk uncharging
> > frag->truesize twice, and in the end, having negative socket
> > sk_wmem_alloc counter, or even freeing socket sooner than expected.
> > 
> > Many thanks to Nick Bowler, who provided a very clean bug report and
> > test programs.
> > 
> > While Nick bisection pointed to commit 2b85a34e911bf483 (net: No more
> > expensive sock_hold()/sock_put() on each tx), underlying bug is older.
> > 
> > Reported-and-bisected-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@...iptictech.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> > ---
> >  net/ipv4/ip_output.c  |    8 ++++----
> >  net/ipv6/ip6_output.c |   10 +++++-----
> >  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
> > index 04b6989..126d9b3 100644
> > --- a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
> > +++ b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
> > @@ -490,7 +490,6 @@ int ip_fragment(struct sk_buff *skb, int (*output)(struct sk_buff *))
> >  	if (skb_has_frags(skb)) {
> >  		struct sk_buff *frag;
> >  		int first_len = skb_pagelen(skb);
> > -		int truesizes = 0;
> >  
> >  		if (first_len - hlen > mtu ||
> >  		    ((first_len - hlen) & 7) ||
> > @@ -510,11 +509,13 @@ int ip_fragment(struct sk_buff *skb, int (*output)(struct sk_buff *))
> >  				goto slow_path;
> >  
> >  			BUG_ON(frag->sk);
> > -			if (skb->sk) {
> > +		}
> > +		if (skb->sk) {
> > +			skb_walk_frags(skb, frag) {
> >  				frag->sk = skb->sk;
> >  				frag->destructor = sock_wfree;
> 
> Nice catch, but it seems doing it in the first loop as now, and
> reverting changes before goto slow_path might be more optimal here.
> 

I thought of this, but found this function already very complex.

Once everything is in cpu caches, the added loop is very cheap.

I liked the :

<check everything without changing state>
if something wrong
	goto slow_path
else
	<OK, lets do destructive things>


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