netdev - Re: [PATCH net] virtio-net: fix page refcnt leaking when fail to allocate frag skb

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Date:	Wed, 20 Nov 2013 11:00:09 +0200
From:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:	Michael Dalton <mwdalton@...gle.com>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	lf-virt <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] virtio-net: fix page refcnt leaking when fail to
 allocate frag skb

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 05:34:16PM -0800, Michael Dalton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After further reflection I think we're looking at two related issues:
> (a) a memory leak that Jason has identified that occurs when a memory
> allocation fails in receive_mergeable. Jasons commit solves this issue.
> (b) virtio-net does not dequeue all buffers for a packet in the
> case that an error occurs on receive and mergeable receive buffers is
> enabled.
> 
> For (a), this bug is new and due to changes in 2613af0ed18a, and the
> net impact is memory leak on the physical page. However, I believe (b)
> has always been possible in some form because if page_to_skb() returns
> NULL (e.g., due to SKB allocation failure), receive_mergeable is never
> called. AFAICT this is also the behavior prior to 2613af0ed18a.
> 
> The net impact of (b) would be that virtio-net would interpret a packet
> buffer that is in the middle of a mergeable packet as the start of a
> new packet, which is definitely also a bug (and the buffer contents
> could contain bytes that resembled a valid virtio-net header).
> 
> A solution for (b) will require handling both the page_to_skb memory
> allocation failures and the memory allocation failures in
> receive_mergeable introduced by 2613af0ed18a.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Mike


Absolutely. I missed this fact yesterday night but I can see it clearly
in the morning.

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