netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH v3 09/12] net: add support for skbs with unreadable frags

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Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2023 12:56:39 -0800
From: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>
To: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@...gle.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-media@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, 
	linaro-mm-sig@...ts.linaro.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, 
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, 
	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>, Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@...aro.org>, 
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>, 
	Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, 
	Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>, 
	"Christian König" <christian.koenig@....com>, Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>, 
	Jeroen de Borst <jeroendb@...gle.com>, Praveen Kaligineedi <pkaligineedi@...gle.com>, 
	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>, Kaiyuan Zhang <kaiyuanz@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 09/12] net: add support for skbs with unreadable frags

On 11/05, Mina Almasry wrote:
> For device memory TCP, we expect the skb headers to be available in host
> memory for access, and we expect the skb frags to be in device memory
> and unaccessible to the host. We expect there to be no mixing and
> matching of device memory frags (unaccessible) with host memory frags
> (accessible) in the same skb.
> 
> Add a skb->devmem flag which indicates whether the frags in this skb
> are device memory frags or not.
> 
> __skb_fill_page_desc() now checks frags added to skbs for page_pool_iovs,
> and marks the skb as skb->devmem accordingly.
> 
> Add checks through the network stack to avoid accessing the frags of
> devmem skbs and avoid coalescing devmem skbs with non devmem skbs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kaiyuan Zhang <kaiyuanz@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@...gle.com>

[..]
 
> -	snaplen = skb->len;
> +	snaplen = skb_frags_not_readable(skb) ? skb_headlen(skb) : skb->len;
>  
>  	res = run_filter(skb, sk, snaplen);
>  	if (!res)
> @@ -2279,7 +2279,7 @@ static int tpacket_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
>  		}
>  	}
>  
> -	snaplen = skb->len;
> +	snaplen = skb_frags_not_readable(skb) ? skb_headlen(skb) : skb->len;
>  
>  	res = run_filter(skb, sk, snaplen);
>  	if (!res)

Not sure it covers 100% of bpf. We might need to double-check bpf_xdp_copy_buf
which is having its own, non-skb shinfo and frags. And in general, xdp
can reference those shinfo frags early... (xdp part happens
before we create an skb with all devmem association)