linux-kernel - [PATCH net,stable v3] vhost: fix a few skb leaks

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Fri,  1 Dec 2017 00:54:26 -0500
From:   wexu@...hat.com
To:     virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     jasowang@...hat.com, mst@...hat.com, mjrosato@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        wexu@...hat.com
Subject: [PATCH net,stable v3] vhost: fix a few skb leaks

From: Wei Xu <wexu@...hat.com>

Matthew found a roughly 40% tcp throughput regression with commit
c67df11f(vhost_net: try batch dequing from skb array) as discussed
in the following thread:
https://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg187936.html

This is v3.

v3:
- move freeing skb from vhost to tun/tap recvmsg() to not
  confuse the callers.

v2:
- add Matthew as the reporter, thanks matthew.
- moving zero headcount check ahead instead of defer consuming skb
  due to jason and mst's comment.
- add freeing skb in favor of recvmsg() fails.

Wei Xu (3):
  vhost: fix skb leak in handle_rx()
  tun: free skb in early errors
  tap: free skb if flags error

 drivers/net/tap.c   |  6 +++++-
 drivers/net/tun.c   | 14 +++++++++++---
 drivers/vhost/net.c | 20 ++++++++++----------
 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

-- 
1.8.3.1