linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] xen-netfront: do not use ~0U as error return value for xennet_fill

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Message-ID: <2071a165-c25f-210d-bda3-9090fe0d5c0e@suse.com>
Date:   Tue, 1 Oct 2019 16:39:21 +0200
From:   Jürgen Groß <jgross@...e.com>
To:     Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@...cle.com>,
        xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, sstabellini@...nel.org,
        boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com, joe.jin@...cle.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] xen-netfront: do not use ~0U as error return value
 for xennet_fill_frags()

On 01.10.19 15:56, Dongli Zhang wrote:
> xennet_fill_frags() uses ~0U as return value when the sk_buff is not able
> to cache extra fragments. This is incorrect because the return type of
> xennet_fill_frags() is RING_IDX and 0xffffffff is an expected value for
> ring buffer index.
> 
> In the situation when the rsp_cons is approaching 0xffffffff, the return
> value of xennet_fill_frags() may become 0xffffffff which xennet_poll() (the
> caller) would regard as error. As a result, queue->rx.rsp_cons is set
> incorrectly because it is updated only when there is error. If there is no
> error, xennet_poll() would be responsible to update queue->rx.rsp_cons.
> Finally, queue->rx.rsp_cons would point to the rx ring buffer entries whose
> queue->rx_skbs[i] and queue->grant_rx_ref[i] are already cleared to NULL.
> This leads to NULL pointer access in the next iteration to process rx ring
> buffer entries.
> 
> The symptom is similar to the one fixed in
> commit 00b368502d18 ("xen-netfront: do not assume sk_buff_head list is
> empty in error handling").
> 
> This patch changes the return type of xennet_fill_frags() to indicate
> whether it is successful or failed. The queue->rx.rsp_cons will be
> always updated inside this function.
> 
> Fixes: ad4f15dc2c70 ("xen/netfront: don't bug in case of too many frags")
> Signed-off-by: Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@...cle.com>

Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>


Juergen