linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1 v2] skbuff: Fix a potential race while recycling page

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Message-ID: <YPBOHcx/sCEz/+wn@Iliass-MBP>
Date:   Thu, 15 Jul 2021 18:02:53 +0300
From:   Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@...aro.org>
To:     Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
Cc:     Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@...wei.com>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@...com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@...me>,
        Jonathan Lemon <jonathan.lemon@...il.com>,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
        Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>,
        Guillaume Nault <gnault@...hat.com>,
        Cong Wang <cong.wang@...edance.com>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
        Matteo Croce <mcroce@...rosoft.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1 v2] skbuff: Fix a potential race while recycling
 page_pool packets

On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 07:57:57AM -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 7:45 AM Ilias Apalodimas
> <ilias.apalodimas@...aro.org> wrote:
> >
> > > > >           atomic_sub_return(skb->nohdr ? (1 << SKB_DATAREF_SHIFT) + 1 : 1,
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > > >                             &shinfo->dataref))
> > > > > -             return;
> > > > > +             goto exit;
> > > >
> > > > Is it possible this patch may break the head frag page for the original skb,
> > > > supposing it's head frag page is from the page pool and below change clears
> > > > the pp_recycle for original skb, causing a page leaking for the page pool?
> > >
> > > I don't see how. The assumption here is that when atomic_sub_return
> > > gets down to 0 we will still have an skb with skb->pp_recycle set and
> > > it will flow down and encounter skb_free_head below. All we are doing
> > > is skipping those steps and clearing skb->pp_recycle for all but the
> > > last buffer and the last one to free it will trigger the recycling.
> >
> > I think the assumption here is that
> > 1. We clone an skb
> > 2. The original skb goes into pskb_expand_head()
> > 3. skb_release_data() will be called for the original skb
> >
> > But with the dataref bumped, we'll skip the recycling for it but we'll also
> > skip recycling or unmapping the current head (which is a page_pool mapped
> > buffer)
> 
> Right, but in that case it is the clone that is left holding the
> original head and the skb->pp_recycle flag is set on the clone as it
> was copied from the original when we cloned it. 

Ah yes, that's what I missed

> What we have
> essentially done is transferred the responsibility for freeing it from
> the original to the clone.
> 
> If you think about it the result is the same as if step 2 was to go
> into kfree_skb. We would still be calling skb_release_data and the
> dataref would be decremented without the original freeing the page. We
> have to wait until all the clones are freed and dataref reaches 0
> before the head can be recycled.

Yep sounds correct

Thanks
/Ilias