linux-kernel - Re: [net PATCH] skb: Do mix page pool and page referenced frags in GRO

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Date:   Thu, 26 Jan 2023 20:14:02 +0100
From:   Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>
To:     Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>, nbd@....name
Cc:     alexander.duyck@...il.com, davem@...emloft.net,
        edumazet@...gle.com, hawk@...nel.org, ilias.apalodimas@...aro.org,
        kuba@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linyunsheng@...wei.com, lorenzo@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        pabeni@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net PATCH] skb: Do mix page pool and page referenced frags in GRO

Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com> writes:

> From: Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@...com>
>
> GSO should not merge page pool recycled frames with standard reference
> counted frames. Traditionally this didn't occur, at least not often.
> However as we start looking at adding support for wireless adapters there
> becomes the potential to mix the two due to A-MSDU repartitioning frames in
> the receive path. There are possibly other places where this may have
> occurred however I suspect they must be few and far between as we have not
> seen this issue until now.
>
> Fixes: 53e0961da1c7 ("page_pool: add frag page recycling support in page pool")
> Reported-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@...com>

I know I'm pattern matching a bit crudely here, but we recently had
another report where doing a get_page() on skb->head didn't seem to be
enough; any chance they might be related?

See: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Y9BfknDG0LXmruDu@JNXK7M3

-Toke