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

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Date:   Thu, 15 Jul 2021 17:45:41 +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

> > >           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)

> 
> > >
> > >       skb_zcopy_clear(skb, true);
> > >
> > > @@ -674,6 +674,8 @@ static void skb_release_data(struct sk_buff *skb)
> > >               kfree_skb_list(shinfo->frag_list);
> > >
> > >       skb_free_head(skb);
> > > +exit:
> > > +     skb->pp_recycle = 0;
> 
> Note the path here. We don't clear skb->pp_recycle for the last buffer
> where "dataref == 0" until *AFTER* the head has been freed, and all
> clones will have skb->pp_recycle = 1 as long as they are a clone of
> the original skb that had it set.