netdev - [RFC PATCH] net/tls: Fix skb memory leak when running kTLS traffic

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Date:   Sun, 2 Jan 2022 10:12:53 +0200
From:   Gal Pressman <gal@...dia.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:     <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...dia.com>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>,
        Gal Pressman <gal@...dia.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH] net/tls: Fix skb memory leak when running kTLS traffic

The cited Fixes commit introduced a memory leak when running kTLS
traffic (with/without hardware offloads).
I'm running nginx on the server side and wrk on the client side and get
the following:

  unreferenced object 0xffff8881935e9b80 (size 224):
  comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4294903611 (age 43.204s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    80 9b d0 36 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ...6............
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<00000000efe2a999>] build_skb+0x1f/0x170
    [<00000000ef521785>] mlx5e_skb_from_cqe_mpwrq_linear+0x2bc/0x610 [mlx5_core]
    [<00000000945d0ffe>] mlx5e_handle_rx_cqe_mpwrq+0x264/0x9e0 [mlx5_core]
    [<00000000cb675b06>] mlx5e_poll_rx_cq+0x3ad/0x17a0 [mlx5_core]
    [<0000000018aac6a9>] mlx5e_napi_poll+0x28c/0x1b60 [mlx5_core]
    [<000000001f3369d1>] __napi_poll+0x9f/0x560
    [<00000000cfa11f72>] net_rx_action+0x357/0xa60
    [<000000008653b8d7>] __do_softirq+0x282/0x94e
    [<00000000644923c6>] __irq_exit_rcu+0x11f/0x170
    [<00000000d4085f8f>] irq_exit_rcu+0xa/0x20
    [<00000000d412fef4>] common_interrupt+0x7d/0xa0
    [<00000000bfb0cebc>] asm_common_interrupt+0x1e/0x40
    [<00000000d80d0890>] default_idle+0x53/0x70
    [<00000000f2b9780e>] default_idle_call+0x8c/0xd0
    [<00000000c7659e15>] do_idle+0x394/0x450

I'm not familiar with these areas of the code, but I've added this
sk_defer_free_flush() to tls_sw_recvmsg() based on a hunch and it
resolved the issue.

Eric, do you think this is the correct fix? Maybe we're missing a call
to sk_defer_free_flush() in other places as well?

Thanks!

Fixes: f35f821935d8 ("tcp: defer skb freeing after socket lock is released")
Signed-off-by: Gal Pressman <gal@...dia.com>
---
 net/tls/tls_sw.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/tls/tls_sw.c b/net/tls/tls_sw.c
index 3f271e29812f..95e774f1b91f 100644
--- a/net/tls/tls_sw.c
+++ b/net/tls/tls_sw.c
@@ -1990,6 +1990,7 @@ int tls_sw_recvmsg(struct sock *sk,
 
 end:
 	release_sock(sk);
+	sk_defer_free_flush(sk);
 	if (psock)
 		sk_psock_put(sk, psock);
 	return copied ? : err;
-- 
2.25.1