netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: generalize skb freeing deferral to per-cpu lists

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Date:   Wed, 27 Apr 2022 10:11:55 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>
Cc:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: generalize skb freeing deferral to
 per-cpu lists

On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 9:53 AM Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 8:34 AM Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org> wrote:
> >
>
> >
> > Eric, with this patch I'm seeing memory leaks such as these [1][2] after
> > boot. The system is using the igb driver for its management interface
> > [3]. The leaks disappear after reverting the patch.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
>
> No idea, skbs allocated to send an ACK can not be stored in receive
> queue, I guess this is a kmemleak false positive.
>
> Stress your host for hours, and check if there are real kmemleaks, as
> in memory being depleted.

AT first when I saw your report I wondered if the following was needed,
but I do not think so. Nothing in __kfree_skb(skb) cares about skb->next.

But you might give it a try, maybe I am wrong.

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 611bd719706412723561c27753150b27e1dc4e7a..9dc3443649b962586cc059899ac3d71e9c7a3559
100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -6594,6 +6594,7 @@ static void skb_defer_free_flush(struct softnet_data *sd)

        while (skb != NULL) {
                next = skb->next;
+               skb_mark_not_on_list(skb);
                __kfree_skb(skb);
                skb = next;
        }