netdev - Re: Endless loop in udp with MSG_SPLICE_READ - Re: [syzbot] [fs?] INFO: task hung in pipe

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Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2023 15:01:04 +0100
From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
Cc: dhowells@...hat.com, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
    syzbot <syzbot+f527b971b4bdc8e79f9e@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
    bpf@...r.kernel.org, brauner@...nel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
    dsahern@...nel.org, edumazet@...gle.com,
    linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
    netdev@...r.kernel.org, pabeni@...hat.com,
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Subject: Re: Endless loop in udp with MSG_SPLICE_READ - Re: [syzbot] [fs?] INFO: task hung in pipe_release (4)

Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com> wrote:

> That getfrag is needed. For non-splice cases, to fill the linear part
> of an skb. As your example shows, it is skipped if all data is covered
> by pagedlen?

Yes, because copy goes negative.  To quote from the previously quoted log:

	==>splice_to_socket() 6630
	udp_sendmsg(8,8)
	__ip_append_data(copy=-1,len=8, mtu=8192 skblen=8189 maxfl=8188)
	pagedlen 9 = 9 - 0
	copy -1 = 9 - 0 - 1 - 9

copy is -(the number of excess bytes).

	length 8 -= -1 + 0

which then gets deducted from the length - but why?  I wonder if copy should
be cleared if we don't call getfrag().  It looks like it's meant to deduct the
amount copied by getfrag(), but that doesn't happen if copy < 0.

Also, note that MSG_ZEROCOPY might see the same maths issue here.

David