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Message-ID: <CACGkMEsNk7iYti3hSJ0EiXfusF8Kw9YEJjXFH-DApQaEY6o-cQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:51:31 +0800
From: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, 
	Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@...hat.com>, 
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, 
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, virtualization@...ts.linux.dev, 
	Si-Wei Liu <si-wei.liu@...cle.com>, Darren Kenny <darren.kenny@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] virtio-net: fix overflow inside virtnet_rq_alloc

On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 7:21 PM Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@...ux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 11:38:45 +0800, Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 3:19 PM Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@...ux.alibaba.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > leads to regression on VM with the sysctl value of:
> > >
> > > - net.core.high_order_alloc_disable=1
> > >
> > > which could see reliable crashes or scp failure (scp a file 100M in size
> > > to VM):
> > >
> > > The issue is that the virtnet_rq_dma takes up 16 bytes at the beginning
> > > of a new frag. When the frag size is larger than PAGE_SIZE,
> > > everything is fine. However, if the frag is only one page and the
> > > total size of the buffer and virtnet_rq_dma is larger than one page, an
> > > overflow may occur. In this case, if an overflow is possible, I adjust
> > > the buffer size. If net.core.high_order_alloc_disable=1, the maximum
> > > buffer size is 4096 - 16. If net.core.high_order_alloc_disable=0, only
> > > the first buffer of the frag is affected.
> >
> > I wonder instead of trying to make use of headroom, would it be
> > simpler if we allocate dedicated arrays of virtnet_rq_dma？
>
> Sorry for the late reply. My mailbox was full, so I missed the reply to this
> thread. Thanks to Si-Wei for reminding me.
>
> If the virtnet_rq_dma is at the headroom, we can get the virtnet_rq_dma by buf.
>
>         struct page *page = virt_to_head_page(buf);
>
>         head = page_address(page);
>
> If we use a dedicated array, then we need pass the virtnet_rq_dma pointer to
> virtio core, the array has the same size with the rx ring.
>
> The virtnet_rq_dma will be:
>
> struct virtnet_rq_dma {
>         dma_addr_t addr;
>         u32 ref;
>         u16 len;
>         u16 need_sync;
> +       void *buf;
> };
>
> That will be simpler.

I'm not sure I understand here, did you mean using a dedicated array is simpler?

>
> >
> > Btw, I see it has a need_sync, I wonder if it can help for performance
> > or not? If not, any reason to keep that?
>
> I think yes, we can skip the cpu sync when we do not need it.

I meant it looks to me the needs_sync is not necessary in the
structure as we can call need_sync() any time if we had dma addr.

Thanks

>
> Thanks.
>
>
> >
> > >
> > > Fixes: f9dac92ba908 ("virtio_ring: enable premapped mode whatever use_dma_api")
> > > Reported-by: "Si-Wei Liu" <si-wei.liu@...cle.com>
> > > Closes: http://lore.kernel.org/all/8b20cc28-45a9-4643-8e87-ba164a540c0a@oracle.com
> > > Signed-off-by: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@...ux.alibaba.com>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 12 +++++++++---
> > >  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > > index c6af18948092..e5286a6da863 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > > @@ -918,9 +918,6 @@ static void *virtnet_rq_alloc(struct receive_queue *rq, u32 size, gfp_t gfp)
> > >         void *buf, *head;
> > >         dma_addr_t addr;
> > >
> > > -       if (unlikely(!skb_page_frag_refill(size, alloc_frag, gfp)))
> > > -               return NULL;
> > > -
> > >         head = page_address(alloc_frag->page);
> > >
> > >         dma = head;
> > > @@ -2421,6 +2418,9 @@ static int add_recvbuf_small(struct virtnet_info *vi, struct receive_queue *rq,
> > >         len = SKB_DATA_ALIGN(len) +
> > >               SKB_DATA_ALIGN(sizeof(struct skb_shared_info));
> > >
> > > +       if (unlikely(!skb_page_frag_refill(len, &rq->alloc_frag, gfp)))
> > > +               return -ENOMEM;
> > > +
> > >         buf = virtnet_rq_alloc(rq, len, gfp);
> > >         if (unlikely(!buf))
> > >                 return -ENOMEM;
> > > @@ -2521,6 +2521,12 @@ static int add_recvbuf_mergeable(struct virtnet_info *vi,
> > >          */
> > >         len = get_mergeable_buf_len(rq, &rq->mrg_avg_pkt_len, room);
> > >
> > > +       if (unlikely(!skb_page_frag_refill(len + room, alloc_frag, gfp)))
> > > +               return -ENOMEM;
> > > +
> > > +       if (!alloc_frag->offset && len + room + sizeof(struct virtnet_rq_dma) > alloc_frag->size)
> > > +               len -= sizeof(struct virtnet_rq_dma);
> > > +
> > >         buf = virtnet_rq_alloc(rq, len + room, gfp);
> > >         if (unlikely(!buf))
> > >                 return -ENOMEM;
> > > --
> > > 2.32.0.3.g01195cf9f
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>