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Message-ID: <aPJ0YqfH+pdSIbVS@boxer>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:52:50 +0200
From: Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@...el.com>
To: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>
CC: <bpf@...r.kernel.org>, <ast@...nel.org>, <daniel@...earbox.net>,
<hawk@...nel.org>, <ilias.apalodimas@...aro.org>, <lorenzo@...nel.org>,
<kuba@...nel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <magnus.karlsson@...el.com>,
<andrii@...nel.org>, <stfomichev@...il.com>, <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 bpf 2/2] veth: update mem type in xdp_buff
On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 06:33:54PM +0200, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@...el.com> writes:
>
> > Veth calls skb_pp_cow_data() which makes the underlying memory to
> > originate from system page_pool. For CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y and XDP program
> > that uses bpf_xdp_adjust_tail(), following splat was observed:
> >
> > [ 32.204881] BUG: Bad page state in process test_progs pfn:11c98b
> > [ 32.207167] page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x11c98b
> > [ 32.210084] flags: 0x1fffe0000000000(node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7fff)
> > [ 32.212493] raw: 01fffe0000000000 dead000000000040 ff11000123c9b000 0000000000000000
> > [ 32.218056] raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
> > [ 32.220900] page dumped because: page_pool leak
> > [ 32.222636] Modules linked in: bpf_testmod(O) bpf_preload
> > [ 32.224632] CPU: 6 UID: 0 PID: 3612 Comm: test_progs Tainted: G O 6.17.0-rc5-gfec474d29325 #6969 PREEMPT
> > [ 32.224638] Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE
> > [ 32.224639] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
> > [ 32.224641] Call Trace:
> > [ 32.224644] <IRQ>
> > [ 32.224646] dump_stack_lvl+0x4b/0x70
> > [ 32.224653] bad_page.cold+0xbd/0xe0
> > [ 32.224657] __free_frozen_pages+0x838/0x10b0
> > [ 32.224660] ? skb_pp_cow_data+0x782/0xc30
> > [ 32.224665] bpf_xdp_shrink_data+0x221/0x530
> > [ 32.224668] ? skb_pp_cow_data+0x6d1/0xc30
> > [ 32.224671] bpf_xdp_adjust_tail+0x598/0x810
> > [ 32.224673] ? xsk_destruct_skb+0x321/0x800
> > [ 32.224678] bpf_prog_004ac6bb21de57a7_xsk_xdp_adjust_tail+0x52/0xd6
> > [ 32.224681] veth_xdp_rcv_skb+0x45d/0x15a0
> > [ 32.224684] ? get_stack_info_noinstr+0x16/0xe0
> > [ 32.224688] ? veth_set_channels+0x920/0x920
> > [ 32.224691] ? get_stack_info+0x2f/0x80
> > [ 32.224693] ? unwind_next_frame+0x3af/0x1df0
> > [ 32.224697] veth_xdp_rcv.constprop.0+0x38a/0xbe0
> > [ 32.224700] ? common_startup_64+0x13e/0x148
> > [ 32.224703] ? veth_xdp_rcv_one+0xcd0/0xcd0
> > [ 32.224706] ? stack_trace_save+0x84/0xa0
> > [ 32.224709] ? stack_depot_save_flags+0x28/0x820
> > [ 32.224713] ? __resched_curr.constprop.0+0x332/0x3b0
> > [ 32.224716] ? timerqueue_add+0x217/0x320
> > [ 32.224719] veth_poll+0x115/0x5e0
> > [ 32.224722] ? veth_xdp_rcv.constprop.0+0xbe0/0xbe0
> > [ 32.224726] ? update_load_avg+0x1cb/0x12d0
> > [ 32.224730] ? update_cfs_group+0x121/0x2c0
> > [ 32.224733] __napi_poll+0xa0/0x420
> > [ 32.224736] net_rx_action+0x901/0xe90
> > [ 32.224740] ? run_backlog_napi+0x50/0x50
> > [ 32.224743] ? clockevents_program_event+0x1cc/0x280
> > [ 32.224746] ? hrtimer_interrupt+0x31e/0x7c0
> > [ 32.224749] handle_softirqs+0x151/0x430
> > [ 32.224752] do_softirq+0x3f/0x60
> > [ 32.224755] </IRQ>
> >
> > It's because xdp_rxq with mem model set to MEM_TYPE_PAGE_SHARED was used
> > when initializing xdp_buff.
> >
> > Fix this by using new helper xdp_convert_skb_to_buff() that, besides
> > init/prepare xdp_buff, will check if page used for linear part of
> > xdp_buff comes from page_pool. We assume that linear data and frags will
> > have same memory provider as currently XDP API does not provide us a way
> > to distinguish it (the mem model is registered for *whole* Rx queue and
> > here we speak about single buffer granularity).
> >
> > In order to meet expected skb layout by new helper, pull the mac header
> > before conversion from skb to xdp_buff.
> >
> > However, that is not enough as before releasing xdp_buff out of veth via
> > XDP_{TX,REDIRECT}, mem type on xdp_rxq associated with xdp_buff is
> > restored to its original model. We need to respect previous setting at
> > least until buff is converted to frame, as frame carries the mem_type.
> > Add a page_pool variant of veth_xdp_get() so that we avoid refcount
> > underflow when draining page frag.
> >
> > Fixes: 0ebab78cbcbf ("net: veth: add page_pool for page recycling")
> > Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
> > Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAADnVQ+bBofJDfieyOYzSmSujSfJwDTQhiz3aJw7hE+4E2_iPA@mail.gmail.com/
> > Signed-off-by: Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@...el.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/net/veth.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
> > 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/veth.c b/drivers/net/veth.c
> > index a3046142cb8e..eeeee7bba685 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/veth.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/veth.c
> > @@ -733,7 +733,7 @@ static void veth_xdp_rcv_bulk_skb(struct veth_rq *rq, void **frames,
> > }
> > }
> >
> > -static void veth_xdp_get(struct xdp_buff *xdp)
> > +static void veth_xdp_get_shared(struct xdp_buff *xdp)
> > {
> > struct skb_shared_info *sinfo = xdp_get_shared_info_from_buff(xdp);
> > int i;
> > @@ -746,12 +746,33 @@ static void veth_xdp_get(struct xdp_buff *xdp)
> > __skb_frag_ref(&sinfo->frags[i]);
> > }
> >
> > +static void veth_xdp_get_pp(struct xdp_buff *xdp)
> > +{
> > + struct skb_shared_info *sinfo = xdp_get_shared_info_from_buff(xdp);
> > + int i;
> > +
> > + page_pool_ref_page(virt_to_page(xdp->data));
> > + if (likely(!xdp_buff_has_frags(xdp)))
> > + return;
> > +
> > + for (i = 0; i < sinfo->nr_frags; i++) {
> > + skb_frag_t *frag = &sinfo->frags[i];
> > +
> > + page_pool_ref_page(netmem_to_page(frag->netmem));
> > + }
> > +}
> > +
> > +static void veth_xdp_get(struct xdp_buff *xdp)
> > +{
> > + xdp->rxq->mem.type == MEM_TYPE_PAGE_POOL ?
> > + veth_xdp_get_pp(xdp) : veth_xdp_get_shared(xdp);
> > +}
> > +
> > static int veth_convert_skb_to_xdp_buff(struct veth_rq *rq,
> > struct xdp_buff *xdp,
> > struct sk_buff **pskb)
> > {
> > struct sk_buff *skb = *pskb;
> > - u32 frame_sz;
> >
> > if (skb_shared(skb) || skb_head_is_locked(skb) ||
> > skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags ||
> > @@ -762,19 +783,9 @@ static int veth_convert_skb_to_xdp_buff(struct veth_rq *rq,
> > skb = *pskb;
> > }
> >
> > - /* SKB "head" area always have tailroom for skb_shared_info */
> > - frame_sz = skb_end_pointer(skb) - skb->head;
> > - frame_sz += SKB_DATA_ALIGN(sizeof(struct skb_shared_info));
> > - xdp_init_buff(xdp, frame_sz, &rq->xdp_rxq);
> > - xdp_prepare_buff(xdp, skb->head, skb_headroom(skb),
> > - skb_headlen(skb), true);
> > + __skb_pull(*pskb, skb->data - skb_mac_header(skb));
>
> veth_xdp_rcv_skb() does:
>
> __skb_push(skb, skb->data - skb_mac_header(skb));
> if (veth_convert_skb_to_xdp_buff(rq, xdp, &skb))
>
> so how about just getting rid of that push instead of doing the opposite
> pull straight after? :)
Hi Toke,
I believe this is done so we get a proper headroom representation which is
needed for XDP_PACKET_HEADROOM comparison. Maybe we could be smarter here
and for example subtract mac header length? However I wanted to preserve
old behavior.
Thanks for review!
Maciej
>
> -Toke
>
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