Re: [PATCH bpf] xsk: Free skb when TX metadata options are invalid

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On 11/14, Felix Maurer wrote:
> When a new skb is allocated for transmitting an xsk descriptor, i.e., for
> every non-multibuf descriptor or the first frag of a multibuf descriptor,
> but the descriptor is later found to have invalid options set for the TX
> metadata, the new skb is never freed. This can leak skbs until the send
> buffer is full which makes sending more packets impossible.
> 
> Fix this by freeing the skb in the error path if we are currently dealing
> with the first frag, i.e., an skb allocated in this iteration of
> xsk_build_skb.
> 
> Fixes: 48eb03dd2630 ("xsk: Add TX timestamp and TX checksum offload support")
> Reported-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Felix Maurer <fmaurer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Reminds me of the following:
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/ZNvB9AUzNIzwMW6+@xxxxxxxxxx/#t

Maybe I need to try to cleanup this path. Too many corner cases so it's
impossible to get right :-(




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