David Howells wrote:
> The more I look at __ip_append_data(), the more I think the maths is wrong.
> In the bit that allocates a new skbuff:
>
> if (copy <= 0) {
> ...
> datalen = length + fraggap;
> if (datalen > mtu - fragheaderlen)
> datalen = maxfraglen - fragheaderlen;
> fraglen = datalen + fragheaderlen;
> pagedlen = 0;
> ...
> if ((flags & MSG_MORE) &&
> !(rt->dst.dev->features&NETIF_F_SG))
> ...
> else if (!paged &&
> (fraglen + alloc_extra < SKB_MAX_ALLOC ||
> !(rt->dst.dev->features & NETIF_F_SG)))
> ...
> else {
> alloclen = fragheaderlen + transhdrlen;
> pagedlen = datalen - transhdrlen;
> }
> ...
>
> In the MSG_SPLICE_READ but not MSG_MORE case, we go through that else clause.
> The values used here, a few lines further along:
>
> copy = datalen - transhdrlen - fraggap - pagedlen;
>
> are constant over the intervening span. This means that, provided the splice
> isn't going to exceed the MTU on the second fragment, the calculation of
> 'copy' can then be simplified algebraically thus:
>
> copy = (length + fraggap) - transhdrlen - fraggap - pagedlen;
>
> copy = length - transhdrlen - pagedlen;
>
> copy = length - transhdrlen - (datalen - transhdrlen);
>
> copy = length - transhdrlen - datalen + transhdrlen;
>
> copy = length - datalen;
>
> copy = length - (length + fraggap);
>
> copy = length - length - fraggap;
>
> copy = -fraggap;
>
> I think we might need to recalculate copy after the conditional call to
> getfrag(). Possibly we should skip that entirely for MSG_SPLICE_READ. The
> root seems to be that we're subtracting pagedlen from datalen - but probably
> we shouldn't be doing getfrag() if pagedlen > 0.
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?
In this edge case, splicing appends pagedlen to an skb that holds only
a small linear part for fragheaderlen and fraggap.
Splicing has no problem appending to a normal linear skb, right. Say
send(fd, buf, 100, MSG_MORE);
write(pipe[1], buf, 8);
splice(pipe[2], 0, fd, 0, 8, 0);
This only happens when a new skb has to be allocated during the splice
call.
What causes the infinite loop: does skb_splice_from_iter return 0 and
therefore the loop neither decrements copy, nor breaks out with error?
Apologies for the earlier mail. Accidentally hit send too soon..
