A device sending 0 length frames as fast as it can has been observed killing the host system due to the resulting memory pressure. Temporarily disable RX skb allocation and URB submission when the current error ratio is high, preventing us from trying to allocate an infinite number of skbs. Reenable as soon as we are finished processing the done queue, allowing the device to continue working after short error bursts. Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@xxxxxxx> --- So is this starting to look OK? usbnet already uses "throttle", "halt" and "stop" for other functions, so I decided to name the new flag "kill". No other reason. Didn't see any point in calculating the error limit. A fixed number works just as well. Restarting in usbnet_bh was a simple way to achieve what I wanted: enabling RX again when we know we can handle it. Bjørn drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/usb/usbnet.h | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c index f34b2eb..64657d6 100644 --- a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c @@ -380,6 +380,12 @@ static int rx_submit (struct usbnet *dev, struct urb *urb, gfp_t flags) unsigned long lockflags; size_t size = dev->rx_urb_size; + /* prevent rx skb allocation when error ratio is high */ + if (test_bit(EVENT_RX_KILL, &dev->flags)) { + usb_free_urb(urb); + return -ENOLINK; + } + skb = __netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(dev->net, size, flags); if (!skb) { netif_dbg(dev, rx_err, dev->net, "no rx skb\n"); @@ -539,6 +545,22 @@ block: break; } + /* stop rx if packet error rate is high */ + if (++dev->pkt_cnt > 30) { + dev->pkt_cnt = 0; + dev->pkt_err = 0; + } else { + if (state == rx_cleanup) + dev->pkt_err++; + if (dev->pkt_err > 20) { + set_bit(EVENT_RX_KILL, &dev->flags); + if (net_ratelimit()) + netif_dbg(dev, rx_err, dev->net, + "rx kill: high error rate\n"); + dev->pkt_err = 0; + } + } + state = defer_bh(dev, skb, &dev->rxq, state); if (urb) { @@ -1254,6 +1276,10 @@ static void usbnet_bh (unsigned long param) } } + /* restart RX again after disabling due to high error rate */ + if (test_and_clear_bit(EVENT_RX_KILL, &dev->flags) && net_ratelimit()) + netif_dbg(dev, rx_err, dev->net, "rx kill: restarting\n"); + // waiting for all pending urbs to complete? if (dev->wait) { if ((dev->txq.qlen + dev->rxq.qlen + dev->done.qlen) == 0) { diff --git a/include/linux/usb/usbnet.h b/include/linux/usb/usbnet.h index 5de7a22..0de078d 100644 --- a/include/linux/usb/usbnet.h +++ b/include/linux/usb/usbnet.h @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ struct usbnet { wait_queue_head_t *wait; struct mutex phy_mutex; unsigned char suspend_count; + unsigned char pkt_cnt, pkt_err; /* i/o info: pipes etc */ unsigned in, out; @@ -70,6 +71,7 @@ struct usbnet { # define EVENT_DEV_OPEN 7 # define EVENT_DEVICE_REPORT_IDLE 8 # define EVENT_NO_RUNTIME_PM 9 +# define EVENT_RX_KILL 10 }; static inline struct usb_driver *driver_of(struct usb_interface *intf) -- 1.7.2.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html