We need to drop the refcnt of page when we fail to allocate an skb for frag list, otherwise it will be leaked. The bug was introduced by commit 2613af0ed18a11d5c566a81f9a6510b73180660a ("virtio_net: migrate mergeable rx buffers to page frag allocators"). Cc: Michael Dalton <mwdalton@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> --- The patch was needed for 3.12 stable. --- drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c index 69ad42b..3798517 100644 --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c @@ -322,9 +322,11 @@ static int receive_mergeable(struct receive_queue *rq, struct sk_buff *head_skb) head_skb->dev->name); len = MERGE_BUFFER_LEN; } + page = virt_to_head_page(buf); if (unlikely(num_skb_frags == MAX_SKB_FRAGS)) { struct sk_buff *nskb = alloc_skb(0, GFP_ATOMIC); if (unlikely(!nskb)) { + put_page(page); head_skb->dev->stats.rx_dropped++; return -ENOMEM; } @@ -341,7 +343,6 @@ static int receive_mergeable(struct receive_queue *rq, struct sk_buff *head_skb) head_skb->len += len; head_skb->truesize += MERGE_BUFFER_LEN; } - page = virt_to_head_page(buf); offset = buf - (char *)page_address(page); if (skb_can_coalesce(curr_skb, num_skb_frags, page, offset)) { put_page(page); -- 1.8.3.2 _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization