This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled virtio_net: Do not pull payload in skb->head to the 5.11-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: virtio_net-do-not-pull-payload-in-skb-head.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 0f6925b3e8da0dbbb52447ca8a8b42b371aac7db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2021 06:26:02 -0700 Subject: virtio_net: Do not pull payload in skb->head From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 0f6925b3e8da0dbbb52447ca8a8b42b371aac7db upstream. Xuan Zhuo reported that commit 3226b158e67c ("net: avoid 32 x truesize under-estimation for tiny skbs") brought a ~10% performance drop. The reason for the performance drop was that GRO was forced to chain sk_buff (using skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list), which uses more memory but also cause packet consumers to go over a lot of overhead handling all the tiny skbs. It turns out that virtio_net page_to_skb() has a wrong strategy : It allocates skbs with GOOD_COPY_LEN (128) bytes in skb->head, then copies 128 bytes from the page, before feeding the packet to GRO stack. This was suboptimal before commit 3226b158e67c ("net: avoid 32 x truesize under-estimation for tiny skbs") because GRO was using 2 frags per MSS, meaning we were not packing MSS with 100% efficiency. Fix is to pull only the ethernet header in page_to_skb() Then, we change virtio_net_hdr_to_skb() to pull the missing headers, instead of assuming they were already pulled by callers. This fixes the performance regression, but could also allow virtio_net to accept packets with more than 128bytes of headers. Many thanks to Xuan Zhuo for his report, and his tests/help. Fixes: 3226b158e67c ("net: avoid 32 x truesize under-estimation for tiny skbs") Reported-by: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg731397.html Co-Developed-by: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 10 +++++++--- include/linux/virtio_net.h | 14 +++++++++----- 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c @@ -406,9 +406,13 @@ static struct sk_buff *page_to_skb(struc offset += hdr_padded_len; p += hdr_padded_len; - copy = len; - if (copy > skb_tailroom(skb)) - copy = skb_tailroom(skb); + /* Copy all frame if it fits skb->head, otherwise + * we let virtio_net_hdr_to_skb() and GRO pull headers as needed. + */ + if (len <= skb_tailroom(skb)) + copy = len; + else + copy = ETH_HLEN + metasize; skb_put_data(skb, p, copy); if (metasize) { --- a/include/linux/virtio_net.h +++ b/include/linux/virtio_net.h @@ -65,14 +65,18 @@ static inline int virtio_net_hdr_to_skb( skb_reset_mac_header(skb); if (hdr->flags & VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_NEEDS_CSUM) { - u16 start = __virtio16_to_cpu(little_endian, hdr->csum_start); - u16 off = __virtio16_to_cpu(little_endian, hdr->csum_offset); + u32 start = __virtio16_to_cpu(little_endian, hdr->csum_start); + u32 off = __virtio16_to_cpu(little_endian, hdr->csum_offset); + u32 needed = start + max_t(u32, thlen, off + sizeof(__sum16)); + + if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, needed)) + return -EINVAL; if (!skb_partial_csum_set(skb, start, off)) return -EINVAL; p_off = skb_transport_offset(skb) + thlen; - if (p_off > skb_headlen(skb)) + if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, p_off)) return -EINVAL; } else { /* gso packets without NEEDS_CSUM do not set transport_offset. @@ -102,14 +106,14 @@ retry: } p_off = keys.control.thoff + thlen; - if (p_off > skb_headlen(skb) || + if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, p_off) || keys.basic.ip_proto != ip_proto) return -EINVAL; skb_set_transport_header(skb, keys.control.thoff); } else if (gso_type) { p_off = thlen; - if (p_off > skb_headlen(skb)) + if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, p_off)) return -EINVAL; } } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.11/net-hsr-reset-mac-header-for-tx-path.patch queue-5.11/net-let-skb_orphan_partial-wake-up-waiters.patch queue-5.11/net-ensure-mac-header-is-set-in-virtio_net_hdr_to_skb.patch queue-5.11/net-sched-sch_teql-fix-null-pointer-dereference.patch queue-5.11/virtio_net-do-not-pull-payload-in-skb-head.patch