This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
skbuff: Fix a race between coalescing and releasing SKBs
to the 5.15-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:
skbuff-fix-a-race-between-coalescing-and-releasing-s.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 5a5c6517194ba30599087ac5a090d9771b94d495
Author: Liang Chen <liangchen.linux@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Apr 13 17:03:53 2023 +0800
skbuff: Fix a race between coalescing and releasing SKBs
[ Upstream commit 0646dc31ca886693274df5749cd0c8c1eaaeb5ca ]
Commit 1effe8ca4e34 ("skbuff: fix coalescing for page_pool fragment
recycling") allowed coalescing to proceed with non page pool page and page
pool page when @from is cloned, i.e.
to->pp_recycle --> false
from->pp_recycle --> true
skb_cloned(from) --> true
However, it actually requires skb_cloned(@from) to hold true until
coalescing finishes in this situation. If the other cloned SKB is
released while the merging is in process, from_shinfo->nr_frags will be
set to 0 toward the end of the function, causing the increment of frag
page _refcount to be unexpectedly skipped resulting in inconsistent
reference counts. Later when SKB(@to) is released, it frees the page
directly even though the page pool page is still in use, leading to
use-after-free or double-free errors. So it should be prohibited.
The double-free error message below prompted us to investigate:
BUG: Bad page state in process swapper/1 pfn:0e0d1
page:00000000c6548b28 refcount:-1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000
index:0x2 pfn:0xe0d1
flags: 0xfffffc0000000(node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)
raw: 000fffffc0000000 0000000000000000 ffffffff00000101 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000002 0000000000000000 ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: nonzero _refcount
CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Tainted: G E 6.2.0+
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
dump_stack_lvl+0x32/0x50
bad_page+0x69/0xf0
free_pcp_prepare+0x260/0x2f0
free_unref_page+0x20/0x1c0
skb_release_data+0x10b/0x1a0
napi_consume_skb+0x56/0x150
net_rx_action+0xf0/0x350
? __napi_schedule+0x79/0x90
__do_softirq+0xc8/0x2b1
__irq_exit_rcu+0xb9/0xf0
common_interrupt+0x82/0xa0
</IRQ>
<TASK>
asm_common_interrupt+0x22/0x40
RIP: 0010:default_idle+0xb/0x20
Fixes: 53e0961da1c7 ("page_pool: add frag page recycling support in page pool")
Signed-off-by: Liang Chen <liangchen.linux@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230413090353.14448-1-liangchen.linux@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index 2d3f82b622366..46cc3a7632f79 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -5397,18 +5397,18 @@ bool skb_try_coalesce(struct sk_buff *to, struct sk_buff *from,
if (skb_cloned(to))
return false;
- /* In general, avoid mixing slab allocated and page_pool allocated
- * pages within the same SKB. However when @to is not pp_recycle and
- * @from is cloned, we can transition frag pages from page_pool to
- * reference counted.
- *
- * On the other hand, don't allow coalescing two pp_recycle SKBs if
- * @from is cloned, in case the SKB is using page_pool fragment
+ /* In general, avoid mixing page_pool and non-page_pool allocated
+ * pages within the same SKB. Additionally avoid dealing with clones
+ * with page_pool pages, in case the SKB is using page_pool fragment
* references (PP_FLAG_PAGE_FRAG). Since we only take full page
* references for cloned SKBs at the moment that would result in
* inconsistent reference counts.
+ * In theory we could take full references if @from is cloned and
+ * !@to->pp_recycle but its tricky (due to potential race with
+ * the clone disappearing) and rare, so not worth dealing with.
*/
- if (to->pp_recycle != (from->pp_recycle && !skb_cloned(from)))
+ if (to->pp_recycle != from->pp_recycle ||
+ (from->pp_recycle && skb_cloned(from)))
return false;
if (len <= skb_tailroom(to)) {
