Re: [RFC PATCH] net: Fix one page_pool page leak from skb_frag_unref

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 08:17:28 +0000 Dragos Tatulea wrote:
> >  The unref path always dropped a regular page
> > ref, thanks to this commit as you point out:
> > 
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2cc3aeb5ecccec0d266813172fcd82b4b5fa5803
> > 
> > AFAICT the correct fix is to actually revert commit 2cc3aeb5eccc
> > ("skbuff: Fix a potential race while recycling page_pool packets").
> > The reason is that now that skb_frag_ref() can grab page-pool refs, we
> > don't need to make sure there is only 1 SKB that triggers the recycle
> > path anymore. All the skb and its clones can obtain page-pool refs,
> > and in the unref path we drop the page-pool refs. page_pool_put_page()
> > detects correctly that the last page-pool ref is put and recycles the
> > page only then.
> >   
> I don't think this is a good way forward. For example, skb->pp_recycle is used
> as a hint in skb_gro_receive to avoid coalescing skbs with different pp_recycle
> flag states. This could interfere with that.

That's a bit speculative, right? The simple invariant we are trying to
hold is that if skb->pp_recycle && skb_frag_is_pp(skb, i) then the
reference skb is holding on that frag is a pp reference, not page
reference.

skb_gro_receive() needs to maintain that invariant, if it doesn't
we need to fix it..