Re: pskb_expand_head: skb_shared BUG

From: Chris Dunlop
Date: Sun Mar 01 2015 - 20:17:05 EST


On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 11:45:11AM +1100, Chris Dunlop wrote:
> Heads up...
>
> We've hit this BUG() in v3.10.70, v3.14.27 and v3.18.7:
>
> net/core/skbuff.c:
> 1027 int pskb_expand_head(struct sk_buff *skb, int nhead, int ntail,
> 1028 gfp_t gfp_mask)
> 1029 {
> 1030 int i;
> 1031 u8 *data;
> 1032 int size = nhead + skb_end_offset(skb) + ntail;
> 1033 long off;
> 1034
> 1035 BUG_ON(nhead < 0);
> 1036
> 1037 if (skb_shared(skb))
> 1038 BUG(); <<< BOOM!!!
>
> This appears to be a regression in the 3.10.x stable series:
> we've been running for 11 months on v3.10.33 without problem, we
> upgraded to v3.14.27 and hit the BUG(), than again on upgrading
> to v3.18.7, then again after downgrading to v3.10.70.

I'm guessing this is the cause:

commit 522ad79b7fd042f7f735bf1826f2e5b564d8f015
Author: Jiri Benc <jbenc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Aug 21 21:33:44 2014 +0200

openvswitch: fix panic with multiple vlan headers

static int make_writable(struct sk_buff *skb, int write_len)
{
+ if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, write_len))
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
if (!skb_cloned(skb) || skb_clone_writable(skb, write_len))
return 0;

...which takes us through:

static inline int pskb_may_pull(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int len)
{
if (likely(len <= skb_headlen(skb)))
return 1;
if (unlikely(len > skb->len))
return 0;
return __pskb_pull_tail(skb, len - skb_headlen(skb)) != NULL;
}

unsigned char *__pskb_pull_tail(struct sk_buff *skb, int delta)
{
int eat = (skb->tail + delta) - skb->end;
...
if (eat > 0 || skb_cloned(skb)) {
if (pskb_expand_head(skb, 0, eat > 0 ? eat + 128 : 0,
GFP_ATOMIC))
return NULL;
}
...
}

pskb_expand_head(skb, 0, eat > 0 ? eat + 128 : 0, GFP_ATOMIC)
{
...
if (skb_shared(skb))
BUG(); <<< BOOM!!!
...
}


Cheers,

Chris
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