Re: [PATCH 1/1 v2] skbuff: Fix a potential race while recycling page_pool packets

From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer
Date: Mon Jul 12 2021 - 07:52:54 EST




On 09/07/2021 16.34, Alexander Duyck wrote:
On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 11:30 PM Ilias Apalodimas
<ilias.apalodimas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As Alexander points out, when we are trying to recycle a cloned/expanded
SKB we might trigger a race. The recycling code relies on the
pp_recycle bit to trigger, which we carry over to cloned SKBs.
If that cloned SKB gets expanded or if we get references to the frags,
call skbb_release_data() and overwrite skb->head, we are creating separate
instances accessing the same page frags. Since the skb_release_data()
will first try to recycle the frags, there's a potential race between
the original and cloned SKB, since both will have the pp_recycle bit set.

Fix this by explicitly those SKBs not recyclable.
The atomic_sub_return effectively limits us to a single release case,
and when we are calling skb_release_data we are also releasing the
option to perform the recycling, or releasing the pages from the page pool.

Fixes: 6a5bcd84e886 ("page_pool: Allow drivers to hint on SKB recycling")
Reported-by: Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@xxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes since v1:
- Set the recycle bit to 0 during skb_release_data instead of the
individual fucntions triggering the issue, in order to catch all
cases
net/core/skbuff.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index 12aabcda6db2..f91f09a824be 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -663,7 +663,7 @@ static void skb_release_data(struct sk_buff *skb)
if (skb->cloned &&
atomic_sub_return(skb->nohdr ? (1 << SKB_DATAREF_SHIFT) + 1 : 1,
&shinfo->dataref))
- return;
+ goto exit;

skb_zcopy_clear(skb, true);

@@ -674,6 +674,8 @@ static void skb_release_data(struct sk_buff *skb)
kfree_skb_list(shinfo->frag_list);

skb_free_head(skb);
+exit:
+ skb->pp_recycle = 0;
}

/*
--
2.32.0.rc0


This is probably the cleanest approach with the least amount of
change, but one thing I am concerned with in this approach is that we
end up having to dirty a cacheline that I am not sure is otherwise
touched during skb cleanup. I am not sure if that will be an issue or
not. If it is then an alternative or follow-on patch could move the
pp_recycle flag into the skb_shared_info flags itself and then make
certain that we clear it around the same time we are setting
shinfo->dataref to 1.


The skb->cloned and skb->pp_recycle (bitfields) are on the same cache-line (incl. nohdr, destructor, active_extensions). Thus, we know this must be in CPUs cache, regardless of this change. I do acknowledge that it might be in cache coherency "Shared" state, and writing skb->pp_recycle=0 the CPU *might* have to change the cache coherency state, but I don't expect this to be a performance problem.

Otherwise this looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@xxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@xxxxxxxxxx>

I've gone over the code-path, with Ilias on IRC and I've convinced myself that this fix is correct, thus ACK.