Re: [PATCH v4 bpf 1/2] bpf: fix skb_do_redirect return values

[Yan Zhai]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 9:26 AM Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'm not a networking person, but I was looking at some use after free
> static checker warnings.

Did you refer to the gist I posted or something new?

>
> Apparently the rule with xmit functions is that if they return a value
> > 15 then that means the skb was not freed.  Otherwise it's supposed to
> be freed.  So like NETDEV_TX_BUSY is 0x10 so it's not freed.
>
> This is checked with using the dev_xmit_complete() function.  So I feel
> like it would make sense for LWTUNNEL_XMIT_CONTINUE to return higher
> than 15.

Yes I am adopting your suggestion in v5. Dealing with NETDEV_TX_BUSY
would be left as another item (potentially more suited for netdev
rather than bpf). Would be great to find a reproduction of memleak.

>
> Because that's the bug right?  The original code was assuming that
> everything besides LWTUNNEL_XMIT_DONE was freed.
>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>


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Yan