Re: [PATCH] io_uring/net: use REQ_F_IMPORT_BUFFER for send_zc

From: Pavel Begunkov
Date: Wed Mar 26 2025 - 05:51:29 EST


On 3/25/25 14:39, Caleb Sander Mateos wrote:
On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 6:30 AM Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 3/24/25 15:11, Caleb Sander Mateos wrote:
Instead of a bool field in struct io_sr_msg, use REQ_F_IMPORT_BUFFER to
track whether io_send_zc() has already imported the buffer. This flag
already serves a similar purpose for sendmsg_zc and {read,write}v_fixed.

Signed-off-by: Caleb Sander Mateos <csander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/io_uring_types.h | 5 ++++-
io_uring/net.c | 8 +++-----
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
...
@@ -1305,12 +1304,11 @@ int io_send_zc_prep(struct io_kiocb *req, const struct io_uring_sqe *sqe)
struct io_ring_ctx *ctx = req->ctx;
struct io_kiocb *notif;

zc->done_io = 0;
zc->retry = false;
- zc->imported = false;
- req->flags |= REQ_F_POLL_NO_LAZY;
+ req->flags |= REQ_F_POLL_NO_LAZY | REQ_F_IMPORT_BUFFER;

This function is shared with sendmsg_zc, so if we set it here,
it'll trigger io_import_reg_vec() in io_sendmsg_zc() even for
non register buffer request.

Good catch. I keep forgetting which prep and issue functions are
shared between which opcodes.

No worries, can happen. I'd recommend to run liburing tests,
they're very useful for catching such things. I run it out
of curiosity, it crashes on send-zerocopy.c pretty fast.

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Pavel Begunkov