[PATCH net-next v2 05/10] xen/netfront: check for failure when pulling in xennet_fill_frags()

From: Josef Bacik

Date: Thu Oct 08 2026 - 17:07:20 EST


When the skb already has MAX_SKB_FRAGS frags, xennet_fill_frags() calls
__pskb_pull_tail() to free up a frag slot. That frees slots in two
ways: it pulls the start of the packet into the head, and it releases
empty frags, even when there's nothing left to pull. The second part
is what commit d81c5054a5d1 ("xen/netfront: tolerate frags with no
data") relies on. The return value is ignored, which works out only
because the nr_frags check right after it drops the packet if no slot
was freed.

Use pskb_may_pull() followed by skb_drop_empty_frags(), and take the
error path explicitly if either fails. pskb_may_pull() does nothing if
the head already holds pull_to bytes, so the BUG_ON() for pull_to <
skb_headlen(skb), which protected the subtraction, can go.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/xen-netfront.c | 26 ++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
index 2ed673649c48..007fa3bbc9e6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
@@ -1174,18 +1174,15 @@ static int xennet_fill_frags(struct netfront_queue *queue,

RING_COPY_RESPONSE(&queue->rx, ++cons, &rx);

- if (skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags == MAX_SKB_FRAGS) {
- unsigned int pull_to = NETFRONT_SKB_CB(skb)->pull_to;
-
- BUG_ON(pull_to < skb_headlen(skb));
- __pskb_pull_tail(skb, pull_to - skb_headlen(skb));
- }
- if (unlikely(skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags >= MAX_SKB_FRAGS)) {
- xennet_set_rx_rsp_cons(queue,
- ++cons + skb_queue_len(list));
- kfree_skb(nskb);
- return -ENOENT;
- }
+ /* Out of frag slots: pull the start of the packet into the
+ * head and drop empty frags to make room.
+ */
+ if (skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags == MAX_SKB_FRAGS &&
+ unlikely(!pskb_may_pull(skb, NETFRONT_SKB_CB(skb)->pull_to) ||
+ skb_drop_empty_frags(skb, GFP_ATOMIC)))
+ goto err;
+ if (unlikely(skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags >= MAX_SKB_FRAGS))
+ goto err;

skb_add_rx_frag(skb, skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags,
skb_frag_page(nfrag),
@@ -1198,6 +1195,11 @@ static int xennet_fill_frags(struct netfront_queue *queue,
xennet_set_rx_rsp_cons(queue, cons);

return 0;
+
+err:
+ xennet_set_rx_rsp_cons(queue, ++cons + skb_queue_len(list));
+ kfree_skb(nskb);
+ return -ENOENT;
}

static int checksum_setup(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)

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