Re: [Bug #16626] Machine hangs with EIP at skb_copy_and_csum_dev

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Fri Sep 03 2010 - 04:30:53 EST


On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 12:50:51PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Plamen, could you test following patch ?
>
> I reproduced problem on a dev machine and following patch cured it.
>
> Thanks
>
> [PATCH] gro: fix different skb headrooms
>
> packets entering GRO might have different headrooms, even for a given
> flow (because of implementation details in drivers, like copybreak).
> We cant force drivers to deliver packets with a fixed headroom.
>
> 1) fix skb_segment()
>
> skb_segment() makes the false assumption headrooms of fragments are same
> than the head. When CHECKSUM_PARTIAL is used, this can give csum_start
> errors, and crash later in skb_copy_and_csum_dev()
>
> 2) allocate a minimal skb for head of frag_list
>
> skb_gro_receive() uses netdev_alloc_skb(headroom + skb_gro_offset(p)) to
> allocate a fresh skb. This adds NET_SKB_PAD to a padding already
> provided by netdevice, depending on various things, like copybreak.
>
> Use alloc_skb() to allocate an exact padding, to reduce cache line
> needs:
> NET_SKB_PAD + NET_IP_ALIGN
>
> bugzilla : https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16626
>
> Many thanks to Plamen Petrov, testing many debugging patches !
> With help of Jarek Poplawski.
>
> Reported-by: Plamen Petrov <pvp-lsts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for diagnosing and fixing this!

> diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
> index 3a2513f..26396ff 100644
> --- a/net/core/skbuff.c
> +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
> @@ -2573,6 +2573,10 @@ struct sk_buff *skb_segment(struct sk_buff *skb, int features)
> __copy_skb_header(nskb, skb);
> nskb->mac_len = skb->mac_len;
>
> + /* nskb and skb might have different headroom */
> + if (nskb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL)
> + nskb->csum_start += skb_headroom(nskb) - headroom;

This test is redundant since we require CHECKSUM_PARTIAL for
GSO packets.

Cheers,
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