[PATCH] net: drop skbs in napi->rx_list when removing the napi context.

Eric Dumazet eric.dumazet at gmail.com
Fri Aug 13 10:16:34 UTC 2021



On 8/12/21 9:17 PM, Phi Nguyen wrote:
> On 8/12/2021 3:07 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> Also I object to this fix.
>>
>> If packets have been stored temporarily in GRO, they should be
>> released at some point,
>> normally at the end of a napi poll.
>>
>> By released, I mean that these packets should reach the upper stack,
>> instead of being dropped without
>> any notification.
>>
>> It seems a call to gro_normal_list() is missing somewhere.
>>
>> Can you find where ?
>>
>> Thanks !
>> H Eric,
> 
> I think the location that should have a call to gro_normal_list() is __netif_napi_del(). Let say, if the driver call a function that lead to gro_normal_one(), and add a skb to the rx_list while the napi poll is not scheduled, and the driver remove the napi context before a napi poll could be triggered, then the added skb will be lost.
> 
> Actually, this was the first solution that I tried with syzbot (It passed the test too).
> Best regards,
> Phi

I think the real bug is in drivers/net/tun.c

It can call napi_gro_frags() and I do not see corresponding napi_complete()

This seems completely bogus.

Your patch only works around one the many bugs caused by 
commit 90e33d45940793def6f773b2d528e9f3c84ffdc7 tun: enable napi_gro_frags() for TUN/TAP driver

I suggest not adding your patch, because we should fix the root cause.



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