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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mst@redhat.com
Cc: jasowang@redhat.com, willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com,
	den@klaipeden.com, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] virtio-net: invoke zerocopy callback on xmit path if no tx napi
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 11:01:08 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170822.110108.343109469263087166.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170822204015-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org>

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 20:55:56 +0300

> Which reminds me that skb_linearize in net core seems to be
> fundamentally racy - I suspect that if skb is cloned, and someone is
> trying to use the shared frags while another thread calls skb_linearize,
> we get some use after free bugs which likely mostly go undetected
> because the corrupted packets mostly go on wire and get dropped
> by checksum code.

Indeed, it does assume that the skb from which the clone was made
never has it's geometry changed.

I don't think even the TCP retransmit queue has this guarantee.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-22 18:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-19  6:38 [PATCH net-next] virtio-net: invoke zerocopy callback on xmit path if no tx napi Koichiro Den
2017-08-20 20:49 ` Willem de Bruijn
2017-08-21 12:40   ` Koichiro Den
2017-08-22 12:11   ` Willem de Bruijn
2017-08-22 14:04     ` Koichiro Den
2017-08-22 17:19       ` Willem de Bruijn
2017-08-23 14:26         ` Koichiro Den
2017-08-21 12:33 ` Jason Wang
2017-08-21 12:58   ` Koichiro Den
2017-08-21 15:41   ` Willem de Bruijn
2017-08-22  2:50     ` Jason Wang
2017-08-22  3:10       ` Willem de Bruijn
2017-08-22 11:47         ` Jason Wang
2017-08-22 13:42         ` Koichiro Den
2017-08-22 17:16           ` Willem de Bruijn
2017-08-23 14:24             ` Koichiro Den
2017-08-22 17:55       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-08-22 18:01         ` David Miller [this message]
2017-08-22 18:28           ` Eric Dumazet
2017-08-22 18:39             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-08-23 14:28         ` Koichiro Den
2017-08-23 14:47           ` Koichiro Den
2017-08-23 15:20           ` Willem de Bruijn
2017-08-23 22:57             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-08-24  3:28               ` Willem de Bruijn
2017-08-24  4:34                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-08-24 13:50                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-08-24 20:20                   ` Willem de Bruijn
2017-08-24 20:50                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-08-25 22:44                       ` Willem de Bruijn
2017-08-25 23:32                         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-08-26  1:03                           ` Willem de Bruijn
2017-08-29 19:35                             ` Willem de Bruijn
2017-08-29 19:42                               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-08-29 19:53                                 ` Willem de Bruijn
2017-08-29 20:40                                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-08-29 22:55                                     ` Willem de Bruijn
2017-08-30  1:45                               ` Jason Wang
2017-08-30  3:11                                 ` Willem de Bruijn
2017-09-01  3:08                                   ` Jason Wang
2017-08-31 14:30                               ` Willem de Bruijn
2017-09-01  3:25                                 ` Jason Wang
2017-09-01 16:15                                   ` Willem de Bruijn
2017-09-01 16:17                                     ` Willem de Bruijn
2017-09-04  3:03                                       ` Jason Wang
2017-09-05 14:09                                         ` Willem de Bruijn
2017-09-06  3:27                                           ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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