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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>, Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>,
	network dev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	davem@davemloft.net, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] udp: fix a skb extensions leak
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 16:11:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200330141147.GC23604@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200330134531.GK13121@gauss3.secunet.de>

Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com> wrote:
> > diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
> > index 621b4479fee1..7e29590482ce 100644
> > --- a/net/core/skbuff.c
> > +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
> > @@ -3668,6 +3668,7 @@ struct sk_buff *skb_segment_list(struct sk_buff *skb,
> > 
> >                 skb_push(nskb, -skb_network_offset(nskb) + offset);
> > 
> > +               skb_release_head_state(nskb);
> >                  __copy_skb_header(nskb, skb);
> > 
> >                 skb_headers_offset_update(nskb, skb_headroom(nskb) - skb_headroom(skb));
> > 
> > AFAICS we not only leak reference of extensions, but also skb->dst and skb->_nfct.
> 
> Would be nice if we would not need to drop the resources
> just to add them back again in the next line. But it is ok
> as a quick fix for the bug.

Yes, but are these the same resources?  AFAIU thats not the case, i.e.
the skb on fraglist can have different skb->{dst,extension,_nfct} data
than the skb head one, and we can't tell if that data is still valid
(rerouting for example).

  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-30 14:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-26  9:06 [PATCH net] udp: fix a skb extensions leak Xin Long
2020-03-26  9:28 ` Xin Long
2020-03-30  4:54 ` David Miller
2020-03-30  8:29 ` Steffen Klassert
2020-03-30 16:13   ` Xin Long
2020-03-30 16:13     ` Florian Westphal
2020-03-30 13:27 ` Florian Westphal
2020-03-30 13:45   ` Steffen Klassert
2020-03-30 14:11     ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2020-03-30 14:39       ` Steffen Klassert
2020-03-30 16:14   ` Xin Long

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