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Commit 36ccdf85 authored by Björn Töpel's avatar Björn Töpel Committed by Daniel Borkmann
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net, xsk: Avoid taking multiple skbuff references


Commit 642e450b ("xsk: Do not discard packet when NETDEV_TX_BUSY")
addressed the problem that packets were discarded from the Tx AF_XDP
ring, when the driver returned NETDEV_TX_BUSY. Part of the fix was
bumping the skbuff reference count, so that the buffer would not be
freed by dev_direct_xmit(). A reference count larger than one means
that the skbuff is "shared", which is not the case.

If the "shared" skbuff is sent to the generic XDP receive path,
netif_receive_generic_xdp(), and pskb_expand_head() is entered the
BUG_ON(skb_shared(skb)) will trigger.

This patch adds a variant to dev_direct_xmit(), __dev_direct_xmit(),
where a user can select the skbuff free policy. This allows AF_XDP to
avoid bumping the reference count, but still keep the NETDEV_TX_BUSY
behavior.

Fixes: 642e450b ("xsk: Do not discard packet when NETDEV_TX_BUSY")
Reported-by: default avatarYonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBjörn Töpel <bjorn.topel@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201123175600.146255-1-bjorn.topel@gmail.com
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