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skbuff: orphan frags before zerocopy clone
authorWillem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Wed, 20 Dec 2017 22:37:49 +0000 (17:37 -0500)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 21 Dec 2017 20:00:58 +0000 (15:00 -0500)
commit268b790679422a89e9ab0685d9f291edae780c98
treec5dd4011a2f153743fa488fa2d970b9d21807cf6
parent513674b5a2c9c7a67501506419da5c3c77ac6f08
skbuff: orphan frags before zerocopy clone

Call skb_zerocopy_clone after skb_orphan_frags, to avoid duplicate
calls to skb_uarg(skb)->callback for the same data.

skb_zerocopy_clone associates skb_shinfo(skb)->uarg from frag_skb
with each segment. This is only safe for uargs that do refcounting,
which is those that pass skb_orphan_frags without dropping their
shared frags. For others, skb_orphan_frags drops the user frags and
sets the uarg to NULL, after which sock_zerocopy_clone has no effect.

Qemu hangs were reported due to duplicate vhost_net_zerocopy_callback
calls for the same data causing the vhost_net_ubuf_ref_>refcount to
drop below zero.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/<CAF=yD-LWyCD4Y0aJ9O0e_CHLR+3JOeKicRRTEVCPxgw4XOcqGQ@mail.gmail.com>
Fixes: 1f8b977ab32d ("sock: enable MSG_ZEROCOPY")
Reported-by: Andreas Hartmann <andihartmann@01019freenet.de>
Reported-by: David Hill <dhill@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/core/skbuff.c