Re: [PATCH] Fixed zero copy GSO without orphaning the fragments

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Tue May 20 2014 - 07:52:54 EST


On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 02:24:21PM +0300, Igor Royzis wrote:
> Fix accessing GSO fragments memory (and a possible corruption therefore) after
> reporting completion in a zero copy callback. The previous fix in the commit 1fd819ec
> orphaned frags which eliminates zero copy advantages. The fix makes the completion
> called after all the fragments were processed avoiding unnecessary orphaning/copying
> from userspace.
>
> The GSO fragments corruption issue was observed in a typical QEMU/KVM VM setup that
> hosts a Windows guest (since QEMU virtio-net Windows driver doesn't support GRO).
> The fix has been verified by running the HCK OffloadLSO test.
>
> Signed-off-by: Igor Royzis <igorr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Nayshtut <anton@xxxxxxxxxxx>

OK but with 1fd819ec there's no corruption, correct?
So this patch is in fact an optimization?
If true, I'd like to see some performance numbers please.

Thanks!

> ---
> include/linux/skbuff.h | 1 +
> net/core/skbuff.c | 18 +++++++++++++-----
> 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
> index 08074a8..8c49edc 100644
> --- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
> +++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
> @@ -287,6 +287,7 @@ struct skb_shared_info {
> struct sk_buff *frag_list;
> struct skb_shared_hwtstamps hwtstamps;
> __be32 ip6_frag_id;
> + struct sk_buff *zcopy_src;
>
> /*
> * Warning : all fields before dataref are cleared in __alloc_skb()
> diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
> index 1b62343..6fa6342 100644
> --- a/net/core/skbuff.c
> +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
> @@ -610,14 +610,18 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kfree_skb);
> */
> void kfree_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)
> {
> + struct sk_buff *zcopy_src;
> if (unlikely(!skb))
> return;
> if (likely(atomic_read(&skb->users) == 1))
> smp_rmb();
> else if (likely(!atomic_dec_and_test(&skb->users)))
> return;
> + zcopy_src = skb_shinfo(skb)->zcopy_src;
> trace_kfree_skb(skb, __builtin_return_address(0));
> __kfree_skb(skb);
> + if (unlikely(zcopy_src))
> + kfree_skb(zcopy_src);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfree_skb);
>
> @@ -662,14 +666,18 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(skb_tx_error);
> */
> void consume_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)
> {
> + struct sk_buff *zcopy_src;
> if (unlikely(!skb))
> return;
> if (likely(atomic_read(&skb->users) == 1))
> smp_rmb();
> else if (likely(!atomic_dec_and_test(&skb->users)))
> return;
> + zcopy_src = skb_shinfo(skb)->zcopy_src;
> trace_consume_skb(skb);
> __kfree_skb(skb);
> + if (unlikely(zcopy_src))
> + consume_skb(zcopy_src);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(consume_skb);
>
> @@ -2867,7 +2875,6 @@ struct sk_buff *skb_segment(struct sk_buff *head_skb,
> skb_frag_t *frag = skb_shinfo(head_skb)->frags;
> unsigned int mss = skb_shinfo(head_skb)->gso_size;
> unsigned int doffset = head_skb->data - skb_mac_header(head_skb);
> - struct sk_buff *frag_skb = head_skb;
> unsigned int offset = doffset;
> unsigned int tnl_hlen = skb_tnl_header_len(head_skb);
> unsigned int headroom;
> @@ -2913,7 +2920,6 @@ struct sk_buff *skb_segment(struct sk_buff *head_skb,
> i = 0;
> nfrags = skb_shinfo(list_skb)->nr_frags;
> frag = skb_shinfo(list_skb)->frags;
> - frag_skb = list_skb;
> pos += skb_headlen(list_skb);
>
> while (pos < offset + len) {
> @@ -2975,6 +2981,11 @@ struct sk_buff *skb_segment(struct sk_buff *head_skb,
> nskb->data - tnl_hlen,
> doffset + tnl_hlen);
>
> + if (skb_shinfo(head_skb)->tx_flags & SKBTX_DEV_ZEROCOPY) {
> + skb_shinfo(nskb)->zcopy_src = head_skb;
> + atomic_inc(&head_skb->users);
> + }
> +
> if (nskb->len == len + doffset)
> goto perform_csum_check;
>
> @@ -3001,7 +3012,6 @@ struct sk_buff *skb_segment(struct sk_buff *head_skb,
> i = 0;
> nfrags = skb_shinfo(list_skb)->nr_frags;
> frag = skb_shinfo(list_skb)->frags;
> - frag_skb = list_skb;
>
> BUG_ON(!nfrags);
>
> @@ -3016,8 +3026,6 @@ struct sk_buff *skb_segment(struct sk_buff *head_skb,
> goto err;
> }
>
> - if (unlikely(skb_orphan_frags(frag_skb, GFP_ATOMIC)))
> - goto err;
>
> *nskb_frag = *frag;
> __skb_frag_ref(nskb_frag);
> --
> 1.7.9.5
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