From e01620844c5c88b6fcf819d171df8e3976a0e76f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jerome Tollet Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:16:44 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] net/mlx5e: Prevent stale XSK buffer release on refill retry When an XDP redirect to an AF_XDP socket fails because its RX ring is full, the XSK core frees the buffer. During the subsequent batched refill of a legacy cyclic RQ, mlx5e also releases the WQE's XSK buffer before allocating a replacement. If that refill succeeds only partially, a WQE left without a replacement retains its old buffer pointer. The buffer can meanwhile be allocated to another WQE. A later refill retry can then free the live buffer through the stale pointer and publish the same UMEM frame twice. Mark the WQE as released immediately after the driver-side free. The flag is already cleared when a replacement buffer is assigned, so refill retries no longer release stale pointers. The failure is silent and produces no kernel warning or splat. A standalone legacy cyclic-RQ zero-copy libxsk reproducer, using 64-byte UDP traffic offered at 12 Mpps, detected it: stock stopped after 2,854,914 packets in 4.094 seconds, with 4,542 xdp_rx_ring_full events and 64 ownership/double-publication errors. With this change it processed 356,904,225 packets in 30 seconds despite 571,405 xdp_rx_ring_full events, with no ownership or data errors. Fixes: 3f93f82988bc ("net/mlx5e: RX, Defer page release in legacy rq for better recycling") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Suggested-by: Daniel Borkmann Reviewed-by: Dragos Tatulea Signed-off-by: Jerome Tollet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260824141645.23700-2-jtollet@cisco.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c index 206cf9db3466..7bd0606a5253 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c @@ -410,8 +410,11 @@ static inline void mlx5e_free_rx_wqe(struct mlx5e_rq *rq, static void mlx5e_xsk_free_rx_wqe(struct mlx5e_wqe_frag_info *wi) { - if (!(wi->flags & BIT(MLX5E_WQE_FRAG_SKIP_RELEASE))) - xsk_buff_free(*wi->xskp); + if (wi->flags & BIT(MLX5E_WQE_FRAG_SKIP_RELEASE)) + return; + + xsk_buff_free(*wi->xskp); + wi->flags |= BIT(MLX5E_WQE_FRAG_SKIP_RELEASE); } static void mlx5e_dealloc_rx_wqe(struct mlx5e_rq *rq, u16 ix) From 63811edf512584c946e5e96b100e9e280703bbb5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jerome Tollet Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:16:45 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] net/mlx5e: Prevent stale XSK buffer release on MPWQE refill retry With AF_XDP on a striding RQ, mlx5e defers releasing XSK buffers until an MPWQE is refilled. If XSK allocation then returns -ENOMEM, actual_wq_head is not advanced and a later NAPI poll retries the same WQE. mlx5e_free_rx_mpwqe() leaves each released slot marked as releasable. On retry it can therefore call xsk_buff_free() again through stale pointers after the frames have returned to the XSK pool and been reallocated. Set all skip_release_bitmap bits in the common error path of mlx5e_xsk_alloc_rx_mpwqe(). This matches mlx5e_alloc_rx_mpwqe(). A successful allocation already clears the bitmap after replacing every buffer, so retries become idempotent without changing the success path. Fault injection forced three consecutive failures for one selected MPWQE. Both an early allocation failure and a partial 8-of-16-buffer unwind released the original 16 XSK buffers only once. Each error left a full bitmap, the following NAPI retry skipped the release, and a later successful allocation cleared it. A 20-second AF_XDP zero-copy pressure run exercised 1,575,262 buffer allocation failures without invalid descriptors, WQE errors, or kernel warnings. Fixes: 4c2a13236807 ("net/mlx5e: RX, Defer page release in striding rq for better recycling") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jerome Tollet Reviewed-by: Dragos Tatulea Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260824141645.23700-3-jtollet@cisco.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xsk/rx.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xsk/rx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xsk/rx.c index 4f984f6a2cb9..55ec6387ab28 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xsk/rx.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xsk/rx.c @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ #include "rx.h" #include "en/xdp.h" +#include #include #include @@ -156,6 +157,7 @@ int mlx5e_xsk_alloc_rx_mpwqe(struct mlx5e_rq *rq, u16 ix) xsk_buff_free(xsk_buffs[batch]); err: + bitmap_fill(wi->skip_release_bitmap, rq->mpwqe.pages_per_wqe); rq->stats->buff_alloc_err++; return -ENOMEM; }