linux/net/packet
Willem de Bruijn 9518405613 packet: use ubuf_info completion for TX_RING packets
tpacket_snd sends skbs with frags pointing into its ring slots. Slots
are released when skb->destructor is called.

A call to skb_orphan calls skb->destructor before the skb is freed.
This can cause the slot to be reused while still linked into the skb.

Switch to standard zerocopy completion (ubuf_info) so the slot is only
released once all references to the payload are freed or copied.
Restore skb->destructor to standard sock_wfree.

The ubuf_info completion callback can be called with a NULL skb, but
only from net_zcopy_put and related API, used by zerocopy implementations
that hold their own reference on the uarg, such as MSG_ZEROCOPY. This
uarg is only ever completed from skb_zcopy_clear, so skb is always set.

To prevent userspace from aliasing in-flight state on shared ring
slots, allocate tpacket_uarg per packet, rather than per slot. This
adds a small allocation to the transmit path. Use standard kmalloc to
allow backporting to stable kernels.

The uarg holds an sk_wmem_alloc reference, rather than an sk_refcnt
reference. packet_free_tx_ring waits on sk_wmem_alloc before freeing
the ring pages. Always allocate vec->deferred for tx_ring so page-backed
rings also wait on sk_wmem_alloc when skb_copy_ubufs drops page refs
before calling tpacket_ubuf_complete.

Drop the tx_ring.pg_vec test that tpacket_destruct_skb performed before
accessing the slot. The sk_wmem_alloc reference now guarantees that the
slot is valid. The test is also not sufficient by itself, as it reads
pg_vec without pg_vec_lock, so it can race with packet_set_ring.

As a result a slot is released when its payload is copied, which can
be before transmission (e.g., in skb_orphan_frags_rx). If copied
before skb_tx_timestamp() is called, no slot timestamp is recorded,
similar to when skb_orphan() was called early in the datapath before
this patch.

Revert the now unused previous skb_zcopy_.._nouarg infra.

Depends on commit 992cc9f94c ("net/packet: defer vmalloc TX_RING
free until skbs finish").

Reported-by: Katherine Leaver <kleaver@janestreet.com>
Reported-by: Bjoern Doebel <doebel@amazon.de>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260909085542.3370986-1-doebel@amazon.de/
Fixes: 5cd8d46ea1 ("packet: copy user buffers before orphan or clone")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260919004748.1463985-3-willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-09-22 18:32:57 -07:00
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af_packet.c packet: use ubuf_info completion for TX_RING packets 2026-09-22 18:32:57 -07:00
diag.c net: change sock.sk_ino and sock_i_ino() to u64 2026-03-06 14:31:26 +01:00
internal.h net/packet: avoid truncating TPACKET_V3 private size 2026-09-16 17:29:11 -07:00
Kconfig treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help' 2020-06-14 01:57:21 +09:00
Makefile treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00