Subject: Re: [net PATCH] skb: Do mix page pool and page referenced frags in GRO

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2023 15:13:17 -0800

On Thu, 26 Jan 2023 11:06:59 -0800 Alexander Duyck wrote:
> From: Alexander Duyck <[email-masked]>
> 
> GSO should not merge page pool recycled frames with standard reference
> counted frames. Traditionally this didn't occur, at least not often.
> However as we start looking at adding support for wireless adapters there
> becomes the potential to mix the two due to A-MSDU repartitioning frames in
> the receive path. There are possibly other places where this may have
> occurred however I suspect they must be few and far between as we have not
> seen this issue until now.
> 
> Fixes: 53e0961da1c7 ("page_pool: add frag page recycling support in page pool")
> Reported-by: Felix Fietkau <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <[email-masked]>

Exciting investigation!
Felix, out of curiosity - the impact of loosing GRO on performance is
not significant enough to care?  We could possibly try to switch to
using the frag list if we can't merge into frags safely.

> diff --git a/net/core/gro.c b/net/core/gro.c
> index 506f83d715f8..4bac7ea6e025 100644
> --- a/net/core/gro.c
> +++ b/net/core/gro.c
> @@ -162,6 +162,15 @@ int skb_gro_receive(struct sk_buff *p, struct sk_buff *skb)
>  	struct sk_buff *lp;
>  	int segs;
>  
> +	/* Do not splice page pool based packets w/ non-page pool
> +	 * packets. This can result in reference count issues as page
> +	 * pool pages will not decrement the reference count and will
> +	 * instead be immediately returned to the pool or have frag
> +	 * count decremented.
> +	 */
> +	if (p->pp_recycle != skb->pp_recycle)
> +		return -ETOOMANYREFS;
> 
>  	/* pairs with WRITE_ONCE() in netif_set_gro_max_size() */
>  	gro_max_size = READ_ONCE(p->dev->gro_max_size);
>  
> 
>