Subject: Re: [PATCH net v3] octeon_ep: Add SKB allocation failures handling in __octep_oq_process_rx()

From: Simon Horman <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 17:26:22 +0100

On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 08:33:28AM +0300, Aleksandr Mishin wrote:
> build_skb() returns NULL in case of a memory allocation failure so handle
> it inside __octep_oq_process_rx() to avoid NULL pointer dereference.
> 
> __octep_oq_process_rx() is called during NAPI polling by the driver. If
> skb allocation fails, keep on pulling packets out of the Rx DMA queue: we
> shouldn't break the polling immediately and thus falsely indicate to the
> octep_napi_poll() that the Rx pressure is going down. As there is no
> associated skb in this case, don't process the packets and don't push them
> up the network stack - they are skipped.
> 
> The common code with skb and some index manipulations is extracted to make
> the fix more readable and avoid code duplication. Also helper function is
> implemented to unmmap/flush all the fragment buffers used by the dropped
> packet. 'alloc_failures' counter is incremented to mark the skb allocation
> error in driver statistics.
> 
> Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
> 
> Fixes: 37d79d059606 ("octeon_ep: add Tx/Rx processing and interrupt support")
> Suggested-by: Paolo Abeni <[email-masked]>
> Suggested-by: Simon Horman <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Aleksandr Mishin <[email-masked]>
> ---
> A similar situation is present in the __octep_vf_oq_process_rx() of the
> Octeon VF driver. First we want to try the fix on __octep_oq_process_rx().

One step at a time :)

> Compile tested only.
> 
> v3:
>   - Implement helper which frees current packet resources and increase
>     index and descriptor as suggested by Simon
>     (https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email-masked]/)
>   - Optimize helper as suggested by Paolo
>     (https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email-masked]/)	

Thanks for the revision.
This version looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <[email-masked]>

> v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email-masked]/
>   - Implement helper instead of adding multiple checks for '!skb' and
>     remove 'rx_bytes' increasing in case of packet dropping as suggested
>     by Paolo
>     (https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email-masked]/)
> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email-masked]/
> 
>  .../net/ethernet/marvell/octeon_ep/octep_rx.c | 82 +++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 59 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

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