Subject: Re: [PATCH net v4 3/5] xsk: drain continuation descs after overflow in xsk_build_skb()

From: Maciej Fijalkowski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2026 18:10:31 +0200

On Wed, May 20, 2026 at 08:42:42AM +0800, Jason Xing wrote:
> From: Jason Xing <[email-masked]>
> 
> When a multi-buffer packet exceeds MAX_SKB_FRAGS and triggers -EOVERFLOW,
> only the current descriptor is released from the TX ring. The remaining
> continuation descriptors of the same packet stay in the ring. Since
> xs->skb is set to NULL after the drop, the TX loop picks up these
> leftover frags and misinterprets each one as the beginning of a new
> packet, corrupting the packet stream.
> 
> Fix this by adding a drain_cont flag to xdp_sock. When overflow occurs
> and the dropped descriptor has XDP_PKT_CONTD set, the flag is raised,
> so we have a chance to examine and handle the potential remaining descs
> of this big overflow'ed skb.
> 
> When the last fragment (without XDP_PKT_CONTD) is processed, the flag
> is cleared and the loop continues to process subsequent descriptors
> with the remaining budget. This behavior follows how previous xmit path
> treats overflow packets.
> 
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email-masked]/
> Fixes: cf24f5a5feea ("xsk: add support for AF_XDP multi-buffer on Tx path")
> Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  include/net/xdp_sock.h |  1 +
>  net/xdp/xsk.c          | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 20 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/net/xdp_sock.h b/include/net/xdp_sock.h
> index ebac60a3d8a1..8b51876efbed 100644
> --- a/include/net/xdp_sock.h
> +++ b/include/net/xdp_sock.h
> @@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ struct xdp_sock {
>  	 * call of __xsk_generic_xmit().
>  	 */
>  	struct sk_buff *skb;
> +	bool drain_cont;
>  
>  	struct list_head map_list;
>  	/* Protects map_list */
> diff --git a/net/xdp/xsk.c b/net/xdp/xsk.c
> index 0a6203c42576..f4add7be8c93 100644
> --- a/net/xdp/xsk.c
> +++ b/net/xdp/xsk.c
> @@ -1062,11 +1062,30 @@ static int __xsk_generic_xmit(struct sock *sk)
>  			goto out;
>  		}
>  
> +		if (unlikely(xs->drain_cont)) {

Hi Jason,

could we get away from introducing dedicated boolean to xdp_sock for
handling this rare case?

> +			unsigned long flags;
> +			u32 idx;
> +
> +			spin_lock_irqsave(&xs->pool->cq_prod_lock, flags);
> +			idx = xskq_get_prod(xs->pool->cq);
> +			xskq_prod_write_addr(xs->pool->cq, idx, desc.addr);
> +			xskq_prod_submit_n(xs->pool->cq, 1);
> +			spin_unlock_irqrestore(&xs->pool->cq_prod_lock, flags);

It feels a bit off to do this cleanup one-by-one.

I wonder if it could be covered by xsk_drop_skb() where you would walk the
tx ring and store addrs at xsk_addrs and then use xsk_cq_submit_addr_locked() ?

OTOH, in theory the amount of frags after we hit the overflow case could
be well over MAX_SKB_FRAGS again so xsk_addrs wouldn't be able to cover
them.

> +
> +			xs->tx->invalid_descs++;
> +			xskq_cons_release(xs->tx);
> +			if (!xp_mb_desc(&desc))
> +				xs->drain_cont = false;
> +			continue;
> +		}
> +
>  		skb = xsk_build_skb(xs, &desc);
>  		if (IS_ERR(skb)) {
>  			err = PTR_ERR(skb);
>  			if (err != -EOVERFLOW)
>  				goto out;
> +			if (xp_mb_desc(&desc))
> +				xs->drain_cont = true;
>  			err = 0;
>  			continue;
>  		}
> -- 
> 2.43.7
>