Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/1] net: skbuff: fix pskb_carve leaking zcopy pages

From: Willem de Bruijn <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2026 22:05:46 -0400

Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> When SKBFL_MANAGED_FRAG_REFS is set, frag pages are not refcounted but
> their lifetime is controlled by the attached ubuf_info. To make a copy
> of the skb_shared_info, we either should clear the flag and reference
> the frags, or keep the flag and have frags unreferenced.
> 
> pskb_carve_inside_header() and pskb_carve_inside_nonlinear() don't
> follow the rule and thus can leak page references. Let's clear
> SKBFL_MANAGED_FRAG_REFS from the original skb to fix it. It's the
> simplest way to address it, but there are more performant ways to do
> that if it ever becomes a problem.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email-masked]/
> Fixes: 753f1ca4e1e50 ("net: introduce managed frags infrastructure")
> Reported-by: Minh Nguyen <[email-masked]>
> Reported-by: Willem de Bruijn <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <[email-masked]>

Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <[email-masked]>

> ---
>  net/core/skbuff.c | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
> index 0d3cc115f2e7..c02f0a507ba8 100644
> --- a/net/core/skbuff.c
> +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
> @@ -6823,6 +6823,11 @@ static int pskb_carve_inside_header(struct sk_buff *skb, const u32 off,
>  	skb_copy_from_linear_data_offset(skb, off, data, new_hlen);
>  	skb->len -= off;
>  
> +	/* Remove SKBFL_MANAGED_FRAG_REFS instead of trying to honour it
> +	 * while refcounting frags below.
> +	 */

FWIW the multi-line comments are not really needed. The function of
skb_zcopy_downgrade_managed is quite clear.