From: Claudiu Manoil claudiu.manoil@nxp.com
[ Upstream commit d145c9031325fed963a887851d9fa42516efd52b ]
When PTP timestamping is enabled on Tx, the controller inserts the Tx timestamp at the beginning of the frame buffer, between SFD and the L2 frame header. This means that the skb provided by the stack is required to have enough headroom otherwise a new skb needs to be created by the driver to accommodate the timestamp inserted by h/w. Up until now the driver was relying on skb_realloc_headroom() to create new skbs to accommodate PTP frames. Turns out that this method is not reliable in this context at least, as skb_realloc_headroom() for PTP frames can cause random crashes, mostly in subsequent skb_*() calls, when multiple concurrent TCP streams are run at the same time with the PTP flow on the same device (as seen in James' report). I also noticed that when the system is loaded by sending multiple TCP streams, the driver receives cloned skbs in large numbers. skb_cow_head() instead proves to be stable in this scenario, and not only handles cloned skbs too but it's also more efficient and widely used in other drivers. The commit introducing skb_realloc_headroom in the driver goes back to 2009, commit 93c1285c5d92 ("gianfar: reallocate skb when headroom is not enough for fcb"). For practical purposes I'm referencing a newer commit (from 2012) that brings the code to its current structure (and fixes the PTP case).
Fixes: 9c4886e5e63b ("gianfar: Fix invalid TX frames returned on error queue when time stamping") Reported-by: James Jurack james.jurack@ametek.com Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Claudiu Manoil claudiu.manoil@nxp.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201029081057.8506-1-claudiu.manoil@nxp.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c | 12 ++---------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c @@ -1826,20 +1826,12 @@ static netdev_tx_t gfar_start_xmit(struc fcb_len = GMAC_FCB_LEN + GMAC_TXPAL_LEN;
/* make space for additional header when fcb is needed */ - if (fcb_len && unlikely(skb_headroom(skb) < fcb_len)) { - struct sk_buff *skb_new; - - skb_new = skb_realloc_headroom(skb, fcb_len); - if (!skb_new) { + if (fcb_len) { + if (unlikely(skb_cow_head(skb, fcb_len))) { dev->stats.tx_errors++; dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); return NETDEV_TX_OK; } - - if (skb->sk) - skb_set_owner_w(skb_new, skb->sk); - dev_consume_skb_any(skb); - skb = skb_new; }
/* total number of fragments in the SKB */