6.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Breno Leitao leitao@debian.org
[ Upstream commit 6c59f16f1770481a6ee684720ec55b1e38b3a4b2 ]
The netpoll subsystem maintains a pool of 32 pre-allocated SKBs per instance, but these SKBs are not freed when the netpoll user is brought down. This leads to memory waste as these buffers remain allocated but unused.
Add skb_pool_flush() to properly clean up these SKBs when netconsole is terminated, improving memory efficiency.
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao leitao@debian.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241114-skb_buffers_v2-v3-2-9be9f52a8b69@debian.or... Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org Stable-dep-of: 49c8d2c1f94c ("net: netpoll: fix incorrect refcount handling causing incorrect cleanup") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- net/core/netpoll.c | 14 +++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/core/netpoll.c +++ b/net/core/netpoll.c @@ -538,6 +538,14 @@ static int netpoll_parse_ip_addr(const c return -1; }
+static void skb_pool_flush(struct netpoll *np) +{ + struct sk_buff_head *skb_pool; + + skb_pool = &np->skb_pool; + skb_queue_purge_reason(skb_pool, SKB_CONSUMED); +} + int netpoll_parse_options(struct netpoll *np, char *opt) { char *cur=opt, *delim; @@ -786,7 +794,7 @@ put_noaddr:
err = __netpoll_setup(np, ndev); if (err) - goto put; + goto flush; rtnl_unlock();
/* Make sure all NAPI polls which started before dev->npinfo @@ -797,6 +805,8 @@ put_noaddr:
return 0;
+flush: + skb_pool_flush(np); put: DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE(np->dev); if (ip_overwritten) @@ -844,6 +854,8 @@ void __netpoll_cleanup(struct netpoll *n call_rcu(&npinfo->rcu, rcu_cleanup_netpoll_info); } else RCU_INIT_POINTER(np->dev->npinfo, NULL); + + skb_pool_flush(np); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__netpoll_cleanup);