The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 0f6925b3e8da0dbbb52447ca8a8b42b371aac7db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2021 06:26:02 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] virtio_net: Do not pull payload in skb->head

Xuan Zhuo reported that commit 3226b158e67c ("net: avoid 32 x truesize under-estimation for tiny skbs") brought a ~10% performance drop.

The reason for the performance drop was that GRO was forced to chain sk_buff (using skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list), which uses more memory but also cause packet consumers to go over a lot of overhead handling all the tiny skbs.

It turns out that virtio_net page_to_skb() has a wrong strategy : It allocates skbs with GOOD_COPY_LEN (128) bytes in skb->head, then copies 128 bytes from the page, before feeding the packet to GRO stack.

This was suboptimal before commit 3226b158e67c ("net: avoid 32 x truesize under-estimation for tiny skbs") because GRO was using 2 frags per MSS, meaning we were not packing MSS with 100% efficiency.

Fix is to pull only the ethernet header in page_to_skb()

Then, we change virtio_net_hdr_to_skb() to pull the missing headers, instead of assuming they were already pulled by callers.

This fixes the performance regression, but could also allow virtio_net to accept packets with more than 128bytes of headers.

Many thanks to Xuan Zhuo for his report, and his tests/help.

Fixes: 3226b158e67c ("net: avoid 32 x truesize under-estimation for tiny skbs") Reported-by: Xuan Zhuo xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com Link: https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg731397.html Co-Developed-by: Xuan Zhuo xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Xuan Zhuo xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" mst@redhat.com Cc: Jason Wang jasowang@redhat.com Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Acked-by: Jason Wang jasowang@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c index 82e520d2cb12..0824e6999e49 100644 --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c @@ -406,9 +406,13 @@ static struct sk_buff *page_to_skb(struct virtnet_info *vi, offset += hdr_padded_len; p += hdr_padded_len;

- copy = len; - if (copy > skb_tailroom(skb)) - copy = skb_tailroom(skb); + /* Copy all frame if it fits skb->head, otherwise + * we let virtio_net_hdr_to_skb() and GRO pull headers as needed. + */ + if (len <= skb_tailroom(skb)) + copy = len; + else + copy = ETH_HLEN + metasize; skb_put_data(skb, p, copy);

if (metasize) { diff --git a/include/linux/virtio_net.h b/include/linux/virtio_net.h index 98775d7fa696..b465f8f3e554 100644 --- a/include/linux/virtio_net.h +++ b/include/linux/virtio_net.h @@ -65,14 +65,18 @@ static inline int virtio_net_hdr_to_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, skb_reset_mac_header(skb);

if (hdr->flags & VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_NEEDS_CSUM) { - u16 start = __virtio16_to_cpu(little_endian, hdr->csum_start); - u16 off = __virtio16_to_cpu(little_endian, hdr->csum_offset); + u32 start = __virtio16_to_cpu(little_endian, hdr->csum_start); + u32 off = __virtio16_to_cpu(little_endian, hdr->csum_offset); + u32 needed = start + max_t(u32, thlen, off + sizeof(__sum16)); + + if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, needed)) + return -EINVAL;

if (!skb_partial_csum_set(skb, start, off)) return -EINVAL;

p_off = skb_transport_offset(skb) + thlen; - if (p_off > skb_headlen(skb)) + if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, p_off)) return -EINVAL; } else { /* gso packets without NEEDS_CSUM do not set transport_offset. @@ -102,14 +106,14 @@ static inline int virtio_net_hdr_to_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, }

p_off = keys.control.thoff + thlen; - if (p_off > skb_headlen(skb) || + if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, p_off) || keys.basic.ip_proto != ip_proto) return -EINVAL;

skb_set_transport_header(skb, keys.control.thoff); } else if (gso_type) { p_off = thlen; - if (p_off > skb_headlen(skb)) + if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, p_off)) return -EINVAL; } }