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authorNorbert Szetei <norbert@doyensec.com>2026-08-22 11:15:08 +0200
committerPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>2026-08-25 09:36:47 +0200
commitf66bdb1cc0fcd227a062378f8be0b5873aa5600a (patch)
tree94b502dd3b5e9f9b0f6245449062da1ee8776964
parent8ece906150128d5ec2462aabcc978c568433eca4 (diff)
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net: skbuff: don't touch shared zerocopy state in skb_tx_error()
skb_tx_error() completes the zerocopy uarg and clears SKBFL_ALL_ZEROCOPY, and skb_zcopy_downgrade_managed() clears SKBFL_MANAGED_FRAG_REFS. Both live in skb_shinfo(), which every clone shares, while the caller only owns the reference it is about to drop. Through a clone it tells the producer its pages are free and drops SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG for an skb that is still in flight. Open vSwitch reaches this with a non-last OVS_ACTION_ATTR_RECIRC: clone_execute() sends a skb_clone() into ovs_dp_process_packet() while do_execute_actions() keeps forwarding the original, and skb_clone() does not privatise the frags here -- skb_orphan_frags() returns early on SKBFL_DONT_ORPHAN. A flow miss on the clone then strips the marker from the packet still being forwarded, and a later local ESP delivery decrypts in place over frags it does not own privately. Skip it for a cloned skb. Nothing is lost: skb_release_data() clears the zerocopy state once the last reference to the shared data goes. Fixes: 25121173f7b1 ("skb: api to report errors for zero copy skbs") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Suggested-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org> Signed-off-by: Norbert Szetei <norbert@doyensec.com> Reviewed-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org> Tested-by: Jongmin Jang <payload.jang@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/CFAB292A-674B-4C14-BB2C-BB8830AD5659@doyensec.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--net/core/skbuff.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index ab3d161247b9..b9541329f1a7 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -1417,10 +1417,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(skb_dump);
*
* Report xmit error if a device callback is tracking this skb.
* skb must be freed afterwards.
+ *
+ * Does nothing for a cloned skb: the zerocopy state lives in
+ * skb_shinfo(), which the clones share.
*/
void skb_tx_error(struct sk_buff *skb)
{
- if (skb) {
+ if (skb && !skb_cloned(skb)) {
skb_zcopy_downgrade_managed(skb);
skb_zcopy_clear(skb, true);
}