kernel/linux.git/net/core/skbuff.c, branch v6.18.21

net: Drop the lock in skb_may_tx_timestamp()

2026-03-04T12:20:49+00:00

[ Upstream commit 983512f3a87fd8dc4c94dfa6b596b6e57df5aad7 ] skb_may_tx_timestamp() may acquire sock::sk_callback_lock. The lock must not be taken in IRQ context, only softirq is okay. A few drivers receive the timestamp via a dedicated interrupt and complete the TX timestamp from that handler. This will lead to a deadlock if the lock is already write-locked on the same CPU. Taking the lock can be avoided. The socket (pointed by the skb) will remain valid until the skb is released. The ->sk_socket and ->file member will be set to NULL once the user closes the socket which may happen before the timestamp arrives. If we happen to observe the pointer while the socket is closing but before the pointer is set to NULL then we may use it because both pointer (and the file's cred member) are RCU freed. Drop the lock. Use READ_ONCE() to obtain the individual pointer. Add a matching WRITE_ONCE() where the pointer are cleared. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260205145104.iWinkXHv@linutronix.de Fixes: b245be1f4db1a ("net-timestamp: no-payload only sysctl") Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Reviewed-by: Jason Xing Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260220183858.N4ERjFW6@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: fix memory leak in skb_segment_list for GRO packets

2026-01-17T15:35:26+00:00

[ Upstream commit 238e03d0466239410b72294b79494e43d4fabe77 ] When skb_segment_list() is called during packet forwarding, it handles packets that were aggregated by the GRO engine. Historically, the segmentation logic in skb_segment_list assumes that individual segments are split from a parent SKB and may need to carry their own socket memory accounting. Accordingly, the code transfers truesize from the parent to the newly created segments. Prior to commit ed4cccef64c1 ("gro: fix ownership transfer"), this truesize subtraction in skb_segment_list() was valid because fragments still carry a reference to the original socket. However, commit ed4cccef64c1 ("gro: fix ownership transfer") changed this behavior by ensuring that fraglist entries are explicitly orphaned (skb->sk = NULL) to prevent illegal orphaning later in the stack. This change meant that the entire socket memory charge remained with the head SKB, but the corresponding accounting logic in skb_segment_list() was never updated. As a result, the current code unconditionally adds each fragment's truesize to delta_truesize and subtracts it from the parent SKB. Since the fragments are no longer charged to the socket, this subtraction results in an effective under-count of memory when the head is freed. This causes sk_wmem_alloc to remain non-zero, preventing socket destruction and leading to a persistent memory leak. The leak can be observed via KMEMLEAK when tearing down the networking environment: unreferenced object 0xffff8881e6eb9100 (size 2048): comm "ping", pid 6720, jiffies 4295492526 backtrace: kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x5c6/0x800 sk_prot_alloc+0x5b/0x220 sk_alloc+0x35/0xa00 inet6_create.part.0+0x303/0x10d0 __sock_create+0x248/0x640 __sys_socket+0x11b/0x1d0 Since skb_segment_list() is exclusively used for SKB_GSO_FRAGLIST packets constructed by GRO, the truesize adjustment is removed. The call to skb_release_head_state() must be preserved. As documented in commit cf673ed0e057 ("net: fix fraglist segmentation reference count leak"), it is still required to correctly drop references to SKB extensions that may be overwritten during __copy_skb_header(). Fixes: ed4cccef64c1 ("gro: fix ownership transfer") Signed-off-by: Mohammad Heib Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260104213101.352887-1-mheib@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

udp: do not use skb_release_head_state() before skb_attempt_defer_free()

2025-10-16T14:03:07+00:00

Michal reported and bisected an issue after recent adoption of skb_attempt_defer_free() in UDP. The issue here is that skb_release_head_state() is called twice per skb, one time from skb_consume_udp(), then a second time from skb_defer_free_flush() and napi_consume_skb(). As Sabrina suggested, remove skb_release_head_state() call from skb_consume_udp(). Add a DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE(skb_nfct(skb)) in skb_attempt_defer_free() Many thanks to Michal, Sabrina, Paolo and Florian for their help. Fixes: 6471658dc66c ("udp: use skb_attempt_defer_free()") Reported-and-bisected-by: Michal Kubecek Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/gpjh4lrotyephiqpuldtxxizrsg6job7cvhiqrw72saz2ubs3h@g6fgbvexgl3r/ Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Tested-by: Michal Kubecek Cc: Sabrina Dubroca Cc: Florian Westphal Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251015052715.4140493-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

net: add NUMA awareness to skb_attempt_defer_free()

2025-09-30T13:45:53+00:00

Instead of sharing sd->defer_list & sd->defer_count with many cpus, add one pair for each NUMA node. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Jason Xing Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250928084934.3266948-4-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

net: use llist for sd->defer_list

2025-09-30T13:45:53+00:00

Get rid of sd->defer_lock and adopt llist operations. We optimize skb_attempt_defer_free() for the common case, where the packet is queued. Otherwise sd->defer_count is increasing, until skb_defer_free_flush() clears it. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Jason Xing Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250928084934.3266948-3-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

net: make softnet_data.defer_count an atomic

2025-09-30T13:45:52+00:00

This is preparation work to remove the softnet_data.defer_lock, as it is contended on hosts with large number of cores. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Jason Xing Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250928084934.3266948-2-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

netdevsim: a basic test PSP implementation

2025-09-30T13:17:21+00:00

Provide a PSP implementation for netdevsim. Use psp_dev_encapsulate() and psp_dev_rcv() to do actual encapsulation and decapsulation on skbs, but perform no encryption or decryption. In order to make encryption with a bad key result in a drop on the peer's rx side, we stash our psd's generation number in the first byte of each key before handing to the peer. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Co-developed-by: Daniel Zahka Signed-off-by: Daniel Zahka Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250927225420.1443468-2-kuba@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2025-09-25T18:00:59+00:00

Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.17-rc8). Conflicts: drivers/net/can/spi/hi311x.c 6b6968084721 ("can: hi311x: fix null pointer dereference when resuming from sleep before interface was enabled") 27ce71e1ce81 ("net: WQ_PERCPU added to alloc_workqueue users") https://lore.kernel.org/72ce7599-1b5b-464a-a5de-228ff9724701@kernel.org net/smc/smc_loopback.c drivers/dibs/dibs_loopback.c a35c04de2565 ("net/smc: fix warning in smc_rx_splice() when calling get_page()") cc21191b584c ("dibs: Move data path to dibs layer") https://lore.kernel.org/74368a5c-48ac-4f8e-a198-40ec1ed3cf5f@kernel.org Adjacent changes: drivers/net/dsa/lantiq/lantiq_gswip.c c0054b25e2f1 ("net: dsa: lantiq_gswip: move gswip_add_single_port_br() call to port_setup()") 7a1eaef0a791 ("net: dsa: lantiq_gswip: support model-specific mac_select_pcs()") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: allow alloc_skb_with_frags() to use MAX_SKB_FRAGS

2025-09-23T23:51:26+00:00

Currently, alloc_skb_with_frags() will only fill (MAX_SKB_FRAGS - 1) slots. I think it should use all MAX_SKB_FRAGS slots, as callers of alloc_skb_with_frags() will size their allocation of frags based on MAX_SKB_FRAGS. This issue was discovered via a test patch that sets 'order' to 0 in alloc_skb_with_frags(), which effectively tests/simulates high fragmentation. In this case sendmsg() on unix sockets will fail every time for large allocations. If the PAGE_SIZE is 4K, then data_len will request 68K or 17 pages, but alloc_skb_with_frags() can only allocate 64K in this case or 16 pages. Fixes: 09c2c90705bb ("net: allow alloc_skb_with_frags() to allocate bigger packets") Signed-off-by: Jason Baron Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250922191957.2855612-1-jbaron@akamai.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: modify core data structures for PSP datapath support

2025-09-18T10:32:06+00:00

Add pointers to psp data structures to core networking structs, and an SKB extension to carry the PSP information from the drivers to the socket layer. Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Co-developed-by: Daniel Zahka Signed-off-by: Daniel Zahka Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250917000954.859376-4-daniel.zahka@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni