From: Jens Freimann <jfreimann@redhat.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: maxime.coquelin@redhat.com, dev@dpdk.org, stable@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] virtio: fix buffer leak on vlan insert
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2019 09:43:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190405074358.c5dhohtsesxiwj2m@jenstp.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190405000343.24424-1-stephen@networkplumber.org>
On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 05:03:43PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>The function rte_vlan_insert may allocate a new buffer for the
>vlan header and return a different mbuf than originally passed.
>In this case, the stored mbuf in txm[] array could point to wrong
>buffer.
>
>Fixes: dd856dfcb9e7 ("virtio: use any layout on Tx")
>Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
>---
> drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
>diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c
>index e6f3706d6fe1..2ae4232c181d 100644
>--- a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c
>+++ b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c
>@@ -2003,6 +2003,8 @@ virtio_xmit_pkts_packed(void *tx_queue, struct rte_mbuf **tx_pkts,
> rte_pktmbuf_free(txm);
> continue;
> }
>+ /* vlan_insert may add a header mbuf */
>+ tx_pkts[nb_tx] = txm;
> }
>
> /* optimize ring usage */
Good catch. I think we have the same bug in virtio_xmit_pkts() and
virtio_xmit_pkts_inorder() and should fix these as well.
Thanks!
regards,
Jens
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-05 7:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-05 0:03 Stephen Hemminger
2019-04-05 0:03 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-04-05 7:43 ` Jens Freimann [this message]
2019-04-05 7:43 ` Jens Freimann
2019-04-05 16:31 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Stephen Hemminger
2019-04-05 16:31 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-04-08 9:21 ` Jens Freimann
2019-04-08 9:21 ` Jens Freimann
2019-04-17 7:16 ` Maxime Coquelin
2019-04-17 7:16 ` Maxime Coquelin
2019-04-17 7:56 ` Maxime Coquelin
2019-04-17 7:56 ` Maxime Coquelin
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