- Replace NAPI_SKB_CACHE_HALF with NAPI_SKB_CACHE_FREE
- Only free 32 skbs in napi_skb_cache_put()
Since the first patch adjusting NAPI_SKB_CACHE_SIZE to 128, the number
of packets to be freed in the softirq was increased from 32 to 64.
Considering a subsequent net_rx_action() calling napi_poll() a few
times can easily consume the 64 available slots and we can afford
keeping a higher value of sk_buffs in per-cpu storage, decrease
NAPI_SKB_CACHE_FREE to 32 like before. So now the logic is 1) keeping
96 skbs, 2) freeing 32 skbs at one time.
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kernelxing@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251118070646.61344-4-kerneljasonxing@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
After commit b61785852e ("net: increase skb_defer_max default to 128")
changed the value sysctl_skb_defer_max to avoid many calls to
kick_defer_list_purge(), the same situation can be applied to
NAPI_SKB_CACHE_SIZE that was proposed in 2016. It's a trade-off between
using pre-allocated memory in skb_cache and saving more a bit heavy
function calls in the softirq context.
With this patch applied, we can have more skbs per-cpu to accelerate the
sending path that needs to acquire new skbs.
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kernelxing@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251118070646.61344-2-kerneljasonxing@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
This is a followup of commit e20dfbad8a ("net: fix napi_consume_skb()
with alien skbs").
Now the per-cpu napi_skb_cache is populated from TX completion path,
we can make use of this cache, especially for cpus not used
from a driver NAPI poll (primary user of napi_cache).
We can use the napi_skb_cache only if current context is not from hard irq.
With this patch, I consistently reach 130 Mpps on my UDP tx stress test
and reduce SLUB spinlock contention to smaller values.
Note there is still some SLUB contention for skb->head allocations.
I had to tune /sys/kernel/slab/skbuff_small_head/cpu_partial
and /sys/kernel/slab/skbuff_small_head/min_partial depending
on the platform taxonomy.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251116202717.1542829-4-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.18-rc6).
No conflicts, adjacent changes in:
drivers/net/phy/micrel.c
96a9178a29 ("net: phy: micrel: lan8814 fix reset of the QSGMII interface")
61b7ade9ba ("net: phy: micrel: Add support for non PTP SKUs for lan8814")
and a trivial one in tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
commit efa95b01da ("netpoll: fix use after free") incorrectly
ignored the refcount and prematurely set dev->npinfo to NULL during
netpoll cleanup, leading to improper behavior and memory leaks.
Scenario causing lack of proper cleanup:
1) A netpoll is associated with a NIC (e.g., eth0) and netdev->npinfo is
allocated, and refcnt = 1
- Keep in mind that npinfo is shared among all netpoll instances. In
this case, there is just one.
2) Another netpoll is also associated with the same NIC and
npinfo->refcnt += 1.
- Now dev->npinfo->refcnt = 2;
- There is just one npinfo associated to the netdev.
3) When the first netpolls goes to clean up:
- The first cleanup succeeds and clears np->dev->npinfo, ignoring
refcnt.
- It basically calls `RCU_INIT_POINTER(np->dev->npinfo, NULL);`
- Set dev->npinfo = NULL, without proper cleanup
- No ->ndo_netpoll_cleanup() is either called
4) Now the second target tries to clean up
- The second cleanup fails because np->dev->npinfo is already NULL.
* In this case, ops->ndo_netpoll_cleanup() was never called, and
the skb pool is not cleaned as well (for the second netpoll
instance)
- This leaks npinfo and skbpool skbs, which is clearly reported by
kmemleak.
Revert commit efa95b01da ("netpoll: fix use after free") and adds
clarifying comments emphasizing that npinfo cleanup should only happen
once the refcount reaches zero, ensuring stable and correct netpoll
behavior.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.17.x
Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jv@jvosburgh.net>
Fixes: efa95b01da ("netpoll: fix use after free")
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251107-netconsole_torture-v10-1-749227b55f63@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Currently bpf_dynptr_from_skb_meta() marks the dynptr as read-only when
the skb is cloned, preventing writes to metadata.
Remove this restriction and unclone the skb head on bpf_dynptr_write() to
metadata, now that the metadata is preserved during uncloning. This makes
metadata dynptr consistent with skb dynptr, allowing writes regardless of
whether the skb is cloned.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@cloudflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251105-skb-meta-rx-path-v4-3-5ceb08a9b37b@cloudflare.com
skb_defer_free_flush() is becoming more important these days.
Add a prefetch operation to reduce latency a bit on some
platforms like AMD EPYC 7B12.
On more recent cpus, a stall happens when reading skb_shinfo().
Avoiding it will require a more elaborate strategy.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251106085500.2438951-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.18-rc5).
Conflicts:
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c
9222582ec5 ("Revert "wifi: ath12k: Fix missing station power save configuration"")
6917e268c4 ("wifi: ath12k: Defer vdev bring-up until CSA finalize to avoid stale beacon")
https://lore.kernel.org/11cece9f7e36c12efd732baa5718239b1bf8c950.camel@sipsolutions.net
Adjacent changes:
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/Kconfig
b1d16f7c00 ("libie: depend on DEBUG_FS when building LIBIE_FWLOG")
93f53db9f9 ("ice: switch to Page Pool")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Pull networking fixes from Jakub Kicinski:
Including fixes from bluetooth and wireless.
Current release - new code bugs:
- ptp: expose raw cycles only for clocks with free-running counter
- bonding: fix null-deref in actor_port_prio setting
- mdio: ERR_PTR-check regmap pointer returned by
device_node_to_regmap()
- eth: libie: depend on DEBUG_FS when building LIBIE_FWLOG
Previous releases - regressions:
- virtio_net: fix perf regression due to bad alignment of
virtio_net_hdr_v1_hash
- Revert "wifi: ath10k: avoid unnecessary wait for service ready
message" caused regressions for QCA988x and QCA9984
- Revert "wifi: ath12k: Fix missing station power save configuration"
caused regressions for WCN7850
- eth: bnxt_en: shutdown FW DMA in bnxt_shutdown(), fix memory
corruptions after kexec
Previous releases - always broken:
- virtio-net: fix received packet length check for big packets
- sctp: fix races in socket diag handling
- wifi: add an hrtimer-based delayed work item to avoid low
granularity of timers set relatively far in the future, and use it
where it matters (e.g. when performing AP-scheduled channel switch)
- eth: mlx5e:
- correctly propagate error in case of module EEPROM read failure
- fix HW-GRO on systems with PAGE_SIZE == 64kB
- dsa: b53: fixes for tagging, link configuration / RMII, FDB,
multicast
- phy: lan8842: implement latest errata"
* tag 'net-6.18-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (63 commits)
selftests/vsock: avoid false-positives when checking dmesg
net: bridge: fix MST static key usage
net: bridge: fix use-after-free due to MST port state bypass
lan966x: Fix sleeping in atomic context
bonding: fix NULL pointer dereference in actor_port_prio setting
net: dsa: microchip: Fix reserved multicast address table programming
net: wan: framer: pef2256: Switch to devm_mfd_add_devices()
net: libwx: fix device bus LAN ID
net/mlx5e: SHAMPO, Fix header formulas for higher MTUs and 64K pages
net/mlx5e: SHAMPO, Fix skb size check for 64K pages
net/mlx5e: SHAMPO, Fix header mapping for 64K pages
net: ti: icssg-prueth: Fix fdb hash size configuration
net/mlx5e: Fix return value in case of module EEPROM read error
net: gro_cells: Reduce lock scope in gro_cell_poll
libie: depend on DEBUG_FS when building LIBIE_FWLOG
wifi: mac80211_hwsim: Limit destroy_on_close radio removal to netgroup
netpoll: Fix deadlock in memory allocation under spinlock
net: ethernet: ti: netcp: Standardize knav_dma_open_channel to return NULL on error
virtio-net: fix received length check in big packets
bnxt_en: Fix warning in bnxt_dl_reload_down()
...
One GRO-cell device's NAPI callback can nest into the GRO-cell of
another device if the underlying device is also using GRO-cell.
This is the case for IPsec over vxlan.
These two GRO-cells are separate devices. From lockdep's point of view
it is the same because each device is sharing the same lock class and so
it reports a possible deadlock assuming one device is nesting into
itself.
Hold the bh_lock only while accessing gro_cell::napi_skbs in
gro_cell_poll(). This reduces the locking scope and avoids acquiring the
same lock class multiple times.
Fixes: 25718fdcbd ("net: gro_cells: Use nested-BH locking for gro_cell")
Reported-by: Gal Pressman <gal@nvidia.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/66664116-edb8-48dc-ad72-d5223696dd19@nvidia.com/
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251104153435.ty88xDQt@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Fix a AA deadlock in refill_skbs() where memory allocation while holding
skb_pool->lock can trigger a recursive lock acquisition attempt.
The deadlock scenario occurs when the system is under severe memory
pressure:
1. refill_skbs() acquires skb_pool->lock (spinlock)
2. alloc_skb() is called while holding the lock
3. Memory allocator fails and calls slab_out_of_memory()
4. This triggers printk() for the OOM warning
5. The console output path calls netpoll_send_udp()
6. netpoll_send_udp() attempts to acquire the same skb_pool->lock
7. Deadlock: the lock is already held by the same CPU
Call stack:
refill_skbs()
spin_lock_irqsave(&skb_pool->lock) <- lock acquired
__alloc_skb()
kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof()
slab_out_of_memory()
printk()
console_flush_all()
netpoll_send_udp()
skb_dequeue()
spin_lock_irqsave(&skb_pool->lock) <- deadlock attempt
This bug was exposed by commit 248f6571fd ("netpoll: Optimize skb
refilling on critical path") which removed refill_skbs() from the
critical path (where nested printk was being deferred), letting nested
printk being called from inside refill_skbs()
Refactor refill_skbs() to never allocate memory while holding
the spinlock.
Another possible solution to fix this problem is protecting the
refill_skbs() from nested printks, basically calling
printk_deferred_{enter,exit}() in refill_skbs(), then, any nested
pr_warn() would be deferred.
I prefer this approach, given I _think_ it might be a good idea to move
the alloc_skb() from GFP_ATOMIC to GFP_KERNEL in the future, so, having
the alloc_skb() outside of the lock will be necessary step.
There is a possible TOCTOU issue when checking for the pool length, and
queueing the new allocated skb, but, this is not an issue, given that
an extra SKB in the pool is harmless and it will be eventually used.
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Fixes: 248f6571fd ("netpoll: Optimize skb refilling on critical path")
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251103-fix_netpoll_aa-v4-1-4cfecdf6da7c@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Jason Xing
Eric Dumazet
Jakub Kicinski
Breno Leitao
Jakub Sitnicki
Linus Torvalds
Raju Rangoju
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior