[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "virtio_net: fix error handling for mergeable buffers" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    virtio_net: fix error handling for mergeable buffers

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.16.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From eac93179611f012f6f18670cc53c518cb0ae0058 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst at redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 15:32:47 +0200
Subject: virtio_net: fix error handling for mergeable buffers

commit 8fc3b9e9a229778e5af3aa453c44f1a3857ba769 upstream.

Eric Dumazet noticed that if we encounter an error
when processing a mergeable buffer, we don't
dequeue all of the buffers from this packet,
the result is almost sure to be loss of networking.

Fix this issue.

Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Michael Dalton <mwdalton at google.com>
Acked-by: Michael Dalton <mwdalton at google.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang at redhat.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com>

(cherry picked from commit 8fc3b9e9a229778e5af3aa453c44f1a3857ba769)
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index fa2385a..184c59c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -294,26 +294,33 @@ static struct sk_buff *page_to_skb(struct receive_queue *rq,
 	return skb;
 }

-static int receive_mergeable(struct receive_queue *rq, struct sk_buff *skb)
+static struct sk_buff *receive_mergeable(struct net_device *dev,
+					 struct receive_queue *rq,
+					 void *buf,
+					 unsigned int len)
 {
-	struct skb_vnet_hdr *hdr = skb_vnet_hdr(skb);
-	struct page *page;
-	int num_buf, i, len;
+	struct skb_vnet_hdr *hdr = page_address(buf);
+	int num_buf = hdr->mhdr.num_buffers;
+	struct page *page = buf;
+	struct sk_buff *skb = page_to_skb(rq, page, len);
+	int i;
+
+	if (unlikely(!skb))
+		goto err_skb;

-	num_buf = hdr->mhdr.num_buffers;
 	while (--num_buf) {
 		i = skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags;
 		if (i >= MAX_SKB_FRAGS) {
 			pr_debug("%s: packet too long\n", skb->dev->name);
 			skb->dev->stats.rx_length_errors++;
-			return -EINVAL;
+			return NULL;
 		}
 		page = virtqueue_get_buf(rq->vq, &len);
 		if (!page) {
-			pr_debug("%s: rx error: %d buffers missing\n",
-				 skb->dev->name, hdr->mhdr.num_buffers);
-			skb->dev->stats.rx_length_errors++;
-			return -EINVAL;
+			pr_debug("%s: rx error: %d buffers %d missing\n",
+				 dev->name, hdr->mhdr.num_buffers, num_buf);
+			dev->stats.rx_length_errors++;
+			goto err_buf;
 		}

 		if (len > PAGE_SIZE)
@@ -323,7 +330,25 @@ static int receive_mergeable(struct receive_queue *rq, struct sk_buff *skb)

 		--rq->num;
 	}
-	return 0;
+	return skb;
+err_skb:
+	give_pages(rq, page);
+	while (--num_buf) {
+		buf = virtqueue_get_buf(rq->vq, &len);
+		if (unlikely(!buf)) {
+			pr_debug("%s: rx error: %d buffers missing\n",
+				 dev->name, num_buf);
+			dev->stats.rx_length_errors++;
+			break;
+		}
+		page = buf;
+		give_pages(rq, page);
+		--rq->num;
+	}
+err_buf:
+	dev->stats.rx_dropped++;
+	dev_kfree_skb(skb);
+	return NULL;
 }

 static void receive_buf(struct receive_queue *rq, void *buf, unsigned int len)
@@ -351,17 +376,18 @@ static void receive_buf(struct receive_queue *rq, void *buf, unsigned int len)
 		skb_trim(skb, len);
 	} else {
 		page = buf;
-		skb = page_to_skb(rq, page, len);
-		if (unlikely(!skb)) {
-			dev->stats.rx_dropped++;
-			give_pages(rq, page);
-			return;
-		}
-		if (vi->mergeable_rx_bufs)
-			if (receive_mergeable(rq, skb)) {
-				dev_kfree_skb(skb);
+		if (vi->mergeable_rx_bufs) {
+			skb = receive_mergeable(dev, rq, page, len);
+			if (unlikely(!skb))
+				return;
+		} else {
+			skb = page_to_skb(rq, page, len);
+			if (unlikely(!skb)) {
+				dev->stats.rx_dropped++;
+				give_pages(rq, page);
 				return;
 			}
+		}
 	}

 	hdr = skb_vnet_hdr(skb);
--
1.8.3.2