On Mon, 2017-07-17 at 14:26 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-07-17 at 22:59 +0200, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> > Eric noticed that in udp_recvmsg() we still need to access
> > skb->dst while processing the IP options.
> > Since commit 0a463c78d25b ("udp: avoid a cache miss on dequeue")
> > skb->dst is no more available at recvmsg() time and bad things
> > will happen if we enter the relevant code path.
> >
> > This commit address the issue, avoid clearing skb->dst if
> > any IP options are present into the relevant skb.
> > Since the IP CB is contained in the first skb cacheline, we can
> > test it to decide to leverage the consume_stateless_skb()
> > optimization, without measurable additional cost in the faster
> > path.
> >
> > Fixes: b65ac44674dd ("udp: try to avoid 2 cache miss on dequeue")
>
> Strange.... I thought bug was coming from
> commit 0a463c78d25b ("udp: avoid a cache miss on dequeue")
You are right - and I was wrong with this tag.
>
> Please also add original reporter, from syzkaller team.
>
> Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <[email protected]>
I'll resubmit soon a v2 with the update tags. I'm not sure if I must or
must not retain your ack ?
BTW I think that __ip_options_echo() also needs to access skb->dev, via
fib_compute_spec_dst(), and perhaps another patch is needed. I'll look
at that today.
Thanks,
Paolo
