From 88f20cccbeec9a5e83621df5cc2453b5081454dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Juergen Gross Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 08:36:12 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] xen/netback: don't queue unlimited number of packages commit be81992f9086b230623ae3ebbc85ecee4d00a3d3 upstream. In case a guest isn't consuming incoming network traffic as fast as it is coming in, xen-netback is buffering network packages in unlimited numbers today. This can result in host OOM situations. Commit f48da8b14d04ca8 ("xen-netback: fix unlimited guest Rx internal queue and carrier flapping") meant to introduce a mechanism to limit the amount of buffered data by stopping the Tx queue when reaching the data limit, but this doesn't work for cases like UDP. When hitting the limit don't queue further SKBs, but drop them instead. In order to be able to tell Rx packages have been dropped increment the rx_dropped statistics counter in this case. It should be noted that the old solution to continue queueing SKBs had the additional problem of an overflow of the 32-bit rx_queue_len value would result in intermittent Tx queue enabling. This is part of XSA-392 Fixes: f48da8b14d04ca8 ("xen-netback: fix unlimited guest Rx internal queue and carrier flapping") Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/xen-netback/rx.c | 18 +++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/rx.c b/drivers/net/xen-netback/rx.c index a8511e27d6c13..dbac4c03d21a1 100644 --- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/rx.c +++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/rx.c @@ -88,16 +88,19 @@ void xenvif_rx_queue_tail(struct xenvif_queue *queue, struct sk_buff *skb) spin_lock_irqsave(&queue->rx_queue.lock, flags); - if (skb_queue_empty(&queue->rx_queue)) - xenvif_update_needed_slots(queue, skb); - - __skb_queue_tail(&queue->rx_queue, skb); - - queue->rx_queue_len += skb->len; - if (queue->rx_queue_len > queue->rx_queue_max) { + if (queue->rx_queue_len >= queue->rx_queue_max) { struct net_device *dev = queue->vif->dev; netif_tx_stop_queue(netdev_get_tx_queue(dev, queue->id)); + kfree_skb(skb); + queue->vif->dev->stats.rx_dropped++; + } else { + if (skb_queue_empty(&queue->rx_queue)) + xenvif_update_needed_slots(queue, skb); + + __skb_queue_tail(&queue->rx_queue, skb); + + queue->rx_queue_len += skb->len; } spin_unlock_irqrestore(&queue->rx_queue.lock, flags); @@ -147,6 +150,7 @@ static void xenvif_rx_queue_drop_expired(struct xenvif_queue *queue) break; xenvif_rx_dequeue(queue); kfree_skb(skb); + queue->vif->dev->stats.rx_dropped++; } }