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virtio_net: Differentiate sk_buff and xdp_frame on freeing
authorToshiaki Makita <makita.toshiaki@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Tue, 29 Jan 2019 00:45:59 +0000 (09:45 +0900)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 6 Feb 2019 16:27:39 +0000 (17:27 +0100)
commit95ee755f964d854e1474fbc6b87217a5d3abfc61
tree6f572e2e3ccb1751c4c6ee9e368b2baf94a130ec
parenta60a8b8a3040e7d2e31c294eac88a506de8dd6cb
virtio_net: Differentiate sk_buff and xdp_frame on freeing

[ Upstream commit 5050471d35d1316ba32dfcbb409978337eb9e75e

  I had to fold commit df133f3f9625 ("virtio_net: bulk free tx skbs")
  into this to make it work.  ]

We do not reset or free up unused buffers when enabling/disabling XDP,
so it can happen that xdp_frames are freed after disabling XDP or
sk_buffs are freed after enabling XDP on xdp tx queues.
Thus we need to handle both forms (xdp_frames and sk_buffs) regardless
of XDP setting.
One way to trigger this problem is to disable XDP when napi_tx is
enabled. In that case, virtnet_xdp_set() calls virtnet_napi_enable()
which kicks NAPI. The NAPI handler will call virtnet_poll_cleantx()
which invokes free_old_xmit_skbs() for queues which have been used by
XDP.

Note that even with this change we need to keep skipping
free_old_xmit_skbs() from NAPI handlers when XDP is enabled, because XDP
tx queues do not aquire queue locks.

- v2: Use napi_consume_skb() instead of dev_consume_skb_any()

Fixes: 4941d472bf95 ("virtio-net: do not reset during XDP set")
Signed-off-by: Toshiaki Makita <makita.toshiaki@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/virtio_net.c