From: Jason Xing Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 06:42:50 +0000 (+0800) Subject: page_pool: avoid infinite loop to schedule delayed worker X-Git-Tag: v6.15-rc1~160^2~298 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=43130d02baa137033c25297aaae95fd0edc41654;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git page_pool: avoid infinite loop to schedule delayed worker We noticed the kworker in page_pool_release_retry() was waken up repeatedly and infinitely in production because of the buggy driver causing the inflight less than 0 and warning us in page_pool_inflight()[1]. Since the inflight value goes negative, it means we should not expect the whole page_pool to get back to work normally. This patch mitigates the adverse effect by not rescheduling the kworker when detecting the inflight negative in page_pool_release_retry(). [1] [Mon Feb 10 20:36:11 2025] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [Mon Feb 10 20:36:11 2025] Negative(-51446) inflight packet-pages ... [Mon Feb 10 20:36:11 2025] Call Trace: [Mon Feb 10 20:36:11 2025] page_pool_release_retry+0x23/0x70 [Mon Feb 10 20:36:11 2025] process_one_work+0x1b1/0x370 [Mon Feb 10 20:36:11 2025] worker_thread+0x37/0x3a0 [Mon Feb 10 20:36:11 2025] kthread+0x11a/0x140 [Mon Feb 10 20:36:11 2025] ? process_one_work+0x370/0x370 [Mon Feb 10 20:36:11 2025] ? __kthread_cancel_work+0x40/0x40 [Mon Feb 10 20:36:11 2025] ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40 [Mon Feb 10 20:36:11 2025] ---[ end trace ebffe800f33e7e34 ]--- Note: before this patch, the above calltrace would flood the dmesg due to repeated reschedule of release_dw kworker. Signed-off-by: Jason Xing Reviewed-by: Mina Almasry Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250214064250.85987-1-kerneljasonxing@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni --- diff --git a/net/core/page_pool.c b/net/core/page_pool.c index 1c6fec08bc434..acef1fcd8ddcf 100644 --- a/net/core/page_pool.c +++ b/net/core/page_pool.c @@ -1112,7 +1112,13 @@ static void page_pool_release_retry(struct work_struct *wq) int inflight; inflight = page_pool_release(pool); - if (!inflight) + /* In rare cases, a driver bug may cause inflight to go negative. + * Don't reschedule release if inflight is 0 or negative. + * - If 0, the page_pool has been destroyed + * - if negative, we will never recover + * in both cases no reschedule is necessary. + */ + if (inflight <= 0) return; /* Periodic warning for page pools the user can't see */