ibmvnic: Add tx check to prevent skb leak
authorNick Child <nnac123@linux.ibm.com>
Thu, 20 Jun 2024 15:23:11 +0000 (10:23 -0500)
committerPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Tue, 25 Jun 2024 08:43:42 +0000 (10:43 +0200)
commit0983d288caf984de0202c66641577b739caad561
treeaa8f19beb0cbfee46a244d281d69d6806c758240
parent482000cf7fd5ff42214c0d71f30ed42c55bcb00a
ibmvnic: Add tx check to prevent skb leak

Below is a summary of how the driver stores a reference to an skb during
transmit:
    tx_buff[free_map[consumer_index]]->skb = new_skb;
    free_map[consumer_index] = IBMVNIC_INVALID_MAP;
    consumer_index ++;
Where variable data looks like this:
    free_map == [4, IBMVNIC_INVALID_MAP, IBMVNIC_INVALID_MAP, 0, 3]
                                                consumer_index^
    tx_buff == [skb=null, skb=<ptr>, skb=<ptr>, skb=null, skb=null]

The driver has checks to ensure that free_map[consumer_index] pointed to
a valid index but there was no check to ensure that this index pointed
to an unused/null skb address. So, if, by some chance, our free_map and
tx_buff lists become out of sync then we were previously risking an
skb memory leak. This could then cause tcp congestion control to stop
sending packets, eventually leading to ETIMEDOUT.

Therefore, add a conditional to ensure that the skb address is null. If
not then warn the user (because this is still a bug that should be
patched) and free the old pointer to prevent memleak/tcp problems.

Signed-off-by: Nick Child <nnac123@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c