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FAILED: patch "[PATCH] virtio_net: Do not pull payload in skb->head" failed to apply to 4.9-stable tree

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The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 0f6925b3e8da0dbbb52447ca8a8b42b371aac7db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2021 06:26:02 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] virtio_net: Do not pull payload in skb->head

Xuan Zhuo reported that commit 3226b158e67c ("net: avoid 32 x truesize under-estimation for tiny skbs") brought a ~10% performance drop.

The reason for the performance drop was that GRO was forced to chain sk_buff (using skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list), which uses more memory but also cause packet consumers to go over a lot of overhead handling all the tiny skbs.

It turns out that virtio_net page_to_skb() has a wrong strategy :
It allocates skbs with GOOD_COPY_LEN (128) bytes in skb->head, then copies 128 bytes from the page, before feeding the packet to GRO stack.

This was suboptimal before commit 3226b158e67c ("net: avoid 32 x truesize under-estimation for tiny skbs") because GRO was using 2 frags per MSS, meaning we were not packing MSS with 100% efficiency.

Fix is to pull only the ethernet header in page_to_skb()

Then, we change virtio_net_hdr_to_skb() to pull the missing headers, instead of assuming they were already pulled by callers.

This fixes the performance regression, but could also allow virtio_net to accept packets with more than 128bytes of headers.

Many thanks to Xuan Zhuo for his report, and his tests/help.

Fixes 3226b158e67c ("net: avoid 32 x truesize under-estimation for tiny skbs")
Reported-by Xuan Zhuo <[email protected]>
Link https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg731397.html
Co-Developed-by Xuan Zhuo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by Xuan Zhuo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Cc "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]>
Cc Jason Wang <[email protected]>
Cc [email protected]
Acked-by Jason Wang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by David S. Miller <[email protected]>
drivers/net/virtio_net.c +7 -3
index 82e520d2cb12..0824e6999e49 100644
@@ -406,9 +406,13 @@ static struct sk_buff *page_to_skb(struct virtnet_info *vi,
 	offset += hdr_padded_len;
 	p += hdr_padded_len;
 
-	copy = len;
-	if (copy > skb_tailroom(skb))
-		copy = skb_tailroom(skb);
+	/* Copy all frame if it fits skb->head, otherwise
+	 * we let virtio_net_hdr_to_skb() and GRO pull headers as needed.
+	 */
+	if (len <= skb_tailroom(skb))
+		copy = len;
+	else
+		copy = ETH_HLEN + metasize;
 	skb_put_data(skb, p, copy);
 
 	if (metasize) {
include/linux/virtio_net.h +9 -5
index 98775d7fa696..b465f8f3e554 100644
@@ -65,14 +65,18 @@ static inline int virtio_net_hdr_to_skb(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	skb_reset_mac_header(skb);
 
 	if (hdr->flags & VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_NEEDS_CSUM) {
-		u16 start = __virtio16_to_cpu(little_endian, hdr->csum_start);
-		u16 off = __virtio16_to_cpu(little_endian, hdr->csum_offset);
+		u32 start = __virtio16_to_cpu(little_endian, hdr->csum_start);
+		u32 off = __virtio16_to_cpu(little_endian, hdr->csum_offset);
+		u32 needed = start + max_t(u32, thlen, off + sizeof(__sum16));
+
+		if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, needed))
+			return -EINVAL;
 
 		if (!skb_partial_csum_set(skb, start, off))
 			return -EINVAL;
 
 		p_off = skb_transport_offset(skb) + thlen;
-		if (p_off > skb_headlen(skb))
+		if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, p_off))
 			return -EINVAL;
 	} else {
 		/* gso packets without NEEDS_CSUM do not set transport_offset.

@@ -102,14 +106,14 @@ static inline int virtio_net_hdr_to_skb(struct sk_buff *skb,
 			}
 
 			p_off = keys.control.thoff + thlen;
-			if (p_off > skb_headlen(skb) ||
+			if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, p_off) ||
 			    keys.basic.ip_proto != ip_proto)
 				return -EINVAL;
 
 			skb_set_transport_header(skb, keys.control.thoff);
 		} else if (gso_type) {
 			p_off = thlen;
-			if (p_off > skb_headlen(skb))
+			if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, p_off))
 				return -EINVAL;
 		}
 	}