virtio_net: fix memory leak in XDP_REDIRECT

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XDP_REDIRECT calling xdp_do_redirect() can fail for multiple reasons
(which can be inspected by tracepoints). The current semantics is that
on failure the driver calling xdp_do_redirect() must handle freeing or
recycling the page associated with this frame.  This can be seen as an
optimization, as drivers usually have an optimized XDP_DROP code path
for frame recycling in place already.

The virtio_net driver didn't handle when xdp_do_redirect() failed.
This caused a memory leak as the page refcnt wasn't decremented on
failures.

The function __virtnet_xdp_xmit() did handle one type of failure,
when the xmit queue virtqueue_add_outbuf() is full, which "hides"
releasing a refcnt on the page.  Instead the function __virtnet_xdp_xmit()
must follow API of xdp_do_redirect(), which on errors leave it up to
the caller to free the page, of the failed send operation.

Fixes: 186b3c998c ("virtio-net: support XDP_REDIRECT")
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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Jesper Dangaard Brouer 2018-02-20 14:32:15 +01:00 • committed by David S. Miller

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