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Re: [Qemu-devel] net: vmxnet3: memory leakage issue
From: |
Miao Yan |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] net: vmxnet3: memory leakage issue |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Dec 2015 16:43:30 +0800 |
2015-12-14 19:58 GMT+08:00 P J P <address@hidden>:
> Hello Dmitry, Jason
>
> +-- On Sun, 13 Dec 2015, Dmitry Fleytman wrote --+
> | According to Linux driver code VMXNET3_CMD_QUIESCE_DEV does not flip
> | paused/active states. It always disables device, see vmxnet3_resume() for
> |
> |
> <https://lxr.missinglinkelectronics.com/linux/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c#L3423>):
> |
> | Driver issues VMXNET3_CMD_QUIESCE_DEV to clear the device state and then
> | performs activate sequence to launch the device.
>
> Yes, I did look through it. But it wasn't clear how it does flow control. As
> it resets the device on pause and loses any outstanding data. Whereas in the
> vmxnet3 emulator, upon deactivation it merely sets the 's->active_device' flag
> to be false, and the same is checked before receiving new packets. Do either
> of the vmxnet3 implementations perform flow control?(to avoid congestion)
So far as I know, vmxnet3 doesn't have a flow control spec.
Same is true for e1000 emulation layer in esxi, writing
to flow control register bits is ignored. Maybe there are
some buffering or throttling layer in-between that do not rely on pause frame.
>
> | So the correct fix should:
> |
> | 1. On device activation: check if device is active - do nothing
> | 2. In all places that set device_active to false, i.e. device quiesce,
> reset and VMXNET3_REG_DSAL set to zero: deallocate tx/rx packets as done in
> vmxnet3_net_uninit():
> |
> | net_tx_pkt_reset(s->tx_pkt);
> | net_tx_pkt_uninit(s->tx_pkt);
> | net_rx_pkt_uninit(s->rx_pkt);
> |
> | It could be a good idea to extend vmxnet3_deactivate_device() with those
> | lines and call it from every place that sets device_active to false or frees
> | TX/RX packets.
>
> Right. Please see below a new tested patch which does this and fixes the
> host memory leakage issue. Does it look good?
>
> ===
> From d4b277788d518e915cc6c20488d587cb5716e96a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Prasad J Pandit <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:56:52 +0530
> Subject: [PATCH] net: vmxnet3: avoid memory leakage in activate_device
>
> Vmxnet3 device emulator does not check if the device is active
> before activating it, also it did not free the transmit & receive
> buffers while deactivating the device, thus resulting in memory
> leakage on the host. This patch fixes both these issues to avoid
> host memory leakage.
>
> Reported-by: Qinghao Tang <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Prasad J Pandit <address@hidden>
> ---
> hw/net/vmxnet3.c | 18 ++++++++++++------
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/hw/net/vmxnet3.c b/hw/net/vmxnet3.c
> index 37373e5..3936f12 100644
> --- a/hw/net/vmxnet3.c
> +++ b/hw/net/vmxnet3.c
> @@ -1195,6 +1195,9 @@ static void vmxnet3_reset_mac(VMXNET3State *s)
> static void vmxnet3_deactivate_device(VMXNET3State *s)
> {
> VMW_CBPRN("Deactivating vmxnet3...");
> + vmxnet_tx_pkt_reset(s->tx_pkt);
> + vmxnet_tx_pkt_uninit(s->tx_pkt);
> + vmxnet_rx_pkt_uninit(s->rx_pkt);
> s->device_active = false;
> }
>
> @@ -1204,7 +1207,6 @@ static void vmxnet3_reset(VMXNET3State *s)
>
> vmxnet3_deactivate_device(s);
> vmxnet3_reset_interrupt_states(s);
> - vmxnet_tx_pkt_reset(s->tx_pkt);
> s->drv_shmem = 0;
> s->tx_sop = true;
> s->skip_current_tx_pkt = false;
> @@ -1431,6 +1433,12 @@ static void vmxnet3_activate_device(VMXNET3State *s)
> return;
> }
>
> + /* Verify if device is active */
> + if (s->device_active) {
> + VMW_CFPRN("Vmxnet3 device is active");
> + return;
> + }
> +
> vmxnet3_adjust_by_guest_type(s);
> vmxnet3_update_features(s);
> vmxnet3_update_pm_state(s);
> @@ -1627,7 +1635,7 @@ static void vmxnet3_handle_command(VMXNET3State *s,
> uint64_t cmd)
> break;
>
> case VMXNET3_CMD_QUIESCE_DEV:
> - VMW_CBPRN("Set: VMXNET3_CMD_QUIESCE_DEV - pause the device");
> + VMW_CBPRN("Set: VMXNET3_CMD_QUIESCE_DEV - deactivate the device");
> vmxnet3_deactivate_device(s);
> break;
>
> @@ -1741,7 +1749,7 @@ vmxnet3_io_bar1_write(void *opaque,
> * shared address only after we get the high part
> */
> if (val == 0) {
> - s->device_active = false;
> + vmxnet3_deactivate_device(s);
> }
> s->temp_shared_guest_driver_memory = val;
> s->drv_shmem = 0;
> @@ -2021,9 +2029,7 @@ static bool vmxnet3_peer_has_vnet_hdr(VMXNET3State *s)
> static void vmxnet3_net_uninit(VMXNET3State *s)
> {
> g_free(s->mcast_list);
> - vmxnet_tx_pkt_reset(s->tx_pkt);
> - vmxnet_tx_pkt_uninit(s->tx_pkt);
> - vmxnet_rx_pkt_uninit(s->rx_pkt);
> + vmxnet3_deactivate_device(s);
> qemu_del_nic(s->nic);
> }
>
> --
> 2.4.3
> ===
>
>
> Thank you.
> --
> Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team
> 47AF CE69 3A90 54AA 9045 1053 DD13 3D32 FE5B 041F
>
- Re: [Qemu-devel] net: vmxnet3: memory leakage issue, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] net: vmxnet3: memory leakage issue, Dmitry Fleytman, 2015/12/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] net: vmxnet3: memory leakage issue, P J P, 2015/12/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] net: vmxnet3: memory leakage issue, Dmitry Fleytman, 2015/12/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] net: vmxnet3: memory leakage issue, P J P, 2015/12/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] net: vmxnet3: memory leakage issue, Dmitry Fleytman, 2015/12/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] net: vmxnet3: memory leakage issue, P J P, 2015/12/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] net: vmxnet3: memory leakage issue, Jason Wang, 2015/12/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] net: vmxnet3: memory leakage issue, P J P, 2015/12/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] net: vmxnet3: memory leakage issue,
Miao Yan <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] net: vmxnet3: memory leakage issue, P J P, 2015/12/15
Re: [Qemu-devel] net: vmxnet3: memory leakage issue, Jason Wang, 2015/12/03