[PATCH v3 1/3] can: skb: make echo skb freeing safe in any IRQ context
Cunhao Lu <[email protected]> Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:45:00 +0800
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.linux-can,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
can_put_echo_skb() can be called with hardware interrupts disabled. Its direct drop paths use kfree_skb(), while can_create_echo_skb() uses kfree_skb() when cloning fails and consume_skb() after a successful clone. None of these helpers is safe in every IRQ context. Use dev_kfree_skb_any() for all drop paths and dev_consume_skb_any() when consuming a successfully cloned skb. This preserves the respective skb drop and consumed semantics regardless of the caller IRQ context. Signed-off-by: Cunhao Lu <[email protected]> --- Changes in v3: - Cover can_create_echo_skb() clone failure and successful-clone consume paths with IRQ-context-independent helpers. --- drivers/net/can/dev/skb.c | 4 ++-- include/linux/can/skb.h | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/can/dev/skb.c b/drivers/net/can/dev/skb.c index 95fcdc1026f8..d7b5a5d17ff2 100644 --- a/drivers/net/can/dev/skb.c +++ b/drivers/net/can/dev/skb.c @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ int can_put_echo_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, (skb->protocol != htons(ETH_P_CAN) && skb->protocol != htons(ETH_P_CANFD) && skb->protocol != htons(ETH_P_CANXL))) { - kfree_skb(skb); + dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); return 0; } @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ int can_put_echo_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, } else { /* locking problem with netif_stop_queue() ?? */ netdev_err(dev, "%s: BUG! echo_skb %d is occupied!\n", __func__, idx); - kfree_skb(skb); + dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); return -EBUSY; } diff --git a/include/linux/can/skb.h b/include/linux/can/skb.h index a70a02967071..78c5870e2f9a 100644 --- a/include/linux/can/skb.h +++ b/include/linux/can/skb.h @@ -76,12 +76,12 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *can_create_echo_skb(struct sk_buff *skb) nskb = skb_clone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC); if (unlikely(!nskb)) { - kfree_skb(skb); + dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); return NULL; } can_skb_set_owner(nskb, skb->sk); - consume_skb(skb); + dev_consume_skb_any(skb); return nskb; } -- 2.34.1