Thanks for the review. I agree with that as I replied at the end of
v1. If we obsolete 2/2 but keep 1/2, is it okay to just leave it as
is?

Xiang

On Wed, Jun 10, 2026 at 7:19 PM Xuan Zhuo <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:29:36 -0700, Xiang Mei <[email protected]> wrote:
> > This is a robustness hardening patch. The slow-path frag loop in
> > page_to_skb() walks the page chain via page->private until the
> > device-reported len is consumed, implicitly trusting that len fits the
> > chain. It does not stop when the chain is exhausted (page becomes NULL
> > at the tail), nor when nr_frags reaches the end of the static
> > skb_shinfo()->frags[MAX_SKB_FRAGS] array.
> >
> > Both bounds are needed: the chain length is big_packets_num_skbfrags + 1
> > pages, which for an MTU-driven configuration can be well below
> > MAX_SKB_FRAGS, so neither guard implies the other.
> >
> > Make the loop self-defending so it no longer relies on the caller having
> > validated len: stop once the chain is exhausted, and never index past
> > MAX_SKB_FRAGS. No functional change for well-formed input.
>
> At this point, we are assuming that len represents the correct packet length. 
> If
> there is a bug in the validation, it can be fixed, just like in your previous
> patch. Indeed, not checking nr_frags is also based on the overall design.
> However, I do not recommend adding this kind of enhancement. If we follow
> this logic, we would end up adding similar code in many other places, which
> doesn't make much sense.
>
> Thanks.
>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei <[email protected]>
> > ---
> > v2: robustness patch
> >
> >  drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 5 ++++-
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > index afe73eda1491..518c22fa1b68 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > @@ -906,8 +906,11 @@ static struct sk_buff *page_to_skb(struct virtnet_info 
> > *vi,
> >       }
> >
> >       BUG_ON(offset >= PAGE_SIZE);
> > -     while (len) {
> > +     while (len && page) {
> >               unsigned int frag_size = min((unsigned)PAGE_SIZE - offset, 
> > len);
> > +
> > +             if (unlikely(skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags >= MAX_SKB_FRAGS))
> > +                     break;
> >               skb_add_rx_frag(skb, skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags, page, offset,
> >                               frag_size, truesize);
> >               len -= frag_size;
> > --
> > 2.43.0
> >

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