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From: Bui Viet Dung <dungvn2345@gmail.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>, lollipopkit <a@lolli.tech>,
	io-uring@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, Bui Viet Dung <dungvn2345@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] io_uring/cmd_net: prevent infinite retry loop on unextractable timestamp skb
Date: Thu,  8 Oct 2026 12:07:45 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261008050745.498415-1-dungvn2345@gmail.com> (raw)

In io_uring_cmd_timestamp(), the skb processing loop terminates whenever
io_process_timestamp_skb() returns a non-zero value. If the failure is
due to a full CQ ring (-ENOBUFS), the loop stops and returns -ENOBUFS,
ending the multishot command so userspace can drain the CQ.

However, if io_process_timestamp_skb() fails because
skb_get_tx_timestamp() returns a negative error (such as -ENOENT when a
timestamp cannot be extracted due to changed socket options or absent
hardware timestamp data), ret is not -ENOBUFS. The unhandled skb is
then spliced back onto the head of sk->sk_error_queue and the function
returns -EAGAIN.

Because -EAGAIN leaves the multishot apoll armed on EPOLLERR, and the
unextractable skb remains in sk_error_queue asserting EPOLLERR,
io_uring_cmd_timestamp() is immediately re-invoked on the same skb.
This results in an infinite busy-loop consuming 100% CPU and completely
blocking progress on any subsequent valid timestamp packets queued behind
it.

Only break out of the processing loop when CQ space is exhausted
(ret == -ENOBUFS). For skbs where timestamp extraction fails, dequeue and
consume the invalid skb matching the behavior of sock_recv_errqueue(),
allowing the queue to make forward progress.

The issue was discovered via manual code audit of io_uring/cmd_net.c
and review of the error handling paths in TX_TIMESTAMP command.

Fixes: 9e4ed359b8ef ("io_uring/netcmd: add tx timestamping cmd support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Bui Viet Dung <dungvn2345@gmail.com>
---
 io_uring/cmd_net.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/io_uring/cmd_net.c b/io_uring/cmd_net.c
index 90d4ec7cc761..a5a1b8b66b1f 100644
--- a/io_uring/cmd_net.c
+++ b/io_uring/cmd_net.c
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ static int io_uring_cmd_timestamp(struct socket *sock,
 		if (!skb)
 			break;
 		ret = io_process_timestamp_skb(cmd, sk, skb, issue_flags);
-		if (ret)
+		if (ret == -ENOBUFS)
 			break;
 		__skb_dequeue(&list);
 		consume_skb(skb);
-- 
2.43.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-10-08  5:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-08  5:07 Bui Viet Dung [this message]
2026-10-08 14:43 ` [PATCH] io_uring/cmd_net: prevent infinite retry loop on unextractable timestamp skb Pavel Begunkov
2026-10-08 14:59   ` Bui Viet Dung

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