When ip_output_send() returns EAGAIN due to issues with send tags (route
change, lagg failover, etc), it must free the mbuf. This is because
ip_output_send() was written as a wrapper/replacement for a direct
call to if_output(), and the contract with if_output() has
historically been that it owns the mbufs once called. When
ip_output_send() failed to free mbufs, it violated this assumption
and lead to leaked mbufs.
This was noticed when using NIC TLS in combination with hardware
rate-limited connections. When seeing lots of NIC output drops
triggered ratelimit send tag changes, we noticed we were leaking
ktls_sessions, send tags and mbufs. This was due ip_output_send()
leaking mbufs which held references to ktls_sessions, which in
turn held references to send tags.
Many thanks to jbh, rrs, hselasky and markj for their help in
debugging this.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D34054
Reviewed by: hselasky, jhb, rrs
MFC after: 2 weeks
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