Date:   Tue, 14 Nov 2017 16:55:25 +0100
From:   Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Ivan Babrou <ibobrik@...il.com>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        Guillaume Nault <g.nault@...halink.fr>,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
        Sebastian Gottschall <s.gottschall@...wrt.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.9 85/87] netfilter: nat: Revert "netfilter: nat:
 convert nat bysrc hash to rhashtable"

Hi again,

Cc'ing Sebastian Gottschall too.

See below for details. Thanks.

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 04:54:10PM +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Please, hold on a bit with this revert patch entitled:
> 
>         nat: Revert "netfilter: nat: convert nat bysrc hash to rhashtable")
> 
> 
> for 4.9-stable.
> 
> Until we clarify what is going on.
> 
> Guillame (he's on Cc) is reporting some problems after this.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 01:56:42PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > ------------------
> > 
> > From: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
> > 
> > commit e1bf1687740ce1a3598a1c5e452b852ff2190682 upstream.
> > 
> > This reverts commit 870190a9ec9075205c0fa795a09fa931694a3ff1.
> > 
> > It was not a good idea. The custom hash table was a much better
> > fit for this purpose.
> > 
> > A fast lookup is not essential, in fact for most cases there is no lookup
> > at all because original tuple is not taken and can be used as-is.
> > What needs to be fast is insertion and deletion.
> > 
> > rhlist removal however requires a rhlist walk.
> > We can have thousands of entries in such a list if source port/addresses
> > are reused for multiple flows, if this happens removal requests are so
> > expensive that deletions of a few thousand flows can take several
> > seconds(!).
> > 
> > The advantages that we got from rhashtable are:
> > 1) table auto-sizing
> > 2) multiple locks
> > 
> > 1) would be nice to have, but it is not essential as we have at
> > most one lookup per new flow, so even a million flows in the bysource
> > table are not a problem compared to current deletion cost.
> > 2) is easy to add to custom hash table.
> > 
> > I tried to add hlist_node to rhlist to speed up rhltable_remove but this
> > isn't doable without changing semantics.  rhltable_remove_fast will
> > check that the to-be-deleted object is part of the table and that
> > requires a list walk that we want to avoid.
> > 
> > Furthermore, using hlist_node increases size of struct rhlist_head, which
> > in turn increases nf_conn size.
> > 
> > Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196821
> > Reported-by: Ivan Babrou <ibobrik@...il.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> > 
> > 
> > ---
> >  include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h |    3 
> >  include/net/netfilter/nf_nat.h       |    1 
> >  net/netfilter/nf_nat_core.c          |  131 ++++++++++++++---------------------
> >  3 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 79 deletions(-)
> > 
> > --- a/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h
> > +++ b/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h
> > @@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
> >  #include <linux/bitops.h>
> >  #include <linux/compiler.h>
> >  #include <linux/atomic.h>
> > -#include <linux/rhashtable.h>
> >  
> >  #include <linux/netfilter/nf_conntrack_tcp.h>
> >  #include <linux/netfilter/nf_conntrack_dccp.h>
> > @@ -101,7 +100,7 @@ struct nf_conn {
> >  	possible_net_t ct_net;
> >  
> >  #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NF_NAT)
> > -	struct rhlist_head nat_bysource;
> > +	struct hlist_node	nat_bysource;
> >  #endif
> >  	/* all members below initialized via memset */
> >  	u8 __nfct_init_offset[0];
> > --- a/include/net/netfilter/nf_nat.h
> > +++ b/include/net/netfilter/nf_nat.h
> > @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
> >  #ifndef _NF_NAT_H
> >  #define _NF_NAT_H
> > -#include <linux/rhashtable.h>
> >  #include <linux/netfilter_ipv4.h>
> >  #include <linux/netfilter/nf_nat.h>
> >  #include <net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_tuple.h>
> > --- a/net/netfilter/nf_nat_core.c
> > +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_nat_core.c
> > @@ -30,19 +30,17 @@
> >  #include <net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_zones.h>
> >  #include <linux/netfilter/nf_nat.h>
> >  
> > +static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(nf_nat_lock);
> > +
> >  static DEFINE_MUTEX(nf_nat_proto_mutex);
> >  static const struct nf_nat_l3proto __rcu *nf_nat_l3protos[NFPROTO_NUMPROTO]
> >  						__read_mostly;
> >  static const struct nf_nat_l4proto __rcu **nf_nat_l4protos[NFPROTO_NUMPROTO]
> >  						__read_mostly;
> >  
> > -struct nf_nat_conn_key {
> > -	const struct net *net;
> > -	const struct nf_conntrack_tuple *tuple;
> > -	const struct nf_conntrack_zone *zone;
> > -};
> > -
> > -static struct rhltable nf_nat_bysource_table;
> > +static struct hlist_head *nf_nat_bysource __read_mostly;
> > +static unsigned int nf_nat_htable_size __read_mostly;
> > +static unsigned int nf_nat_hash_rnd __read_mostly;
> >  
> >  inline const struct nf_nat_l3proto *
> >  __nf_nat_l3proto_find(u8 family)
> > @@ -121,17 +119,19 @@ int nf_xfrm_me_harder(struct net *net, s
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL(nf_xfrm_me_harder);
> >  #endif /* CONFIG_XFRM */
> >  
> > -static u32 nf_nat_bysource_hash(const void *data, u32 len, u32 seed)
> > +/* We keep an extra hash for each conntrack, for fast searching. */
> > +static inline unsigned int
> > +hash_by_src(const struct net *n, const struct nf_conntrack_tuple *tuple)
> >  {
> > -	const struct nf_conntrack_tuple *t;
> > -	const struct nf_conn *ct = data;
> > +	unsigned int hash;
> > +
> > +	get_random_once(&nf_nat_hash_rnd, sizeof(nf_nat_hash_rnd));
> >  
> > -	t = &ct->tuplehash[IP_CT_DIR_ORIGINAL].tuple;
> >  	/* Original src, to ensure we map it consistently if poss. */
> > +	hash = jhash2((u32 *)&tuple->src, sizeof(tuple->src) / sizeof(u32),
> > +		      tuple->dst.protonum ^ nf_nat_hash_rnd ^ net_hash_mix(n));
> >  
> > -	seed ^= net_hash_mix(nf_ct_net(ct));
> > -	return jhash2((const u32 *)&t->src, sizeof(t->src) / sizeof(u32),
> > -		      t->dst.protonum ^ seed);
> > +	return reciprocal_scale(hash, nf_nat_htable_size);
> >  }
> >  
> >  /* Is this tuple already taken? (not by us) */
> > @@ -187,28 +187,6 @@ same_src(const struct nf_conn *ct,
> >  		t->src.u.all == tuple->src.u.all);
> >  }
> >  
> > -static int nf_nat_bysource_cmp(struct rhashtable_compare_arg *arg,
> > -			       const void *obj)
> > -{
> > -	const struct nf_nat_conn_key *key = arg->key;
> > -	const struct nf_conn *ct = obj;
> > -
> > -	if (!same_src(ct, key->tuple) ||
> > -	    !net_eq(nf_ct_net(ct), key->net) ||
> > -	    !nf_ct_zone_equal(ct, key->zone, IP_CT_DIR_ORIGINAL))
> > -		return 1;
> > -
> > -	return 0;
> > -}
> > -
> > -static struct rhashtable_params nf_nat_bysource_params = {
> > -	.head_offset = offsetof(struct nf_conn, nat_bysource),
> > -	.obj_hashfn = nf_nat_bysource_hash,
> > -	.obj_cmpfn = nf_nat_bysource_cmp,
> > -	.nelem_hint = 256,
> > -	.min_size = 1024,
> > -};
> > -
> >  /* Only called for SRC manip */
> >  static int
> >  find_appropriate_src(struct net *net,
> > @@ -219,26 +197,22 @@ find_appropriate_src(struct net *net,
> >  		     struct nf_conntrack_tuple *result,
> >  		     const struct nf_nat_range *range)
> >  {
> > +	unsigned int h = hash_by_src(net, tuple);
> >  	const struct nf_conn *ct;
> > -	struct nf_nat_conn_key key = {
> > -		.net = net,
> > -		.tuple = tuple,
> > -		.zone = zone
> > -	};
> > -	struct rhlist_head *hl, *h;
> > -
> > -	hl = rhltable_lookup(&nf_nat_bysource_table, &key,
> > -			     nf_nat_bysource_params);
> >  
> > -	rhl_for_each_entry_rcu(ct, h, hl, nat_bysource) {
> > -		nf_ct_invert_tuplepr(result,
> > -				     &ct->tuplehash[IP_CT_DIR_REPLY].tuple);
> > -		result->dst = tuple->dst;
> > +	hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(ct, &nf_nat_bysource[h], nat_bysource) {
> > +		if (same_src(ct, tuple) &&
> > +		    net_eq(net, nf_ct_net(ct)) &&
> > +		    nf_ct_zone_equal(ct, zone, IP_CT_DIR_ORIGINAL)) {
> > +			/* Copy source part from reply tuple. */
> > +			nf_ct_invert_tuplepr(result,
> > +				       &ct->tuplehash[IP_CT_DIR_REPLY].tuple);
> > +			result->dst = tuple->dst;
> >  
> > -		if (in_range(l3proto, l4proto, result, range))
> > -			return 1;
> > +			if (in_range(l3proto, l4proto, result, range))
> > +				return 1;
> > +		}
> >  	}
> > -
> >  	return 0;
> >  }
> >  
> > @@ -411,6 +385,7 @@ nf_nat_setup_info(struct nf_conn *ct,
> >  		  const struct nf_nat_range *range,
> >  		  enum nf_nat_manip_type maniptype)
> >  {
> > +	struct net *net = nf_ct_net(ct);
> >  	struct nf_conntrack_tuple curr_tuple, new_tuple;
> >  	struct nf_conn_nat *nat;
> >  
> > @@ -452,19 +427,16 @@ nf_nat_setup_info(struct nf_conn *ct,
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	if (maniptype == NF_NAT_MANIP_SRC) {
> > -		struct nf_nat_conn_key key = {
> > -			.net = nf_ct_net(ct),
> > -			.tuple = &ct->tuplehash[IP_CT_DIR_ORIGINAL].tuple,
> > -			.zone = nf_ct_zone(ct),
> > -		};
> > -		int err;
> > -
> > -		err = rhltable_insert_key(&nf_nat_bysource_table,
> > -					  &key,
> > -					  &ct->nat_bysource,
> > -					  nf_nat_bysource_params);
> > -		if (err)
> > -			return NF_DROP;
> > +		unsigned int srchash;
> > +
> > +		srchash = hash_by_src(net,
> > +				      &ct->tuplehash[IP_CT_DIR_ORIGINAL].tuple);
> > +		spin_lock_bh(&nf_nat_lock);
> > +		/* nf_conntrack_alter_reply might re-allocate extension aera */
> > +		nat = nfct_nat(ct);
> > +		hlist_add_head_rcu(&ct->nat_bysource,
> > +				   &nf_nat_bysource[srchash]);
> > +		spin_unlock_bh(&nf_nat_lock);
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	/* It's done. */
> > @@ -578,9 +550,10 @@ static int nf_nat_proto_clean(struct nf_
> >  	 * Else, when the conntrack is destoyed, nf_nat_cleanup_conntrack()
> >  	 * will delete entry from already-freed table.
> >  	 */
> > +	spin_lock_bh(&nf_nat_lock);
> > +	hlist_del_rcu(&ct->nat_bysource);
> >  	ct->status &= ~IPS_NAT_DONE_MASK;
> > -	rhltable_remove(&nf_nat_bysource_table, &ct->nat_bysource,
> > -			nf_nat_bysource_params);
> > +	spin_unlock_bh(&nf_nat_lock);
> >  
> >  	/* don't delete conntrack.  Although that would make things a lot
> >  	 * simpler, we'd end up flushing all conntracks on nat rmmod.
> > @@ -710,8 +683,11 @@ static void nf_nat_cleanup_conntrack(str
> >  	if (!nat)
> >  		return;
> >  
> > -	rhltable_remove(&nf_nat_bysource_table, &ct->nat_bysource,
> > -			nf_nat_bysource_params);
> > +	NF_CT_ASSERT(ct->status & IPS_SRC_NAT_DONE);
> > +
> > +	spin_lock_bh(&nf_nat_lock);
> > +	hlist_del_rcu(&ct->nat_bysource);
> > +	spin_unlock_bh(&nf_nat_lock);
> >  }
> >  
> >  static struct nf_ct_ext_type nat_extend __read_mostly = {
> > @@ -846,13 +822,16 @@ static int __init nf_nat_init(void)
> >  {
> >  	int ret;
> >  
> > -	ret = rhltable_init(&nf_nat_bysource_table, &nf_nat_bysource_params);
> > -	if (ret)
> > -		return ret;
> > +	/* Leave them the same for the moment. */
> > +	nf_nat_htable_size = nf_conntrack_htable_size;
> > +
> > +	nf_nat_bysource = nf_ct_alloc_hashtable(&nf_nat_htable_size, 0);
> > +	if (!nf_nat_bysource)
> > +		return -ENOMEM;
> >  
> >  	ret = nf_ct_extend_register(&nat_extend);
> >  	if (ret < 0) {
> > -		rhltable_destroy(&nf_nat_bysource_table);
> > +		nf_ct_free_hashtable(nf_nat_bysource, nf_nat_htable_size);
> >  		printk(KERN_ERR "nf_nat_core: Unable to register extension\n");
> >  		return ret;
> >  	}
> > @@ -876,7 +855,7 @@ static int __init nf_nat_init(void)
> >  	return 0;
> >  
> >   cleanup_extend:
> > -	rhltable_destroy(&nf_nat_bysource_table);
> > +	nf_ct_free_hashtable(nf_nat_bysource, nf_nat_htable_size);
> >  	nf_ct_extend_unregister(&nat_extend);
> >  	return ret;
> >  }
> > @@ -896,8 +875,8 @@ static void __exit nf_nat_cleanup(void)
> >  
> >  	for (i = 0; i < NFPROTO_NUMPROTO; i++)
> >  		kfree(nf_nat_l4protos[i]);
> > -
> > -	rhltable_destroy(&nf_nat_bysource_table);
> > +	synchronize_net();
> > +	nf_ct_free_hashtable(nf_nat_bysource, nf_nat_htable_size);
> >  }
> >  
> >  MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> > 
> > 

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