linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.4 143/177] openvswitch: meter: fix race when getting now

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Date:   Mon, 31 May 2021 15:15:00 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Tao Liu <thomas.liu@...oud.cn>,
        Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@....org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.4 143/177] openvswitch: meter: fix race when getting now_ms.

From: Tao Liu <thomas.liu@...oud.cn>

[ Upstream commit e4df1b0c24350a0f00229ff895a91f1072bd850d ]

We have observed meters working unexpected if traffic is 3+Gbit/s
with multiple connections.

now_ms is not pretected by meter->lock, we may get a negative
long_delta_ms when another cpu updated meter->used, then:
    delta_ms = (u32)long_delta_ms;
which will be a large value.

    band->bucket += delta_ms * band->rate;
then we get a wrong band->bucket.

OpenVswitch userspace datapath has fixed the same issue[1] some
time ago, and we port the implementation to kernel datapath.

[1] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openvswitch/patch/20191025114436.9746-1-i.maximets@ovn.org/

Fixes: 96fbc13d7e77 ("openvswitch: Add meter infrastructure")
Signed-off-by: Tao Liu <thomas.liu@...oud.cn>
Suggested-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@....org>
Reviewed-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@....org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 net/openvswitch/meter.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/openvswitch/meter.c b/net/openvswitch/meter.c
index 541eea74ef7a..c37e09223cbb 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/meter.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/meter.c
@@ -460,6 +460,14 @@ bool ovs_meter_execute(struct datapath *dp, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	spin_lock(&meter->lock);
 
 	long_delta_ms = (now_ms - meter->used); /* ms */
+	if (long_delta_ms < 0) {
+		/* This condition means that we have several threads fighting
+		 * for a meter lock, and the one who received the packets a
+		 * bit later wins. Assuming that all racing threads received
+		 * packets at the same time to avoid overflow.
+		 */
+		long_delta_ms = 0;
+	}
 
 	/* Make sure delta_ms will not be too large, so that bucket will not
 	 * wrap around below.
-- 
2.30.2