linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net/smc: align the connect behaviour with TCP

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Message-Id: <20220524125725.951315-1-liuyacan@corp.netease.com>
Date:   Tue, 24 May 2022 20:57:25 +0800
From:   liuyacan@...p.netease.com
To:     kgraul@...ux.ibm.com
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, guangguan.wang@...ux.alibaba.com,
        kuba@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        pabeni@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net/smc: align the connect behaviour with TCP

> > 
> > 
> > On 2022/5/23 20:24, Karsten Graul wrote:
> >> On 13/05/2022 04:24, Guangguan Wang wrote:
> >>> Connect with O_NONBLOCK will not be completed immediately
> >>> and returns -EINPROGRESS. It is possible to use selector/poll
> >>> for completion by selecting the socket for writing. After select
> >>> indicates writability, a second connect function call will return
> >>> 0 to indicate connected successfully as TCP does, but smc returns
> >>> -EISCONN. Use socket state for smc to indicate connect state, which
> >>> can help smc aligning the connect behaviour with TCP.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Guangguan Wang <guangguan.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
> >>> Acked-by: Karsten Graul <kgraul@...ux.ibm.com>
> >>> ---
> >>>  net/smc/af_smc.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> >>>  1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/net/smc/af_smc.c b/net/smc/af_smc.c
> >>> index fce16b9d6e1a..5f70642a8044 100644
> >>> --- a/net/smc/af_smc.c
> >>> +++ b/net/smc/af_smc.c
> >>> @@ -1544,9 +1544,29 @@ static int smc_connect(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *addr,
> >>>  		goto out_err;
> >>>  
> >>>  	lock_sock(sk);
> >>> +	switch (sock->state) {
> >>> +	default:
> >>> +		rc = -EINVAL;
> >>> +		goto out;
> >>> +	case SS_CONNECTED:
> >>> +		rc = sk->sk_state == SMC_ACTIVE ? -EISCONN : -EINVAL;
> >>> +		goto out;
> >>> +	case SS_CONNECTING:
> >>> +		if (sk->sk_state == SMC_ACTIVE)
> >>> +			goto connected;
> >>
> >> I stumbled over this when thinking about the fallback processing. If for whatever reason
> >> fallback==true during smc_connect(), the "if (smc->use_fallback)" below would set sock->state
> >> to e.g. SS_CONNECTED. But in the fallback case sk_state keeps SMC_INIT. So during the next call
> >> the SS_CONNECTING case above would break because sk_state in NOT SMC_ACTIVE, and we would end
> >> up calling kernel_connect() again. Which seems to be no problem when kernel_connect() returns 
> >> -EISCONN and we return this to the caller. But is this how it should work, or does it work by chance?
> >>
> > 
> > Since the sk_state keeps SMC_INIT and does not correctly indicate the state of clcsock, it should end
> > up calling kernel_connect() again to get the actual connection state of clcsock.
> > 
> > And I'm sorry there is a problem that if sock->state==SS_CONNECTED and sk_state==SMC_INIT, further call
> > of smc_connect will return -EINVAL where -EISCONN is preferred. 
> > The steps to reproduce:
> > 1）switch fallback before connect, such as setsockopt TCP_FASTOPEN
> > 2）connect with noblocking and returns -EINPROGRESS. (sock->state changes to SS_CONNECTING)
> > 3) end up calling connect with noblocking again and returns 0. (kernel_connect() returns 0 and sock->state changes to
> >    SS_CONNECTED but sk->sk_state stays SMC_INIT)
> > 4) call connect again, maybe by mistake, will return -EINVAL, but -EISCONN is preferred.
> > 
> > What do you think about if we synchronize the sk_state to SMC_ACTIVE instead of keeping SMC_INIT when clcsock
> > connected successfully in fallback case described above.
> > 
> > ...
> 
> I start thinking that the fix in 86434744 introduced a problem. Before that fix a connect with
> fallback always reached __smc_connect() and on top of that function in case of fallback
> smc_connect_fallback() is called, which itself sets sk_state to SMC_ACTIVE.
> 
> 86434744 removed that code path and I wonder what it actually fixed, because at this time the 
> fallback check in __smc_connect() was already present.
> 
> Without that "goto out;" the state would be set correctly in smc_connect_fallback(), and the 
> socket close processing would work as expected.

I think it is OK without that "goto out;". And I guess the purpose of "goto out;" is to avoid calling __smc_connect(), 
because it is impossible to establish an rdma channel at this time.