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Message-ID: <CACGkMEvKOWpxpBR+YRuiJJ3aEsdxU2q+qVwmFw=L5gS3e7A35w@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 10:56:36 +0800
From: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@...wei.com>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com, 
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@...ux.alibaba.com>, 
	virtualization@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 6/6] tools: virtio: introduce vhost_net_test

On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 10:48 AM Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@...wei.com> wrote:
>
> On 2023/12/21 10:33, Jason Wang wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 8:45 PM Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@...wei.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 2023/12/12 12:35, Jason Wang wrote:>>>> +done:
> >>>>>> +       backend.fd = tun_alloc();
> >>>>>> +       assert(backend.fd >= 0);
> >>>>>> +       vdev_info_init(&dev, features);
> >>>>>> +       vq_info_add(&dev, 256);
> >>>>>> +       run_test(&dev, &dev.vqs[0], delayed, batch, reset, nbufs);
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I'd expect we are testing some basic traffic here. E.g can we use a
> >>>>> packet socket then we can test both tx and rx?
> >>>>
> >>>> Yes, only rx for tun is tested.
> >>>> Do you have an idea how to test the tx too? As I am not familar enough
> >>>> with vhost_net and tun yet.
> >>>
> >>> Maybe you can have a packet socket to bind to the tun/tap. Then you can test:
> >>>
> >>> 1) TAP RX: by write a packet via virtqueue through vhost_net and read
> >>> it from packet socket
> >>> 2) TAP TX:  by write via packet socket and read it from the virtqueue
> >>> through vhost_net
> >>
> >> When implementing the TAP TX by adding VHOST_NET_F_VIRTIO_NET_HDR,
> >> I found one possible use of uninitialized data in vhost_net_build_xdp().
> >>
> >> And vhost_hlen is set to sizeof(struct virtio_net_hdr_mrg_rxbuf) and
> >> sock_hlen is set to zero in vhost_net_set_features() for both tx and rx
> >> queue.
> >>
> >> For vhost_net_build_xdp() called by handle_tx_copy():
> >>
> >> The (gso->flags & VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_NEEDS_CSUM) checking below may cause a
> >> read of uninitialized data if sock_hlen is zero.
> >
> > Which data is uninitialized here?
>
> The 'gso', as the sock_hlen is zero, there is no copying for:
>
>          copied = copy_page_from_iter(alloc_frag->page,
>                                       alloc_frag->offset +
>                                       offsetof(struct tun_xdp_hdr, gso),
>                                       sock_hlen, from);

I think you're right. This is something we need to fix.

Or we can drop VHOST_NET_F_VIRTIO_NET_HDR as we managed to survive for years:

https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/patch/1528429842-22835-1-git-send-email-jasowang@redhat.com/#1930760

>
> >
> >>
> >> And it seems vhost_hdr is skipped in get_tx_bufs():
> >> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/vhost/net.c#L616
> >>
> >> static int vhost_net_build_xdp(struct vhost_net_virtqueue *nvq,
> >>                                struct iov_iter *from)
> >> {
> >> ...
> >>         buflen += SKB_DATA_ALIGN(len + pad);
> >>         alloc_frag->offset = ALIGN((u64)alloc_frag->offset, SMP_CACHE_BYTES);
> >>         if (unlikely(!vhost_net_page_frag_refill(net, buflen,
> >>                                                  alloc_frag, GFP_KERNEL)))
> >>                 return -ENOMEM;
> >>
> >>         buf = (char *)page_address(alloc_frag->page) + alloc_frag->offset;
> >>         copied = copy_page_from_iter(alloc_frag->page,
> >>                                      alloc_frag->offset +
> >>                                      offsetof(struct tun_xdp_hdr, gso),
> >>                                      sock_hlen, from);
> >>         if (copied != sock_hlen)
> >>                 return -EFAULT;
> >>
> >>         hdr = buf;
> >>         gso = &hdr->gso;
> >>
> >>         if ((gso->flags & VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_NEEDS_CSUM) &&
> >>             vhost16_to_cpu(vq, gso->csum_start) +
> >>             vhost16_to_cpu(vq, gso->csum_offset) + 2 >
> >>             vhost16_to_cpu(vq, gso->hdr_len)) {
> >> ...
> >> }
> >>
> >> I seems the handle_tx_copy() does not handle the VHOST_NET_F_VIRTIO_NET_HDR
> >> case correctly, Or do I miss something obvious here?
> >
> > In get_tx_bufs() we did:
> >
> >         *len = init_iov_iter(vq, &msg->msg_iter, nvq->vhost_hlen, *out);
> >
> > Which covers this case?
>
> It does not seems to cover it, as the vhost_hdr is just skipped without any
> handling in get_tx_bufs():
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.7-rc6/source/drivers/vhost/net.c#L616

My understanding is that in this case vhost can't do more than this as
the socket doesn't know vnet_hdr.

Let's see if Michael is ok with this.

Thanks

>
> >
> > Thanks
>


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