linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net v2 0/5] Make TCP-MD5-diag slightly less broken

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Message-ID: <CAJwJo6amrAt+uBMWRvwBu=VdcTyDuEMtkAx0=_ittUj0KCa-zw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2024 02:49:46 +0000
From: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@...il.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, 
	Dmitry Safonov via B4 Relay <devnull+0x7f454c46.gmail.com@...nel.org>, 
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, 
	David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>, Ivan Delalande <colona@...sta.com>, 
	Matthieu Baerts <matttbe@...nel.org>, Mat Martineau <martineau@...nel.org>, 
	Geliang Tang <geliang@...nel.org>, Boris Pismenny <borisp@...dia.com>, 
	John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>, Davide Caratti <dcaratti@...hat.com>, 
	Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	mptcp@...ts.linux.dev, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2 0/5] Make TCP-MD5-diag slightly less broken

Hi Jakub, Eric,

On Thu, 5 Dec 2024 at 09:09, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 5, 2024 at 2:13 AM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Eric!
> >
> > This was posted while you were away -- any thoughts or recommendation on
> > how to address the required nl message size changing? Or other problems
> > pointed out by Dmitry? My suggestion in the subthread is to re-dump
> > with a fixed, large buffer on EMSGSIZE, but that's not super clean..
>
> Hi Jakub
>
> inet_diag_dump_one_icsk() could retry, doubling the size until the
> ~32768 byte limit is reached ?
>
> Also, we could make sure inet_sk_attr_size() returns at least
> NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, there is no
> point trying to save memory for a single skb in inet_diag_dump_one_icsk().

Starting from NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE sounds like a really sane idea! :-)

[..]
> @@ -585,8 +589,14 @@ int inet_diag_dump_one_icsk(struct inet_hashinfo *hashinfo,
>
>         err = sk_diag_fill(sk, rep, cb, req, 0, net_admin);
>         if (err < 0) {
> -               WARN_ON(err == -EMSGSIZE);
>                 nlmsg_free(rep);
> +               if (err == -EMSGSIZE) {
> +                       attr_size <<= 1;
> +                       if (attr_size + NLMSG_HDRLEN <=
> SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(32768)) {
> +                               cond_resched();
> +                               goto retry;
> +                       }
> +               }
>                 goto out;
>         }
>         err = nlmsg_unicast(net->diag_nlsk, rep, NETLINK_CB(in_skb).portid);

To my personal taste on larger than 327 md5 keys scale, I'd prefer to
see "dump may be inconsistent, retry if you need consistency" than
-EMSGSIZE fail, yet userspace potentially may use the errno as a
"retry" signal.

Do you plan to re-send it as a proper patch? Or I can send it with my
next patches for TCP-MD5-diag issues (1), (3), (4) and TCP-AO-diag.

Thanks,
             Dmitry