netdev - Re: virtio_net: Fix napi poll list corruption

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Date:	Mon, 22 Dec 2014 14:19:12 -0200
From:	Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <mleitner@...hat.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org,
	konrad.wilk@...cle.com, boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com,
	edumazet@...gle.com, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: virtio_net: Fix napi poll list corruption

On 19-12-2014 22:23, Herbert Xu wrote:
> David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com> wrote:
>> After d75b1ade567ffab085e8adbbdacf0092d10cd09c (net: less interrupt
>> masking in NAPI) the napi instance is removed from the per-cpu list
>> prior to calling the n->poll(), and is only requeued if all of the
>> budget was used.  This inadvertently broke netfront because netfront
>> does not use NAPI correctly.
>
> A similar bug exists in virtio_net.
>
> -- >8 --
> The commit d75b1ade567ffab085e8adbbdacf0092d10cd09c (net: less
> interrupt masking in NAPI) breaks virtio_net in an insidious way.
>
> It is now required that if the entire budget is consumed when poll
> returns, the napi poll_list must remain empty.  However, like some
> other drivers virtio_net tries to do a last-ditch check and if
> there is more work it will call napi_schedule and then immediately
> process some of this new work.  Should the entire budget be consumed
> while processing such new work then we will violate the new caller
> contract.
>
> This patch fixes this by not touching any work when we reschedule
> in virtio_net.
>
> The worst part of this bug is that the list corruption causes other
> napi users to be moved off-list.  In my case I was chasing a stall
> in IPsec (IPsec uses netif_rx) and I only belatedly realised that it
> was virtio_net which caused the stall even though the virtio_net
> poll was still functioning perfectly after IPsec stalled.

Thanks for finding/fixing this, Herbert. I was debugging this one too. In my 
case, vxlan interface was getting stuck.

   Marcelo

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