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Message-ID: <CAOrHB_CZaHDxmqAbAaW8gg4RLTcKz_GKBqjP33Cua7Hj9+qLEQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 2 May 2018 23:49:13 -0700
From:   Pravin Shelar <pshelar@....org>
To:     Yi-Hung Wei <yihung.wei@...il.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 2/2] openvswitch: Support conntrack zone limit

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 2:28 PM, Yi-Hung Wei <yihung.wei@...il.com> wrote:
> Currently, nf_conntrack_max is used to limit the maximum number of
> conntrack entries in the conntrack table for every network namespace.
> For the VMs and containers that reside in the same namespace,
> they share the same conntrack table, and the total # of conntrack entries
> for all the VMs and containers are limited by nf_conntrack_max.  In this
> case, if one of the VM/container abuses the usage the conntrack entries,
> it blocks the others from committing valid conntrack entries into the
> conntrack table.  Even if we can possibly put the VM in different network
> namespace, the current nf_conntrack_max configuration is kind of rigid
> that we cannot limit different VM/container to have different # conntrack
> entries.
>
> To address the aforementioned issue, this patch proposes to have a
> fine-grained mechanism that could further limit the # of conntrack entries
> per-zone.  For example, we can designate different zone to different VM,
> and set conntrack limit to each zone.  By providing this isolation, a
> mis-behaved VM only consumes the conntrack entries in its own zone, and
> it will not influence other well-behaved VMs.  Moreover, the users can
> set various conntrack limit to different zone based on their preference.
>
> The proposed implementation utilizes Netfilter's nf_conncount backend
> to count the number of connections in a particular zone.  If the number of
> connection is above a configured limitation, ovs will return ENOMEM to the
> userspace.  If userspace does not configure the zone limit, the limit
> defaults to zero that is no limitation, which is backward compatible to
> the behavior without this patch.
>
> The following high leve APIs are provided to the userspace:
>   - OVS_CT_LIMIT_CMD_SET:
>     * set default connection limit for all zones
>     * set the connection limit for a particular zone
>   - OVS_CT_LIMIT_CMD_DEL:
>     * remove the connection limit for a particular zone
>   - OVS_CT_LIMIT_CMD_GET:
>     * get the default connection limit for all zones
>     * get the connection limit for a particular zone
>
> Signed-off-by: Yi-Hung Wei <yihung.wei@...il.com>
> ---
>  net/openvswitch/Kconfig     |   3 +-
>  net/openvswitch/conntrack.c | 508 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  net/openvswitch/conntrack.h |   9 +-
>  net/openvswitch/datapath.c  |   7 +-
>  net/openvswitch/datapath.h  |   1 +
>  5 files changed, 522 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
..
> diff --git a/net/openvswitch/conntrack.c b/net/openvswitch/conntrack.c
> index c5904f629091..8234964889d9 100644
> --- a/net/openvswitch/conntrack.c
> +++ b/net/openvswitch/conntrack.c
...

> +/* Call with ovs_mutex */
> +static void ct_limit_del(const struct ovs_ct_limit_info *info, u16 zone)
> +{
> +       struct ovs_ct_limit *ct_limit;
> +       struct hlist_head *head;
> +
> +       head = ct_limit_hash_bucket(info, zone);
> +       hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(ct_limit, head, hlist_node) {
better to use hlist_for_each_entry_safe()

> +               if (ct_limit->zone == zone) {
> +                       hlist_del_rcu(&ct_limit->hlist_node);
> +                       kfree_rcu(ct_limit, rcu);
> +                       return;
> +               }
> +       }
> +}
> +
....

> +static int ovs_ct_check_limit(struct net *net,
> +                             const struct ovs_conntrack_info *info,
> +                             const struct nf_conntrack_tuple *tuple)
> +{
> +       struct ovs_net *ovs_net = net_generic(net, ovs_net_id);
> +       const struct ovs_ct_limit_info *ct_limit_info = ovs_net->ct_limit_info;
> +       u32 per_zone_limit, connections;
> +       u32 conncount_key[5];
> +
> +       conncount_key[0] = info->zone.id;
> +
> +       rcu_read_lock();
This function is call with rcu_read_lock() in datapath, so no need to
take it again.

> +       per_zone_limit = ct_limit_get(ct_limit_info, info->zone.id);
> +       if (per_zone_limit == OVS_CT_LIMIT_UNLIMITED) {
> +               rcu_read_unlock();
> +               return 0;
> +       }
> +
> +       connections = nf_conncount_count(net, ct_limit_info->data,
> +                                        conncount_key, tuple, &info->zone);
> +       if (connections > per_zone_limit) {
> +               rcu_read_unlock();
> +               return -ENOMEM;
> +       }
> +
> +       rcu_read_unlock();
> +       return 0;
> +}
> +#endif
> +
....

>
>  static void __net_exit list_vports_from_net(struct net *net, struct net *dnet,
> @@ -2469,3 +2471,4 @@ MODULE_ALIAS_GENL_FAMILY(OVS_VPORT_FAMILY);
>  MODULE_ALIAS_GENL_FAMILY(OVS_FLOW_FAMILY);
>  MODULE_ALIAS_GENL_FAMILY(OVS_PACKET_FAMILY);
>  MODULE_ALIAS_GENL_FAMILY(OVS_METER_FAMILY);
> +MODULE_ALIAS_GENL_FAMILY(OVS_CT_LIMIT_FAMILY);
> diff --git a/net/openvswitch/datapath.h b/net/openvswitch/datapath.h
> index 523d65526766..51bd4dcb6c8b 100644
> --- a/net/openvswitch/datapath.h
> +++ b/net/openvswitch/datapath.h
> @@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ struct dp_upcall_info {
>  struct ovs_net {
>         struct list_head dps;
>         struct work_struct dp_notify_work;
> +       struct ovs_ct_limit_info *ct_limit_info;
>
Lets keep this struct and hash table inside the ovs_net to avoid
indirections in accessing the hash table. Also need to check for
IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NETFILTER_CONNCOUNT).

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