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Date:   Thu, 13 Jun 2019 09:09:47 +0000
From:   Kevin 'ldir' Darbyshire-Bryant <ldir@...byshire-bryant.me.uk>
To:     Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>
CC:     Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>,
        Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Paul Blakey <paulb@...lanox.com>,
        John Hurley <john.hurley@...ronome.com>,
        Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>,
        Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
        "dcaratti@...hat.com" <dcaratti@...hat.com>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6] net: sched: Introduce act_ctinfo action



> On 13 Jun 2019, at 10:33, Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 11:46:27AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>> On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 15:02:39 -0300, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 05:03:50PM +0000, Kevin 'ldir' Darbyshire-Bryant wrote:
>>> ...
>>>> +static int tcf_ctinfo_init(struct net *net, struct nlattr *nla,
>>>> +			   struct nlattr *est, struct tc_action **a,
>>>> +			   int ovr, int bind, bool rtnl_held,
>>>> +			   struct tcf_proto *tp,
>>>> +			   struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
>>>> +{
>>>> +	struct tc_action_net *tn = net_generic(net, ctinfo_net_id);
>>>> +	struct nlattr *tb[TCA_CTINFO_MAX + 1];
>>>> +	struct tcf_ctinfo_params *cp_new;
>>>> +	struct tcf_chain *goto_ch = NULL;
>>>> +	u32 dscpmask = 0, dscpstatemask;
>>>> +	struct tc_ctinfo *actparm;
>>>> +	struct tcf_ctinfo *ci;
>>>> +	u8 dscpmaskshift;
>>>> +	int ret = 0, err;
>>>> +
>>>> +	if (!nla)
>>>> +		return -EINVAL;
>>>> +
>>>> +	err = nla_parse_nested(tb, TCA_CTINFO_MAX, nla, ctinfo_policy, NULL);
>>>                                                                       ^^^^
>>> Hi, two things here:
>>> Why not use the extack parameter here? Took me a while to notice
>>> that the EINVAL was actually hiding the issue below.
>>> And also on the other two EINVALs this function returns.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Seems there was a race when this code went in and the stricter check
>>> added by
>>> b424e432e770 ("netlink: add validation of NLA_F_NESTED flag") and
>>> 8cb081746c03 ("netlink: make validation more configurable for future
>>> strictness").
>>> 
>>> I can't add these actions with current net-next and iproute-next:
>>> # ~/iproute2/tc/tc action add action ctinfo dscp 0xfc000000 0x01000000
>>> Error: NLA_F_NESTED is missing.
>>> We have an error talking to the kernel
>>> 
>>> This also happens with the current post of act_ct and should also
>>> happen with the act_mpls post (thus why Cc'ing John as well).
>>> 
>>> I'm not sure how we should fix this. In theory the kernel can't get
>>> stricter with userspace here, as that breaks user applications as
>>> above, so older actions can't use the more stricter parser. Should we
>>> have some actions behaving one way, and newer ones in a different way?
>>> That seems bad.
>>> 
>>> Or maybe all actions should just use nla_parse_nested_deprecated()?
>>> I'm thinking this last. Yet, then the _deprecated suffix may not make
>>> much sense here. WDYT?
>> 
>> Surely for new actions we can require strict validation, there is
>> no existing user space to speak of..  Perhaps act_ctinfo and act_ct
>> got slightly confused with the race you described, but in principle
>> there is nothing stopping new actions from implementing the user space
>> correctly, right?
> 
> FWIW, that is my thinking too.


Hi everyone,

Apologies that somehow I seem to have caused a bit of trouble.  If need be
and because act_ctinfo hasn’t yet actually been released anything could happen
to it, reverted if need be.  I’d like it to be done right, not that I know
what right is, the perils of inexperience and copy/pasting existing boilerplate
code.

Looking at other code I think I should have done something like:

diff --git a/net/sched/act_ctinfo.c b/net/sched/act_ctinfo.c
index e78b60e47c0f..4695aa76c0dc 100644
--- a/net/sched/act_ctinfo.c
+++ b/net/sched/act_ctinfo.c
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ static int tcf_ctinfo_init(struct net *net, struct nlattr *nla,
        if (!nla)
                return -EINVAL;

-       err = nla_parse_nested(tb, TCA_CTINFO_MAX, nla, ctinfo_policy, NULL);
+       err = nla_parse_nested(tb, TCA_CTINFO_MAX, nla, ctinfo_policy, extack);
        if (err < 0)
                return err;

@@ -182,13 +182,19 @@ static int tcf_ctinfo_init(struct net *net, struct nlattr *nla,
                dscpmask = nla_get_u32(tb[TCA_CTINFO_PARMS_DSCP_MASK]);
                /* need contiguous 6 bit mask */
                dscpmaskshift = dscpmask ? __ffs(dscpmask) : 0;
-               if ((~0 & (dscpmask >> dscpmaskshift)) != 0x3f)
+               if ((~0 & (dscpmask >> dscpmaskshift)) != 0x3f) {
+                       NL_SET_ERR_MSG_ATTR(extack, tb[TCA_CTINFO_PARMS_DSCP_MASK],
+                                       "dscp mask must be 6 contiguous bits");
                        return -EINVAL;
+               }
                dscpstatemask = tb[TCA_CTINFO_PARMS_DSCP_STATEMASK] ?
                        nla_get_u32(tb[TCA_CTINFO_PARMS_DSCP_STATEMASK]) : 0;
                /* mask & statemask must not overlap */
-               if (dscpmask & dscpstatemask)
+               if (dscpmask & dscpstatemask) {
+                       NL_SET_ERR_MSG_ATTR(extack, tb[TCA_CTINFO_PARMS_STATEMASK],
+                                       "dscp statemask must not overlap dscp mask");
                        return -EINVAL;
+               }
        }

        /* done the validation:now to the actual action allocation */

Warning: Not even compile tested!  Am I heading in the right direction?


Cheers,

Kevin D-B

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