netdev - Re: big ICMP requests get disrupted on IPSec tunnel activation

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Date:   Wed, 16 Oct 2019 08:40:55 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     "Bartschies, Thomas" <Thomas.Bartschies@....de>,
        'David Ahern' <dsahern@...il.com>,
        "'netdev@...r.kernel.org'" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: big ICMP requests get disrupted on IPSec tunnel activation



On 10/16/19 8:31 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/16/19 5:57 AM, Bartschies, Thomas wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> did another test. This time I've changed the order. First triggered the IPSec policy and then tried to ping in parallel with a big packet size.
>> Could also reproduce the issue, but the trace was completely different. May be this time I've got the trace for the problematic connection?
>>
> 
> This one was probably a false positive.
> 
> The other one, I finally understood what was going on.
> 
> You told us you removed netfilter, but it seems you still have the ip defrag modules there.
> 
> (For a pure fowarding node, no reassembly-defrag should be needed)
> 
> When ip_forward() is used, it correctly clears skb->tstamp
> 
> But later, ip_do_fragment() might re-use the skbs found attached to the master skb
> and we do not init properly their skb->tstamp 
> 
> The master skb->tstamp should be copied to the children.
> 
> I will send a patch asap.
> 
> Thanks.
> 

Can you try :

diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
index 28fca408812c5576fc4ea957c1c4dec97ec8faf3..c880229a01712ba5a9ed413f8aab2b56dfe93c82 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
@@ -808,6 +808,7 @@ int ip_do_fragment(struct net *net, struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
        if (skb_has_frag_list(skb)) {
                struct sk_buff *frag, *frag2;
                unsigned int first_len = skb_pagelen(skb);
+               ktime_t tstamp = skb->tstamp;
 
                if (first_len - hlen > mtu ||
                    ((first_len - hlen) & 7) ||
@@ -846,6 +847,7 @@ int ip_do_fragment(struct net *net, struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
                                ip_fraglist_prepare(skb, &iter);
                        }
 
+                       skb->tstamp = tstamp;
                        err = output(net, sk, skb);
 
                        if (!err)