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Message-ID: <CAC8tkWAESmBmwYpj7qT0Wc5gD9Lw-2LMHBp2-QGtsJ_eGk7Kdg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 16:06:45 +0200
From: Izabela Bakollari <izabela.bakollari@...il.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc: nhorman@...driver.com, davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] dropwatch: Support monitoring of dropped frames
Hi Eric,
Thank you for reviewing my patch. I understand your comments
and will be working on correcting what you pointed out.
Best,
Izabela
On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 7:52 PM Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 7/7/20 10:15 AM, izabela.bakollari@...il.com wrote:
> > From: Izabela Bakollari <izabela.bakollari@...il.com>
> >
> > Dropwatch is a utility that monitors dropped frames by having userspace
> > record them over the dropwatch protocol over a file. This augument
> > allows live monitoring of dropped frames using tools like tcpdump.
> >
> > With this feature, dropwatch allows two additional commands (start and
> > stop interface) which allows the assignment of a net_device to the
> > dropwatch protocol. When assinged, dropwatch will clone dropped frames,
> > and receive them on the assigned interface, allowing tools like tcpdump
> > to monitor for them.
> >
> > With this feature, create a dummy ethernet interface (ip link add dev
> > dummy0 type dummy), assign it to the dropwatch kernel subsystem, by using
> > these new commands, and then monitor dropped frames in real time by
> > running tcpdump -i dummy0.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Izabela Bakollari <izabela.bakollari@...il.com>
> > ---
> > include/uapi/linux/net_dropmon.h | 3 ++
> > net/core/drop_monitor.c | 79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> > 2 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/net_dropmon.h b/include/uapi/linux/net_dropmon.h
> > index 67e31f329190..e8e861e03a8a 100644
> > --- a/include/uapi/linux/net_dropmon.h
> > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/net_dropmon.h
> > @@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ enum {
> > NET_DM_CMD_CONFIG_NEW,
> > NET_DM_CMD_STATS_GET,
> > NET_DM_CMD_STATS_NEW,
> > + NET_DM_CMD_START_IFC,
> > + NET_DM_CMD_STOP_IFC,
> > _NET_DM_CMD_MAX,
> > };
> >
> > @@ -93,6 +95,7 @@ enum net_dm_attr {
> > NET_DM_ATTR_SW_DROPS, /* flag */
> > NET_DM_ATTR_HW_DROPS, /* flag */
> > NET_DM_ATTR_FLOW_ACTION_COOKIE, /* binary */
> > + NET_DM_ATTR_IFNAME, /* string */
> >
> > __NET_DM_ATTR_MAX,
> > NET_DM_ATTR_MAX = __NET_DM_ATTR_MAX - 1
> > diff --git a/net/core/drop_monitor.c b/net/core/drop_monitor.c
> > index 8e33cec9fc4e..8049bff05abd 100644
> > --- a/net/core/drop_monitor.c
> > +++ b/net/core/drop_monitor.c
> > @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
> > #include <net/genetlink.h>
> > #include <net/netevent.h>
> > #include <net/flow_offload.h>
> > +#include <net/sock.h>
> >
> > #include <trace/events/skb.h>
> > #include <trace/events/napi.h>
> > @@ -46,6 +47,7 @@
> > */
> > static int trace_state = TRACE_OFF;
> > static bool monitor_hw;
> > +struct net_device *interface;
> >
> > /* net_dm_mutex
> > *
> > @@ -220,9 +222,8 @@ static void trace_drop_common(struct sk_buff *skb, void *location)
> > struct per_cpu_dm_data *data;
> > unsigned long flags;
> >
> > - local_irq_save(flags);
> > + spin_lock_irqsave(&data->lock, flags);
> > data = this_cpu_ptr(&dm_cpu_data);
> > - spin_lock(&data->lock);
> > dskb = data->skb;
> >
> > if (!dskb)
> > @@ -255,6 +256,12 @@ static void trace_drop_common(struct sk_buff *skb, void *location)
> >
> > out:
> > spin_unlock_irqrestore(&data->lock, flags);
> > +
>
> What protects interface from being changed under us by another thread/cpu ?
>
> > + if (interface && interface != skb->dev) {
> > + skb = skb_clone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
> > + skb->dev = interface;
> > + netif_receive_skb(skb);
> > + }
> > }
> >
> > static void trace_kfree_skb_hit(void *ignore, struct sk_buff *skb, void *location)
> > @@ -1315,6 +1322,63 @@ static int net_dm_cmd_trace(struct sk_buff *skb,
> > return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> > }
> >
> > +static int net_dm_interface_start(struct net *net, const char *ifname)
> > +{
> > + struct net_device *nd;
> > +
> > + nd = dev_get_by_name(net, ifname);
> > +
> > + if (nd) {
> > + interface = nd;
>
> If interface was already set, you forgot to dev_put() it.
>
> > + dev_hold(interface);
>
> Note that dev_get_by_name() already did a dev_hold()
>
> > + } else {
> > + return -ENODEV;
> > + }
> > + return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static int net_dm_interface_stop(struct net *net, const char *ifname)
> > +{
> > + struct net_device *nd;
> > +
> > + nd = dev_get_by_name(net, ifname);
> > +
> > + if (nd) {
>
>
>
> > + interface = nd;
>
>
> You probably meant : interface = NULL; ?
>
> > + dev_put(interface);
>
> and dev_put(nd);
>
>
> > + } else {
> > + return -ENODEV;
> > + }
> > + return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static int net_dm_cmd_ifc_trace(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
> > +{
> > + struct net *net = sock_net(skb->sk);
> > + char ifname[IFNAMSIZ];
> > + int rc;
> > +
> > + memset(ifname, 0, IFNAMSIZ);
> > + nla_strlcpy(ifname, info->attrs[NET_DM_ATTR_IFNAME], IFNAMSIZ - 1);
> > +
> > + switch (info->genlhdr->cmd) {
> > + case NET_DM_CMD_START_IFC:
> > + rc = net_dm_interface_start(net, ifname);
> > + if (rc)
> > + return rc;
> > + break;
> > + case NET_DM_CMD_STOP_IFC:
> > + if (interface) {
> > + rc = net_dm_interface_stop(net, interface->ifname);
> > + return rc;
> > + } else {
> > + return -ENODEV;
> > + }
> > + }
> > +
> > + return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> > static int net_dm_config_fill(struct sk_buff *msg, struct genl_info *info)
> > {
> > void *hdr;
> > @@ -1543,6 +1607,7 @@ static const struct nla_policy net_dm_nl_policy[NET_DM_ATTR_MAX + 1] = {
> > [NET_DM_ATTR_QUEUE_LEN] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
> > [NET_DM_ATTR_SW_DROPS] = {. type = NLA_FLAG },
> > [NET_DM_ATTR_HW_DROPS] = {. type = NLA_FLAG },
> > + [NET_DM_ATTR_IFNAME] = {. type = NLA_STRING, .len = IFNAMSIZ },
> > };
> >
> > static const struct genl_ops dropmon_ops[] = {
> > @@ -1570,6 +1635,16 @@ static const struct genl_ops dropmon_ops[] = {
> > .cmd = NET_DM_CMD_STATS_GET,
> > .doit = net_dm_cmd_stats_get,
> > },
> > + {
> > + .cmd = NET_DM_CMD_START_IFC,
> > + .validate = GENL_DONT_VALIDATE_STRICT | GENL_DONT_VALIDATE_DUMP,
> > + .doit = net_dm_cmd_ifc_trace,
> > + },
> > + {
> > + .cmd = NET_DM_CMD_STOP_IFC,
> > + .validate = GENL_DONT_VALIDATE_STRICT | GENL_DONT_VALIDATE_DUMP,
> > + .doit = net_dm_cmd_ifc_trace,
> > + },
> > };
> >
> > static int net_dm_nl_pre_doit(const struct genl_ops *ops,
> >
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