netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next] libbpf: add retries in sys_bpf_prog

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Date:   Wed, 2 Dec 2020 14:46:26 -0800
From:   Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>
To:     Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>
Cc:     Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next] libbpf: add retries in sys_bpf_prog_load

On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 9:52 AM Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> I've seen a situation, where a process that's under pprof constantly
> generates SIGPROF which prevents program loading indefinitely.
> The right thing to do probably is to disable signals in the upper
> layers while loading, but it still would be nice to get some error from
> libbpf instead of an endless loop.
>
> Let's add some small retry limit to the program loading:
> try loading the program 10 (arbitrary) times and give up.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>
> ---

The subject is misleading as hell. You are not adding retries, you are
limiting the number of retries.

Otherwise, LGTM. I'd probably go with an even smaller number, can't
imagine any normal use case having more than once EAGAIN. So I'd say
feel free to reduce it to 5 even.

Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>

>  tools/lib/bpf/bpf.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/bpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/bpf.c
> index d27e34133973..31ebd6b3ec7c 100644
> --- a/tools/lib/bpf/bpf.c
> +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/bpf.c
> @@ -67,11 +67,12 @@ static inline int sys_bpf(enum bpf_cmd cmd, union bpf_attr *attr,
>
>  static inline int sys_bpf_prog_load(union bpf_attr *attr, unsigned int size)
>  {
> +       int retries = 10;
>         int fd;
>
>         do {
>                 fd = sys_bpf(BPF_PROG_LOAD, attr, size);
> -       } while (fd < 0 && errno == EAGAIN);
> +       } while (fd < 0 && errno == EAGAIN && retries-- > 0);
>
>         return fd;
>  }
> --
> 2.29.2.454.gaff20da3a2-goog
>