netdev - Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH net v2] net: openvswitch: fix upcall counter access before allocation

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Message-ID: <20230607010529.1085986-1-wangchuanlei@inspur.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2023 21:05:29 -0400
From: wangchuanlei <wangchuanlei@...pur.com>
To: <echaudro@...hat.com>
CC: <aconole@...hat.com>, <dev@...nvswitch.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<simon.horman@...igine.com>, <wangpeihui@...pur.com>, <kuba@...nel.org>,
	<pabeni@...hat.com>, <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH net v2] net: openvswitch: fix upcall counter access before allocation

Thanks for fix this, in common enviroment, it's a 
small probability event.

> Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@...hat.com> writes:

> Currently, the per cpu upcall counters are allocated after the vport 
> is created and inserted into the system. This could lead to the 
> datapath accessing the counters before they are allocated resulting in 
> a kernel Oops.
>
> Here is an example:
>
>   PID: 59693    TASK: ffff0005f4f51500  CPU: 0    COMMAND: "ovs-vswitchd"
>    #0 [ffff80000a39b5b0] __switch_to at ffffb70f0629f2f4
>    #1 [ffff80000a39b5d0] __schedule at ffffb70f0629f5cc
>    #2 [ffff80000a39b650] preempt_schedule_common at ffffb70f0629fa60
>    #3 [ffff80000a39b670] dynamic_might_resched at ffffb70f0629fb58
>    #4 [ffff80000a39b680] mutex_lock_killable at ffffb70f062a1388
>    #5 [ffff80000a39b6a0] pcpu_alloc at ffffb70f0594460c
>    #6 [ffff80000a39b750] __alloc_percpu_gfp at ffffb70f05944e68
>    #7 [ffff80000a39b760] ovs_vport_cmd_new at ffffb70ee6961b90 [openvswitch]
>    ...
>
>   PID: 58682    TASK: ffff0005b2f0bf00  CPU: 0    COMMAND: "kworker/0:3"
>    #0 [ffff80000a5d2f40] machine_kexec at ffffb70f056a0758
>    #1 [ffff80000a5d2f70] __crash_kexec at ffffb70f057e2994
>    #2 [ffff80000a5d3100] crash_kexec at ffffb70f057e2ad8
>    #3 [ffff80000a5d3120] die at ffffb70f0628234c
>    #4 [ffff80000a5d31e0] die_kernel_fault at ffffb70f062828a8
>    #5 [ffff80000a5d3210] __do_kernel_fault at ffffb70f056a31f4
>    #6 [ffff80000a5d3240] do_bad_area at ffffb70f056a32a4
>    #7 [ffff80000a5d3260] do_translation_fault at ffffb70f062a9710
>    #8 [ffff80000a5d3270] do_mem_abort at ffffb70f056a2f74
>    #9 [ffff80000a5d32a0] el1_abort at ffffb70f06297dac
>   #10 [ffff80000a5d32d0] el1h_64_sync_handler at ffffb70f06299b24
>   #11 [ffff80000a5d3410] el1h_64_sync at ffffb70f056812dc
>   #12 [ffff80000a5d3430] ovs_dp_upcall at ffffb70ee6963c84 [openvswitch]
>   #13 [ffff80000a5d3470] ovs_dp_process_packet at ffffb70ee6963fdc [openvswitch]
>   #14 [ffff80000a5d34f0] ovs_vport_receive at ffffb70ee6972c78 [openvswitch]
>   #15 [ffff80000a5d36f0] netdev_port_receive at ffffb70ee6973948 [openvswitch]
>   #16 [ffff80000a5d3720] netdev_frame_hook at ffffb70ee6973a28 [openvswitch]
>   #17 [ffff80000a5d3730] __netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0 at 
> ffffb70f06079f90
>
> We moved the per cpu upcall counter allocation to the existing vport 
> alloc and free functions to solve this.
>
> Fixes: 95637d91fefd ("net: openvswitch: release vport resources on 
> failure")
> Fixes: 1933ea365aa7 ("net: openvswitch: Add support to count upcall 
> packets")
> Signed-off-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@...hat.com>
> ---

Acked-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@...hat.com>

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