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Message-ID: <a8d155ec7d43bf3308fcfa3387dc16d1723617c6.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2023 09:33:39 +0100
From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Boqun Feng
<boqun.feng@...il.com>, Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, Eric
Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Peter
Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Alexei
Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>, Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>, David
Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>, Hao Luo <haoluo@...gle.com>, Jiri Olsa
<jolsa@...nel.org>, John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>, KP Singh
<kpsingh@...nel.org>, Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@...ux.dev>, Song Liu
<song@...nel.org>, Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>, Yonghong Song
<yonghong.song@...ux.dev>, bpf@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 12/24] seg6: Use nested-BH locking for
seg6_bpf_srh_states.
On Fri, 2023-12-15 at 18:07 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> The access to seg6_bpf_srh_states is protected by disabling preemption.
> Based on the code, the entry point is input_action_end_bpf() and
> every other function (the bpf helper functions bpf_lwt_seg6_*()), that
> is accessing seg6_bpf_srh_states, should be called from within
> input_action_end_bpf().
>
> input_action_end_bpf() accesses seg6_bpf_srh_states first at the top of
> the function and then disables preemption. This looks wrong because if
> preemption needs to be disabled as part of the locking mechanism then
> the variable shouldn't be accessed beforehand.
>
> Looking at how it is used via test_lwt_seg6local.sh then
> input_action_end_bpf() is always invoked from softirq context. If this
> is always the case then the preempt_disable() statement is superfluous.
> If this is not always invoked from softirq then disabling only
> preemption is not sufficient.
>
> Replace the preempt_disable() statement with nested-BH locking. This is
> not an equivalent replacement as it assumes that the invocation of
> input_action_end_bpf() always occurs in softirq context and thus the
> preempt_disable() is superfluous.
> Add a local_lock_t the data structure and use local_lock_nested_bh() in
> guard notation for locking. Add lockdep_assert_held() to ensure the lock
> is held while the per-CPU variable is referenced in the helper functions.
>
> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
> Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>
> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>
> Cc: Hao Luo <haoluo@...gle.com>
> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
> Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
> Cc: KP Singh <kpsingh@...nel.org>
> Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@...ux.dev>
> Cc: Song Liu <song@...nel.org>
> Cc: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>
> Cc: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@...ux.dev>
> Cc: bpf@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
> ---
> include/net/seg6_local.h | 1 +
> net/core/filter.c | 3 ++
> net/ipv6/seg6_local.c | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
> 3 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/net/seg6_local.h b/include/net/seg6_local.h
> index 3fab9dec2ec45..0f22771359f4c 100644
> --- a/include/net/seg6_local.h
> +++ b/include/net/seg6_local.h
> @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ extern bool seg6_bpf_has_valid_srh(struct sk_buff *skb);
>
> struct seg6_bpf_srh_state {
> struct ipv6_sr_hdr *srh;
> + local_lock_t bh_lock;
> u16 hdrlen;
> bool valid;
> };
> diff --git a/net/core/filter.c b/net/core/filter.c
> index 1737884be52f8..c8013f762524b 100644
> --- a/net/core/filter.c
> +++ b/net/core/filter.c
> @@ -6384,6 +6384,7 @@ BPF_CALL_4(bpf_lwt_seg6_store_bytes, struct sk_buff *, skb, u32, offset,
> void *srh_tlvs, *srh_end, *ptr;
> int srhoff = 0;
>
> + lockdep_assert_held(&srh_state->bh_lock);
> if (srh == NULL)
> return -EINVAL;
>
> @@ -6440,6 +6441,7 @@ BPF_CALL_4(bpf_lwt_seg6_action, struct sk_buff *, skb,
> int hdroff = 0;
> int err;
>
> + lockdep_assert_held(&srh_state->bh_lock);
> switch (action) {
> case SEG6_LOCAL_ACTION_END_X:
> if (!seg6_bpf_has_valid_srh(skb))
> @@ -6516,6 +6518,7 @@ BPF_CALL_3(bpf_lwt_seg6_adjust_srh, struct sk_buff *, skb, u32, offset,
> int srhoff = 0;
> int ret;
>
> + lockdep_assert_held(&srh_state->bh_lock);
> if (unlikely(srh == NULL))
> return -EINVAL;
>
> diff --git a/net/ipv6/seg6_local.c b/net/ipv6/seg6_local.c
> index 24e2b4b494cb0..ed7278af321a2 100644
> --- a/net/ipv6/seg6_local.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/seg6_local.c
> @@ -1380,7 +1380,9 @@ static int input_action_end_b6_encap(struct sk_buff *skb,
> return err;
> }
>
> -DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct seg6_bpf_srh_state, seg6_bpf_srh_states);
> +DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct seg6_bpf_srh_state, seg6_bpf_srh_states) = {
> + .bh_lock = INIT_LOCAL_LOCK(bh_lock),
> +};
>
> bool seg6_bpf_has_valid_srh(struct sk_buff *skb)
> {
> @@ -1388,6 +1390,7 @@ bool seg6_bpf_has_valid_srh(struct sk_buff *skb)
> this_cpu_ptr(&seg6_bpf_srh_states);
> struct ipv6_sr_hdr *srh = srh_state->srh;
>
> + lockdep_assert_held(&srh_state->bh_lock);
> if (unlikely(srh == NULL))
> return false;
>
> @@ -1408,8 +1411,7 @@ bool seg6_bpf_has_valid_srh(struct sk_buff *skb)
> static int input_action_end_bpf(struct sk_buff *skb,
> struct seg6_local_lwt *slwt)
> {
> - struct seg6_bpf_srh_state *srh_state =
> - this_cpu_ptr(&seg6_bpf_srh_states);
> + struct seg6_bpf_srh_state *srh_state;
> struct ipv6_sr_hdr *srh;
> int ret;
>
> @@ -1420,41 +1422,44 @@ static int input_action_end_bpf(struct sk_buff *skb,
> }
> advance_nextseg(srh, &ipv6_hdr(skb)->daddr);
>
> - /* preempt_disable is needed to protect the per-CPU buffer srh_state,
> - * which is also accessed by the bpf_lwt_seg6_* helpers
> + /* The access to the per-CPU buffer srh_state is protected by running
> + * always in softirq context (with disabled BH). On PREEMPT_RT the
> + * required locking is provided by the following local_lock_nested_bh()
> + * statement. It is also accessed by the bpf_lwt_seg6_* helpers via
> + * bpf_prog_run_save_cb().
> */
> - preempt_disable();
> - srh_state->srh = srh;
> - srh_state->hdrlen = srh->hdrlen << 3;
> - srh_state->valid = true;
> + scoped_guard(local_lock_nested_bh, &seg6_bpf_srh_states.bh_lock) {
> + srh_state = this_cpu_ptr(&seg6_bpf_srh_states);
> + srh_state->srh = srh;
> + srh_state->hdrlen = srh->hdrlen << 3;
> + srh_state->valid = true;
Here the 'scoped_guard' usage adds a lot of noise to the patch, due to
the added indentation. What about using directly
local_lock_nested_bh()/local_unlock_nested_bh() ?
Cheers,
Paolo
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