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Message-ID: <278c26d6f4042dc6dadb9742afe11b7fa610f0b2.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 19:04:15 +0100
From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, "Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)"
	 <matttbe@...nel.org>
Cc: mptcp@...ts.linux.dev, Mat Martineau <martineau@...nel.org>, Geliang
 Tang <geliang@...nel.org>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Jakub
 Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Davide Caratti <dcaratti@...hat.com>, Shuah
 Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,  linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
 stable@...r.kernel.org, Boris Pismenny <borisp@...dia.com>, John Fastabend
 <john.fastabend@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 03/13] mptcp: fix lockless access in subflow ULP diag

On Mon, 2024-02-19 at 18:35 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 6:21 PM Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 7:25 PM Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)
> > <matttbe@...nel.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
> > > 
> > > Since the introduction of the subflow ULP diag interface, the
> > > dump callback accessed all the subflow data with lockless.
> > > 
> > > We need either to annotate all the read and write operation accordingly,
> > > or acquire the subflow socket lock. Let's do latter, even if slower, to
> > > avoid a diffstat havoc.
> > > 
> > > Fixes: 5147dfb50832 ("mptcp: allow dumping subflow context to userspace")
> > > Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> > > Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
> > > Reviewed-by: Mat Martineau <martineau@...nel.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@...nel.org>
> > > ---
> > > Notes:
> > >   - This patch modifies the existing ULP API. No better solutions have
> > >     been found for -net, and there is some similar prior art, see
> > >     commit 0df48c26d841 ("tcp: add tcpi_bytes_acked to tcp_info").
> > > 
> > >     Please also note that TLS ULP Diag has likely the same issue.
> > > To: Boris Pismenny <borisp@...dia.com>
> > > To: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
> > > ---
> > >  include/net/tcp.h  | 2 +-
> > >  net/mptcp/diag.c   | 6 +++++-
> > >  net/tls/tls_main.c | 2 +-
> > >  3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h
> > > index dd78a1181031..f6eba9652d01 100644
> > > --- a/include/net/tcp.h
> > > +++ b/include/net/tcp.h
> > > @@ -2506,7 +2506,7 @@ struct tcp_ulp_ops {
> > >         /* cleanup ulp */
> > >         void (*release)(struct sock *sk);
> > >         /* diagnostic */
> > > -       int (*get_info)(const struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb);
> > > +       int (*get_info)(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb);
> > >         size_t (*get_info_size)(const struct sock *sk);
> > >         /* clone ulp */
> > >         void (*clone)(const struct request_sock *req, struct sock *newsk,
> > > diff --git a/net/mptcp/diag.c b/net/mptcp/diag.c
> > > index a536586742f2..e57c5f47f035 100644
> > > --- a/net/mptcp/diag.c
> > > +++ b/net/mptcp/diag.c
> > > @@ -13,17 +13,19 @@
> > >  #include <uapi/linux/mptcp.h>
> > >  #include "protocol.h"
> > > 
> > > -static int subflow_get_info(const struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
> > > +static int subflow_get_info(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
> > >  {
> > >         struct mptcp_subflow_context *sf;
> > >         struct nlattr *start;
> > >         u32 flags = 0;
> > > +       bool slow;
> > >         int err;
> > > 
> > >         start = nla_nest_start_noflag(skb, INET_ULP_INFO_MPTCP);
> > >         if (!start)
> > >                 return -EMSGSIZE;
> > > 
> > > +       slow = lock_sock_fast(sk);
> > >         rcu_read_lock();
> > 
> > I am afraid lockdep is not happy with this change.
> > 
> > Paolo, we probably need the READ_ONCE() annotations after all.
> 
> Or perhaps something like the following would be enough.
> 
> diff --git a/net/mptcp/diag.c b/net/mptcp/diag.c
> index 6ff6f14674aa2941bc04c680bacd9f79fc65060d..7017dd60659dc7133318c1c82e3f429bea3a5d57
> 100644
> --- a/net/mptcp/diag.c
> +++ b/net/mptcp/diag.c
> @@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ static int subflow_get_info(struct sock *sk, struct
> sk_buff *skb)
>         bool slow;
>         int err;
> 
> +       if (inet_sk_state_load(sk) == TCP_LISTEN)
> +               return 0;
> +
>         start = nla_nest_start_noflag(skb, INET_ULP_INFO_MPTCP);
>         if (!start)
>                 return -EMSGSIZE;

Thanks for the head-up. This later option looks preferable, to avoid
quit a bit of noise with _ONCE annotation. Is there a syzkaller splat I
could look at? if it landed on the ML, I missed it.

Thanks!

Paolo