netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v9 2/3] net: gro: move L3 flush checks to tcp_gro_receive and udp_gro_receive

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Message-ID: <98b7998a-3111-4892-ba1e-d0a026b64b0b@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 22:20:03 +0200
From: Richard Gobert <richardbgobert@...il.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: alexander.duyck@...il.com, davem@...emloft.net, dsahern@...nel.org,
 kuba@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, pabeni@...hat.com,
 shuah@...nel.org, willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v9 2/3] net: gro: move L3 flush checks to
 tcp_gro_receive and udp_gro_receive_segment

Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 8:58 PM Richard Gobert <richardbgobert@...il.com> wrote:
>>
> 
>>
>> Interesting, I think that is indeed a bug, that exists also in the current
>> implementation.
>> NAPI_GRO_CB(p)->ip_fixedid (is_atomic before we renamed it in this commit)
>> is cleared as being part of NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->zeroed in dev_gro_receive.
> 
> And the code there seems wrong.
> 
> A compiler can absolutely reorder things, I have seen this many times.
> 
> I would play safe here, to make sure NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->is_atomic = 1;
> can not be lost.
> 
> diff --git a/net/core/gro.c b/net/core/gro.c
> index c7901253a1a8fc1e9425add77014e15b363a1623..6e4203ea4d54b8955a504e42633f7667740b796e
> 100644
> --- a/net/core/gro.c
> +++ b/net/core/gro.c
> @@ -470,6 +470,7 @@ static enum gro_result dev_gro_receive(struct
> napi_struct *napi, struct sk_buff
>         BUILD_BUG_ON(!IS_ALIGNED(offsetof(struct napi_gro_cb, zeroed),
>                                         sizeof(u32))); /* Avoid slow
> unaligned acc */
>         *(u32 *)&NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->zeroed = 0;
> +       barrier();
>         NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->flush = skb_has_frag_list(skb);
>         NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->is_atomic = 1;
>         NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->count = 1;

I removed NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->is_atomic = 1 from dev_gro_receive in this series
since it is not needed anymore, so going forward this issue is fixed.
I understand your concern about previous versions, I could send a patch to 
net to settle this issue. 
WDYT?