Subject: [PATCH bpf v9 04/14] bpf: sockmap, improved check for empty queue

From: John Fastabend <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2023 21:06:49 -0700

We noticed some rare sk_buffs were stepping past the queue when system was
under memory pressure. The general theory is to skip enqueueing
sk_buffs when its not necessary which is the normal case with a system
that is properly provisioned for the task, no memory pressure and enough
cpu assigned.

But, if we can't allocate memory due to an ENOMEM error when enqueueing
the sk_buff into the sockmap receive queue we push it onto a delayed
workqueue to retry later. When a new sk_buff is received we then check
if that queue is empty. However, there is a problem with simply checking
the queue length. When a sk_buff is being processed from the ingress queue
but not yet on the sockmap msg receive queue its possible to also recv
a sk_buff through normal path. It will check the ingress queue which is
zero and then skip ahead of the pkt being processed.

Previously we used sock lock from both contexts which made the problem
harder to hit, but not impossible.

To fix instead of popping the skb from the queue entirely we peek the
skb from the queue and do the copy there. This ensures checks to the
queue length are non-zero while skb is being processed. Then finally
when the entire skb has been copied to user space queue or another
socket we pop it off the queue. This way the queue length check allows
bypassing the queue only after the list has been completely processed.

To reproduce issue we run NGINX compliance test with sockmap running and
observe some flakes in our testing that we attributed to this issue.

Fixes: 04919bed948dc ("tcp: Introduce tcp_read_skb()")
Tested-by: William Findlay <[email-masked]>
Suggested-by: Jakub Sitnicki <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <[email-masked]>
---
 include/linux/skmsg.h |  1 -
 net/core/skmsg.c      | 32 ++++++++------------------------
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/skmsg.h b/include/linux/skmsg.h
index 904ff9a32ad6..054d7911bfc9 100644
--- a/include/linux/skmsg.h
+++ b/include/linux/skmsg.h
@@ -71,7 +71,6 @@ struct sk_psock_link {
 };
 
 struct sk_psock_work_state {
-	struct sk_buff			*skb;
 	u32				len;
 	u32				off;
 };
diff --git a/net/core/skmsg.c b/net/core/skmsg.c
index 76ff15f8bb06..bcd45a99a3db 100644
--- a/net/core/skmsg.c
+++ b/net/core/skmsg.c
@@ -622,16 +622,12 @@ static int sk_psock_handle_skb(struct sk_psock *psock, struct sk_buff *skb,
 
 static void sk_psock_skb_state(struct sk_psock *psock,
 			       struct sk_psock_work_state *state,
-			       struct sk_buff *skb,
 			       int len, int off)
 {
 	spin_lock_bh(&psock->ingress_lock);
 	if (sk_psock_test_state(psock, SK_PSOCK_TX_ENABLED)) {
-		state->skb = skb;
 		state->len = len;
 		state->off = off;
-	} else {
-		sock_drop(psock->sk, skb);
 	}
 	spin_unlock_bh(&psock->ingress_lock);
 }
@@ -642,23 +638,17 @@ static void sk_psock_backlog(struct work_struct *work)
 	struct sk_psock *psock = container_of(dwork, struct sk_psock, work);
 	struct sk_psock_work_state *state = &psock->work_state;
 	struct sk_buff *skb = NULL;
+	u32 len = 0, off = 0;
 	bool ingress;
-	u32 len, off;
 	int ret;
 
 	mutex_lock(&psock->work_mutex);
-	if (unlikely(state->skb)) {
-		spin_lock_bh(&psock->ingress_lock);
-		skb = state->skb;
+	if (unlikely(state->len)) {
 		len = state->len;
 		off = state->off;
-		state->skb = NULL;
-		spin_unlock_bh(&psock->ingress_lock);
 	}
-	if (skb)
-		goto start;
 
-	while ((skb = skb_dequeue(&psock->ingress_skb))) {
+	while ((skb = skb_peek(&psock->ingress_skb))) {
 		len = skb->len;
 		off = 0;
 		if (skb_bpf_strparser(skb)) {
@@ -667,7 +657,6 @@ static void sk_psock_backlog(struct work_struct *work)
 			off = stm->offset;
 			len = stm->full_len;
 		}
-start:
 		ingress = skb_bpf_ingress(skb);
 		skb_bpf_redirect_clear(skb);
 		do {
@@ -677,8 +666,7 @@ static void sk_psock_backlog(struct work_struct *work)
 							  len, ingress);
 			if (ret <= 0) {
 				if (ret == -EAGAIN) {
-					sk_psock_skb_state(psock, state, skb,
-							   len, off);
+					sk_psock_skb_state(psock, state, len, off);
 
 					/* Delay slightly to prioritize any
 					 * other work that might be here.
@@ -690,15 +678,16 @@ static void sk_psock_backlog(struct work_struct *work)
 				/* Hard errors break pipe and stop xmit. */
 				sk_psock_report_error(psock, ret ? -ret : EPIPE);
 				sk_psock_clear_state(psock, SK_PSOCK_TX_ENABLED);
-				sock_drop(psock->sk, skb);
 				goto end;
 			}
 			off += ret;
 			len -= ret;
 		} while (len);
 
-		if (!ingress)
+		skb = skb_dequeue(&psock->ingress_skb);
+		if (!ingress) {
 			kfree_skb(skb);
+		}
 	}
 end:
 	mutex_unlock(&psock->work_mutex);
@@ -791,11 +780,6 @@ static void __sk_psock_zap_ingress(struct sk_psock *psock)
 		skb_bpf_redirect_clear(skb);
 		sock_drop(psock->sk, skb);
 	}
-	kfree_skb(psock->work_state.skb);
-	/* We null the skb here to ensure that calls to sk_psock_backlog
-	 * do not pick up the free'd skb.
-	 */
-	psock->work_state.skb = NULL;
 	__sk_psock_purge_ingress_msg(psock);
 }
 
@@ -814,7 +798,6 @@ void sk_psock_stop(struct sk_psock *psock)
 	spin_lock_bh(&psock->ingress_lock);
 	sk_psock_clear_state(psock, SK_PSOCK_TX_ENABLED);
 	sk_psock_cork_free(psock);
-	__sk_psock_zap_ingress(psock);
 	spin_unlock_bh(&psock->ingress_lock);
 }
 
@@ -829,6 +812,7 @@ static void sk_psock_destroy(struct work_struct *work)
 	sk_psock_done_strp(psock);
 
 	cancel_delayed_work_sync(&psock->work);
+	__sk_psock_zap_ingress(psock);
 	mutex_destroy(&psock->work_mutex);
 
 	psock_progs_drop(&psock->progs);
-- 
2.33.0