Subject: [PATCH net v2 1/2] net/sched: act_mirred: use the backlog for mirred ingress

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 19:38:47 -0800

The test Davide added in commit ca22da2fbd69 ("act_mirred: use the backlog
for nested calls to mirred ingress") hangs our testing VMs every 10 or so
runs, with the familiar tcp_v4_rcv -> tcp_v4_rcv deadlock reported by
lockdep.

In the past there was a concern that the backlog indirection will
lead to loss of error reporting / less accurate stats. But the current
workaround does not seem to address the issue.

Fixes: 53592b364001 ("net/sched: act_mirred: Implement ingress actions")
Cc: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <[email-masked]>
Suggested-by: Davide Caratti <[email-masked]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/[email-masked]/
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
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---
 net/sched/act_mirred.c                             | 14 +++++---------
 .../testing/selftests/net/forwarding/tc_actions.sh |  3 ---
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sched/act_mirred.c b/net/sched/act_mirred.c
index 0a1a9e40f237..291d47c9eb69 100644
--- a/net/sched/act_mirred.c
+++ b/net/sched/act_mirred.c
@@ -232,18 +232,14 @@ static int tcf_mirred_init(struct net *net, struct nlattr *nla,
 	return err;
 }
 
-static bool is_mirred_nested(void)
-{
-	return unlikely(__this_cpu_read(mirred_nest_level) > 1);
-}
-
-static int tcf_mirred_forward(bool want_ingress, struct sk_buff *skb)
+static int
+tcf_mirred_forward(bool at_ingress, bool want_ingress, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
 	int err;
 
 	if (!want_ingress)
 		err = tcf_dev_queue_xmit(skb, dev_queue_xmit);
-	else if (is_mirred_nested())
+	else if (!at_ingress)
 		err = netif_rx(skb);
 	else
 		err = netif_receive_skb(skb);
@@ -319,9 +315,9 @@ static int tcf_mirred_to_dev(struct sk_buff *skb, struct tcf_mirred *m,
 
 		skb_set_redirected(skb_to_send, skb_to_send->tc_at_ingress);
 
-		err = tcf_mirred_forward(want_ingress, skb_to_send);
+		err = tcf_mirred_forward(at_ingress, want_ingress, skb_to_send);
 	} else {
-		err = tcf_mirred_forward(want_ingress, skb_to_send);
+		err = tcf_mirred_forward(at_ingress, want_ingress, skb_to_send);
 	}
 
 	if (err) {
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/tc_actions.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/tc_actions.sh
index b0f5e55d2d0b..589629636502 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/tc_actions.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/tc_actions.sh
@@ -235,9 +235,6 @@ mirred_egress_to_ingress_tcp_test()
 	check_err $? "didn't mirred redirect ICMP"
 	tc_check_packets "dev $h1 ingress" 102 10
 	check_err $? "didn't drop mirred ICMP"
-	local overlimits=$(tc_rule_stats_get ${h1} 101 egress .overlimits)
-	test ${overlimits} = 10
-	check_err $? "wrong overlimits, expected 10 got ${overlimits}"
 
 	tc filter del dev $h1 egress protocol ip pref 100 handle 100 flower
 	tc filter del dev $h1 egress protocol ip pref 101 handle 101 flower
-- 
2.43.0