Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] macvtap: Correctly set tap features when IFF_VNET_HDR is disabled.

From: Vlad Yasevich <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 16:22:24 -0400

On 08/14/2013 03:24 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 01:03:40PM -0400, Vlad Yasevich wrote:
>> When the user turns off IFF_VNET_HDR flag, attempts to change
>> offload features via TUNSETOFFLOAD do not work.  This could cause
>> GSO packets to be delivered to the user when the user is
>> not prepared to handle them.
>
> Just to clarify - is there some userspace that actually
> triggers this?

Yes.  The configuration that triggers is running windows guest
which uses non-virtio driver over macvtap.

The issue is that in non-virtio configuration, libvirt turns off
IFF_VNET_HDR support in macvtap.  Later, windows guest end up trying
to change offload capabilities.  Win7 (and others that don't support
GSO) will try to turn off offloads and that operation will fail.  Thus
GSO packets will get queued to the socket without vnet hdr support.

-vlad
>
>
>> To solve, allow processing of TUNSETOFFLOAD when IFF_VNET_HDR is
>> disabled.  Treat any attempt to enable offloads as an error in
>> this case.
>> We also need to update the TUN_FEATURES mask to include all checksum
>> options as the underlying device may have something other then
>> HW_CSUM set.
>>
>> Change since v1:
>>    - Removed the call to update offloads when IFF_VNET_HDR is turned off.
>>    - Changed the macvtap version of TUN_OFFLOADS to include all checksum
>>      offloads since the physical nic may have them set.
>>    - Treat enabling of offloads without vnet_hdr support as error.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <[email-masked]>
>> ---
>>   drivers/net/macvtap.c | 12 +++++++-----
>>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/macvtap.c b/drivers/net/macvtap.c
>> index a98fb0e..3acfc37 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/macvtap.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/macvtap.c
>> @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ static struct cdev macvtap_cdev;
>>
>>   static const struct proto_ops macvtap_socket_ops;
>>
>> -#define TUN_OFFLOADS (NETIF_F_HW_CSUM | NETIF_F_TSO_ECN | NETIF_F_TSO | \
>> +#define TUN_OFFLOADS (NETIF_F_ALL_CSUM | NETIF_F_TSO_ECN | NETIF_F_TSO | \
>>   		      NETIF_F_TSO6 | NETIF_F_UFO)
>>   #define RX_OFFLOADS (NETIF_F_GRO | NETIF_F_LRO)
>>   /*
>> @@ -1024,6 +1024,12 @@ static int set_offload(struct macvtap_queue *q, unsigned long arg)
>>   	if (!vlan)
>>   		return -ENOLINK;
>>
>> +	/* If the user is trying to set offloads while IFF_VNET_HDR is
>> +	 * off, report it as an error.
>> +	 */
>> +	if (!(q->flags & IFF_VNET_HDR) && arg)
>> +		return -EINVAL;
>> +
>>   	features = vlan->dev->features;
>>
>>   	if (arg & TUN_F_CSUM) {
>> @@ -1155,10 +1161,6 @@ static long macvtap_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
>>   			    TUN_F_TSO_ECN | TUN_F_UFO))
>>   			return -EINVAL;
>>
>> -		/* TODO: only accept frames with the features that
>> -			 got enabled for forwarded frames */
>> -		if (!(q->flags & IFF_VNET_HDR))
>> -			return  -EINVAL;
>>   		rtnl_lock();
>>   		ret = set_offload(q, arg);
>>   		rtnl_unlock();
>> --
>> 1.8.1.4