Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] xen-netfront possibly rides the rocket too often

From: Stefan Bader <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 10:58:38 +0200

On 15.05.2014 10:46, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-05-14 at 20:49 +0100, Zoltan Kiss wrote:
>> On 13/05/14 19:21, Stefan Bader wrote:
>>> We had reports about this message being seen on EC2 for a while but finally a
>>> reporter did notice some details about the guests and was able to provide a
>>> simple way to reproduce[1].
>>>
>>> For my local experiments I use a Xen-4.2.2 based host (though I would say the
>>> host versions are not important). The host has one NIC which is used as the
>>> outgoing port of a Linux based (not openvswitch) bridge. And the PV guests use
>>> that bridge. I set the mtu to 9001 (which was seen on affected instance types)
>>> and also inside the guests. As described in the report one guests runs
>>> redis-server and the other nodejs through two scripts (for me I had to do the
>>> two sub.js calls in separate shells). After a bit the error messages appear on
>>> the guest running the redis-server.
>>>
>>> I added some debug printk's to show a bit more detail about the skb and got the
>>> following (<length>@<offset (after masking off complete pages)>):
>>>
>>> [ 698.108119] xen_netfront: xennet: skb rides the rocket: 19 slots
>>> [ 698.108134] header 1490@238 -> 1 slots
>>> [ 698.108139] frag #0 1614@2164 -> + 1 pages
>>> [ 698.108143] frag #1 3038@1296 -> + 2 pages
>>> [ 698.108147] frag #2 6076@1852 -> + 2 pages
>>> [ 698.108151] frag #3 6076@292 -> + 2 pages
>>> [ 698.108156] frag #4 6076@2828 -> + 3 pages
>>> [ 698.108160] frag #5 3038@1268 -> + 2 pages
>>> [ 698.108164] frag #6 2272@1824 -> + 1 pages
>>> [ 698.108168] frag #7 3804@0 -> + 1 pages
>>> [ 698.108172] frag #8 6076@264 -> + 2 pages
>>> [ 698.108177] frag #9 3946@2800 -> + 2 pages
>>> [ 698.108180] frags adding 18 slots
>>>
>>> Since I am not deeply familiar with the networking code, I wonder about two things:
>>> - is there something that should limit the skb data length from all frags
>>>    to stay below the 64K which the definition of MAX_SKB_FRAGS hints?
>> I think netfront should be able to handle 64K packets at most.
> 
> Ah, maybe this relates to this fix from Wei?

That indeed should (imo) limit the overall size. And if that would happen still,
we would see the different message. The problem I see is not the overall size
but the layout of the frags. Since multiple start at an offset high enough, the
count of slots goes too high.

Now I have to read that code in more detail, but there also has been some
changes which introduce a make frags function. I wonder whether maybe there is
already some kind of shifting (or copying) going on and whether its just the
check that needs to improve. But right now that is speculation.

For the fun I actually found an even simpler way to trigger it and (need to
confirm it yet without mucking around with mtu before). It looked like mtu
actually did not make a difference. One only needed the redis server on one
guest and run redis-benchmark from the other with (I think -d 1000, or whatever
it is that sets the datasize). Then on the range tests this happens quite often.

-Stefan
> 
> commit 9ecd1a75d977e2e8c48139c7d3efed183f898d94
> Author: Wei Liu <[email-masked]>
> Date:   Mon Apr 22 02:20:41 2013 +0000
> 
>     xen-netfront: reduce gso_max_size to account for max TCP header
>     
>     The maximum packet including header that can be handled by netfront / netback
>     wire format is 65535. Reduce gso_max_size accordingly.
>     
>     Drop skb and print warning when skb->len > 65535. This can 1) save the effort
>     to send malformed packet to netback, 2) help spotting misconfiguration of
>     netfront in the future.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <[email-masked]>
>     Acked-by: Ian Campbell <[email-masked]>
>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email-masked]>
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
> index 1bb2e20..1db10141 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
> @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
>  #include <linux/skbuff.h>
>  #include <linux/ethtool.h>
>  #include <linux/if_ether.h>
> -#include <linux/tcp.h>
> +#include <net/tcp.h>
>  #include <linux/udp.h>
>  #include <linux/moduleparam.h>
>  #include <linux/mm.h>
> @@ -547,6 +547,16 @@ static int xennet_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
>  	unsigned int len = skb_headlen(skb);
>  	unsigned long flags;
>  
> +	/* If skb->len is too big for wire format, drop skb and alert
> +	 * user about misconfiguration.
> +	 */
> +	if (unlikely(skb->len > XEN_NETIF_MAX_TX_SIZE)) {
> +		net_alert_ratelimited(
> +			"xennet: skb->len = %u, too big for wire format\n",
> +			skb->len);
> +		goto drop;
> +	}
> +
>  	slots = DIV_ROUND_UP(offset + len, PAGE_SIZE) +
>  		xennet_count_skb_frag_slots(skb);
>  	if (unlikely(slots > MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 1)) {
> @@ -1058,7 +1068,8 @@ err:
>  
>  static int xennet_change_mtu(struct net_device *dev, int mtu)
>  {
> -	int max = xennet_can_sg(dev) ? 65535 - ETH_HLEN : ETH_DATA_LEN;
> +	int max = xennet_can_sg(dev) ?
> +		XEN_NETIF_MAX_TX_SIZE - MAX_TCP_HEADER : ETH_DATA_LEN;
>  
>  	if (mtu > max)
>  		return -EINVAL;
> @@ -1362,6 +1373,8 @@ static struct net_device *xennet_create_dev(struct xenbus_device *dev)
>  	SET_ETHTOOL_OPS(netdev, &xennet_ethtool_ops);
>  	SET_NETDEV_DEV(netdev, &dev->dev);
>  
> +	netif_set_gso_max_size(netdev, XEN_NETIF_MAX_TX_SIZE - MAX_TCP_HEADER);
> +
>  	np->netdev = netdev;
>  
>  	netif_carrier_off(netdev);
> diff --git a/include/xen/interface/io/netif.h b/include/xen/interface/io/netif.h
> index 9dfc120..58fadca 100644
> --- a/include/xen/interface/io/netif.h
> +++ b/include/xen/interface/io/netif.h
> @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
>  #define _XEN_NETTXF_extra_info		(3)
>  #define  XEN_NETTXF_extra_info		(1U<<_XEN_NETTXF_extra_info)
>  
> +#define XEN_NETIF_MAX_TX_SIZE 0xFFFF
>  struct xen_netif_tx_request {
>      grant_ref_t gref;      /* Reference to buffer page */
>      uint16_t offset;       /* Offset within buffer page */
> 
> 
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