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From: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail•com>
To: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat•com>, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] xdp: adjust xdp redirect tracepoint to include return error code
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 11:46:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5995E472.70609@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <150298695758.6608.7128764985631537683.stgit@firesoul>

On 08/17/2017 09:22 AM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> The return error code need to be included in the tracepoint
> xdp:xdp_redirect, else its not possible to distinguish successful or
> failed XDP_REDIRECT transmits.
> 
> XDP have no queuing mechanism. Thus, it is fairly easily to overrun a
> NIC transmit queue.  The eBPF program invoking helpers (bpf_redirect
> or bpf_redirect_map) to redirect a packet doesn't get any feedback
> whether the packet was actually transmitted.
> 
> Info on failed transmits in the tracepoint xdp:xdp_redirect, is
> interesting as this opens for providing a feedback-loop to the
> receiving XDP program.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat•com>
> ---

[...]

> @@ -2532,12 +2535,14 @@ int xdp_do_redirect(struct net_device *dev, struct xdp_buff *xdp,
>  	ri->map = NULL;
>  	if (unlikely(!fwd)) {
>  		bpf_warn_invalid_xdp_redirect(index);
> -		return -EINVAL;
> +		err = -EINVAL;
> +		goto out;

It doesn't look like there is a check in trace_xdp_redirect to
avoid dereferencing a NULL fwd pointer here (*to in trace code
path). Did I miss something?

>  	}
>  
> -	trace_xdp_redirect(dev, fwd, xdp_prog, XDP_REDIRECT);
> -
> -	return __bpf_tx_xdp(fwd, NULL, xdp, 0);
> +	err = __bpf_tx_xdp(fwd, NULL, xdp, 0);
> +out:
> +	trace_xdp_redirect(dev, fwd, xdp_prog, XDP_REDIRECT, err);
> +	return err;
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xdp_do_redirect);
>  
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-17 18:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-17 16:22 [PATCH 0/2] xdp: adjust xdp redirect tracepoint Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-08-17 16:22 ` [PATCH 1/2] ixgbe: change ndo_xdp_xmit return code on xmit errors Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-08-17 18:32   ` John Fastabend
2017-08-17 16:22 ` [PATCH 2/2] xdp: adjust xdp redirect tracepoint to include return error code Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-08-17 18:46   ` John Fastabend [this message]
2017-08-17 19:28     ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-08-17 19:43       ` John Fastabend
2017-08-18 12:29         ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-08-18 12:38           ` Daniel Borkmann
2017-08-18 23:19 ` [PATCH 0/2] xdp: adjust xdp redirect tracepoint David Miller

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