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<title>net: add atomic_long_t to net_device_stats fields</title>
<updated>2022-12-31T12:33:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-15T08:53:55+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 6c1c5097781f563b70a81683ea6fdac21637573b ]

Long standing KCSAN issues are caused by data-race around
some dev-&gt;stats changes.

Most performance critical paths already use per-cpu
variables, or per-queue ones.

It is reasonable (and more correct) to use atomic operations
for the slow paths.

This patch adds an union for each field of net_device_stats,
so that we can convert paths that are not yet protected
by a spinlock or a mutex.

netdev_stats_to_stats64() no longer has an #if BITS_PER_LONG==64

Note that the memcpy() we were using on 64bit arches
had no provision to avoid load-tearing,
while atomic_long_read() is providing the needed protection
at no cost.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 6c1c5097781f563b70a81683ea6fdac21637573b ]

Long standing KCSAN issues are caused by data-race around
some dev-&gt;stats changes.

Most performance critical paths already use per-cpu
variables, or per-queue ones.

It is reasonable (and more correct) to use atomic operations
for the slow paths.

This patch adds an union for each field of net_device_stats,
so that we can convert paths that are not yet protected
by a spinlock or a mutex.

netdev_stats_to_stats64() no longer has an #if BITS_PER_LONG==64

Note that the memcpy() we were using on 64bit arches
had no provision to avoid load-tearing,
while atomic_long_read() is providing the needed protection
at no cost.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Fix return value of qdisc ingress handling on success</title>
<updated>2022-10-19T13:04:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Blakey</name>
<email>paulb@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-18T07:34:38+00:00</published>
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Currently qdisc ingress handling (sch_handle_ingress()) doesn't
set a return value and it is left to the old return value of
the caller (__netif_receive_skb_core()) which is RX drop, so if
the packet is consumed, caller will stop and return this value
as if the packet was dropped.

This causes a problem in the kernel tcp stack when having a
egress tc rule forwarding to a ingress tc rule.
The tcp stack sending packets on the device having the egress rule
will see the packets as not successfully transmitted (although they
actually were), will not advance it's internal state of sent data,
and packets returning on such tcp stream will be dropped by the tcp
stack with reason ack-of-unsent-data. See reproduction in [0] below.

Fix that by setting the return value to RX success if
the packet was handled successfully.

[0] Reproduction steps:
 $ ip link add veth1 type veth peer name peer1
 $ ip link add veth2 type veth peer name peer2
 $ ifconfig peer1 5.5.5.6/24 up
 $ ip netns add ns0
 $ ip link set dev peer2 netns ns0
 $ ip netns exec ns0 ifconfig peer2 5.5.5.5/24 up
 $ ifconfig veth2 0 up
 $ ifconfig veth1 0 up

 #ingress forwarding veth1 &lt;-&gt; veth2
 $ tc qdisc add dev veth2 ingress
 $ tc qdisc add dev veth1 ingress
 $ tc filter add dev veth2 ingress prio 1 proto all flower \
   action mirred egress redirect dev veth1
 $ tc filter add dev veth1 ingress prio 1 proto all flower \
   action mirred egress redirect dev veth2

 #steal packet from peer1 egress to veth2 ingress, bypassing the veth pipe
 $ tc qdisc add dev peer1 clsact
 $ tc filter add dev peer1 egress prio 20 proto ip flower \
   action mirred ingress redirect dev veth1

 #run iperf and see connection not running
 $ iperf3 -s&amp;
 $ ip netns exec ns0 iperf3 -c 5.5.5.6 -i 1

 #delete egress rule, and run again, now should work
 $ tc filter del dev peer1 egress
 $ ip netns exec ns0 iperf3 -c 5.5.5.6 -i 1

Fixes: f697c3e8b35c ("[NET]: Avoid unnecessary cloning for ingress filtering")
Signed-off-by: Paul Blakey &lt;paulb@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Currently qdisc ingress handling (sch_handle_ingress()) doesn't
set a return value and it is left to the old return value of
the caller (__netif_receive_skb_core()) which is RX drop, so if
the packet is consumed, caller will stop and return this value
as if the packet was dropped.

This causes a problem in the kernel tcp stack when having a
egress tc rule forwarding to a ingress tc rule.
The tcp stack sending packets on the device having the egress rule
will see the packets as not successfully transmitted (although they
actually were), will not advance it's internal state of sent data,
and packets returning on such tcp stream will be dropped by the tcp
stack with reason ack-of-unsent-data. See reproduction in [0] below.

Fix that by setting the return value to RX success if
the packet was handled successfully.

[0] Reproduction steps:
 $ ip link add veth1 type veth peer name peer1
 $ ip link add veth2 type veth peer name peer2
 $ ifconfig peer1 5.5.5.6/24 up
 $ ip netns add ns0
 $ ip link set dev peer2 netns ns0
 $ ip netns exec ns0 ifconfig peer2 5.5.5.5/24 up
 $ ifconfig veth2 0 up
 $ ifconfig veth1 0 up

 #ingress forwarding veth1 &lt;-&gt; veth2
 $ tc qdisc add dev veth2 ingress
 $ tc qdisc add dev veth1 ingress
 $ tc filter add dev veth2 ingress prio 1 proto all flower \
   action mirred egress redirect dev veth1
 $ tc filter add dev veth1 ingress prio 1 proto all flower \
   action mirred egress redirect dev veth2

 #steal packet from peer1 egress to veth2 ingress, bypassing the veth pipe
 $ tc qdisc add dev peer1 clsact
 $ tc filter add dev peer1 egress prio 20 proto ip flower \
   action mirred ingress redirect dev veth1

 #run iperf and see connection not running
 $ iperf3 -s&amp;
 $ ip netns exec ns0 iperf3 -c 5.5.5.6 -i 1

 #delete egress rule, and run again, now should work
 $ tc filter del dev peer1 egress
 $ ip netns exec ns0 iperf3 -c 5.5.5.6 -i 1

Fixes: f697c3e8b35c ("[NET]: Avoid unnecessary cloning for ingress filtering")
Signed-off-by: Paul Blakey &lt;paulb@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: skb: introduce and use a single page frag cache</title>
<updated>2022-09-30T01:48:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Abeni</name>
<email>pabeni@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-28T08:43:09+00:00</published>
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After commit 3226b158e67c ("net: avoid 32 x truesize under-estimation
for tiny skbs") we are observing 10-20% regressions in performance
tests with small packets. The perf trace points to high pressure on
the slab allocator.

This change tries to improve the allocation schema for small packets
using an idea originally suggested by Eric: a new per CPU page frag is
introduced and used in __napi_alloc_skb to cope with small allocation
requests.

To ensure that the above does not lead to excessive truesize
underestimation, the frag size for small allocation is inflated to 1K
and all the above is restricted to build with 4K page size.

Note that we need to update accordingly the run-time check introduced
with commit fd9ea57f4e95 ("net: add napi_get_frags_check() helper").

Alex suggested a smart page refcount schema to reduce the number
of atomic operations and deal properly with pfmemalloc pages.

Under small packet UDP flood, I measure a 15% peak tput increases.

Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Alexander H Duyck &lt;alexanderduyck@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexanderduyck@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6b6f65957c59f86a353fc09a5127e83a32ab5999.1664350652.git.pabeni@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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After commit 3226b158e67c ("net: avoid 32 x truesize under-estimation
for tiny skbs") we are observing 10-20% regressions in performance
tests with small packets. The perf trace points to high pressure on
the slab allocator.

This change tries to improve the allocation schema for small packets
using an idea originally suggested by Eric: a new per CPU page frag is
introduced and used in __napi_alloc_skb to cope with small allocation
requests.

To ensure that the above does not lead to excessive truesize
underestimation, the frag size for small allocation is inflated to 1K
and all the above is restricted to build with 4K page size.

Note that we need to update accordingly the run-time check introduced
with commit fd9ea57f4e95 ("net: add napi_get_frags_check() helper").

Alex suggested a smart page refcount schema to reduce the number
of atomic operations and deal properly with pfmemalloc pages.

Under small packet UDP flood, I measure a 15% peak tput increases.

Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Alexander H Duyck &lt;alexanderduyck@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexanderduyck@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6b6f65957c59f86a353fc09a5127e83a32ab5999.1664350652.git.pabeni@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net</title>
<updated>2022-08-25T23:07:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-25T23:07:42+00:00</published>
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drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_fs.c
  21234e3a84c7 ("net/mlx5e: Fix use after free in mlx5e_fs_init()")
  c7eafc5ed068 ("net/mlx5e: Convert ethtool_steering member of flow_steering struct to pointer")
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220825104410.67d4709c@canb.auug.org.au/
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220823055533.334471-1-saeed@kernel.org/

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_fs.c
  21234e3a84c7 ("net/mlx5e: Fix use after free in mlx5e_fs_init()")
  c7eafc5ed068 ("net/mlx5e: Convert ethtool_steering member of flow_steering struct to pointer")
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220825104410.67d4709c@canb.auug.org.au/
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220823055533.334471-1-saeed@kernel.org/

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Fix a data-race around netdev_unregister_timeout_secs.</title>
<updated>2022-08-24T12:46:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kuniyuki Iwashima</name>
<email>kuniyu@amazon.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-23T17:46:59+00:00</published>
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While reading netdev_unregister_timeout_secs, it can be changed
concurrently.  Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its reader.

Fixes: 5aa3afe107d9 ("net: make unregister netdev warning timeout configurable")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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While reading netdev_unregister_timeout_secs, it can be changed
concurrently.  Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its reader.

Fixes: 5aa3afe107d9 ("net: make unregister netdev warning timeout configurable")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Fix a data-race around netdev_budget_usecs.</title>
<updated>2022-08-24T12:46:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kuniyuki Iwashima</name>
<email>kuniyu@amazon.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-23T17:46:55+00:00</published>
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While reading netdev_budget_usecs, it can be changed concurrently.
Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its reader.

Fixes: 7acf8a1e8a28 ("Replace 2 jiffies with sysctl netdev_budget_usecs to enable softirq tuning")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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While reading netdev_budget_usecs, it can be changed concurrently.
Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its reader.

Fixes: 7acf8a1e8a28 ("Replace 2 jiffies with sysctl netdev_budget_usecs to enable softirq tuning")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Fix a data-race around netdev_budget.</title>
<updated>2022-08-24T12:46:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kuniyuki Iwashima</name>
<email>kuniyu@amazon.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-23T17:46:53+00:00</published>
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While reading netdev_budget, it can be changed concurrently.
Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its reader.

Fixes: 51b0bdedb8e7 ("[NET]: Separate two usages of netdev_max_backlog.")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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While reading netdev_budget, it can be changed concurrently.
Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its reader.

Fixes: 51b0bdedb8e7 ("[NET]: Separate two usages of netdev_max_backlog.")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Fix data-races around netdev_tstamp_prequeue.</title>
<updated>2022-08-24T12:46:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kuniyuki Iwashima</name>
<email>kuniyu@amazon.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-23T17:46:47+00:00</published>
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While reading netdev_tstamp_prequeue, it can be changed concurrently.
Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its readers.

Fixes: 3b098e2d7c69 ("net: Consistent skb timestamping")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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While reading netdev_tstamp_prequeue, it can be changed concurrently.
Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its readers.

Fixes: 3b098e2d7c69 ("net: Consistent skb timestamping")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Fix data-races around netdev_max_backlog.</title>
<updated>2022-08-24T12:46:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kuniyuki Iwashima</name>
<email>kuniyu@amazon.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-23T17:46:46+00:00</published>
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While reading netdev_max_backlog, it can be changed concurrently.
Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its readers.

While at it, we remove the unnecessary spaces in the doc.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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While reading netdev_max_backlog, it can be changed concurrently.
Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its readers.

While at it, we remove the unnecessary spaces in the doc.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Fix data-races around weight_p and dev_weight_[rt]x_bias.</title>
<updated>2022-08-24T12:46:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kuniyuki Iwashima</name>
<email>kuniyu@amazon.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-23T17:46:45+00:00</published>
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While reading weight_p, it can be changed concurrently.  Thus, we need
to add READ_ONCE() to its reader.

Also, dev_[rt]x_weight can be read/written at the same time.  So, we
need to use READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() for its access.  Moreover, to
use the same weight_p while changing dev_[rt]x_weight, we add a mutex
in proc_do_dev_weight().

Fixes: 3d48b53fb2ae ("net: dev_weight: TX/RX orthogonality")
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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While reading weight_p, it can be changed concurrently.  Thus, we need
to add READ_ONCE() to its reader.

Also, dev_[rt]x_weight can be read/written at the same time.  So, we
need to use READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() for its access.  Moreover, to
use the same weight_p while changing dev_[rt]x_weight, we add a mutex
in proc_do_dev_weight().

Fixes: 3d48b53fb2ae ("net: dev_weight: TX/RX orthogonality")
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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