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<title>net: openvswitch: Fix ct_state nat flags for conns arriving from tc</title>
<updated>2022-01-27T11:02:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Blakey</name>
<email>paulb@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-06T15:38:04+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 6f022c2ddbcefaee79502ce5386dfe351d457070 ]

Netfilter conntrack maintains NAT flags per connection indicating
whether NAT was configured for the connection. Openvswitch maintains
NAT flags on the per packet flow key ct_state field, indicating
whether NAT was actually executed on the packet.

When a packet misses from tc to ovs the conntrack NAT flags are set.
However, NAT was not necessarily executed on the packet because the
connection's state might still be in NEW state. As such, openvswitch
wrongly assumes that NAT was executed and sets an incorrect flow key
NAT flags.

Fix this, by flagging to openvswitch which NAT was actually done in
act_ct via tc_skb_ext and tc_skb_cb to the openvswitch module, so
the packet flow key NAT flags will be correctly set.

Fixes: b57dc7c13ea9 ("net/sched: Introduce action ct")
Signed-off-by: Paul Blakey &lt;paulb@nvidia.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim &lt;jhs@mojatatu.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220106153804.26451-1-paulb@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 6f022c2ddbcefaee79502ce5386dfe351d457070 ]

Netfilter conntrack maintains NAT flags per connection indicating
whether NAT was configured for the connection. Openvswitch maintains
NAT flags on the per packet flow key ct_state field, indicating
whether NAT was actually executed on the packet.

When a packet misses from tc to ovs the conntrack NAT flags are set.
However, NAT was not necessarily executed on the packet because the
connection's state might still be in NEW state. As such, openvswitch
wrongly assumes that NAT was executed and sets an incorrect flow key
NAT flags.

Fix this, by flagging to openvswitch which NAT was actually done in
act_ct via tc_skb_ext and tc_skb_cb to the openvswitch module, so
the packet flow key NAT flags will be correctly set.

Fixes: b57dc7c13ea9 ("net/sched: Introduce action ct")
Signed-off-by: Paul Blakey &lt;paulb@nvidia.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim &lt;jhs@mojatatu.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220106153804.26451-1-paulb@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: openvswitch: Fix matching zone id for invalid conns arriving from tc</title>
<updated>2021-12-18T02:06:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Blakey</name>
<email>paulb@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-14T17:24:35+00:00</published>
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Zone id is not restored if we passed ct and ct rejected the connection,
as there is no ct info on the skb.

Save the zone from tc skb cb to tc skb extension and pass it on to
ovs, use that info to restore the zone id for invalid connections.

Fixes: d29334c15d33 ("net/sched: act_api: fix miss set post_ct for ovs after do conntrack in act_ct")
Signed-off-by: Paul Blakey &lt;paulb@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Zone id is not restored if we passed ct and ct rejected the connection,
as there is no ct info on the skb.

Save the zone from tc skb cb to tc skb extension and pass it on to
ovs, use that info to restore the zone id for invalid connections.

Fixes: d29334c15d33 ("net/sched: act_api: fix miss set post_ct for ovs after do conntrack in act_ct")
Signed-off-by: Paul Blakey &lt;paulb@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>include/linux/mm.h: move nr_free_buffer_pages from swap.h to mm.h</title>
<updated>2021-11-06T20:30:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mianhan Liu</name>
<email>liumh1@shanghaitech.edu.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-05T20:45:21+00:00</published>
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nr_free_buffer_pages could be exposed through mm.h instead of swap.h.
The advantage of this change is that it can reduce the obsolete
includes.  For example, net/ipv4/tcp.c wouldn't need swap.h any more
since it has already included mm.h.  Similarly, after checking all the
other files, it comes that tcp.c, udp.c meter.c ,...  follow the same
rule, so these files can have swap.h removed too.

Moreover, after preprocessing all the files that use
nr_free_buffer_pages, it turns out that those files have already
included mm.h.Thus, we can move nr_free_buffer_pages from swap.h to mm.h
safely.  This change will not affect the compilation of other files.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210912133640.1624-1-liumh1@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Mianhan Liu &lt;liumh1@shanghaitech.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
CC: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: "David S . Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Simon Horman &lt;horms@verge.net.au&gt;
Cc: Pravin B Shelar &lt;pshelar@ovn.org&gt;
Cc: Vlad Yasevich &lt;vyasevich@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner &lt;marcelo.leitner@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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nr_free_buffer_pages could be exposed through mm.h instead of swap.h.
The advantage of this change is that it can reduce the obsolete
includes.  For example, net/ipv4/tcp.c wouldn't need swap.h any more
since it has already included mm.h.  Similarly, after checking all the
other files, it comes that tcp.c, udp.c meter.c ,...  follow the same
rule, so these files can have swap.h removed too.

Moreover, after preprocessing all the files that use
nr_free_buffer_pages, it turns out that those files have already
included mm.h.Thus, we can move nr_free_buffer_pages from swap.h to mm.h
safely.  This change will not affect the compilation of other files.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210912133640.1624-1-liumh1@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Mianhan Liu &lt;liumh1@shanghaitech.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
CC: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: "David S . Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Simon Horman &lt;horms@verge.net.au&gt;
Cc: Pravin B Shelar &lt;pshelar@ovn.org&gt;
Cc: Vlad Yasevich &lt;vyasevich@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner &lt;marcelo.leitner@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net</title>
<updated>2021-08-20T01:09:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-20T01:09:18+00:00</published>
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drivers/ptp/Kconfig:
  55c8fca1dae1 ("ptp_pch: Restore dependency on PCI")
  e5f31552674e ("ethernet: fix PTP_1588_CLOCK dependencies")

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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drivers/ptp/Kconfig:
  55c8fca1dae1 ("ptp_pch: Restore dependency on PCI")
  e5f31552674e ("ethernet: fix PTP_1588_CLOCK dependencies")

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ovs: clear skb-&gt;tstamp in forwarding path</title>
<updated>2021-08-18T10:31:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>kaixi.fan</name>
<email>fankaixi.li@bytedance.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-18T02:22:15+00:00</published>
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fq qdisc requires tstamp to be cleared in the forwarding path. Now ovs
doesn't clear skb-&gt;tstamp. We encountered a problem with linux
version 5.4.56 and ovs version 2.14.1, and packets failed to
dequeue from qdisc when fq qdisc was attached to ovs port.

Fixes: fb420d5d91c1 ("tcp/fq: move back to CLOCK_MONOTONIC")
Signed-off-by: kaixi.fan &lt;fankaixi.li@bytedance.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: xiexiaohui &lt;xiexiaohui.xxh@bytedance.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Cong Wang &lt;cong.wang@bytedance.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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fq qdisc requires tstamp to be cleared in the forwarding path. Now ovs
doesn't clear skb-&gt;tstamp. We encountered a problem with linux
version 5.4.56 and ovs version 2.14.1, and packets failed to
dequeue from qdisc when fq qdisc was attached to ovs port.

Fixes: fb420d5d91c1 ("tcp/fq: move back to CLOCK_MONOTONIC")
Signed-off-by: kaixi.fan &lt;fankaixi.li@bytedance.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: xiexiaohui &lt;xiexiaohui.xxh@bytedance.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Cong Wang &lt;cong.wang@bytedance.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net</title>
<updated>2021-08-13T13:41:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-13T13:41:22+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:

drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ptp.h
  9e26680733d5 ("bnxt_en: Update firmware call to retrieve TX PTP timestamp")
  9e518f25802c ("bnxt_en: 1PPS functions to configure TSIO pins")
  099fdeda659d ("bnxt_en: Event handler for PPS events")

kernel/bpf/helpers.c
include/linux/bpf-cgroup.h
  a2baf4e8bb0f ("bpf: Fix potentially incorrect results with bpf_get_local_storage()")
  c7603cfa04e7 ("bpf: Add ambient BPF runtime context stored in current")

drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pci_irq.c
  5957cc557dc5 ("net/mlx5: Set all field of mlx5_irq before inserting it to the xarray")
  2d0b41a37679 ("net/mlx5: Refcount mlx5_irq with integer")

MAINTAINERS
  7b637cd52f02 ("MAINTAINERS: fix Microchip CAN BUS Analyzer Tool entry typo")
  7d901a1e878a ("net: phy: add Maxlinear GPY115/21x/24x driver")

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Conflicts:

drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ptp.h
  9e26680733d5 ("bnxt_en: Update firmware call to retrieve TX PTP timestamp")
  9e518f25802c ("bnxt_en: 1PPS functions to configure TSIO pins")
  099fdeda659d ("bnxt_en: Event handler for PPS events")

kernel/bpf/helpers.c
include/linux/bpf-cgroup.h
  a2baf4e8bb0f ("bpf: Fix potentially incorrect results with bpf_get_local_storage()")
  c7603cfa04e7 ("bpf: Add ambient BPF runtime context stored in current")

drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pci_irq.c
  5957cc557dc5 ("net/mlx5: Set all field of mlx5_irq before inserting it to the xarray")
  2d0b41a37679 ("net/mlx5: Refcount mlx5_irq with integer")

MAINTAINERS
  7b637cd52f02 ("MAINTAINERS: fix Microchip CAN BUS Analyzer Tool entry typo")
  7d901a1e878a ("net: phy: add Maxlinear GPY115/21x/24x driver")

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: openvswitch: fix kernel-doc warnings in flow.c</title>
<updated>2021-08-09T22:37:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>rdunlap@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-08T19:08:34+00:00</published>
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Repair kernel-doc notation in a few places to make it conform to
the expected format.

Fixes the following kernel-doc warnings:

flow.c:296: warning: This comment starts with '/**', but isn't a kernel-doc comment. Refer Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
 * Parse vlan tag from vlan header.
flow.c:296: warning: missing initial short description on line:
 * Parse vlan tag from vlan header.
flow.c:537: warning: No description found for return value of 'key_extract_l3l4'
flow.c:769: warning: No description found for return value of 'key_extract'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Pravin B Shelar &lt;pshelar@ovn.org&gt;
Cc: dev@openvswitch.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210808190834.23362-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Repair kernel-doc notation in a few places to make it conform to
the expected format.

Fixes the following kernel-doc warnings:

flow.c:296: warning: This comment starts with '/**', but isn't a kernel-doc comment. Refer Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
 * Parse vlan tag from vlan header.
flow.c:296: warning: missing initial short description on line:
 * Parse vlan tag from vlan header.
flow.c:537: warning: No description found for return value of 'key_extract_l3l4'
flow.c:769: warning: No description found for return value of 'key_extract'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Pravin B Shelar &lt;pshelar@ovn.org&gt;
Cc: dev@openvswitch.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210808190834.23362-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>openvswitch: fix sparse warning incorrect type</title>
<updated>2021-07-27T10:48:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Gray</name>
<email>mark.d.gray@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-23T14:24:14+00:00</published>
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fix incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces)

../net/openvswitch/datapath.c:169:17: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces)
../net/openvswitch/datapath.c:169:17:    expected void const *
../net/openvswitch/datapath.c:169:17:    got struct dp_nlsk_pids [noderef] __rcu *upcall_portids

Found at: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20210630095350.817785-1-mark.d.gray@redhat.com/#24285159

Signed-off-by: Mark Gray &lt;mark.d.gray@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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fix incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces)

../net/openvswitch/datapath.c:169:17: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces)
../net/openvswitch/datapath.c:169:17:    expected void const *
../net/openvswitch/datapath.c:169:17:    got struct dp_nlsk_pids [noderef] __rcu *upcall_portids

Found at: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20210630095350.817785-1-mark.d.gray@redhat.com/#24285159

Signed-off-by: Mark Gray &lt;mark.d.gray@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>openvswitch: fix alignment issues</title>
<updated>2021-07-27T10:48:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Gray</name>
<email>mark.d.gray@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-23T14:24:13+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Mark Gray &lt;mark.d.gray@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Mark Gray &lt;mark.d.gray@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>openvswitch: Introduce per-cpu upcall dispatch</title>
<updated>2021-07-16T18:06:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Gray</name>
<email>mark.d.gray@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-15T12:27:54+00:00</published>
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The Open vSwitch kernel module uses the upcall mechanism to send
packets from kernel space to user space when it misses in the kernel
space flow table. The upcall sends packets via a Netlink socket.
Currently, a Netlink socket is created for every vport. In this way,
there is a 1:1 mapping between a vport and a Netlink socket.
When a packet is received by a vport, if it needs to be sent to
user space, it is sent via the corresponding Netlink socket.

This mechanism, with various iterations of the corresponding user
space code, has seen some limitations and issues:

* On systems with a large number of vports, there is a correspondingly
large number of Netlink sockets which can limit scaling.
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1526306)
* Packet reordering on upcalls.
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1844576)
* A thundering herd issue.
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1834444)

This patch introduces an alternative, feature-negotiated, upcall
mode using a per-cpu dispatch rather than a per-vport dispatch.

In this mode, the Netlink socket to be used for the upcall is
selected based on the CPU of the thread that is executing the upcall.
In this way, it resolves the issues above as:

a) The number of Netlink sockets scales with the number of CPUs
rather than the number of vports.
b) Ordering per-flow is maintained as packets are distributed to
CPUs based on mechanisms such as RSS and flows are distributed
to a single user space thread.
c) Packets from a flow can only wake up one user space thread.

The corresponding user space code can be found at:
https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2021-July/385139.html

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1844576
Signed-off-by: Mark Gray &lt;mark.d.gray@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner &lt;fbl@sysclose.org&gt;
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar &lt;pshelar@ovn.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The Open vSwitch kernel module uses the upcall mechanism to send
packets from kernel space to user space when it misses in the kernel
space flow table. The upcall sends packets via a Netlink socket.
Currently, a Netlink socket is created for every vport. In this way,
there is a 1:1 mapping between a vport and a Netlink socket.
When a packet is received by a vport, if it needs to be sent to
user space, it is sent via the corresponding Netlink socket.

This mechanism, with various iterations of the corresponding user
space code, has seen some limitations and issues:

* On systems with a large number of vports, there is a correspondingly
large number of Netlink sockets which can limit scaling.
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1526306)
* Packet reordering on upcalls.
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1844576)
* A thundering herd issue.
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1834444)

This patch introduces an alternative, feature-negotiated, upcall
mode using a per-cpu dispatch rather than a per-vport dispatch.

In this mode, the Netlink socket to be used for the upcall is
selected based on the CPU of the thread that is executing the upcall.
In this way, it resolves the issues above as:

a) The number of Netlink sockets scales with the number of CPUs
rather than the number of vports.
b) Ordering per-flow is maintained as packets are distributed to
CPUs based on mechanisms such as RSS and flows are distributed
to a single user space thread.
c) Packets from a flow can only wake up one user space thread.

The corresponding user space code can be found at:
https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2021-July/385139.html

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1844576
Signed-off-by: Mark Gray &lt;mark.d.gray@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner &lt;fbl@sysclose.org&gt;
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar &lt;pshelar@ovn.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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