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<title>linux-stable.git/net/tipc/msg.c, branch v5.7.4</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>tipc: fix NULL pointer dereference in streaming</title>
<updated>2020-06-17T14:42:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tuong Lien</name>
<email>tuong.t.lien@dektech.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-03T05:06:01+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 5e9eeccc58f3e6bcc99b929670665d2ce047e9c9 ]

syzbot found the following crash:

general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000019: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x00000000000000c8-0x00000000000000cf]
CPU: 1 PID: 7060 Comm: syz-executor394 Not tainted 5.7.0-rc6-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
RIP: 0010:__tipc_sendstream+0xbde/0x11f0 net/tipc/socket.c:1591
Code: 00 00 00 00 48 39 5c 24 28 48 0f 44 d8 e8 fa 3e db f9 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 8d bb c8 00 00 00 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 &lt;80&gt; 3c 02 00 0f 85 e2 04 00 00 48 8b 9b c8 00 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003ef7818 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffffff8797fd9d
RDX: 0000000000000019 RSI: ffffffff8797fde6 RDI: 00000000000000c8
RBP: ffff888099848040 R08: ffff88809a5f6440 R09: fffffbfff1860b4c
R10: ffffffff8c305a5f R11: fffffbfff1860b4b R12: ffff88809984857e
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff888086aa4000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  00000000009b4880(0000) GS:ffff8880ae700000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000020000140 CR3: 00000000a7fdf000 CR4: 00000000001406e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 tipc_sendstream+0x4c/0x70 net/tipc/socket.c:1533
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:652 [inline]
 sock_sendmsg+0xcf/0x120 net/socket.c:672
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x32f/0x810 net/socket.c:2352
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x100/0x170 net/socket.c:2406
 __sys_sendmmsg+0x195/0x480 net/socket.c:2496
 __do_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2525 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2522 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmmsg+0x99/0x100 net/socket.c:2522
 do_syscall_64+0xf6/0x7d0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:295
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xb3
RIP: 0033:0x440199
...

This bug was bisected to commit 0a3e060f340d ("tipc: add test for Nagle
algorithm effectiveness"). However, it is not the case, the trouble was
from the base in the case of zero data length message sending, we would
unexpectedly make an empty 'txq' queue after the 'tipc_msg_append()' in
Nagle mode.

A similar crash can be generated even without the bisected patch but at
the link layer when it accesses the empty queue.

We solve the issues by building at least one buffer to go with socket's
header and an optional data section that may be empty like what we had
with the 'tipc_msg_build()'.

Note: the previous commit 4c21daae3dbc ("tipc: Fix NULL pointer
dereference in __tipc_sendstream()") is obsoleted by this one since the
'txq' will be never empty and the check of 'skb != NULL' is unnecessary
but it is safe anyway.

Reported-by: syzbot+8eac6d030e7807c21d32@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: c0bceb97db9e ("tipc: add smart nagle feature")
Acked-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jmaloy@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tuong Lien &lt;tuong.t.lien@dektech.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
[ Upstream commit 5e9eeccc58f3e6bcc99b929670665d2ce047e9c9 ]

syzbot found the following crash:

general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000019: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x00000000000000c8-0x00000000000000cf]
CPU: 1 PID: 7060 Comm: syz-executor394 Not tainted 5.7.0-rc6-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
RIP: 0010:__tipc_sendstream+0xbde/0x11f0 net/tipc/socket.c:1591
Code: 00 00 00 00 48 39 5c 24 28 48 0f 44 d8 e8 fa 3e db f9 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 8d bb c8 00 00 00 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 &lt;80&gt; 3c 02 00 0f 85 e2 04 00 00 48 8b 9b c8 00 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003ef7818 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffffff8797fd9d
RDX: 0000000000000019 RSI: ffffffff8797fde6 RDI: 00000000000000c8
RBP: ffff888099848040 R08: ffff88809a5f6440 R09: fffffbfff1860b4c
R10: ffffffff8c305a5f R11: fffffbfff1860b4b R12: ffff88809984857e
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff888086aa4000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  00000000009b4880(0000) GS:ffff8880ae700000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000020000140 CR3: 00000000a7fdf000 CR4: 00000000001406e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 tipc_sendstream+0x4c/0x70 net/tipc/socket.c:1533
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:652 [inline]
 sock_sendmsg+0xcf/0x120 net/socket.c:672
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x32f/0x810 net/socket.c:2352
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x100/0x170 net/socket.c:2406
 __sys_sendmmsg+0x195/0x480 net/socket.c:2496
 __do_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2525 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2522 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmmsg+0x99/0x100 net/socket.c:2522
 do_syscall_64+0xf6/0x7d0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:295
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xb3
RIP: 0033:0x440199
...

This bug was bisected to commit 0a3e060f340d ("tipc: add test for Nagle
algorithm effectiveness"). However, it is not the case, the trouble was
from the base in the case of zero data length message sending, we would
unexpectedly make an empty 'txq' queue after the 'tipc_msg_append()' in
Nagle mode.

A similar crash can be generated even without the bisected patch but at
the link layer when it accesses the empty queue.

We solve the issues by building at least one buffer to go with socket's
header and an optional data section that may be empty like what we had
with the 'tipc_msg_build()'.

Note: the previous commit 4c21daae3dbc ("tipc: Fix NULL pointer
dereference in __tipc_sendstream()") is obsoleted by this one since the
'txq' will be never empty and the check of 'skb != NULL' is unnecessary
but it is safe anyway.

Reported-by: syzbot+8eac6d030e7807c21d32@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: c0bceb97db9e ("tipc: add smart nagle feature")
Acked-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jmaloy@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tuong Lien &lt;tuong.t.lien@dektech.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tipc: simplify trivial boolean return</title>
<updated>2020-03-15T07:07:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hoang Le</name>
<email>hoang.h.le@dektech.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-13T03:18:02+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Checking and returning 'true' boolean is useless as it will be
returning at end of function

Signed-off-by: Hoang Le &lt;hoang.h.le@dektech.com.au&gt;
Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jmaloy@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Checking and returning 'true' boolean is useless as it will be
returning at end of function

Signed-off-by: Hoang Le &lt;hoang.h.le@dektech.com.au&gt;
Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jmaloy@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tipc: introduce TIPC encryption &amp; authentication</title>
<updated>2019-11-08T22:01:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tuong Lien</name>
<email>tuong.t.lien@dektech.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-08T05:05:11+00:00</published>
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This commit offers an option to encrypt and authenticate all messaging,
including the neighbor discovery messages. The currently most advanced
algorithm supported is the AEAD AES-GCM (like IPSec or TLS). All
encryption/decryption is done at the bearer layer, just before leaving
or after entering TIPC.

Supported features:
- Encryption &amp; authentication of all TIPC messages (header + data);
- Two symmetric-key modes: Cluster and Per-node;
- Automatic key switching;
- Key-expired revoking (sequence number wrapped);
- Lock-free encryption/decryption (RCU);
- Asynchronous crypto, Intel AES-NI supported;
- Multiple cipher transforms;
- Logs &amp; statistics;

Two key modes:
- Cluster key mode: One single key is used for both TX &amp; RX in all
nodes in the cluster.
- Per-node key mode: Each nodes in the cluster has one specific TX key.
For RX, a node requires its peers' TX key to be able to decrypt the
messages from those peers.

Key setting from user-space is performed via netlink by a user program
(e.g. the iproute2 'tipc' tool).

Internal key state machine:

                                 Attach    Align(RX)
                                     +-+   +-+
                                     | V   | V
        +---------+      Attach     +---------+
        |  IDLE   |----------------&gt;| PENDING |(user = 0)
        +---------+                 +---------+
           A   A                   Switch|  A
           |   |                         |  |
           |   | Free(switch/revoked)    |  |
     (Free)|   +----------------------+  |  |Timeout
           |              (TX)        |  |  |(RX)
           |                          |  |  |
           |                          |  v  |
        +---------+      Switch     +---------+
        | PASSIVE |&lt;----------------| ACTIVE  |
        +---------+       (RX)      +---------+
        (user = 1)                  (user &gt;= 1)

The number of TFMs is 10 by default and can be changed via the procfs
'net/tipc/max_tfms'. At this moment, as for simplicity, this file is
also used to print the crypto statistics at runtime:

echo 0xfff1 &gt; /proc/sys/net/tipc/max_tfms

The patch defines a new TIPC version (v7) for the encryption message (-
backward compatibility as well). The message is basically encapsulated
as follows:

   +----------------------------------------------------------+
   | TIPCv7 encryption  | Original TIPCv2    | Authentication |
   | header             | packet (encrypted) | Tag            |
   +----------------------------------------------------------+

The throughput is about ~40% for small messages (compared with non-
encryption) and ~9% for large messages. With the support from hardware
crypto i.e. the Intel AES-NI CPU instructions, the throughput increases
upto ~85% for small messages and ~55% for large messages.

By default, the new feature is inactive (i.e. no encryption) until user
sets a key for TIPC. There is however also a new option - "TIPC_CRYPTO"
in the kernel configuration to enable/disable the new code when needed.

MAINTAINERS | add two new files 'crypto.h' &amp; 'crypto.c' in tipc

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windreiver.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tuong Lien &lt;tuong.t.lien@dektech.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This commit offers an option to encrypt and authenticate all messaging,
including the neighbor discovery messages. The currently most advanced
algorithm supported is the AEAD AES-GCM (like IPSec or TLS). All
encryption/decryption is done at the bearer layer, just before leaving
or after entering TIPC.

Supported features:
- Encryption &amp; authentication of all TIPC messages (header + data);
- Two symmetric-key modes: Cluster and Per-node;
- Automatic key switching;
- Key-expired revoking (sequence number wrapped);
- Lock-free encryption/decryption (RCU);
- Asynchronous crypto, Intel AES-NI supported;
- Multiple cipher transforms;
- Logs &amp; statistics;

Two key modes:
- Cluster key mode: One single key is used for both TX &amp; RX in all
nodes in the cluster.
- Per-node key mode: Each nodes in the cluster has one specific TX key.
For RX, a node requires its peers' TX key to be able to decrypt the
messages from those peers.

Key setting from user-space is performed via netlink by a user program
(e.g. the iproute2 'tipc' tool).

Internal key state machine:

                                 Attach    Align(RX)
                                     +-+   +-+
                                     | V   | V
        +---------+      Attach     +---------+
        |  IDLE   |----------------&gt;| PENDING |(user = 0)
        +---------+                 +---------+
           A   A                   Switch|  A
           |   |                         |  |
           |   | Free(switch/revoked)    |  |
     (Free)|   +----------------------+  |  |Timeout
           |              (TX)        |  |  |(RX)
           |                          |  |  |
           |                          |  v  |
        +---------+      Switch     +---------+
        | PASSIVE |&lt;----------------| ACTIVE  |
        +---------+       (RX)      +---------+
        (user = 1)                  (user &gt;= 1)

The number of TFMs is 10 by default and can be changed via the procfs
'net/tipc/max_tfms'. At this moment, as for simplicity, this file is
also used to print the crypto statistics at runtime:

echo 0xfff1 &gt; /proc/sys/net/tipc/max_tfms

The patch defines a new TIPC version (v7) for the encryption message (-
backward compatibility as well). The message is basically encapsulated
as follows:

   +----------------------------------------------------------+
   | TIPCv7 encryption  | Original TIPCv2    | Authentication |
   | header             | packet (encrypted) | Tag            |
   +----------------------------------------------------------+

The throughput is about ~40% for small messages (compared with non-
encryption) and ~9% for large messages. With the support from hardware
crypto i.e. the Intel AES-NI CPU instructions, the throughput increases
upto ~85% for small messages and ~55% for large messages.

By default, the new feature is inactive (i.e. no encryption) until user
sets a key for TIPC. There is however also a new option - "TIPC_CRYPTO"
in the kernel configuration to enable/disable the new code when needed.

MAINTAINERS | add two new files 'crypto.h' &amp; 'crypto.c' in tipc

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windreiver.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tuong Lien &lt;tuong.t.lien@dektech.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tipc: improve message bundling algorithm</title>
<updated>2019-11-04T01:26:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tuong Lien</name>
<email>tuong.t.lien@dektech.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-01T02:58:57+00:00</published>
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As mentioned in commit e95584a889e1 ("tipc: fix unlimited bundling of
small messages"), the current message bundling algorithm is inefficient
that can generate bundles of only one payload message, that causes
unnecessary overheads for both the sender and receiver.

This commit re-designs the 'tipc_msg_make_bundle()' function (now named
as 'tipc_msg_try_bundle()'), so that when a message comes at the first
place, we will just check &amp; keep a reference to it if the message is
suitable for bundling. The message buffer will be put into the link
backlog queue and processed as normal. Later on, when another one comes
we will make a bundle with the first message if possible and so on...
This way, a bundle if really needed will always consist of at least two
payload messages. Otherwise, we let the first buffer go its way without
any need of bundling, so reduce the overheads to zero.

Moreover, since now we have both the messages in hand, we can even
optimize the 'tipc_msg_bundle()' function, make bundle of a very large
(size ~ MSS) and small messages which is not with the current algorithm
e.g. [1400-byte message] + [10-byte message] (MTU = 1500).

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windreiver.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tuong Lien &lt;tuong.t.lien@dektech.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
As mentioned in commit e95584a889e1 ("tipc: fix unlimited bundling of
small messages"), the current message bundling algorithm is inefficient
that can generate bundles of only one payload message, that causes
unnecessary overheads for both the sender and receiver.

This commit re-designs the 'tipc_msg_make_bundle()' function (now named
as 'tipc_msg_try_bundle()'), so that when a message comes at the first
place, we will just check &amp; keep a reference to it if the message is
suitable for bundling. The message buffer will be put into the link
backlog queue and processed as normal. Later on, when another one comes
we will make a bundle with the first message if possible and so on...
This way, a bundle if really needed will always consist of at least two
payload messages. Otherwise, we let the first buffer go its way without
any need of bundling, so reduce the overheads to zero.

Moreover, since now we have both the messages in hand, we can even
optimize the 'tipc_msg_bundle()' function, make bundle of a very large
(size ~ MSS) and small messages which is not with the current algorithm
e.g. [1400-byte message] + [10-byte message] (MTU = 1500).

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windreiver.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tuong Lien &lt;tuong.t.lien@dektech.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tipc: add smart nagle feature</title>
<updated>2019-10-30T19:16:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jon Maloy</name>
<email>jon.maloy@ericsson.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-30T13:00:41+00:00</published>
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We introduce a feature that works like a combination of TCP_NAGLE and
TCP_CORK, but without some of the weaknesses of those. In particular,
we will not observe long delivery delays because of delayed acks, since
the algorithm itself decides if and when acks are to be sent from the
receiving peer.

- The nagle property as such is determined by manipulating a new
  'maxnagle' field in struct tipc_sock. If certain conditions are met,
  'maxnagle' will define max size of the messages which can be bundled.
  If it is set to zero no messages are ever bundled, implying that the
  nagle property is disabled.
- A socket with the nagle property enabled enters nagle mode when more
  than 4 messages have been sent out without receiving any data message
  from the peer.
- A socket leaves nagle mode whenever it receives a data message from
  the peer.

In nagle mode, messages smaller than 'maxnagle' are accumulated in the
socket write queue. The last buffer in the queue is marked with a new
'ack_required' bit, which forces the receiving peer to send a CONN_ACK
message back to the sender upon reception.

The accumulated contents of the write queue is transmitted when one of
the following events or conditions occur.

- A CONN_ACK message is received from the peer.
- A data message is received from the peer.
- A SOCK_WAKEUP pseudo message is received from the link level.
- The write queue contains more than 64 1k blocks of data.
- The connection is being shut down.
- There is no CONN_ACK message to expect. I.e., there is currently
  no outstanding message where the 'ack_required' bit was set. As a
  consequence, the first message added after we enter nagle mode
  is always sent directly with this bit set.

This new feature gives a 50-100% improvement of throughput for small
(i.e., less than MTU size) messages, while it might add up to one RTT
to latency time when the socket is in nagle mode.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windreiver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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We introduce a feature that works like a combination of TCP_NAGLE and
TCP_CORK, but without some of the weaknesses of those. In particular,
we will not observe long delivery delays because of delayed acks, since
the algorithm itself decides if and when acks are to be sent from the
receiving peer.

- The nagle property as such is determined by manipulating a new
  'maxnagle' field in struct tipc_sock. If certain conditions are met,
  'maxnagle' will define max size of the messages which can be bundled.
  If it is set to zero no messages are ever bundled, implying that the
  nagle property is disabled.
- A socket with the nagle property enabled enters nagle mode when more
  than 4 messages have been sent out without receiving any data message
  from the peer.
- A socket leaves nagle mode whenever it receives a data message from
  the peer.

In nagle mode, messages smaller than 'maxnagle' are accumulated in the
socket write queue. The last buffer in the queue is marked with a new
'ack_required' bit, which forces the receiving peer to send a CONN_ACK
message back to the sender upon reception.

The accumulated contents of the write queue is transmitted when one of
the following events or conditions occur.

- A CONN_ACK message is received from the peer.
- A data message is received from the peer.
- A SOCK_WAKEUP pseudo message is received from the link level.
- The write queue contains more than 64 1k blocks of data.
- The connection is being shut down.
- There is no CONN_ACK message to expect. I.e., there is currently
  no outstanding message where the 'ack_required' bit was set. As a
  consequence, the first message added after we enter nagle mode
  is always sent directly with this bit set.

This new feature gives a 50-100% improvement of throughput for small
(i.e., less than MTU size) messages, while it might add up to one RTT
to latency time when the socket is in nagle mode.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windreiver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tipc: fix unlimited bundling of small messages</title>
<updated>2019-10-02T15:02:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tuong Lien</name>
<email>tuong.t.lien@dektech.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-02T11:49:43+00:00</published>
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We have identified a problem with the "oversubscription" policy in the
link transmission code.

When small messages are transmitted, and the sending link has reached
the transmit window limit, those messages will be bundled and put into
the link backlog queue. However, bundles of data messages are counted
at the 'CRITICAL' level, so that the counter for that level, instead of
the counter for the real, bundled message's level is the one being
increased.
Subsequent, to-be-bundled data messages at non-CRITICAL levels continue
to be tested against the unchanged counter for their own level, while
contributing to an unrestrained increase at the CRITICAL backlog level.

This leaves a gap in congestion control algorithm for small messages
that can result in starvation for other users or a "real" CRITICAL
user. Even that eventually can lead to buffer exhaustion &amp; link reset.

We fix this by keeping a 'target_bskb' buffer pointer at each levels,
then when bundling, we only bundle messages at the same importance
level only. This way, we know exactly how many slots a certain level
have occupied in the queue, so can manage level congestion accurately.

By bundling messages at the same level, we even have more benefits. Let
consider this:
- One socket sends 64-byte messages at the 'CRITICAL' level;
- Another sends 4096-byte messages at the 'LOW' level;

When a 64-byte message comes and is bundled the first time, we put the
overhead of message bundle to it (+ 40-byte header, data copy, etc.)
for later use, but the next message can be a 4096-byte one that cannot
be bundled to the previous one. This means the last bundle carries only
one payload message which is totally inefficient, as for the receiver
also! Later on, another 64-byte message comes, now we make a new bundle
and the same story repeats...

With the new bundling algorithm, this will not happen, the 64-byte
messages will be bundled together even when the 4096-byte message(s)
comes in between. However, if the 4096-byte messages are sent at the
same level i.e. 'CRITICAL', the bundling algorithm will again cause the
same overhead.

Also, the same will happen even with only one socket sending small
messages at a rate close to the link transmit's one, so that, when one
message is bundled, it's transmitted shortly. Then, another message
comes, a new bundle is created and so on...

We will solve this issue radically by another patch.

Fixes: 365ad353c256 ("tipc: reduce risk of user starvation during link congestion")
Reported-by: Hoang Le &lt;hoang.h.le@dektech.com.au&gt;
Acked-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tuong Lien &lt;tuong.t.lien@dektech.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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We have identified a problem with the "oversubscription" policy in the
link transmission code.

When small messages are transmitted, and the sending link has reached
the transmit window limit, those messages will be bundled and put into
the link backlog queue. However, bundles of data messages are counted
at the 'CRITICAL' level, so that the counter for that level, instead of
the counter for the real, bundled message's level is the one being
increased.
Subsequent, to-be-bundled data messages at non-CRITICAL levels continue
to be tested against the unchanged counter for their own level, while
contributing to an unrestrained increase at the CRITICAL backlog level.

This leaves a gap in congestion control algorithm for small messages
that can result in starvation for other users or a "real" CRITICAL
user. Even that eventually can lead to buffer exhaustion &amp; link reset.

We fix this by keeping a 'target_bskb' buffer pointer at each levels,
then when bundling, we only bundle messages at the same importance
level only. This way, we know exactly how many slots a certain level
have occupied in the queue, so can manage level congestion accurately.

By bundling messages at the same level, we even have more benefits. Let
consider this:
- One socket sends 64-byte messages at the 'CRITICAL' level;
- Another sends 4096-byte messages at the 'LOW' level;

When a 64-byte message comes and is bundled the first time, we put the
overhead of message bundle to it (+ 40-byte header, data copy, etc.)
for later use, but the next message can be a 4096-byte one that cannot
be bundled to the previous one. This means the last bundle carries only
one payload message which is totally inefficient, as for the receiver
also! Later on, another 64-byte message comes, now we make a new bundle
and the same story repeats...

With the new bundling algorithm, this will not happen, the 64-byte
messages will be bundled together even when the 4096-byte message(s)
comes in between. However, if the 4096-byte messages are sent at the
same level i.e. 'CRITICAL', the bundling algorithm will again cause the
same overhead.

Also, the same will happen even with only one socket sending small
messages at a rate close to the link transmit's one, so that, when one
message is bundled, it's transmitted shortly. Then, another message
comes, a new bundle is created and so on...

We will solve this issue radically by another patch.

Fixes: 365ad353c256 ("tipc: reduce risk of user starvation during link congestion")
Reported-by: Hoang Le &lt;hoang.h.le@dektech.com.au&gt;
Acked-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tuong Lien &lt;tuong.t.lien@dektech.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tipc: fix changeover issues due to large packet</title>
<updated>2019-07-25T22:55:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tuong Lien</name>
<email>tuong.t.lien@dektech.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-24T01:56:12+00:00</published>
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In conjunction with changing the interfaces' MTU (e.g. especially in
the case of a bonding) where the TIPC links are brought up and down
in a short time, a couple of issues were detected with the current link
changeover mechanism:

1) When one link is up but immediately forced down again, the failover
procedure will be carried out in order to failover all the messages in
the link's transmq queue onto the other working link. The link and node
state is also set to FAILINGOVER as part of the process. The message
will be transmited in form of a FAILOVER_MSG, so its size is plus of 40
bytes (= the message header size). There is no problem if the original
message size is not larger than the link's MTU - 40, and indeed this is
the max size of a normal payload messages. However, in the situation
above, because the link has just been up, the messages in the link's
transmq are almost SYNCH_MSGs which had been generated by the link
synching procedure, then their size might reach the max value already!
When the FAILOVER_MSG is built on the top of such a SYNCH_MSG, its size
will exceed the link's MTU. As a result, the messages are dropped
silently and the failover procedure will never end up, the link will
not be able to exit the FAILINGOVER state, so cannot be re-established.

2) The same scenario above can happen more easily in case the MTU of
the links is set differently or when changing. In that case, as long as
a large message in the failure link's transmq queue was built and
fragmented with its link's MTU &gt; the other link's one, the issue will
happen (there is no need of a link synching in advance).

3) The link synching procedure also faces with the same issue but since
the link synching is only started upon receipt of a SYNCH_MSG, dropping
the message will not result in a state deadlock, but it is not expected
as design.

The 1) &amp; 3) issues are resolved by the last commit that only a dummy
SYNCH_MSG (i.e. without data) is generated at the link synching, so the
size of a FAILOVER_MSG if any then will never exceed the link's MTU.

For the 2) issue, the only solution is trying to fragment the messages
in the failure link's transmq queue according to the working link's MTU
so they can be failovered then. A new function is made to accomplish
this, it will still be a TUNNEL PROTOCOL/FAILOVER MSG but if the
original message size is too large, it will be fragmented &amp; reassembled
at the receiving side.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tuong Lien &lt;tuong.t.lien@dektech.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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In conjunction with changing the interfaces' MTU (e.g. especially in
the case of a bonding) where the TIPC links are brought up and down
in a short time, a couple of issues were detected with the current link
changeover mechanism:

1) When one link is up but immediately forced down again, the failover
procedure will be carried out in order to failover all the messages in
the link's transmq queue onto the other working link. The link and node
state is also set to FAILINGOVER as part of the process. The message
will be transmited in form of a FAILOVER_MSG, so its size is plus of 40
bytes (= the message header size). There is no problem if the original
message size is not larger than the link's MTU - 40, and indeed this is
the max size of a normal payload messages. However, in the situation
above, because the link has just been up, the messages in the link's
transmq are almost SYNCH_MSGs which had been generated by the link
synching procedure, then their size might reach the max value already!
When the FAILOVER_MSG is built on the top of such a SYNCH_MSG, its size
will exceed the link's MTU. As a result, the messages are dropped
silently and the failover procedure will never end up, the link will
not be able to exit the FAILINGOVER state, so cannot be re-established.

2) The same scenario above can happen more easily in case the MTU of
the links is set differently or when changing. In that case, as long as
a large message in the failure link's transmq queue was built and
fragmented with its link's MTU &gt; the other link's one, the issue will
happen (there is no need of a link synching in advance).

3) The link synching procedure also faces with the same issue but since
the link synching is only started upon receipt of a SYNCH_MSG, dropping
the message will not result in a state deadlock, but it is not expected
as design.

The 1) &amp; 3) issues are resolved by the last commit that only a dummy
SYNCH_MSG (i.e. without data) is generated at the link synching, so the
size of a FAILOVER_MSG if any then will never exceed the link's MTU.

For the 2) issue, the only solution is trying to fragment the messages
in the failure link's transmq queue according to the working link's MTU
so they can be failovered then. A new function is made to accomplish
this, it will still be a TUNNEL PROTOCOL/FAILOVER MSG but if the
original message size is too large, it will be fragmented &amp; reassembled
at the receiving side.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tuong Lien &lt;tuong.t.lien@dektech.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tipc: buffer overflow handling in listener socket</title>
<updated>2018-09-29T18:24:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tung Nguyen</name>
<email>tung.q.nguyen@dektech.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-28T18:23:22+00:00</published>
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Default socket receive buffer size for a listener socket is 2Mb. For
each arriving empty SYN, the linux kernel allocates a 768 bytes buffer.
This means that a listener socket can serve maximum 2700 simultaneous
empty connection setup requests before it hits a receive buffer
overflow, and much fewer if the SYN is carrying any significant
amount of data.

When this happens the setup request is rejected, and the client
receives an ECONNREFUSED error.

This commit mitigates this problem by letting the client socket try to
retransmit the SYN message multiple times when it sees it rejected with
the code TIPC_ERR_OVERLOAD. Retransmission is done at random intervals
in the range of [100 ms, setup_timeout / 4], as many times as there is
room for within the setup timeout limit.

Signed-off-by: Tung Nguyen &lt;tung.q.nguyen@dektech.com.au&gt;
Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Default socket receive buffer size for a listener socket is 2Mb. For
each arriving empty SYN, the linux kernel allocates a 768 bytes buffer.
This means that a listener socket can serve maximum 2700 simultaneous
empty connection setup requests before it hits a receive buffer
overflow, and much fewer if the SYN is carrying any significant
amount of data.

When this happens the setup request is rejected, and the client
receives an ECONNREFUSED error.

This commit mitigates this problem by letting the client socket try to
retransmit the SYN message multiple times when it sees it rejected with
the code TIPC_ERR_OVERLOAD. Retransmission is done at random intervals
in the range of [100 ms, setup_timeout / 4], as many times as there is
room for within the setup timeout limit.

Signed-off-by: Tung Nguyen &lt;tung.q.nguyen@dektech.com.au&gt;
Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tipc: refactor function tipc_msg_reverse()</title>
<updated>2018-09-29T18:24:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jon Maloy</name>
<email>jon.maloy@ericsson.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-28T18:23:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=5cbdbd1a1f30a083aada44595ca42952fc31e866'/>
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The function tipc_msg_reverse() is reversing the header of a message
while reusing the original buffer. We have seen at several occasions
that this may have unfortunate side effects when the buffer to be
reversed is a clone.

In one of the following commits we will again need to reverse cloned
buffers, so this is the right time to permanently eliminate this
problem. In this commit we let the said function always consume the
original buffer and replace it with a new one when applicable.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The function tipc_msg_reverse() is reversing the header of a message
while reusing the original buffer. We have seen at several occasions
that this may have unfortunate side effects when the buffer to be
reversed is a clone.

In one of the following commits we will again need to reverse cloned
buffers, so this is the right time to permanently eliminate this
problem. In this commit we let the said function always consume the
original buffer and replace it with a new one when applicable.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tipc: eliminate buffer cloning in function tipc_msg_extract()</title>
<updated>2018-06-30T11:48:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tung Nguyen</name>
<email>tung.q.nguyen@dektech.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-28T20:25:04+00:00</published>
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The function tipc_msg_extract() is using skb_clone() to clone inner
messages from a message bundle buffer. Although this method is safe,
it has an undesired effect that each buffer clone inherits the
true-size of the bundling buffer. As a result, the buffer clone
almost always ends up with being copied anyway by the message
validation function. This makes the cloning into a sub-optimization.

In this commit we take the consequence of this realization, and copy
each inner message to a separately allocated buffer up front in the
extraction function.

As a bonus we can now eliminate the two cases where we had to copy
re-routed packets that may potentially go out on the wire again.

Signed-off-by: Tung Nguyen &lt;tung.q.nguyen@dektech.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The function tipc_msg_extract() is using skb_clone() to clone inner
messages from a message bundle buffer. Although this method is safe,
it has an undesired effect that each buffer clone inherits the
true-size of the bundling buffer. As a result, the buffer clone
almost always ends up with being copied anyway by the message
validation function. This makes the cloning into a sub-optimization.

In this commit we take the consequence of this realization, and copy
each inner message to a separately allocated buffer up front in the
extraction function.

As a bonus we can now eliminate the two cases where we had to copy
re-routed packets that may potentially go out on the wire again.

Signed-off-by: Tung Nguyen &lt;tung.q.nguyen@dektech.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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