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<title>net: Make consumed action consistent in sch_handle_egress</title>
<updated>2023-08-28T09:18:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
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<published>2023-08-25T13:49:46+00:00</published>
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While looking at TC_ACT_* handling, the TC_ACT_CONSUMED is only handled in
sch_handle_ingress but not sch_handle_egress. This was added via cd11b164073b
("net/tc: introduce TC_ACT_REINSERT.") and e5cf1baf92cb ("act_mirred: use
TC_ACT_REINSERT when possible") and later got renamed into TC_ACT_CONSUMED
via 720f22fed81b ("net: sched: refactor reinsert action").

The initial work was targeted for ovs back then and only needed on ingress,
and the mirred action module also restricts it to only that. However, given
it's an API contract it would still make sense to make this consistent to
sch_handle_ingress and handle it on egress side in the same way, that is,
setting return code to "success" and returning NULL back to the caller as
otherwise an action module sitting on egress returning TC_ACT_CONSUMED could
lead to an UAF when untreated.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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While looking at TC_ACT_* handling, the TC_ACT_CONSUMED is only handled in
sch_handle_ingress but not sch_handle_egress. This was added via cd11b164073b
("net/tc: introduce TC_ACT_REINSERT.") and e5cf1baf92cb ("act_mirred: use
TC_ACT_REINSERT when possible") and later got renamed into TC_ACT_CONSUMED
via 720f22fed81b ("net: sched: refactor reinsert action").

The initial work was targeted for ovs back then and only needed on ingress,
and the mirred action module also restricts it to only that. However, given
it's an API contract it would still make sense to make this consistent to
sch_handle_ingress and handle it on egress side in the same way, that is,
setting return code to "success" and returning NULL back to the caller as
otherwise an action module sitting on egress returning TC_ACT_CONSUMED could
lead to an UAF when untreated.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: Fix skb consume leak in sch_handle_egress</title>
<updated>2023-08-28T09:18:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-25T13:49:45+00:00</published>
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Fix a memory leak for the tc egress path with TC_ACT_{STOLEN,QUEUED,TRAP}:

  [...]
  unreferenced object 0xffff88818bcb4f00 (size 232):
  comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4299085078 (age 134.028s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 80 70 61 81 88 ff ff 00 41 31 14 81 88 ff ff  ..pa.....A1.....
  backtrace:
    [&lt;ffffffff9991b938&gt;] kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x268/0x400
    [&lt;ffffffff9b3d9231&gt;] __alloc_skb+0x211/0x2c0
    [&lt;ffffffff9b3f0c7e&gt;] alloc_skb_with_frags+0xbe/0x6b0
    [&lt;ffffffff9b3bf9a9&gt;] sock_alloc_send_pskb+0x6a9/0x870
    [&lt;ffffffff9b6b3f00&gt;] __ip_append_data+0x14d0/0x3bf0
    [&lt;ffffffff9b6ba24e&gt;] ip_append_data+0xee/0x190
    [&lt;ffffffff9b7e1496&gt;] icmp_push_reply+0xa6/0x470
    [&lt;ffffffff9b7e4030&gt;] icmp_reply+0x900/0xa00
    [&lt;ffffffff9b7e42e3&gt;] icmp_echo.part.0+0x1a3/0x230
    [&lt;ffffffff9b7e444d&gt;] icmp_echo+0xcd/0x190
    [&lt;ffffffff9b7e9566&gt;] icmp_rcv+0x806/0xe10
    [&lt;ffffffff9b699bd1&gt;] ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x351/0x3d0
    [&lt;ffffffff9b699f14&gt;] ip_local_deliver_finish+0x2b4/0x450
    [&lt;ffffffff9b69a234&gt;] ip_local_deliver+0x174/0x1f0
    [&lt;ffffffff9b69a4b2&gt;] ip_sublist_rcv_finish+0x1f2/0x420
    [&lt;ffffffff9b69ab56&gt;] ip_sublist_rcv+0x466/0x920
  [...]

I was able to reproduce this via:

  ip link add dev dummy0 type dummy
  ip link set dev dummy0 up
  tc qdisc add dev eth0 clsact
  tc filter add dev eth0 egress protocol ip prio 1 u32 match ip protocol 1 0xff action mirred egress redirect dev dummy0
  ping 1.1.1.1
  &lt;stolen&gt;

After the fix, there are no kmemleak reports with the reproducer. This is
in line with what is also done on the ingress side, and from debugging the
skb_unref(skb) on dummy xmit and sch_handle_egress() side, it is visible
that these are two different skbs with both skb_unref(skb) as true. The two
seen skbs are due to mirred doing a skb_clone() internally as use_reinsert
is false in tcf_mirred_act() for egress. This was initially reported by Gal.

Fixes: e420bed02507 ("bpf: Add fd-based tcx multi-prog infra with link support")
Reported-by: Gal Pressman &lt;gal@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/bdfc2640-8f65-5b56-4472-db8e2b161aab@nvidia.com
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Fix a memory leak for the tc egress path with TC_ACT_{STOLEN,QUEUED,TRAP}:

  [...]
  unreferenced object 0xffff88818bcb4f00 (size 232):
  comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4299085078 (age 134.028s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 80 70 61 81 88 ff ff 00 41 31 14 81 88 ff ff  ..pa.....A1.....
  backtrace:
    [&lt;ffffffff9991b938&gt;] kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x268/0x400
    [&lt;ffffffff9b3d9231&gt;] __alloc_skb+0x211/0x2c0
    [&lt;ffffffff9b3f0c7e&gt;] alloc_skb_with_frags+0xbe/0x6b0
    [&lt;ffffffff9b3bf9a9&gt;] sock_alloc_send_pskb+0x6a9/0x870
    [&lt;ffffffff9b6b3f00&gt;] __ip_append_data+0x14d0/0x3bf0
    [&lt;ffffffff9b6ba24e&gt;] ip_append_data+0xee/0x190
    [&lt;ffffffff9b7e1496&gt;] icmp_push_reply+0xa6/0x470
    [&lt;ffffffff9b7e4030&gt;] icmp_reply+0x900/0xa00
    [&lt;ffffffff9b7e42e3&gt;] icmp_echo.part.0+0x1a3/0x230
    [&lt;ffffffff9b7e444d&gt;] icmp_echo+0xcd/0x190
    [&lt;ffffffff9b7e9566&gt;] icmp_rcv+0x806/0xe10
    [&lt;ffffffff9b699bd1&gt;] ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x351/0x3d0
    [&lt;ffffffff9b699f14&gt;] ip_local_deliver_finish+0x2b4/0x450
    [&lt;ffffffff9b69a234&gt;] ip_local_deliver+0x174/0x1f0
    [&lt;ffffffff9b69a4b2&gt;] ip_sublist_rcv_finish+0x1f2/0x420
    [&lt;ffffffff9b69ab56&gt;] ip_sublist_rcv+0x466/0x920
  [...]

I was able to reproduce this via:

  ip link add dev dummy0 type dummy
  ip link set dev dummy0 up
  tc qdisc add dev eth0 clsact
  tc filter add dev eth0 egress protocol ip prio 1 u32 match ip protocol 1 0xff action mirred egress redirect dev dummy0
  ping 1.1.1.1
  &lt;stolen&gt;

After the fix, there are no kmemleak reports with the reproducer. This is
in line with what is also done on the ingress side, and from debugging the
skb_unref(skb) on dummy xmit and sch_handle_egress() side, it is visible
that these are two different skbs with both skb_unref(skb) as true. The two
seen skbs are due to mirred doing a skb_clone() internally as use_reinsert
is false in tcf_mirred_act() for egress. This was initially reported by Gal.

Fixes: e420bed02507 ("bpf: Add fd-based tcx multi-prog infra with link support")
Reported-by: Gal Pressman &lt;gal@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/bdfc2640-8f65-5b56-4472-db8e2b161aab@nvidia.com
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: warn about attempts to register negative ifindex</title>
<updated>2023-08-16T02:18:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-14T20:56:25+00:00</published>
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Since the xarray changes we mix returning valid ifindex and negative
errno in a single int returned from dev_index_reserve(). This depends
on the fact that ifindexes can't be negative. Otherwise we may insert
into the xarray and return a very large negative value. This in turn
may break ERR_PTR().

OvS is susceptible to this problem and lacking validation (fix posted
separately for net).

Reject negative ifindex explicitly. Add a warning because the input
validation is better handled by the caller.

Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230814205627.2914583-2-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Since the xarray changes we mix returning valid ifindex and negative
errno in a single int returned from dev_index_reserve(). This depends
on the fact that ifindexes can't be negative. Otherwise we may insert
into the xarray and return a very large negative value. This in turn
may break ERR_PTR().

OvS is susceptible to this problem and lacking validation (fix posted
separately for net).

Reject negative ifindex explicitly. Add a warning because the input
validation is better handled by the caller.

Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230814205627.2914583-2-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-netdev' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next</title>
<updated>2023-08-03T22:34:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-03T22:34:36+00:00</published>
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Martin KaFai Lau says:

====================
pull-request: bpf-next 2023-08-03

We've added 54 non-merge commits during the last 10 day(s) which contain
a total of 84 files changed, 4026 insertions(+), 562 deletions(-).

The main changes are:

1) Add SO_REUSEPORT support for TC bpf_sk_assign from Lorenz Bauer,
   Daniel Borkmann

2) Support new insns from cpu v4 from Yonghong Song

3) Non-atomically allocate freelist during prefill from YiFei Zhu

4) Support defragmenting IPv(4|6) packets in BPF from Daniel Xu

5) Add tracepoint to xdp attaching failure from Leon Hwang

6) struct netdev_rx_queue and xdp.h reshuffling to reduce
   rebuild time from Jakub Kicinski

* tag 'for-netdev' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (54 commits)
  net: invert the netdevice.h vs xdp.h dependency
  net: move struct netdev_rx_queue out of netdevice.h
  eth: add missing xdp.h includes in drivers
  selftests/bpf: Add testcase for xdp attaching failure tracepoint
  bpf, xdp: Add tracepoint to xdp attaching failure
  selftests/bpf: fix static assert compilation issue for test_cls_*.c
  bpf: fix bpf_probe_read_kernel prototype mismatch
  riscv, bpf: Adapt bpf trampoline to optimized riscv ftrace framework
  libbpf: fix typos in Makefile
  tracing: bpf: use struct trace_entry in struct syscall_tp_t
  bpf, devmap: Remove unused dtab field from bpf_dtab_netdev
  bpf, cpumap: Remove unused cmap field from bpf_cpu_map_entry
  netfilter: bpf: Only define get_proto_defrag_hook() if necessary
  bpf: Fix an array-index-out-of-bounds issue in disasm.c
  net: remove duplicate INDIRECT_CALLABLE_DECLARE of udp[6]_ehashfn
  docs/bpf: Fix malformed documentation
  bpf: selftests: Add defrag selftests
  bpf: selftests: Support custom type and proto for client sockets
  bpf: selftests: Support not connecting client socket
  netfilter: bpf: Support BPF_F_NETFILTER_IP_DEFRAG in netfilter link
  ...
====================

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230803174845.825419-1-martin.lau@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Martin KaFai Lau says:

====================
pull-request: bpf-next 2023-08-03

We've added 54 non-merge commits during the last 10 day(s) which contain
a total of 84 files changed, 4026 insertions(+), 562 deletions(-).

The main changes are:

1) Add SO_REUSEPORT support for TC bpf_sk_assign from Lorenz Bauer,
   Daniel Borkmann

2) Support new insns from cpu v4 from Yonghong Song

3) Non-atomically allocate freelist during prefill from YiFei Zhu

4) Support defragmenting IPv(4|6) packets in BPF from Daniel Xu

5) Add tracepoint to xdp attaching failure from Leon Hwang

6) struct netdev_rx_queue and xdp.h reshuffling to reduce
   rebuild time from Jakub Kicinski

* tag 'for-netdev' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (54 commits)
  net: invert the netdevice.h vs xdp.h dependency
  net: move struct netdev_rx_queue out of netdevice.h
  eth: add missing xdp.h includes in drivers
  selftests/bpf: Add testcase for xdp attaching failure tracepoint
  bpf, xdp: Add tracepoint to xdp attaching failure
  selftests/bpf: fix static assert compilation issue for test_cls_*.c
  bpf: fix bpf_probe_read_kernel prototype mismatch
  riscv, bpf: Adapt bpf trampoline to optimized riscv ftrace framework
  libbpf: fix typos in Makefile
  tracing: bpf: use struct trace_entry in struct syscall_tp_t
  bpf, devmap: Remove unused dtab field from bpf_dtab_netdev
  bpf, cpumap: Remove unused cmap field from bpf_cpu_map_entry
  netfilter: bpf: Only define get_proto_defrag_hook() if necessary
  bpf: Fix an array-index-out-of-bounds issue in disasm.c
  net: remove duplicate INDIRECT_CALLABLE_DECLARE of udp[6]_ehashfn
  docs/bpf: Fix malformed documentation
  bpf: selftests: Add defrag selftests
  bpf: selftests: Support custom type and proto for client sockets
  bpf: selftests: Support not connecting client socket
  netfilter: bpf: Support BPF_F_NETFILTER_IP_DEFRAG in netfilter link
  ...
====================

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230803174845.825419-1-martin.lau@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: move struct netdev_rx_queue out of netdevice.h</title>
<updated>2023-08-03T15:38:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-03T01:02:29+00:00</published>
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struct netdev_rx_queue is touched in only a few places
and having it defined in netdevice.h brings in the dependency
on xdp.h, because struct xdp_rxq_info gets embedded in
struct netdev_rx_queue.

In prep for removal of xdp.h from netdevice.h move all
the netdev_rx_queue stuff to a new header.

We could technically break the new header up to avoid
the sysfs.h include but it's so rarely included it
doesn't seem to be worth it at this point.

Reviewed-by: Amritha Nambiar &lt;amritha.nambiar@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer &lt;hawk@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230803010230.1755386-3-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
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struct netdev_rx_queue is touched in only a few places
and having it defined in netdevice.h brings in the dependency
on xdp.h, because struct xdp_rxq_info gets embedded in
struct netdev_rx_queue.

In prep for removal of xdp.h from netdevice.h move all
the netdev_rx_queue stuff to a new header.

We could technically break the new header up to avoid
the sysfs.h include but it's so rarely included it
doesn't seem to be worth it at this point.

Reviewed-by: Amritha Nambiar &lt;amritha.nambiar@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer &lt;hawk@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230803010230.1755386-3-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf, xdp: Add tracepoint to xdp attaching failure</title>
<updated>2023-08-02T21:21:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leon Hwang</name>
<email>hffilwlqm@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-01T14:26:20+00:00</published>
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When error happens in dev_xdp_attach(), it should have a way to tell
users the error message like the netlink approach.

To avoid breaking uapi, adding a tracepoint in bpf_xdp_link_attach() is
an appropriate way to notify users the error message.

Hence, bpf libraries are able to retrieve the error message by this
tracepoint, and then report the error message to users.

Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang &lt;hffilwlqm@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230801142621.7925-2-hffilwlqm@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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When error happens in dev_xdp_attach(), it should have a way to tell
users the error message like the netlink approach.

To avoid breaking uapi, adding a tracepoint in bpf_xdp_link_attach() is
an appropriate way to notify users the error message.

Hence, bpf libraries are able to retrieve the error message by this
tracepoint, and then report the error message to users.

Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang &lt;hffilwlqm@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230801142621.7925-2-hffilwlqm@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: make sure we never create ifindex = 0</title>
<updated>2023-08-01T22:01:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-31T17:11:58+00:00</published>
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Instead of allocating from 1 use proper xa_init flag,
to protect ourselves from IDs wrapping back to 0.

Fixes: 759ab1edb56c ("net: store netdevs in an xarray")
Reported-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;stephen@networkplumber.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230728162350.2a6d4979@hermes.local/
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230731171159.988962-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Instead of allocating from 1 use proper xa_init flag,
to protect ourselves from IDs wrapping back to 0.

Fixes: 759ab1edb56c ("net: store netdevs in an xarray")
Reported-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;stephen@networkplumber.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230728162350.2a6d4979@hermes.local/
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230731171159.988962-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: store netdevs in an xarray</title>
<updated>2023-07-28T18:35:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-26T18:55:29+00:00</published>
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Iterating over the netdev hash table for netlink dumps is hard.
Dumps are done in "chunks" so we need to save the position
after each chunk, so we know where to restart from. Because
netdevs are stored in a hash table we remember which bucket
we were in and how many devices we dumped.

Since we don't hold any locks across the "chunks" - devices may
come and go while we're dumping. If that happens we may miss
a device (if device is deleted from the bucket we were in).
We indicate to user space that this may have happened by setting
NLM_F_DUMP_INTR. User space is supposed to dump again (I think)
if it sees that. Somehow I doubt most user space gets this right..

To illustrate let's look at an example:

               System state:
  start:       # [A, B, C]
  del:  B      # [A, C]

with the hash table we may dump [A, B], missing C completely even
tho it existed both before and after the "del B".

Add an xarray and use it to allocate ifindexes. This way we
can iterate ifindexes in order, without the worry that we'll
skip one. We may still generate a dump of a state which "never
existed", for example for a set of values and sequence of ops:

               System state:
  start:       # [A, B]
  add:  C      # [A, C, B]
  del:  B      # [A, C]

we may generate a dump of [A], if C got an index between A and B.
System has never been in such state. But I'm 90% sure that's perfectly
fine, important part is that we can't _miss_ devices which exist before
and after. User space which wants to mirror kernel's state subscribes
to notifications and does periodic dumps so it will know that C exists
from the notification about its creation or from the next dump
(next dump is _guaranteed_ to include C, if it doesn't get removed).

To avoid any perf regressions keep the hash table for now. Most
net namespaces have very few devices and microbenchmarking 1M lookups
on Skylake I get the following results (not counting loopback
to number of devs):

 #devs | hash |  xa  | delta
    2  | 18.3 | 20.1 | + 9.8%
   16  | 18.3 | 20.1 | + 9.5%
   64  | 18.3 | 26.3 | +43.8%
  128  | 20.4 | 26.3 | +28.6%
  256  | 20.0 | 26.4 | +32.1%
 1024  | 26.6 | 26.7 | + 0.2%
 8192  |541.3 | 33.5 | -93.8%

No surprises since the hash table has 256 entries.
The microbenchmark scans indexes in order, if the pattern is more
random xa starts to win at 512 devices already. But that's a lot
of devices, in practice.

Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230726185530.2247698-2-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Iterating over the netdev hash table for netlink dumps is hard.
Dumps are done in "chunks" so we need to save the position
after each chunk, so we know where to restart from. Because
netdevs are stored in a hash table we remember which bucket
we were in and how many devices we dumped.

Since we don't hold any locks across the "chunks" - devices may
come and go while we're dumping. If that happens we may miss
a device (if device is deleted from the bucket we were in).
We indicate to user space that this may have happened by setting
NLM_F_DUMP_INTR. User space is supposed to dump again (I think)
if it sees that. Somehow I doubt most user space gets this right..

To illustrate let's look at an example:

               System state:
  start:       # [A, B, C]
  del:  B      # [A, C]

with the hash table we may dump [A, B], missing C completely even
tho it existed both before and after the "del B".

Add an xarray and use it to allocate ifindexes. This way we
can iterate ifindexes in order, without the worry that we'll
skip one. We may still generate a dump of a state which "never
existed", for example for a set of values and sequence of ops:

               System state:
  start:       # [A, B]
  add:  C      # [A, C, B]
  del:  B      # [A, C]

we may generate a dump of [A], if C got an index between A and B.
System has never been in such state. But I'm 90% sure that's perfectly
fine, important part is that we can't _miss_ devices which exist before
and after. User space which wants to mirror kernel's state subscribes
to notifications and does periodic dumps so it will know that C exists
from the notification about its creation or from the next dump
(next dump is _guaranteed_ to include C, if it doesn't get removed).

To avoid any perf regressions keep the hash table for now. Most
net namespaces have very few devices and microbenchmarking 1M lookups
on Skylake I get the following results (not counting loopback
to number of devs):

 #devs | hash |  xa  | delta
    2  | 18.3 | 20.1 | + 9.8%
   16  | 18.3 | 20.1 | + 9.5%
   64  | 18.3 | 26.3 | +43.8%
  128  | 20.4 | 26.3 | +28.6%
  256  | 20.0 | 26.4 | +32.1%
 1024  | 26.6 | 26.7 | + 0.2%
 8192  |541.3 | 33.5 | -93.8%

No surprises since the hash table has 256 entries.
The microbenchmark scans indexes in order, if the pattern is more
random xa starts to win at 512 devices already. But that's a lot
of devices, in practice.

Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230726185530.2247698-2-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>net: remove redundant NULL check in remove_xps_queue()</title>
<updated>2023-07-26T02:52:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhengchao Shao</name>
<email>shaozhengchao@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-24T02:37:35+00:00</published>
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There are currently two paths that call remove_xps_queue():
1. __netif_set_xps_queue -&gt; remove_xps_queue
2. clean_xps_maps -&gt; remove_xps_queue_cpu -&gt; remove_xps_queue
There is no need to check dev_maps in remove_xps_queue() because
dev_maps has been checked on these two paths.

Signed-off-by: Zhengchao Shao &lt;shaozhengchao@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230724023735.2751602-1-shaozhengchao@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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There are currently two paths that call remove_xps_queue():
1. __netif_set_xps_queue -&gt; remove_xps_queue
2. clean_xps_maps -&gt; remove_xps_queue_cpu -&gt; remove_xps_queue
There is no need to check dev_maps in remove_xps_queue() because
dev_maps has been checked on these two paths.

Signed-off-by: Zhengchao Shao &lt;shaozhengchao@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230724023735.2751602-1-shaozhengchao@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Add fd-based tcx multi-prog infra with link support</title>
<updated>2023-07-19T17:07:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-19T14:08:52+00:00</published>
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This work refactors and adds a lightweight extension ("tcx") to the tc BPF
ingress and egress data path side for allowing BPF program management based
on fds via bpf() syscall through the newly added generic multi-prog API.
The main goal behind this work which we also presented at LPC [0] last year
and a recent update at LSF/MM/BPF this year [3] is to support long-awaited
BPF link functionality for tc BPF programs, which allows for a model of safe
ownership and program detachment.

Given the rise in tc BPF users in cloud native environments, this becomes
necessary to avoid hard to debug incidents either through stale leftover
programs or 3rd party applications accidentally stepping on each others toes.
As a recap, a BPF link represents the attachment of a BPF program to a BPF
hook point. The BPF link holds a single reference to keep BPF program alive.
Moreover, hook points do not reference a BPF link, only the application's
fd or pinning does. A BPF link holds meta-data specific to attachment and
implements operations for link creation, (atomic) BPF program update,
detachment and introspection. The motivation for BPF links for tc BPF programs
is multi-fold, for example:

  - From Meta: "It's especially important for applications that are deployed
    fleet-wide and that don't "control" hosts they are deployed to. If such
    application crashes and no one notices and does anything about that, BPF
    program will keep running draining resources or even just, say, dropping
    packets. We at FB had outages due to such permanent BPF attachment
    semantics. With fd-based BPF link we are getting a framework, which allows
    safe, auto-detachable behavior by default, unless application explicitly
    opts in by pinning the BPF link." [1]

  - From Cilium-side the tc BPF programs we attach to host-facing veth devices
    and phys devices build the core datapath for Kubernetes Pods, and they
    implement forwarding, load-balancing, policy, EDT-management, etc, within
    BPF. Currently there is no concept of 'safe' ownership, e.g. we've recently
    experienced hard-to-debug issues in a user's staging environment where
    another Kubernetes application using tc BPF attached to the same prio/handle
    of cls_bpf, accidentally wiping all Cilium-based BPF programs from underneath
    it. The goal is to establish a clear/safe ownership model via links which
    cannot accidentally be overridden. [0,2]

BPF links for tc can co-exist with non-link attachments, and the semantics are
in line also with XDP links: BPF links cannot replace other BPF links, BPF
links cannot replace non-BPF links, non-BPF links cannot replace BPF links and
lastly only non-BPF links can replace non-BPF links. In case of Cilium, this
would solve mentioned issue of safe ownership model as 3rd party applications
would not be able to accidentally wipe Cilium programs, even if they are not
BPF link aware.

Earlier attempts [4] have tried to integrate BPF links into core tc machinery
to solve cls_bpf, which has been intrusive to the generic tc kernel API with
extensions only specific to cls_bpf and suboptimal/complex since cls_bpf could
be wiped from the qdisc also. Locking a tc BPF program in place this way, is
getting into layering hacks given the two object models are vastly different.

We instead implemented the tcx (tc 'express') layer which is an fd-based tc BPF
attach API, so that the BPF link implementation blends in naturally similar to
other link types which are fd-based and without the need for changing core tc
internal APIs. BPF programs for tc can then be successively migrated from classic
cls_bpf to the new tc BPF link without needing to change the program's source
code, just the BPF loader mechanics for attaching is sufficient.

For the current tc framework, there is no change in behavior with this change
and neither does this change touch on tc core kernel APIs. The gist of this
patch is that the ingress and egress hook have a lightweight, qdisc-less
extension for BPF to attach its tc BPF programs, in other words, a minimal
entry point for tc BPF. The name tcx has been suggested from discussion of
earlier revisions of this work as a good fit, and to more easily differ between
the classic cls_bpf attachment and the fd-based one.

For the ingress and egress tcx points, the device holds a cache-friendly array
with program pointers which is separated from control plane (slow-path) data.
Earlier versions of this work used priority to determine ordering and expression
of dependencies similar as with classic tc, but it was challenged that for
something more future-proof a better user experience is required. Hence this
resulted in the design and development of the generic attach/detach/query API
for multi-progs. See prior patch with its discussion on the API design. tcx is
the first user and later we plan to integrate also others, for example, one
candidate is multi-prog support for XDP which would benefit and have the same
'look and feel' from API perspective.

The goal with tcx is to have maximum compatibility to existing tc BPF programs,
so they don't need to be rewritten specifically. Compatibility to call into
classic tcf_classify() is also provided in order to allow successive migration
or both to cleanly co-exist where needed given its all one logical tc layer and
the tcx plus classic tc cls/act build one logical overall processing pipeline.

tcx supports the simplified return codes TCX_NEXT which is non-terminating (go
to next program) and terminating ones with TCX_PASS, TCX_DROP, TCX_REDIRECT.
The fd-based API is behind a static key, so that when unused the code is also
not entered. The struct tcx_entry's program array is currently static, but
could be made dynamic if necessary at a point in future. The a/b pair swap
design has been chosen so that for detachment there are no allocations which
otherwise could fail.

The work has been tested with tc-testing selftest suite which all passes, as
well as the tc BPF tests from the BPF CI, and also with Cilium's L4LB.

Thanks also to Nikolay Aleksandrov and Martin Lau for in-depth early reviews
of this work.

  [0] https://lpc.events/event/16/contributions/1353/
  [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAEf4BzbokCJN33Nw_kg82sO=xppXnKWEncGTWCTB9vGCmLB6pw@mail.gmail.com
  [2] https://colocatedeventseu2023.sched.com/event/1Jo6O/tales-from-an-ebpf-programs-murder-mystery-hemanth-malla-guillaume-fournier-datadog
  [3] http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf
  [4] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210604063116.234316-1-memxor@gmail.com

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230719140858.13224-3-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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This work refactors and adds a lightweight extension ("tcx") to the tc BPF
ingress and egress data path side for allowing BPF program management based
on fds via bpf() syscall through the newly added generic multi-prog API.
The main goal behind this work which we also presented at LPC [0] last year
and a recent update at LSF/MM/BPF this year [3] is to support long-awaited
BPF link functionality for tc BPF programs, which allows for a model of safe
ownership and program detachment.

Given the rise in tc BPF users in cloud native environments, this becomes
necessary to avoid hard to debug incidents either through stale leftover
programs or 3rd party applications accidentally stepping on each others toes.
As a recap, a BPF link represents the attachment of a BPF program to a BPF
hook point. The BPF link holds a single reference to keep BPF program alive.
Moreover, hook points do not reference a BPF link, only the application's
fd or pinning does. A BPF link holds meta-data specific to attachment and
implements operations for link creation, (atomic) BPF program update,
detachment and introspection. The motivation for BPF links for tc BPF programs
is multi-fold, for example:

  - From Meta: "It's especially important for applications that are deployed
    fleet-wide and that don't "control" hosts they are deployed to. If such
    application crashes and no one notices and does anything about that, BPF
    program will keep running draining resources or even just, say, dropping
    packets. We at FB had outages due to such permanent BPF attachment
    semantics. With fd-based BPF link we are getting a framework, which allows
    safe, auto-detachable behavior by default, unless application explicitly
    opts in by pinning the BPF link." [1]

  - From Cilium-side the tc BPF programs we attach to host-facing veth devices
    and phys devices build the core datapath for Kubernetes Pods, and they
    implement forwarding, load-balancing, policy, EDT-management, etc, within
    BPF. Currently there is no concept of 'safe' ownership, e.g. we've recently
    experienced hard-to-debug issues in a user's staging environment where
    another Kubernetes application using tc BPF attached to the same prio/handle
    of cls_bpf, accidentally wiping all Cilium-based BPF programs from underneath
    it. The goal is to establish a clear/safe ownership model via links which
    cannot accidentally be overridden. [0,2]

BPF links for tc can co-exist with non-link attachments, and the semantics are
in line also with XDP links: BPF links cannot replace other BPF links, BPF
links cannot replace non-BPF links, non-BPF links cannot replace BPF links and
lastly only non-BPF links can replace non-BPF links. In case of Cilium, this
would solve mentioned issue of safe ownership model as 3rd party applications
would not be able to accidentally wipe Cilium programs, even if they are not
BPF link aware.

Earlier attempts [4] have tried to integrate BPF links into core tc machinery
to solve cls_bpf, which has been intrusive to the generic tc kernel API with
extensions only specific to cls_bpf and suboptimal/complex since cls_bpf could
be wiped from the qdisc also. Locking a tc BPF program in place this way, is
getting into layering hacks given the two object models are vastly different.

We instead implemented the tcx (tc 'express') layer which is an fd-based tc BPF
attach API, so that the BPF link implementation blends in naturally similar to
other link types which are fd-based and without the need for changing core tc
internal APIs. BPF programs for tc can then be successively migrated from classic
cls_bpf to the new tc BPF link without needing to change the program's source
code, just the BPF loader mechanics for attaching is sufficient.

For the current tc framework, there is no change in behavior with this change
and neither does this change touch on tc core kernel APIs. The gist of this
patch is that the ingress and egress hook have a lightweight, qdisc-less
extension for BPF to attach its tc BPF programs, in other words, a minimal
entry point for tc BPF. The name tcx has been suggested from discussion of
earlier revisions of this work as a good fit, and to more easily differ between
the classic cls_bpf attachment and the fd-based one.

For the ingress and egress tcx points, the device holds a cache-friendly array
with program pointers which is separated from control plane (slow-path) data.
Earlier versions of this work used priority to determine ordering and expression
of dependencies similar as with classic tc, but it was challenged that for
something more future-proof a better user experience is required. Hence this
resulted in the design and development of the generic attach/detach/query API
for multi-progs. See prior patch with its discussion on the API design. tcx is
the first user and later we plan to integrate also others, for example, one
candidate is multi-prog support for XDP which would benefit and have the same
'look and feel' from API perspective.

The goal with tcx is to have maximum compatibility to existing tc BPF programs,
so they don't need to be rewritten specifically. Compatibility to call into
classic tcf_classify() is also provided in order to allow successive migration
or both to cleanly co-exist where needed given its all one logical tc layer and
the tcx plus classic tc cls/act build one logical overall processing pipeline.

tcx supports the simplified return codes TCX_NEXT which is non-terminating (go
to next program) and terminating ones with TCX_PASS, TCX_DROP, TCX_REDIRECT.
The fd-based API is behind a static key, so that when unused the code is also
not entered. The struct tcx_entry's program array is currently static, but
could be made dynamic if necessary at a point in future. The a/b pair swap
design has been chosen so that for detachment there are no allocations which
otherwise could fail.

The work has been tested with tc-testing selftest suite which all passes, as
well as the tc BPF tests from the BPF CI, and also with Cilium's L4LB.

Thanks also to Nikolay Aleksandrov and Martin Lau for in-depth early reviews
of this work.

  [0] https://lpc.events/event/16/contributions/1353/
  [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAEf4BzbokCJN33Nw_kg82sO=xppXnKWEncGTWCTB9vGCmLB6pw@mail.gmail.com
  [2] https://colocatedeventseu2023.sched.com/event/1Jo6O/tales-from-an-ebpf-programs-murder-mystery-hemanth-malla-guillaume-fournier-datadog
  [3] http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf
  [4] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210604063116.234316-1-memxor@gmail.com

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230719140858.13224-3-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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