linux.git/net/ipv6, branch v5.13

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nf

2021-06-10T21:33:56+00:00

Pablo Neira Ayuso says:

====================
Netfilter fixes for net

The following patchset contains Netfilter fixes for net:

1) Fix a crash when stateful expression with its own gc callback
   is used in a set definition.

2) Skip IPv6 packets from any link-local address in IPv6 fib expression.
   Add a selftest for this scenario, from Florian Westphal.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

udp: fix race between close() and udp_abort()

2021-06-09T21:08:41+00:00

Kaustubh reported and diagnosed a panic in udp_lib_lookup().
The root cause is udp_abort() racing with close(). Both
racing functions acquire the socket lock, but udp{v6}_destroy_sock()
release it before performing destructive actions.

We can't easily extend the socket lock scope to avoid the race,
instead use the SOCK_DEAD flag to prevent udp_abort from doing
any action when the critical race happens.

Diagnosed-and-tested-by: Kaustubh Pandey 
Fixes: 5d77dca82839 ("net: diag: support SOCK_DESTROY for UDP sockets")
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netfilter: nft_fib_ipv6: skip ipv6 packets from any to link-local

2021-06-09T19:11:03+00:00

The ip6tables rpfilter match has an extra check to skip packets with
"::" source address.

Extend this to ipv6 fib expression.  Else ipv6 duplicate address detection
packets will fail rpf route check -- lookup returns -ENETUNREACH.

While at it, extend the prerouting check to also cover the ingress hook.

Closes: https://bugzilla.netfilter.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1543
Fixes: f6d0cbcf09c5 ("netfilter: nf_tables: add fib expression")
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal 
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso

net: ipv4: Remove unneed BUG() function

2021-06-08T18:36:48+00:00

When 'nla_parse_nested_deprecated' failed, it's no need to
BUG() here, return -EINVAL is ok.

Signed-off-by: Zheng Yongjun 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv6: Fix KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in fib6_nh_flush_exceptions

2021-06-03T22:19:49+00:00

Reported by syzbot:
HEAD commit:    90c911ad Merge tag 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm..
git tree:       git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=123aa35098fd3c000eb7
compiler:       Debian clang version 11.0.1-2

==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in fib6_nh_get_excptn_bucket net/ipv6/route.c:1604 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in fib6_nh_flush_exceptions+0xbd/0x360 net/ipv6/route.c:1732
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880145c78f8 by task syz-executor.4/17760

CPU: 0 PID: 17760 Comm: syz-executor.4 Not tainted 5.12.0-rc8-syzkaller #0
Call Trace:
 
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:79 [inline]
 dump_stack+0x202/0x31e lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description+0x5f/0x3b0 mm/kasan/report.c:232
 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:399 [inline]
 kasan_report+0x15c/0x200 mm/kasan/report.c:416
 fib6_nh_get_excptn_bucket net/ipv6/route.c:1604 [inline]
 fib6_nh_flush_exceptions+0xbd/0x360 net/ipv6/route.c:1732
 fib6_nh_release+0x9a/0x430 net/ipv6/route.c:3536
 fib6_info_destroy_rcu+0xcb/0x1c0 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:174
 rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2559 [inline]
 rcu_core+0x8f6/0x1450 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2794
 __do_softirq+0x372/0x7a6 kernel/softirq.c:345
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:221 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x22c/0x260 kernel/softirq.c:422
 irq_exit_rcu+0x5/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:434
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x91/0xb0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1100
 
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:632
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x1f6/0x720 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5515
Code: f6 84 24 a1 00 00 00 02 0f 85 8d 02 00 00 f7 c3 00 02 00 00 49 bd 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 74 01 fb 48 c7 44 24 40 0e 36 e0 45 <4b> c7 44 3d 00 00 00 00 00 4b c7 44 3d 09 00 00 00 00 43 c7 44 3d
RSP: 0018:ffffc90009e06560 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 1ffff920013c0cc0 RBX: 0000000000000246 RCX: dffffc0000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc90009e066e0 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffffbfff1f992b1
R10: fffffbfff1f992b1 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 1ffff920013c0cb4
 rcu_lock_acquire+0x2a/0x30 include/linux/rcupdate.h:267
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:656 [inline]
 ext4_get_group_info+0xea/0x340 fs/ext4/ext4.h:3231
 ext4_mb_prefetch+0x123/0x5d0 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:2212
 ext4_mb_regular_allocator+0x8a5/0x28f0 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:2379
 ext4_mb_new_blocks+0xc6e/0x24f0 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:4982
 ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x2be3/0x7210 fs/ext4/extents.c:4238
 ext4_map_blocks+0xab3/0x1cb0 fs/ext4/inode.c:638
 ext4_getblk+0x187/0x6c0 fs/ext4/inode.c:848
 ext4_bread+0x2a/0x1c0 fs/ext4/inode.c:900
 ext4_append+0x1a4/0x360 fs/ext4/namei.c:67
 ext4_init_new_dir+0x337/0xa10 fs/ext4/namei.c:2768
 ext4_mkdir+0x4b8/0xc00 fs/ext4/namei.c:2814
 vfs_mkdir+0x45b/0x640 fs/namei.c:3819
 ovl_do_mkdir fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h:161 [inline]
 ovl_mkdir_real+0x53/0x1a0 fs/overlayfs/dir.c:146
 ovl_create_real+0x280/0x490 fs/overlayfs/dir.c:193
 ovl_workdir_create+0x425/0x600 fs/overlayfs/super.c:788
 ovl_make_workdir+0xed/0x1140 fs/overlayfs/super.c:1355
 ovl_get_workdir fs/overlayfs/super.c:1492 [inline]
 ovl_fill_super+0x39ee/0x5370 fs/overlayfs/super.c:2035
 mount_nodev+0x52/0xe0 fs/super.c:1413
 legacy_get_tree+0xea/0x180 fs/fs_context.c:592
 vfs_get_tree+0x86/0x270 fs/super.c:1497
 do_new_mount fs/namespace.c:2903 [inline]
 path_mount+0x196f/0x2be0 fs/namespace.c:3233
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3246 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3454 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x2f9/0x3b0 fs/namespace.c:3431
 do_syscall_64+0x2d/0x70 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
RIP: 0033:0x4665f9
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 bc ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f68f2b87188 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000056bf60 RCX: 00000000004665f9
RDX: 00000000200000c0 RSI: 0000000020000000 RDI: 000000000040000a
RBP: 00000000004bfbb9 R08: 0000000020000100 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 000000000056bf60
R13: 00007ffe19002dff R14: 00007f68f2b87300 R15: 0000000000022000

Allocated by task 17768:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:427 [inline]
 ____kasan_kmalloc+0xc2/0xf0 mm/kasan/common.c:506
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:233 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0xb4/0x380 mm/slub.c:4055
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:559 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:684 [inline]
 fib6_info_alloc+0x2c/0xd0 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:154
 ip6_route_info_create+0x55d/0x1a10 net/ipv6/route.c:3638
 ip6_route_add+0x22/0x120 net/ipv6/route.c:3728
 inet6_rtm_newroute+0x2cd/0x2260 net/ipv6/route.c:5352
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0xb34/0xe70 net/core/rtnetlink.c:5553
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x1f0/0x460 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2502
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1312 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x7de/0x9b0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1338
 netlink_sendmsg+0xaa6/0xe90 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1927
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:654 [inline]
 sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:674 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x5a2/0x900 net/socket.c:2350
 ___sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2404 [inline]
 __sys_sendmsg+0x319/0x400 net/socket.c:2433
 do_syscall_64+0x2d/0x70 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

Last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x27/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:38
 kasan_record_aux_stack+0xee/0x120 mm/kasan/generic.c:345
 __call_rcu kernel/rcu/tree.c:3039 [inline]
 call_rcu+0x1b1/0xa30 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3114
 fib6_info_release include/net/ip6_fib.h:337 [inline]
 ip6_route_info_create+0x10c4/0x1a10 net/ipv6/route.c:3718
 ip6_route_add+0x22/0x120 net/ipv6/route.c:3728
 inet6_rtm_newroute+0x2cd/0x2260 net/ipv6/route.c:5352
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0xb34/0xe70 net/core/rtnetlink.c:5553
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x1f0/0x460 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2502
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1312 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x7de/0x9b0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1338
 netlink_sendmsg+0xaa6/0xe90 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1927
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:654 [inline]
 sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:674 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x5a2/0x900 net/socket.c:2350
 ___sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2404 [inline]
 __sys_sendmsg+0x319/0x400 net/socket.c:2433
 do_syscall_64+0x2d/0x70 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

Second to last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x27/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:38
 kasan_record_aux_stack+0xee/0x120 mm/kasan/generic.c:345
 insert_work+0x54/0x400 kernel/workqueue.c:1331
 __queue_work+0x981/0xcc0 kernel/workqueue.c:1497
 queue_work_on+0x111/0x200 kernel/workqueue.c:1524
 queue_work include/linux/workqueue.h:507 [inline]
 call_usermodehelper_exec+0x283/0x470 kernel/umh.c:433
 kobject_uevent_env+0x1349/0x1730 lib/kobject_uevent.c:617
 kvm_uevent_notify_change+0x309/0x3b0 arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:4809
 kvm_destroy_vm arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:877 [inline]
 kvm_put_kvm+0x9c/0xd10 arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:920
 kvm_vcpu_release+0x53/0x60 arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:3120
 __fput+0x352/0x7b0 fs/file_table.c:280
 task_work_run+0x146/0x1c0 kernel/task_work.c:140
 tracehook_notify_resume include/linux/tracehook.h:189 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:174 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x10b/0x1e0 kernel/entry/common.c:208
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:290 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x26/0x70 kernel/entry/common.c:301
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8880145c7800
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-192 of size 192
The buggy address is located 56 bytes to the right of
 192-byte region [ffff8880145c7800, ffff8880145c78c0)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea00005171c0 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x145c7
flags: 0xfff00000000200(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000200 ffffea00006474c0 0000000200000002 ffff888010c41a00
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080100010 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff8880145c7780: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff8880145c7800: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>ffff8880145c7880: 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
                                                                ^
 ffff8880145c7900: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff8880145c7980: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
==================================================================

In the ip6_route_info_create function, in the case that the nh pointer
is not NULL, the fib6_nh in fib6_info has not been allocated.
Therefore, when trying to free fib6_info in this error case using
fib6_info_release, the function will call fib6_info_destroy_rcu,
which it will access fib6_nh_release(f6i->fib6_nh);
However, f6i->fib6_nh doesn't have any refcount yet given the lack of allocation
causing the reported memory issue above.
Therefore, releasing the empty pointer directly instead would be the solution.

Fixes: f88d8ea67fbdb ("ipv6: Plumb support for nexthop object in a fib6_info")
Fixes: 706ec91916462 ("ipv6: Fix nexthop refcnt leak when creating ipv6 route info")
Signed-off-by: Coco Li 
Cc: David Ahern 
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet 
Reviewed-by: David Ahern 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

sit: set name of device back to struct parms

2021-06-03T20:57:36+00:00

addrconf_set_sit_dstaddr will use parms->name.

Signed-off-by: zhang kai 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv6: record frag_max_size in atomic fragments in input path

2021-05-21T22:02:25+00:00

Commit dbd1759e6a9c ("ipv6: on reassembly, record frag_max_size")
filled the frag_max_size field in IP6CB in the input path.
The field should also be filled in case of atomic fragments.

Fixes: dbd1759e6a9c ('ipv6: on reassembly, record frag_max_size')
Signed-off-by: Francesco Ruggeri 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

mld: fix panic in mld_newpack()

2021-05-17T21:05:50+00:00

mld_newpack() doesn't allow to allocate high order page,
only order-0 allocation is allowed.
If headroom size is too large, a kernel panic could occur in skb_put().

Test commands:
    ip netns del A
    ip netns del B
    ip netns add A
    ip netns add B
    ip link add veth0 type veth peer name veth1
    ip link set veth0 netns A
    ip link set veth1 netns B

    ip netns exec A ip link set lo up
    ip netns exec A ip link set veth0 up
    ip netns exec A ip -6 a a 2001:db8:0::1/64 dev veth0
    ip netns exec B ip link set lo up
    ip netns exec B ip link set veth1 up
    ip netns exec B ip -6 a a 2001:db8:0::2/64 dev veth1
    for i in {1..99}
    do
        let A=$i-1
        ip netns exec A ip link add ip6gre$i type ip6gre \
	local 2001:db8:$A::1 remote 2001:db8:$A::2 encaplimit 100
        ip netns exec A ip -6 a a 2001:db8:$i::1/64 dev ip6gre$i
        ip netns exec A ip link set ip6gre$i up

        ip netns exec B ip link add ip6gre$i type ip6gre \
	local 2001:db8:$A::2 remote 2001:db8:$A::1 encaplimit 100
        ip netns exec B ip -6 a a 2001:db8:$i::2/64 dev ip6gre$i
        ip netns exec B ip link set ip6gre$i up
    done

Splat looks like:
kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:110!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC KASAN PTI
CPU: 0 PID: 7 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 5.12.0+ #891
Workqueue: ipv6_addrconf addrconf_dad_work
RIP: 0010:skb_panic+0x15d/0x15f
Code: 92 fe 4c 8b 4c 24 10 53 8b 4d 70 45 89 e0 48 c7 c7 00 ae 79 83
41 57 41 56 41 55 48 8b 54 24 a6 26 f9 ff <0f> 0b 48 8b 6c 24 20 89
34 24 e8 4a 4e 92 fe 8b 34 24 48 c7 c1 20
RSP: 0018:ffff88810091f820 EFLAGS: 00010282
RAX: 0000000000000089 RBX: ffff8881086e9000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000089 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffffed1020123efb
RBP: ffff888005f6eac0 R08: ffffed1022fc0031 R09: ffffed1022fc0031
R10: ffff888117e00187 R11: ffffed1022fc0030 R12: 0000000000000028
R13: ffff888008284eb0 R14: 0000000000000ed8 R15: 0000000000000ec0
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888117c00000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f8b801c5640 CR3: 0000000033c2c006 CR4: 00000000003706f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 ? ip6_mc_hdr.isra.26.constprop.46+0x12a/0x600
 ? ip6_mc_hdr.isra.26.constprop.46+0x12a/0x600
 skb_put.cold.104+0x22/0x22
 ip6_mc_hdr.isra.26.constprop.46+0x12a/0x600
 ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x91/0xc0
 mld_newpack+0x398/0x8f0
 ? ip6_mc_hdr.isra.26.constprop.46+0x600/0x600
 ? lock_contended+0xc40/0xc40
 add_grhead.isra.33+0x280/0x380
 add_grec+0x5ca/0xff0
 ? mld_sendpack+0xf40/0xf40
 ? lock_downgrade+0x690/0x690
 mld_send_initial_cr.part.34+0xb9/0x180
 ipv6_mc_dad_complete+0x15d/0x1b0
 addrconf_dad_completed+0x8d2/0xbb0
 ? lock_downgrade+0x690/0x690
 ? addrconf_rs_timer+0x660/0x660
 ? addrconf_dad_work+0x73c/0x10e0
 addrconf_dad_work+0x73c/0x10e0

Allowing high order page allocation could fix this problem.

Fixes: 72e09ad107e7 ("ipv6: avoid high order allocations")
Signed-off-by: Taehee Yoo 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Remove redundant assignment to err

2021-04-29T22:34:15+00:00

Variable 'err' is set to -ENOMEM but this value is never read as it is
overwritten with a new value later on, hence the 'If statements' and
assignments are redundantand and can be removed.

Cleans up the following clang-analyzer warning:

net/ipv6/seg6.c:126:4: warning: Value stored to 'err' is never read
[clang-analyzer-deadcode.DeadStores]

Reported-by: Abaci Robot 
Signed-off-by: Yang Li 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

seg6: add counters support for SRv6 Behaviors

2021-04-29T22:26:57+00:00

This patch provides counters for SRv6 Behaviors as defined in [1],
section 6. For each SRv6 Behavior instance, counters defined in [1] are:

 - the total number of packets that have been correctly processed;
 - the total amount of traffic in bytes of all packets that have been
   correctly processed;

In addition, this patch introduces a new counter that counts the number of
packets that have NOT been properly processed (i.e. errors) by an SRv6
Behavior instance.

Counters are not only interesting for network monitoring purposes (i.e.
counting the number of packets processed by a given behavior) but they also
provide a simple tool for checking whether a behavior instance is working
as we expect or not.
Counters can be useful for troubleshooting misconfigured SRv6 networks.
Indeed, an SRv6 Behavior can silently drop packets for very different
reasons (i.e. wrong SID configuration, interfaces set with SID addresses,
etc) without any notification/message to the user.

Due to the nature of SRv6 networks, diagnostic tools such as ping and
traceroute may be ineffective: paths used for reaching a given router can
be totally different from the ones followed by probe packets. In addition,
paths are often asymmetrical and this makes it even more difficult to keep
up with the journey of the packets and to understand which behaviors are
actually processing our traffic.

When counters are enabled on an SRv6 Behavior instance, it is possible to
verify if packets are actually processed by such behavior and what is the
outcome of the processing. Therefore, the counters for SRv6 Behaviors offer
an non-invasive observability point which can be leveraged for both traffic
monitoring and troubleshooting purposes.

[1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8986.html#name-counters

Troubleshooting using SRv6 Behavior counters
--------------------------------------------

Let's make a brief example to see how helpful counters can be for SRv6
networks. Let's consider a node where an SRv6 End Behavior receives an SRv6
packet whose Segment Left (SL) is equal to 0. In this case, the End
Behavior (which accepts only packets with SL >= 1) discards the packet and
increases the error counter.
This information can be leveraged by the network operator for
troubleshooting. Indeed, the error counter is telling the user that the
packet:

  (i) arrived at the node;
 (ii) the packet has been taken into account by the SRv6 End behavior;
(iii) but an error has occurred during the processing.

The error (iii) could be caused by different reasons, such as wrong route
settings on the node or due to an invalid SID List carried by the SRv6
packet. Anyway, the error counter is used to exclude that the packet did
not arrive at the node or it has not been processed by the behavior at
all.

Turning on/off counters for SRv6 Behaviors
------------------------------------------

Each SRv6 Behavior instance can be configured, at the time of its creation,
to make use of counters.
This is done through iproute2 which allows the user to create an SRv6
Behavior instance specifying the optional "count" attribute as shown in the
following example:

 $ ip -6 route add 2001:db8::1 encap seg6local action End count dev eth0

per-behavior counters can be shown by adding "-s" to the iproute2 command
line, i.e.:

 $ ip -s -6 route show 2001:db8::1
 2001:db8::1 encap seg6local action End packets 0 bytes 0 errors 0 dev eth0

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Impact of counters for SRv6 Behaviors on performance
====================================================

To determine the performance impact due to the introduction of counters in
the SRv6 Behavior subsystem, we have carried out extensive tests.

We chose to test the throughput achieved by the SRv6 End.DX2 Behavior
because, among all the other behaviors implemented so far, it reaches the
highest throughput which is around 1.5 Mpps (per core at 2.4 GHz on a
Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3) on kernel 5.12-rc2 using packets of size ~ 100
bytes.

Three different tests were conducted in order to evaluate the overall
throughput of the SRv6 End.DX2 Behavior in the following scenarios:

 1) vanilla kernel (without the SRv6 Behavior counters patch) and a single
    instance of an SRv6 End.DX2 Behavior;
 2) patched kernel with SRv6 Behavior counters and a single instance of
    an SRv6 End.DX2 Behavior with counters turned off;
 3) patched kernel with SRv6 Behavior counters and a single instance of
    SRv6 End.DX2 Behavior with counters turned on.

All tests were performed on a testbed deployed on the CloudLab facilities
[2], a flexible infrastructure dedicated to scientific research on the
future of Cloud Computing.

Results of tests are shown in the following table:

Scenario (1): average 1504764,81 pps (~1504,76 kpps); std. dev 3956,82 pps
Scenario (2): average 1501469,78 pps (~1501,47 kpps); std. dev 2979,85 pps
Scenario (3): average 1501315,13 pps (~1501,32 kpps); std. dev 2956,00 pps

As can be observed, throughputs achieved in scenarios (2),(3) did not
suffer any observable degradation compared to scenario (1).

Thanks to Jakub Kicinski and David Ahern for their valuable suggestions
and comments provided during the discussion of the proposed RFCs.

[2] https://www.cloudlab.us

Signed-off-by: Andrea Mayer 
Reviewed-by: David Ahern 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller