linux.git/net/tipc/link.c, branch v5.0

tipc: fix link session and re-establish issues

2019-02-12T05:26:20+00:00

When a link endpoint is re-created (e.g. after a node reboot or
interface reset), the link session number is varied by random, the peer
endpoint will be synced with this new session number before the link is
re-established.

However, there is a shortcoming in this mechanism that can lead to the
link never re-established or faced with a failure then. It happens when
the peer endpoint is ready in ESTABLISHING state, the 'peer_session' as
well as the 'in_session' flag have been set, but suddenly this link
endpoint leaves. When it comes back with a random session number, there
are two situations possible:

1/ If the random session number is larger than (or equal to) the
previous one, the peer endpoint will be updated with this new session
upon receipt of a RESET_MSG from this endpoint, and the link can be re-
established as normal. Otherwise, all the RESET_MSGs from this endpoint
will be rejected by the peer. In turn, when this link endpoint receives
one ACTIVATE_MSG from the peer, it will move to ESTABLISHED and start
to send STATE_MSGs, but again these messages will be dropped by the
peer due to wrong session.
The peer link endpoint can still become ESTABLISHED after receiving a
traffic message from this endpoint (e.g. a BCAST_PROTOCOL or
NAME_DISTRIBUTOR), but since all the STATE_MSGs are invalid, the link
will be forced down sooner or later!

Even in case the random session number is larger than the previous one,
it can be that the ACTIVATE_MSG from the peer arrives first, and this
link endpoint moves quickly to ESTABLISHED without sending out any
RESET_MSG yet. Consequently, the peer link will not be updated with the
new session number, and the same link failure scenario as above will
happen.

2/ Another situation can be that, the peer link endpoint was reset due
to any reasons in the meantime, its link state was set to RESET from
ESTABLISHING but still in session, i.e. the 'in_session' flag is not
reset...
Now, if the random session number from this endpoint is less than the
previous one, all the RESET_MSGs from this endpoint will be rejected by
the peer. In the other direction, when this link endpoint receives a
RESET_MSG from the peer, it moves to ESTABLISHING and starts to send
ACTIVATE_MSGs, but all these messages will be rejected by the peer too.
As a result, the link cannot be re-established but gets stuck with this
link endpoint in state ESTABLISHING and the peer in RESET!

Solution:

===========

This link endpoint should not go directly to ESTABLISHED when getting
ACTIVATE_MSG from the peer which may belong to the old session if the
link was re-created. To ensure the session to be correct before the
link is re-established, the peer endpoint in ESTABLISHING state will
send back the last session number in ACTIVATE_MSG for a verification at
this endpoint. Then, if needed, a new and more appropriate session
number will be regenerated to force a re-synch first.

In addition, when a link in ESTABLISHING state is reset, its state will
move to RESET according to the link FSM, along with resetting the
'in_session' flag (and the other data) as a normal link reset, it will
also be deleted if requested.

The solution is backward compatible.

Acked-by: Jon Maloy 
Acked-by: Ying Xue 
Signed-off-by: Tuong Lien 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: fix skb may be leaky in tipc_link_input

2019-02-12T02:35:52+00:00

When we free skb at tipc_data_input, we return a 'false' boolean.
Then, skb passed to subcalling tipc_link_input in tipc_link_rcv,


1303 int tipc_link_rcv:
...
1354    if (!tipc_data_input(l, skb, l->inputq))
1355        rc |= tipc_link_input(l, skb, l->inputq);


Fix it by simple changing to a 'true' boolean when skb is being free-ed.
Then, tipc_link_rcv will bypassed to subcalling tipc_link_input as above
condition.

Acked-by: Ying Xue 
Acked-by: Jon Maloy 
Signed-off-by: Hoang Le 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: fix uninitialized value for broadcast retransmission

2018-12-19T19:53:10+00:00

When sending broadcast message on high load system, there are a lot of
unnecessary packets restranmission. That issue was caused by missing in
initial criteria for retransmission.

To prevent this happen, just initialize this criteria for retransmission
in next 10 milliseconds.

Fixes: 31c4f4cc32f7 ("tipc: improve broadcast retransmission algorithm")
Acked-by: Ying Xue 
Acked-by: Jon Maloy 
Signed-off-by: Hoang Le 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: add trace_events for tipc link

2018-12-19T19:49:24+00:00

The commit adds the new trace_events for TIPC link object:

trace_tipc_link_timeout()
trace_tipc_link_fsm()
trace_tipc_link_reset()
trace_tipc_link_too_silent()
trace_tipc_link_retrans()
trace_tipc_link_bc_ack()
trace_tipc_link_conges()

And the traces for PROTOCOL messages at building and receiving:

trace_tipc_proto_build()
trace_tipc_proto_rcv()

Note:
a) The 'tipc_link_too_silent' event will only happen when the
'silent_intv_cnt' is about to reach the 'abort_limit' value (and the
event is enabled). The benefit for this kind of event is that we can
get an early indication about TIPC link loss issue due to timeout, then
can do some necessary actions for troubleshooting.

For example: To trigger the 'tipc_proto_rcv' when the 'too_silent'
event occurs:

echo 'enable_event:tipc:tipc_proto_rcv' > \
      events/tipc/tipc_link_too_silent/trigger

And disable it when TIPC link is reset:

echo 'disable_event:tipc:tipc_proto_rcv' > \
      events/tipc/tipc_link_reset/trigger

b) The 'tipc_link_retrans' or 'tipc_link_bc_ack' event is useful to
trace TIPC retransmission issues.

In addition, the commit adds the 'trace_tipc_list/link_dump()' at the
'retransmission failure' case. Then, if the issue occurs, the link
'transmq' along with the link data can be dumped for post-analysis.
These dump events should be enabled by default since it will only take
effect when the failure happens.

The same approach is also applied for the faulty case that the
validation of protocol message is failed.

Acked-by: Ying Xue 
Tested-by: Ying Xue 
Acked-by: Jon Maloy 
Signed-off-by: Tuong Lien 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: enable tracepoints in tipc

2018-12-19T19:49:24+00:00

As for the sake of debugging/tracing, the commit enables tracepoints in
TIPC along with some general trace_events as shown below. It also
defines some 'tipc_*_dump()' functions that allow to dump TIPC object
data whenever needed, that is, for general debug purposes, ie. not just
for the trace_events.

The following trace_events are now available:

- trace_tipc_skb_dump(): allows to trace and dump TIPC msg & skb data,
  e.g. message type, user, droppable, skb truesize, cloned skb, etc.

- trace_tipc_list_dump(): allows to trace and dump any TIPC buffers or
  queues, e.g. TIPC link transmq, socket receive queue, etc.

- trace_tipc_sk_dump(): allows to trace and dump TIPC socket data, e.g.
  sk state, sk type, connection type, rmem_alloc, socket queues, etc.

- trace_tipc_link_dump(): allows to trace and dump TIPC link data, e.g.
  link state, silent_intv_cnt, gap, bc_gap, link queues, etc.

- trace_tipc_node_dump(): allows to trace and dump TIPC node data, e.g.
  node state, active links, capabilities, link entries, etc.

How to use:
Put the trace functions at any places where we want to dump TIPC data
or events.

Note:
a) The dump functions will generate raw data only, that is, to offload
the trace event's processing, it can require a tool or script to parse
the data but this should be simple.

b) The trace_tipc_*_dump() should be reserved for a failure cases only
(e.g. the retransmission failure case) or where we do not expect to
happen too often, then we can consider enabling these events by default
since they will almost not take any effects under normal conditions,
but once the rare condition or failure occurs, we get the dumped data
fully for post-analysis.

For other trace purposes, we can reuse these trace classes as template
but different events.

c) A trace_event is only effective when we enable it. To enable the
TIPC trace_events, echo 1 to 'enable' files in the events/tipc/
directory in the 'debugfs' file system. Normally, they are located at:

/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/tipc/

For example:

To enable the tipc_link_dump event:

echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/tipc/tipc_link_dump/enable

To enable all the TIPC trace_events:

echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/tipc/enable

To collect the trace data:

cat trace

or

cat trace_pipe > /trace.out &

To disable all the TIPC trace_events:

echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/tipc/enable

To clear the trace buffer:

echo > trace

d) Like the other trace_events, the feature like 'filter' or 'trigger'
is also usable for the tipc trace_events.
For more details, have a look at:

Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt

MAINTAINERS | add two new files 'trace.h' & 'trace.c' in tipc

Acked-by: Ying Xue 
Tested-by: Ying Xue 
Acked-by: Jon Maloy 
Signed-off-by: Tuong Lien 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2018-11-12T01:57:54+00:00

tipc: fix link re-establish failure

2018-11-11T18:03:38+00:00

When a link failure is detected locally, the link is reset, the flag
link->in_session is set to false, and a RESET_MSG with the 'stopping'
bit set is sent to the peer.

The purpose of this bit is to inform the peer that this endpoint just
is going down, and that the peer should handle the reception of this
particular RESET message as a local failure. This forces the peer to
accept another RESET or ACTIVATE message from this endpoint before it
can re-establish the link. This again is necessary to ensure that
link session numbers are properly exchanged before the link comes up
again.

If a failure is detected locally at the same time at the peer endpoint
this will do the same, which is also a correct behavior.

However, when receiving such messages, the endpoints will not
distinguish between 'stopping' RESETs and ordinary ones when it comes
to updating session numbers. Both endpoints will copy the received
session number and set their 'in_session' flags to true at the
reception, while they are still expecting another RESET from the
peer before they can go ahead and re-establish. This is contradictory,
since, after applying the validation check referred to below, the
'in_session' flag will cause rejection of all such messages, and the
link will never come up again.

We now fix this by not only handling received RESET/STOPPING messages
as a local failure, but also by omitting to set a new session number
and the 'in_session' flag in such cases.

Fixes: 7ea817f4e832 ("tipc: check session number before accepting link protocol messages")
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: improve broadcast retransmission algorithm

2018-11-11T17:57:46+00:00

Currently, the broadcast retransmission algorithm is using the
'prev_retr' field in struct tipc_link to time stamp the latest broadcast
retransmission occasion. This helps to restrict retransmission of
individual broadcast packets to max once per 10 milliseconds, even
though all other criteria for retransmission are met.

We now move this time stamp to the control block of each individual
packet, and remove other limiting criteria. This simplifies the
retransmission algorithm, and eliminates any risk of logical errors
in selecting which packets can be retransmitted.

Acked-by: Ying Xue 
Signed-off-by: LUU Duc Canh 
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: initialize broadcast link stale counter correctly

2018-10-16T05:03:34+00:00

In the commit referred to below we added link tolerance as an additional
criteria for declaring broadcast transmission "stale" and resetting the
unicast links to the affected node.

Unfortunately, this 'improvement' introduced two bugs, which each and
one alone cause only limited problems, but combined lead to seemingly
stochastic unicast link resets, depending on the amount of broadcast
traffic transmitted.

The first issue, a missing initialization of the 'tolerance' field of
the receiver broadcast link, was recently fixed by commit 047491ea334a
("tipc: set link tolerance correctly in broadcast link").

Ths second issue, where we omit to reset the 'stale_cnt' field of
the same link after a 'stale' period is over, leads to this counter
accumulating over time, and in the absence of the 'tolerance' criteria
leads to the above described symptoms. This commit adds the missing
initialization.

Fixes: a4dc70d46cf1 ("tipc: extend link reset criteria for stale packet retransmission")
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy 
Acked-by: Ying Xue 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: eliminate possible recursive locking detected by LOCKDEP

2018-10-11T17:23:48+00:00

When booting kernel with LOCKDEP option, below warning info was found:

WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
4.19.0-rc7+ #14 Not tainted
--------------------------------------------
swapper/0/1 is trying to acquire lock:
00000000dcfc0fc8 (&(&list->lock)->rlock#4){+...}, at: spin_lock_bh
include/linux/spinlock.h:334 [inline]
00000000dcfc0fc8 (&(&list->lock)->rlock#4){+...}, at:
tipc_link_reset+0x125/0xdf0 net/tipc/link.c:850

but task is already holding lock:
00000000cbb9b036 (&(&list->lock)->rlock#4){+...}, at: spin_lock_bh
include/linux/spinlock.h:334 [inline]
00000000cbb9b036 (&(&list->lock)->rlock#4){+...}, at:
tipc_link_reset+0xfa/0xdf0 net/tipc/link.c:849

other info that might help us debug this:
 Possible unsafe locking scenario:

       CPU0
       ----
  lock(&(&list->lock)->rlock#4);
  lock(&(&list->lock)->rlock#4);

 *** DEADLOCK ***

 May be due to missing lock nesting notation

2 locks held by swapper/0/1:
 #0: 00000000f7539d34 (pernet_ops_rwsem){+.+.}, at:
register_pernet_subsys+0x19/0x40 net/core/net_namespace.c:1051
 #1: 00000000cbb9b036 (&(&list->lock)->rlock#4){+...}, at:
spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:334 [inline]
 #1: 00000000cbb9b036 (&(&list->lock)->rlock#4){+...}, at:
tipc_link_reset+0xfa/0xdf0 net/tipc/link.c:849

stack backtrace:
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.19.0-rc7+ #14
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
 dump_stack+0x1af/0x295 lib/dump_stack.c:113
 print_deadlock_bug kernel/locking/lockdep.c:1759 [inline]
 check_deadlock kernel/locking/lockdep.c:1803 [inline]
 validate_chain kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2399 [inline]
 __lock_acquire+0xf1e/0x3c60 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3411
 lock_acquire+0x1db/0x520 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3900
 __raw_spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:135 [inline]
 _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x31/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:168
 spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:334 [inline]
 tipc_link_reset+0x125/0xdf0 net/tipc/link.c:850
 tipc_link_bc_create+0xb5/0x1f0 net/tipc/link.c:526
 tipc_bcast_init+0x59b/0xab0 net/tipc/bcast.c:521
 tipc_init_net+0x472/0x610 net/tipc/core.c:82
 ops_init+0xf7/0x520 net/core/net_namespace.c:129
 __register_pernet_operations net/core/net_namespace.c:940 [inline]
 register_pernet_operations+0x453/0xac0 net/core/net_namespace.c:1011
 register_pernet_subsys+0x28/0x40 net/core/net_namespace.c:1052
 tipc_init+0x83/0x104 net/tipc/core.c:140
 do_one_initcall+0x109/0x70a init/main.c:885
 do_initcall_level init/main.c:953 [inline]
 do_initcalls init/main.c:961 [inline]
 do_basic_setup init/main.c:979 [inline]
 kernel_init_freeable+0x4bd/0x57f init/main.c:1144
 kernel_init+0x13/0x180 init/main.c:1063
 ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:413

The reason why the noise above was complained by LOCKDEP is because we
nested to hold l->wakeupq.lock and l->inputq->lock in tipc_link_reset
function. In fact it's unnecessary to move skb buffer from l->wakeupq
queue to l->inputq queue while holding the two locks at the same time.
Instead, we can move skb buffers in l->wakeupq queue to a temporary
list first and then move the buffers of the temporary list to l->inputq
queue, which is also safe for us.

Fixes: 3f32d0be6c16 ("tipc: lock wakeup & inputq at tipc_link_reset()")
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov 
Signed-off-by: Ying Xue 
Acked-by: Jon Maloy 

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller