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From: Richard Gobert <richardbgobert@gmail.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: alexander.duyck@gmail.com, davem@davemloft.net,
	dsahern@kernel.org, kuba@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com, shuah@kernel.org,
	willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v9 2/3] net: gro: move L3 flush checks to tcp_gro_receive and udp_gro_receive_segment
Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 22:20:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <98b7998a-3111-4892-ba1e-d0a026b64b0b@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANn89iJ7TPa350Git+r2dp6rvvJ-TUTYj5RiLi7i5TWsBJO1bQ@mail.gmail.com>

Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 8:58 PM Richard Gobert <richardbgobert@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
> 
>>
>> Interesting, I think that is indeed a bug, that exists also in the current
>> implementation.
>> NAPI_GRO_CB(p)->ip_fixedid (is_atomic before we renamed it in this commit)
>> is cleared as being part of NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->zeroed in dev_gro_receive.
> 
> And the code there seems wrong.
> 
> A compiler can absolutely reorder things, I have seen this many times.
> 
> I would play safe here, to make sure NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->is_atomic = 1;
> can not be lost.
> 
> diff --git a/net/core/gro.c b/net/core/gro.c
> index c7901253a1a8fc1e9425add77014e15b363a1623..6e4203ea4d54b8955a504e42633f7667740b796e
> 100644
> --- a/net/core/gro.c
> +++ b/net/core/gro.c
> @@ -470,6 +470,7 @@ static enum gro_result dev_gro_receive(struct
> napi_struct *napi, struct sk_buff
>         BUILD_BUG_ON(!IS_ALIGNED(offsetof(struct napi_gro_cb, zeroed),
>                                         sizeof(u32))); /* Avoid slow
> unaligned acc */
>         *(u32 *)&NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->zeroed = 0;
> +       barrier();
>         NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->flush = skb_has_frag_list(skb);
>         NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->is_atomic = 1;
>         NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->count = 1;

I removed NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->is_atomic = 1 from dev_gro_receive in this series
since it is not needed anymore, so going forward this issue is fixed.
I understand your concern about previous versions, I could send a patch to 
net to settle this issue. 
WDYT? 

  reply	other threads:[~2024-05-10 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-07 16:23 [PATCH net-next v9 0/3] net: gro: remove network_header use, move p->{flush/flush_id} calculations to L4 Richard Gobert
2024-05-07 16:28 ` [PATCH net-next v9 1/3] net: gro: use cb instead of skb->network_header Richard Gobert
2024-05-07 16:30 ` [PATCH net-next v9 2/3] net: gro: move L3 flush checks to tcp_gro_receive and udp_gro_receive_segment Richard Gobert
2024-05-07 18:08   ` Eric Dumazet
2024-05-09 18:58     ` Richard Gobert
2024-05-10  7:01       ` Eric Dumazet
2024-05-10 20:20         ` Richard Gobert [this message]
2024-05-09 14:24   ` Willem de Bruijn
2024-05-09 19:02     ` Richard Gobert
2024-05-07 16:31 ` [PATCH net-next v9 3/3] selftests/net: add flush id selftests Richard Gobert
2024-05-08  0:34 ` [PATCH net-next v9 0/3] net: gro: remove network_header use, move p->{flush/flush_id} calculations to L4 Jakub Kicinski

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