[PATCH 4.10 024/111] net: solve a NAPI race

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Mar 28 2017 - 09:35:57 EST


4.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>


commit 39e6c8208d7b6fb9d2047850fb3327db567b564b upstream.

While playing with mlx4 hardware timestamping of RX packets, I found
that some packets were received by TCP stack with a ~200 ms delay...

Since the timestamp was provided by the NIC, and my probe was added
in tcp_v4_rcv() while in BH handler, I was confident it was not
a sender issue, or a drop in the network.

This would happen with a very low probability, but hurting RPC
workloads.

A NAPI driver normally arms the IRQ after the napi_complete_done(),
after NAPI_STATE_SCHED is cleared, so that the hard irq handler can grab
it.

Problem is that if another point in the stack grabs NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit
while IRQ are not disabled, we might have later an IRQ firing and
finding this bit set, right before napi_complete_done() clears it.

This can happen with busy polling users, or if gro_flush_timeout is
used. But some other uses of napi_schedule() in drivers can cause this
as well.

thread 1 thread 2 (could be on same cpu, or not)

// busy polling or napi_watchdog()
napi_schedule();
...
napi->poll()

device polling:
read 2 packets from ring buffer
Additional 3rd packet is
available.
device hard irq

// does nothing because
NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit is owned by thread 1
napi_schedule();

napi_complete_done(napi, 2);
rearm_irq();

Note that rearm_irq() will not force the device to send an additional
IRQ for the packet it already signaled (3rd packet in my example)

This patch adds a new NAPI_STATE_MISSED bit, that napi_schedule_prep()
can set if it could not grab NAPI_STATE_SCHED

Then napi_complete_done() properly reschedules the napi to make sure
we do not miss something.

Since we manipulate multiple bits at once, use cmpxchg() like in
sk_busy_loop() to provide proper transactions.

In v2, I changed napi_watchdog() to use a relaxed variant of
napi_schedule_prep() : No need to set NAPI_STATE_MISSED from this point.

In v3, I added more details in the changelog and clears
NAPI_STATE_MISSED in busy_poll_stop()

In v4, I added the ideas given by Alexander Duyck in v3 review

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/netdevice.h | 29 +++++-----------
net/core/dev.c | 81 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
2 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -330,6 +330,7 @@ struct napi_struct {

enum {
NAPI_STATE_SCHED, /* Poll is scheduled */
+ NAPI_STATE_MISSED, /* reschedule a napi */
NAPI_STATE_DISABLE, /* Disable pending */
NAPI_STATE_NPSVC, /* Netpoll - don't dequeue from poll_list */
NAPI_STATE_HASHED, /* In NAPI hash (busy polling possible) */
@@ -338,12 +339,13 @@ enum {
};

enum {
- NAPIF_STATE_SCHED = (1UL << NAPI_STATE_SCHED),
- NAPIF_STATE_DISABLE = (1UL << NAPI_STATE_DISABLE),
- NAPIF_STATE_NPSVC = (1UL << NAPI_STATE_NPSVC),
- NAPIF_STATE_HASHED = (1UL << NAPI_STATE_HASHED),
- NAPIF_STATE_NO_BUSY_POLL = (1UL << NAPI_STATE_NO_BUSY_POLL),
- NAPIF_STATE_IN_BUSY_POLL = (1UL << NAPI_STATE_IN_BUSY_POLL),
+ NAPIF_STATE_SCHED = BIT(NAPI_STATE_SCHED),
+ NAPIF_STATE_MISSED = BIT(NAPI_STATE_MISSED),
+ NAPIF_STATE_DISABLE = BIT(NAPI_STATE_DISABLE),
+ NAPIF_STATE_NPSVC = BIT(NAPI_STATE_NPSVC),
+ NAPIF_STATE_HASHED = BIT(NAPI_STATE_HASHED),
+ NAPIF_STATE_NO_BUSY_POLL = BIT(NAPI_STATE_NO_BUSY_POLL),
+ NAPIF_STATE_IN_BUSY_POLL = BIT(NAPI_STATE_IN_BUSY_POLL),
};

enum gro_result {
@@ -413,20 +415,7 @@ static inline bool napi_disable_pending(
return test_bit(NAPI_STATE_DISABLE, &n->state);
}

-/**
- * napi_schedule_prep - check if NAPI can be scheduled
- * @n: NAPI context
- *
- * Test if NAPI routine is already running, and if not mark
- * it as running. This is used as a condition variable to
- * insure only one NAPI poll instance runs. We also make
- * sure there is no pending NAPI disable.
- */
-static inline bool napi_schedule_prep(struct napi_struct *n)
-{
- return !napi_disable_pending(n) &&
- !test_and_set_bit(NAPI_STATE_SCHED, &n->state);
-}
+bool napi_schedule_prep(struct napi_struct *n);

/**
* napi_schedule - schedule NAPI poll
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -4913,6 +4913,39 @@ void __napi_schedule(struct napi_struct
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__napi_schedule);

/**
+ * napi_schedule_prep - check if napi can be scheduled
+ * @n: napi context
+ *
+ * Test if NAPI routine is already running, and if not mark
+ * it as running. This is used as a condition variable
+ * insure only one NAPI poll instance runs. We also make
+ * sure there is no pending NAPI disable.
+ */
+bool napi_schedule_prep(struct napi_struct *n)
+{
+ unsigned long val, new;
+
+ do {
+ val = READ_ONCE(n->state);
+ if (unlikely(val & NAPIF_STATE_DISABLE))
+ return false;
+ new = val | NAPIF_STATE_SCHED;
+
+ /* Sets STATE_MISSED bit if STATE_SCHED was already set
+ * This was suggested by Alexander Duyck, as compiler
+ * emits better code than :
+ * if (val & NAPIF_STATE_SCHED)
+ * new |= NAPIF_STATE_MISSED;
+ */
+ new |= (val & NAPIF_STATE_SCHED) / NAPIF_STATE_SCHED *
+ NAPIF_STATE_MISSED;
+ } while (cmpxchg(&n->state, val, new) != val);
+
+ return !(val & NAPIF_STATE_SCHED);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(napi_schedule_prep);
+
+/**
* __napi_schedule_irqoff - schedule for receive
* @n: entry to schedule
*
@@ -4943,7 +4976,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__napi_complete);

bool napi_complete_done(struct napi_struct *n, int work_done)
{
- unsigned long flags;
+ unsigned long flags, val, new;

/*
* 1) Don't let napi dequeue from the cpu poll list
@@ -4967,14 +5000,33 @@ bool napi_complete_done(struct napi_stru
else
napi_gro_flush(n, false);
}
- if (likely(list_empty(&n->poll_list))) {
- WARN_ON_ONCE(!test_and_clear_bit(NAPI_STATE_SCHED, &n->state));
- } else {
+ if (unlikely(!list_empty(&n->poll_list))) {
/* If n->poll_list is not empty, we need to mask irqs */
local_irq_save(flags);
- __napi_complete(n);
+ list_del_init(&n->poll_list);
local_irq_restore(flags);
}
+
+ do {
+ val = READ_ONCE(n->state);
+
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!(val & NAPIF_STATE_SCHED));
+
+ new = val & ~(NAPIF_STATE_MISSED | NAPIF_STATE_SCHED);
+
+ /* If STATE_MISSED was set, leave STATE_SCHED set,
+ * because we will call napi->poll() one more time.
+ * This C code was suggested by Alexander Duyck to help gcc.
+ */
+ new |= (val & NAPIF_STATE_MISSED) / NAPIF_STATE_MISSED *
+ NAPIF_STATE_SCHED;
+ } while (cmpxchg(&n->state, val, new) != val);
+
+ if (unlikely(val & NAPIF_STATE_MISSED)) {
+ __napi_schedule(n);
+ return false;
+ }
+
return true;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(napi_complete_done);
@@ -5000,6 +5052,16 @@ static void busy_poll_stop(struct napi_s
{
int rc;

+ /* Busy polling means there is a high chance device driver hard irq
+ * could not grab NAPI_STATE_SCHED, and that NAPI_STATE_MISSED was
+ * set in napi_schedule_prep().
+ * Since we are about to call napi->poll() once more, we can safely
+ * clear NAPI_STATE_MISSED.
+ *
+ * Note: x86 could use a single "lock and ..." instruction
+ * to perform these two clear_bit()
+ */
+ clear_bit(NAPI_STATE_MISSED, &napi->state);
clear_bit(NAPI_STATE_IN_BUSY_POLL, &napi->state);

local_bh_disable();
@@ -5146,8 +5208,13 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart napi_watchdo
struct napi_struct *napi;

napi = container_of(timer, struct napi_struct, timer);
- if (napi->gro_list)
- napi_schedule(napi);
+
+ /* Note : we use a relaxed variant of napi_schedule_prep() not setting
+ * NAPI_STATE_MISSED, since we do not react to a device IRQ.
+ */
+ if (napi->gro_list && !napi_disable_pending(napi) &&
+ !test_and_set_bit(NAPI_STATE_SCHED, &napi->state))
+ __napi_schedule_irqoff(napi);

return HRTIMER_NORESTART;
}