[PATCH 5.4 123/270] ipvs: allow connection reuse for unconfirmed conntrack

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Aug 17 2020 - 12:57:06 EST


From: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit f0a5e4d7a594e0fe237d3dfafb069bb82f80f42f ]

YangYuxi is reporting that connection reuse
is causing one-second delay when SYN hits
existing connection in TIME_WAIT state.
Such delay was added to give time to expire
both the IPVS connection and the corresponding
conntrack. This was considered a rare case
at that time but it is causing problem for
some environments such as Kubernetes.

As nf_conntrack_tcp_packet() can decide to
release the conntrack in TIME_WAIT state and
to replace it with a fresh NEW conntrack, we
can use this to allow rescheduling just by
tuning our check: if the conntrack is
confirmed we can not schedule it to different
real server and the one-second delay still
applies but if new conntrack was created,
we are free to select new real server without
any delays.

YangYuxi lists some of the problem reports:

- One second connection delay in masquerading mode:
https://marc.info/?t=151683118100004&r=1&w=2

- IPVS low throughput #70747
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/70747

- Apache Bench can fill up ipvs service proxy in seconds #544
https://github.com/cloudnativelabs/kube-router/issues/544

- Additional 1s latency in `host -> service IP -> pod`
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/90854

Fixes: f719e3754ee2 ("ipvs: drop first packet to redirect conntrack")
Co-developed-by: YangYuxi <yx.atom1@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: YangYuxi <yx.atom1@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/net/ip_vs.h | 10 ++++------
net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c | 12 +++++++-----
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/net/ip_vs.h b/include/net/ip_vs.h
index 078887c8c586a..7c37e3c3b1c79 100644
--- a/include/net/ip_vs.h
+++ b/include/net/ip_vs.h
@@ -1624,18 +1624,16 @@ static inline void ip_vs_conn_drop_conntrack(struct ip_vs_conn *cp)
}
#endif /* CONFIG_IP_VS_NFCT */

-/* Really using conntrack? */
-static inline bool ip_vs_conn_uses_conntrack(struct ip_vs_conn *cp,
- struct sk_buff *skb)
+/* Using old conntrack that can not be redirected to another real server? */
+static inline bool ip_vs_conn_uses_old_conntrack(struct ip_vs_conn *cp,
+ struct sk_buff *skb)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_IP_VS_NFCT
enum ip_conntrack_info ctinfo;
struct nf_conn *ct;

- if (!(cp->flags & IP_VS_CONN_F_NFCT))
- return false;
ct = nf_ct_get(skb, &ctinfo);
- if (ct)
+ if (ct && nf_ct_is_confirmed(ct))
return true;
#endif
return false;
diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
index 8b80ab794a92b..64a05906cc0e6 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
@@ -2061,14 +2061,14 @@ ip_vs_in(struct netns_ipvs *ipvs, unsigned int hooknum, struct sk_buff *skb, int

conn_reuse_mode = sysctl_conn_reuse_mode(ipvs);
if (conn_reuse_mode && !iph.fragoffs && is_new_conn(skb, &iph) && cp) {
- bool uses_ct = false, resched = false;
+ bool old_ct = false, resched = false;

if (unlikely(sysctl_expire_nodest_conn(ipvs)) && cp->dest &&
unlikely(!atomic_read(&cp->dest->weight))) {
resched = true;
- uses_ct = ip_vs_conn_uses_conntrack(cp, skb);
+ old_ct = ip_vs_conn_uses_old_conntrack(cp, skb);
} else if (is_new_conn_expected(cp, conn_reuse_mode)) {
- uses_ct = ip_vs_conn_uses_conntrack(cp, skb);
+ old_ct = ip_vs_conn_uses_old_conntrack(cp, skb);
if (!atomic_read(&cp->n_control)) {
resched = true;
} else {
@@ -2076,15 +2076,17 @@ ip_vs_in(struct netns_ipvs *ipvs, unsigned int hooknum, struct sk_buff *skb, int
* that uses conntrack while it is still
* referenced by controlled connection(s).
*/
- resched = !uses_ct;
+ resched = !old_ct;
}
}

if (resched) {
+ if (!old_ct)
+ cp->flags &= ~IP_VS_CONN_F_NFCT;
if (!atomic_read(&cp->n_control))
ip_vs_conn_expire_now(cp);
__ip_vs_conn_put(cp);
- if (uses_ct)
+ if (old_ct)
return NF_DROP;
cp = NULL;
}
--
2.25.1