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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Martin Lau <kafai@fb.com>, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Lawrence Brakmo <brakmo@fb.com>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	Kernel Team <Kernel-team@fb.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 bpf-next 2/9] bpf: Add bpf helper bpf_tcp_enter_cwr
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2019 10:00:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <254ae6a8-13d8-101f-45a3-18a1cbe6dea6@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190224030845.imwjbkoaxipuzb75@kafai-mbp.dhcp.thefacebook.com>



On 02/23/2019 07:08 PM, Martin Lau wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 05:32:14PM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 02/22/2019 05:06 PM, brakmo wrote:
>>> From: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
>>>
>>> This patch adds a new bpf helper BPF_FUNC_tcp_enter_cwr
>>> "int bpf_tcp_enter_cwr(struct bpf_tcp_sock *tp)".
>>> It is added to BPF_PROG_TYPE_CGROUP_SKB which can be attached
>>> to the egress path where the bpf prog is called by
>>> ip_finish_output() or ip6_finish_output().  The verifier
>>> ensures that the parameter must be a tcp_sock.
>>>
>>> This helper makes a tcp_sock enter CWR state.  It can be used
>>> by a bpf_prog to manage egress network bandwidth limit per
>>> cgroupv2.  A later patch will have a sample program to
>>> show how it can be used to limit bandwidth usage per cgroupv2.
>>>
>>> To ensure it is only called from BPF_CGROUP_INET_EGRESS, the
>>> attr->expected_attach_type must be specified as BPF_CGROUP_INET_EGRESS
>>> during load time if the prog uses this new helper.
>>> The newly added prog->enforce_expected_attach_type bit will also be set
>>> if this new helper is used.  This bit is for backward compatibility reason
>>> because currently prog->expected_attach_type has been ignored in
>>> BPF_PROG_TYPE_CGROUP_SKB.  During attach time,
>>> prog->expected_attach_type is only enforced if the
>>> prog->enforce_expected_attach_type bit is set.
>>> i.e. prog->expected_attach_type is only enforced if this new helper
>>> is used by the prog.
>>>
>>
>> BTW, it seems to me that BPF_CGROUP_INET_EGRESS can be used while the socket lock is not held.
> Thanks for pointing it out.
> 
> ic. I just noticed the comments at ip6_xmit():
> /*
>  * xmit an sk_buff (used by TCP, SCTP and DCCP)
>  * Note : socket lock is not held for SYNACK packets, but might be modified
>  * by calls to skb_set_owner_w() and ipv6_local_error(),
>  * which are using proper atomic operations or spinlocks.
>  */
> Is there other cases other than SYNACK?


Well, I was referring to various virtual devices, re-entering ip stack.

Since we can have a qdisc on any netdev, there is no way we can guarantee the socket is
locked by the current thread.

Random example :

ipvlan_process_v4_outbound()
...
     err = ip_local_out(net, skb->sk, skb);
...



  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-02-24 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-23  1:06 [PATCH v2 bpf-next 0/9] bpf: Network Resource Manager (NRM) brakmo
2019-02-23  1:06 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 1/9] bpf: Remove const from get_func_proto brakmo
2019-02-23  1:06 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 2/9] bpf: Add bpf helper bpf_tcp_enter_cwr brakmo
2019-02-24  1:32   ` Eric Dumazet
2019-02-24  3:08     ` Martin Lau
2019-02-24  4:44       ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-02-24 18:00       ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2019-02-25 23:14   ` Stanislav Fomichev
2019-02-26  1:30     ` Martin Lau
2019-02-26  3:32       ` Stanislav Fomichev
2019-02-23  1:06 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 3/9] bpf: Test bpf_tcp_enter_cwr in test_verifier brakmo
2019-02-23  1:06 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 4/9] bpf: add bpf helper bpf_skb_ecn_set_ce brakmo
2019-02-23  1:14   ` Daniel Borkmann
2019-02-23  7:30     ` Martin Lau
2019-02-25 10:10       ` Daniel Borkmann
2019-02-25 16:52         ` Eric Dumazet
2019-02-23  1:06 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 5/9] bpf: Add bpf helper bpf_tcp_check_probe_timer brakmo
2019-02-23  1:07 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 6/9] bpf: sync bpf.h to tools and update bpf_helpers.h brakmo
2019-02-23  1:07 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 7/9] bpf: Sample NRM BPF program to limit egress bw brakmo
2019-02-23  1:07 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 8/9] bpf: User program for testing NRM brakmo
2019-02-23  1:07 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 9/9] bpf: NRM test script brakmo
2019-02-23  3:03 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 0/9] bpf: Network Resource Manager (NRM) David Ahern
2019-02-23 18:39   ` Eric Dumazet
2019-02-23 20:40     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-02-23 20:43       ` Eric Dumazet
2019-02-23 23:25         ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-02-24  2:58           ` David Ahern
2019-02-24  4:48             ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-02-25  1:38               ` David Ahern

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