Re: [PATCH] net/sched: Forbid assigning mirred action to a filter attached to the egress

[Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>]

On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 12:10 PM Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 1:14 PM Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 7:18 AM renmingshuai <renmingshuai@huawei.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > As we all know the mirred action is used to mirroring or redirecting the
> > > packet it receives. Howerver, add mirred action to a filter attached to
> > > a egress qdisc might cause a deadlock. To reproduce the problem, perform
> > > the following steps:
> > > (1)tc qdisc add dev eth0 root handle 1: htb default 30 \n
> > > (2)tc filter add dev eth2 protocol ip prio 2 flower verbose \
> > >      action police rate 100mbit burst 12m conform-exceed jump 1 \
> > >      / pipe mirred egress redirect dev eth2 action drop
> > >
> >
> > I think you meant both to be the same device eth0 or eth2?
> >
> > > The stack is show as below:
> > > [28848.883915]  _raw_spin_lock+0x1e/0x30
> > > [28848.884367]  __dev_queue_xmit+0x160/0x850
> > > [28848.884851]  ? 0xffffffffc031906a
> > > [28848.885279]  tcf_mirred_act+0x3ab/0x596 [act_mirred]
> > > [28848.885863]  tcf_action_exec.part.0+0x88/0x130
> > > [28848.886401]  fl_classify+0x1ca/0x1e0 [cls_flower]
> > > [28848.886970]  ? dequeue_entity+0x145/0x9e0
> > > [28848.887464]  ? newidle_balance+0x23f/0x2f0
> > > [28848.887973]  ? nft_lookup_eval+0x57/0x170 [nf_tables]
> > > [28848.888566]  ? nft_do_chain+0xef/0x430 [nf_tables]
> > > [28848.889137]  ? __flush_work.isra.0+0x35/0x80
> > > [28848.889657]  ? nf_ct_get_tuple+0x1cf/0x210 [nf_conntrack]
> > > [28848.890293]  ? do_select+0x637/0x870
> > > [28848.890735]  tcf_classify+0x52/0xf0
> > > [28848.891177]  htb_classify+0x9d/0x1c0 [sch_htb]
> > > [28848.891722]  htb_enqueue+0x3a/0x1c0 [sch_htb]
> > > [28848.892251]  __dev_queue_xmit+0x2d8/0x850
> > > [28848.892738]  ? nf_hook_slow+0x3c/0xb0
> > > [28848.893198]  ip_finish_output2+0x272/0x580
> > > [28848.893692]  __ip_queue_xmit+0x193/0x420
> > > [28848.894179]  __tcp_transmit_skb+0x8cc/0x970
> > >
> > > In this case, the process has hold the qdisc spin lock in __dev_queue_xmit
> > > before the egress packets are mirred, and it will attempt to obtain the
> > > spin lock again after packets are mirred, which cause a deadlock.
> > >
> > > Fix the issue by forbidding assigning mirred action to a filter attached
> > > to the egress.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Mingshuai Ren <renmingshuai@huawei.com>
> > > ---
> > >  net/sched/act_mirred.c                        |  4 +++
> > >  .../tc-testing/tc-tests/actions/mirred.json   | 32 +++++++++++++++++++
> > >  2 files changed, 36 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/net/sched/act_mirred.c b/net/sched/act_mirred.c
> > > index 5b3814365924..fc96705285fb 100644
> > > --- a/net/sched/act_mirred.c
> > > +++ b/net/sched/act_mirred.c
> > > @@ -120,6 +120,10 @@ static int tcf_mirred_init(struct net *net, struct nlattr *nla,
> > >                 NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "Mirred requires attributes to be passed");
> > >                 return -EINVAL;
> > >         }
> > > +       if (tp->chain->block->q->parent != TC_H_INGRESS) {
> > > +               NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "Mirred can only be assigned to the filter attached to ingress");
> > > +               return -EINVAL;
> > > +       }
> >
> > Sorry, this is too restrictive as Jiri said. We'll try to reproduce. I
> > am almost certain this used to work in the old days.
>
> Ok, i looked at old notes - it did work at "some point" pre-tdc.
> Conclusion is things broke around this time frame:
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/1431679850-31896-1-git-send-email-fw@strlen.de/
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/1465095748.2968.45.camel@edumazet-glaptop3.roam.corp.google.com/
>
> Looking further into it.

This is what we came up with. Eric, please take a look...

cheers,
jamal


--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -3789,7 +3789,14 @@ static inline int __dev_xmit_skb(struct sk_buff
*skb, struct Qdisc *q,
        if (unlikely(contended))
                spin_lock(&q->busylock);

+       if (dev_recursion_level()) {
+               rc = NET_XMIT_DROP;
+               __qdisc_drop(skb, &to_free);
+               goto free;
+       }
+
        spin_lock(root_lock);
+       dev_xmit_recursion_inc();
        if (unlikely(test_bit(__QDISC_STATE_DEACTIVATED, &q->state))) {
                __qdisc_drop(skb, &to_free);
                rc = NET_XMIT_DROP;
@@ -3824,8 +3831,10 @@ static inline int __dev_xmit_skb(struct sk_buff
*skb, struct Qdisc *q,
                        qdisc_run_end(q);
                }
        }
+       dev_xmit_recursion_dec();
        spin_unlock(root_lock);
        if (unlikely(to_free))
+free:
                kfree_skb_list_reason(to_free,
                                      tcf_get_drop_reason(to_free));
        if (unlikely(contended))