Re: [PATCH] rcu: fix the OOM problem of huge IP abnormal packet traffic

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 12:22:09AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 03:50:32PM +0800, Ding Tianhong wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On 2016/11/18 21:01, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 08:40:09PM +0800, Ding Tianhong wrote:
> > >> The commit bedc196915 ("rcu: Fix soft lockup for rcu_nocb_kthread")
> > >> will introduce a new problem that when huge IP abnormal packet arrived,
> > >> it may cause OOM and break the kernel, just like this:
> > >>
> > >> [   79.441538] mlx4_en: eth5: Leaving promiscuous mode steering mode:2
> > >> [  100.067032] ksoftirqd/0: page allocation failure: order:0, mode:0x120
> > >> [  100.067038] CPU: 0 PID: 3 Comm: ksoftirqd/0 Tainted: G           OE  ----V-------   3.10.0-327.28.3.28.x86_64 #1
> > >> [  100.067039] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.9.1-0-gb3ef39f-20161018_184732-HGH1000003483 04/01/2014
> > >> [  100.067041]  0000000000000120 00000000b080d798 ffff8802afd5b968 ffffffff81638cb9
> > >> [  100.067045]  ffff8802afd5b9f8 ffffffff81171380 0000000000000010 0000000000000000
> > >> [  100.067048]  ffff8802befd8000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000001 00000000b080d798
> > >> [  100.067050] Call Trace:
> > >> [  100.067057]  [<ffffffff81638cb9>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
> > >> [  100.067062]  [<ffffffff81171380>] warn_alloc_failed+0x110/0x180
> > >> [  100.067066]  [<ffffffff81175b16>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x9b6/0xba0
> > >> [  100.067070]  [<ffffffff8151e400>] ? skb_add_rx_frag+0x90/0xb0
> > >> [  100.067075]  [<ffffffff811b6fba>] alloc_pages_current+0xaa/0x170
> > >> [  100.067080]  [<ffffffffa06b9be0>] mlx4_alloc_pages.isra.24+0x40/0x170 [mlx4_en]
> > >> [  100.067083]  [<ffffffffa06b9dec>] mlx4_en_alloc_frags+0xdc/0x220 [mlx4_en]
> > >> [  100.067086]  [<ffffffff8152eeb8>] ? __netif_receive_skb+0x18/0x60
> > >> [  100.067088]  [<ffffffff8152ef40>] ? netif_receive_skb+0x40/0xc0
> > >> [  100.067092]  [<ffffffffa06bb521>] mlx4_en_process_rx_cq+0x5f1/0xec0 [mlx4_en]
> > >> [  100.067095]  [<ffffffff8131027d>] ? list_del+0xd/0x30
> > >> [  100.067098]  [<ffffffff8152c90f>] ? __napi_complete+0x1f/0x30
> > >> [  100.067101]  [<ffffffffa06bbeef>] mlx4_en_poll_rx_cq+0x9f/0x170 [mlx4_en]
> > >> [  100.067103]  [<ffffffff8152f372>] net_rx_action+0x152/0x240
> > >> [  100.067107]  [<ffffffff81084d1f>] __do_softirq+0xef/0x280
> > >> [  100.067109]  [<ffffffff81084ee0>] run_ksoftirqd+0x30/0x50
> > >> [  100.067114]  [<ffffffff810ae93f>] smpboot_thread_fn+0xff/0x1a0
> > >> [  100.067117]  [<ffffffff8163e269>] ? schedule+0x29/0x70
> > >> [  100.067120]  [<ffffffff810ae840>] ? lg_double_unlock+0x90/0x90
> > >> [  100.067122]  [<ffffffff810a5d4f>] kthread+0xcf/0xe0
> > >> [  100.067124]  [<ffffffff810a5c80>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x140/0x140
> > >> [  100.067127]  [<ffffffff81649198>] ret_from_fork+0x58/0x90
> > >> [  100.067129]  [<ffffffff810a5c80>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x140/0x140
> > >>
> > >> ================================cut here=====================================
> > >>
> > >> The reason is that the huge abnormal IP packet will be received to net stack
> > >> and be dropped finally by dst_release, and the dst_release would use the rcuos
> > >> callback-offload kthread to free the packet, but the cond_resched_rcu_qs() will
> > >> calling do_softirq() to receive more and more IP abnormal packets which will be
> > >> throw into the RCU callbacks again later, the number of received packet is much
> > >> greater than the number of packets freed, it will exhaust the memory and then OOM,
> > >> so don't try to process any pending softirqs in the rcuos callback-offload kthread
> > >> is a more effective solution.
> > > 
> > > OK, but we could still have softirqs processed by the grace-period kthread
> > > as a result of any number of other events.  So this change might reduce
> > > the probability of this problem, but it doesn't eliminate it.
> > > 
> > > How huge are these huge IP packets?  Is the underlying problem that they
> > > are too large to use the memory-allocator fastpaths?
> > > 
> > > 							Thanx, Paul
> > > 
> > 
> > I use the 40G mellanox NiC to receive packet, and the testgine could send Mac abnormal packet and
> > IP abnormal packet to full speed.
> > 
> > The Mac abnormal packet would be dropped at low level and not be received to net stack,
> > but the IP abnormal packet will introduce this problem, every packet will looks as new dst first and
> > release later by dst_release because it is meaningless.
> > 
> > dst_release->call_rcu(&dst->rcu_head, dst_destroy_rcu);
> > 
> > so all packet will be freed until the rcuos callback-offload kthread processing, it will be a infinite loop
> > if huge packet is coming because the do_softirq will load more and more packet to the rcuos processing kthread,
> > so I still could not find a better way to fix this, btw, it is really hard to say the driver use too large memory-allocater
> > fastpaths, there is no memory leak and the Ixgbe may meet the same problem too.

And following up on my fastpath point -- from what I can see, one
big effect of the large invalid packets is that they push processing
off of a number of fastpaths.  If these packets could be rejected with
less per-packet processing, I bet that things would work much better.

						Thanx, Paul

> The overall effect of these two patches is to move from enabling bh
> (and processing recent softirqs) to enabling bh without processing
> recent softirqs.  Is this really the correct way to solve this problem?
> What about this solution is avoiding re-introducing the original
> softlockups?  Have you talked to the networking guys about this issue?
> 
> 							Thanx, Paul
> 
> > Thanks.
> > Ding
> > 
> > 
> > >> Fix commit bedc196915 ("rcu: Fix soft lockup for rcu_nocb_kthread")
> > >> Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >> ---
> > >>  kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h | 3 +--
> > >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >>
> > >> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
> > >> index 85c5a88..760c3b5 100644
> > >> --- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
> > >> +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
> > >> @@ -2172,8 +2172,7 @@ static int rcu_nocb_kthread(void *arg)
> > >>  			if (__rcu_reclaim(rdp->rsp->name, list))
> > >>  				cl++;
> > >>  			c++;
> > >> -			local_bh_enable();
> > >> -			cond_resched_rcu_qs();
> > >> +			_local_bh_enable();
> > >>  			list = next;
> > >>  		}
> > >>  		trace_rcu_batch_end(rdp->rsp->name, c, !!list, 0, 0, 1);
> > >> -- 
> > >> 1.9.0
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > > 
> > > 
> > > .
> > > 
> >