Re: 9p/RDMA for syzkaller (Was: BUG: corrupted list in p9_read_work)

[Dmitry Vyukov]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 9:46 AM, Dominique Martinet
<asmadeus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dominique Martinet wrote on Fri, Oct 12, 2018:
>> Hmm, good point; I hadn't looked at the network level how this is
>> emulated.
>> When I use a single VM I do not see anything with tcpdump on any
>> interface, so I assume the kernel short-cuts the interface in this case.
>> When communicating between two machines there obviously is traffic; it
>> appears to be transported over udp - I see the messages I sent in plain
>> text in the dump and there is only a handful of packets for the whole
>> connecting and teardown so it's definitely much simpler.
>>
>> This might have some knob I am not aware of to force the driver to send
>> udp in the local setup, if we can it's going to be much easier to
>> reimplement the rxe emulation protocol with raw syscalls than what I was
>> describing earlier...
>
> I've taken a little bit of time to look at this.
> Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any knob to make a
> single-machine setup send UDP over an interface; would have hoped that
> playing with multiple interfaces might be a way around this (e.g. use
> the rxe driver on one interface and listen on the udp port on the other
> one), but I couldn't get this to work and don't see anything in the code
> that hints it might be configurable.
> It seems to realize that the remote IP is assigned locally anyway and
> while I cannot "bind" to an address that wasn't added to the rxe driver
> at the rdma_cm level, trying to connect to it never sends any packet to
> a ncat listening on 4791/udp on that interface...
> If anyone has an idea, it'd be great!
>
> Protocole-wise, once we get that to work it doesn't look very difficult
> to implement some basic "accept connection and send acks/replies" small
> server, but we need the first part to work...

I don't understand most of the words here, so I probably won't be of help.

Leon told me that there is some kind of software emulation RDMA
interface (CONFIG_RDMA_RXE?). Maybe it can be used to create an
emulated RDMA interface per test process and use it to communicate
with 9p client?