Re: Linux 5.12-rc7

[Eric Dumazet]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 11:24 AM Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 10:05 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 4/12/21 10:38 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > [ ... ]
> >
> > > Yes, I think this is the real issue here. This smells like some memory
> > > corruption.
> > >
> > > In my traces, packet is correctly received in AF_PACKET queue.
> > >
> > > I have checked the skb is well formed.
> > >
> > > But the user space seems to never call poll() and recvmsg() on this
> > > af_packet socket.
> > >
> >
> > After sprinkling the kernel with debug messages:
> >
> > 424   00:01:33.674181 sendto(6, "E\0\1H\0\0\0\0@\21y\246\0\0\0\0\377\377\377\377\0D\0C\00148\346\1\1\6\0\246\336\333\v\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0RT\0\
> > 424   00:01:33.693873 close(6)          = 0
> > 424   00:01:33.694652 fcntl64(5, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
> > 424   00:01:33.695213 clock_gettime64(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, 0x7be18a18) = -1 EFAULT (Bad address)
> > 424   00:01:33.695889 write(2, "udhcpc: clock_gettime(MONOTONIC) failed\n", 40) = -1 EFAULT (Bad address)
> > 424   00:01:33.697311 exit_group(1)     = ?
> > 424   00:01:33.698346 +++ exited with 1 +++
> >
> > I only see that after adding debug messages in the kernel, so I guess there must be
> > a heisenbug somehere.
> >
> > Anyway, indeed, I see (another kernel debug message):
> >
> > __do_sys_clock_gettime: Returning -EFAULT on address 0x7bacc9a8
> >
> > So udhcpc doesn't even try to read the reply because it crashes after sendto()
> > when trying to read the current time. Unless I am missing something, that means
> > that the problem happens somewhere on the send side.
> >
> > To make things even more interesting, it looks like the failing system call
> > isn't always clock_gettime().
> >
> > Guenter
>
>
> I think GRO fast path has never worked on SUPERH. Probably SUPERH has
> never used a fast NIC (10Gbit+)
>
> The following hack fixes the issue.
>
>
> diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
> index af8c1ea040b9364b076e2d72f04dc3de2d7e2f11..91ba89a645ff91d4cd4f3d8dc8a009bcb67da344
> 100644
> --- a/net/core/dev.c
> +++ b/net/core/dev.c
> @@ -5916,13 +5916,16 @@ static struct list_head
> *gro_list_prepare(struct napi_struct *napi,
>
>  static void skb_gro_reset_offset(struct sk_buff *skb)
>  {
> +#if !defined(CONFIG_SUPERH)
>         const struct skb_shared_info *pinfo = skb_shinfo(skb);
>         const skb_frag_t *frag0 = &pinfo->frags[0];
> +#endif
>
>         NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->data_offset = 0;
>         NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->frag0 = NULL;
>         NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->frag0_len = 0;
>
> +#if !defined(CONFIG_SUPERH)
>         if (!skb_headlen(skb) && pinfo->nr_frags &&
>             !PageHighMem(skb_frag_page(frag0))) {
>                 NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->frag0 = skb_frag_address(frag0);
> @@ -5930,6 +5933,7 @@ static void skb_gro_reset_offset(struct sk_buff *skb)
>                                                     skb_frag_size(frag0),
>                                                     skb->end - skb->tail);
>         }
> +#endif
>  }
>
>  static void gro_pull_from_frag0(struct sk_buff *skb, int grow)

OK ... more sh debugging :

diff --git a/arch/sh/mm/alignment.c b/arch/sh/mm/alignment.c
index fb517b82a87b1065cf38c06cb3c178ce86587b00..5d18f9f792991105a8aa05cc6231b7d4532d72c9
100644
--- a/arch/sh/mm/alignment.c
+++ b/arch/sh/mm/alignment.c
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ static unsigned long se_multi;
    valid! */
 static int se_usermode = UM_WARN | UM_FIXUP;
 /* 0: no warning 1: print a warning message, disabled by default */
-static int se_kernmode_warn;
+static int se_kernmode_warn = 1;

 core_param(alignment, se_usermode, int, 0600);

@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ void unaligned_fixups_notify(struct task_struct
*tsk, insn_size_t insn,
                          (void *)instruction_pointer(regs), insn);
        else if (se_kernmode_warn)
                pr_notice_ratelimited("Fixing up unaligned kernel access "
-                         "in \"%s\" pid=%d pc=0x%p ins=0x%04hx\n",
+                         "in \"%s\" pid=%d pc=%px ins=0x%04hx\n",
                          tsk->comm, task_pid_nr(tsk),
                          (void *)instruction_pointer(regs), insn);
 }

I now see something of interest :
Fixing up unaligned kernel access in "udhcpc" pid=91 pc=8c43fc2e ins=0x6236
Fixing up unaligned kernel access in "udhcpc" pid=91 pc=8c43fc2e ins=0x6236
Fixing up unaligned kernel access in "udhcpc" pid=91 pc=8c43fc30 ins=0x6636
Fixing up unaligned kernel access in "udhcpc" pid=91 pc=8c43fc30 ins=0x6636
Fixing up unaligned kernel access in "udhcpc" pid=91 pc=8c43fc3a ins=0x6636
Fixing up unaligned kernel access in "udhcpc" pid=91 pc=8c43fc3a ins=0x6636
Fixing up unaligned kernel access in "udhcpc" pid=91 pc=8c43fc3a ins=0x6636
Fixing up unaligned kernel access in "udhcpc" pid=91 pc=8c43fc3a ins=0x6636
Fixing up unaligned kernel access in "udhcpc" pid=91 pc=8c43fc3a ins=0x6636
Fixing up unaligned kernel access in "udhcpc" pid=91 pc=8c43fc3a ins=0x6636

So basically the frag0 idea only works if drivers respect NET_IP_ALIGN
(So that IP header is 4-byte aligned)

It seems either virtio_net or qemu does not respect the contract.

A possible generic fix  would then be :


diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index af8c1ea040b9364b076e2d72f04dc3de2d7e2f11..1f79b9aa9a3f2392fddd1401f95ad098b5e03204
100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -5924,7 +5924,8 @@ static void skb_gro_reset_offset(struct sk_buff *skb)
        NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->frag0_len = 0;

        if (!skb_headlen(skb) && pinfo->nr_frags &&
-           !PageHighMem(skb_frag_page(frag0))) {
+           !PageHighMem(skb_frag_page(frag0)) &&
+           (!NET_IP_ALIGN || !(skb_frag_off(frag0) & 3))) {
                NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->frag0 = skb_frag_address(frag0);
                NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->frag0_len = min_t(unsigned int,
                                                    skb_frag_size(frag0),