Re: [PATCH] ipvs: Fix reuse connection if RS weight is 0

[Julian Anastasov]

	Hello,

On Mon, 25 Oct 2021, yangxingwu wrote:

> Since commit dc7b3eb900aa ("ipvs: Fix reuse connection if real server is
> dead"), new connections to dead servers are redistributed immediately to
> new servers.
> 
> Then commit d752c3645717 ("ipvs: allow rescheduling of new connections when
> port reuse is detected") disable expire_nodest_conn if conn_reuse_mode is
> 0. And new connection may be distributed to a real server with weight 0.

	Your change does not look correct to me. At the time
expire_nodest_conn was created, it was not checked when
weight is 0. At different places different terms are used
but in short, we have two independent states for real server:

- inhibited: weight=0 and no new connections should be served,
	packets for existing connections can be routed to server
	if it is still available and packets are not dropped
	by expire_nodest_conn.
	The new feature is that port reuse detection can
	redirect the new TCP connection into a new IPVS conn and
	to expire the existing cp/ct.

- unavailable (!IP_VS_DEST_F_AVAILABLE): server is removed,
	can be temporary, drop traffic for existing connections
	but on expire_nodest_conn we can select different server

	The new conn_reuse_mode flag allows port reuse to
be detected. Only then expire_nodest_conn has the
opportunity with commit dc7b3eb900aa to check weight=0
and to consider the old traffic as finished. If a new
server is selected, any retrans from previous connection
would be considered as part from the new connection. It
is a rapid way to switch server without checking with
is_new_conn_expected() because we can not have many
conns/conntracks to different servers.

> Signed-off-by: yangxingwu <xingwu.yang@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.rst | 3 +--
>  net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c          | 5 +++--
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.rst
> index 2afccc63856e..1cfbf1add2fc 100644
> --- a/Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.rst
> @@ -37,8 +37,7 @@ conn_reuse_mode - INTEGER
>  
>  	0: disable any special handling on port reuse. The new
>  	connection will be delivered to the same real server that was
> -	servicing the previous connection. This will effectively
> -	disable expire_nodest_conn.
> +	servicing the previous connection.
>  
>  	bit 1: enable rescheduling of new connections when it is safe.
>  	That is, whenever expire_nodest_conn and for TCP sockets, when
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
> index 128690c512df..9279aed69e23 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
> @@ -2042,14 +2042,15 @@ ip_vs_in(struct netns_ipvs *ipvs, unsigned int hooknum, struct sk_buff *skb, int
>  			     ipvs, af, skb, &iph);
>  
>  	conn_reuse_mode = sysctl_conn_reuse_mode(ipvs);
> -	if (conn_reuse_mode && !iph.fragoffs && is_new_conn(skb, &iph) && cp) {
> +	if (!iph.fragoffs && is_new_conn(skb, &iph) && cp) {
>  		bool old_ct = false, resched = false;
>  
>  		if (unlikely(sysctl_expire_nodest_conn(ipvs)) && cp->dest &&
>  		    unlikely(!atomic_read(&cp->dest->weight))) {
>  			resched = true;
>  			old_ct = ip_vs_conn_uses_old_conntrack(cp, skb);
> -		} else if (is_new_conn_expected(cp, conn_reuse_mode)) {
> +		} else if (conn_reuse_mode &&
> +			   is_new_conn_expected(cp, conn_reuse_mode)) {
>  			old_ct = ip_vs_conn_uses_old_conntrack(cp, skb);
>  			if (!atomic_read(&cp->n_control)) {
>  				resched = true;
> -- 
> 2.30.2

Regards

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Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>