[PATCH net-next 2/5] net/sched: taprio: keep child Qdisc refcount elevated at 2 in offload mode

[Vladimir Oltean]

The taprio qdisc currently lives in the following equilibrium.

In the software scheduling case, taprio attaches itself to all TXQs,
thus having a refcount of 1 + the number of TX queues. In this mode,
q->qdiscs[] is not visible directly to the Qdisc API. The lifetime of
the Qdiscs from this private array lasts until qdisc_destroy() ->
taprio_destroy().

In the fully offloaded case, the root taprio has a refcount of 1, and
all child q->qdiscs[] also have a refcount of 1. The child q->qdiscs[]
are visible to the Qdisc API (they are attached to the netdev TXQs
directly), however taprio loses a reference to them very early - during
qdisc_graft(parent==NULL) -> taprio_attach(). At that time, taprio frees
the q->qdiscs[] array to not leak memory, but interestingly, it does not
release a reference on these qdiscs because it doesn't effectively own
them - they are created by taprio but owned by the Qdisc core, and will
be freed by qdisc_graft(parent==NULL, new==NULL) -> qdisc_put(old) when
the Qdisc is deleted or when the child Qdisc is replaced with something
else.

My interest is to change this equilibrium such that taprio also owns a
reference on the q->qdiscs[] child Qdiscs for the lifetime of the root
Qdisc, including in full offload mode. I want this because I would like
taprio_leaf(), taprio_dump_class(), taprio_dump_class_stats() to have
insight into q->qdiscs[] for the software scheduling mode - currently
they look at dev_queue->qdisc_sleeping, which is, as mentioned, the same
as the root taprio.

The following set of changes is necessary:
- don't free q->qdiscs[] early in taprio_attach(), free it late in
  taprio_destroy() for consistency with software mode. But:
- currently that's not possible, because taprio doesn't own a reference
  on q->qdiscs[]. So hold that reference - once during the initial
  attach() and once during subsequent graft() calls when the child is
  changed.
- always keep track of the current child in q->qdiscs[], even for full
  offload mode, so that we free in taprio_destroy() what we should, and
  not something stale.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx>
---
 net/sched/sch_taprio.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sched/sch_taprio.c b/net/sched/sch_taprio.c
index b1c611c72aa4..8807fc915b79 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_taprio.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_taprio.c
@@ -2138,23 +2138,20 @@ static void taprio_attach(struct Qdisc *sch)
 
 			qdisc->flags |= TCQ_F_ONETXQUEUE | TCQ_F_NOPARENT;
 			old = dev_graft_qdisc(dev_queue, qdisc);
+			/* Keep refcount of q->qdiscs[ntx] at 2 */
+			qdisc_refcount_inc(qdisc);
 		} else {
 			/* In software mode, attach the root taprio qdisc
 			 * to all netdev TX queues, so that dev_qdisc_enqueue()
 			 * goes through taprio_enqueue().
 			 */
 			old = dev_graft_qdisc(dev_queue, sch);
+			/* Keep root refcount at 1 + num_tx_queues */
 			qdisc_refcount_inc(sch);
 		}
 		if (old)
 			qdisc_put(old);
 	}
-
-	/* access to the child qdiscs is not needed in offload mode */
-	if (FULL_OFFLOAD_IS_ENABLED(q->flags)) {
-		kfree(q->qdiscs);
-		q->qdiscs = NULL;
-	}
 }
 
 static struct netdev_queue *taprio_queue_get(struct Qdisc *sch,
@@ -2183,15 +2180,24 @@ static int taprio_graft(struct Qdisc *sch, unsigned long cl,
 	if (dev->flags & IFF_UP)
 		dev_deactivate(dev);
 
-	if (FULL_OFFLOAD_IS_ENABLED(q->flags)) {
+	/* In software mode, the root taprio qdisc is still the one attached to
+	 * all netdev TX queues, and hence responsible for taprio_enqueue() to
+	 * forward the skbs to the child qdiscs from the private q->qdiscs[]
+	 * array. So only attach the new qdisc to the netdev queue in offload
+	 * mode, where the enqueue must bypass taprio. However, save the
+	 * reference to the new qdisc in the private array in both cases, to
+	 * have an up-to-date reference to our children.
+	 */
+	if (FULL_OFFLOAD_IS_ENABLED(q->flags))
 		*old = dev_graft_qdisc(dev_queue, new);
-	} else {
+	else
 		*old = q->qdiscs[cl - 1];
-		q->qdiscs[cl - 1] = new;
-	}
 
-	if (new)
+	q->qdiscs[cl - 1] = new;
+	if (new) {
+		qdisc_refcount_inc(new);
 		new->flags |= TCQ_F_ONETXQUEUE | TCQ_F_NOPARENT;
+	}
 
 	if (dev->flags & IFF_UP)
 		dev_activate(dev);
-- 
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