[PATCH net-next v5 0/7] net: pass receive socket to drop tracepoint
From: Yan Zhai
Date: Mon Jun 17 2024 - 14:09:43 EST
We set up our production packet drop monitoring around the kfree_skb
tracepoint. While this tracepoint is extremely valuable for diagnosing
critical problems, it also has some limitation with drops on the local
receive path: this tracepoint can only inspect the dropped skb itself,
but such skb might not carry enough information to:
1. determine in which netns/container this skb gets dropped
2. determine by which socket/service this skb oughts to be received
The 1st issue is because skb->dev is the only member field with valid
netns reference. But skb->dev can get cleared or reused. For example,
tcp_v4_rcv will clear skb->dev and in later processing it might be reused
for OFO tree.
The 2nd issue is because there is no reference on an skb that reliably
points to a receiving socket. skb->sk usually points to the local
sending socket, and it only points to a receive socket briefly after
early demux stage, yet the socket can get stolen later. For certain drop
reason like TCP OFO_MERGE, Zerowindow, UDP at PROTO_MEM error, etc, it
is hard to infer which receiving socket is impacted. This cannot be
overcome by simply looking at the packet header, because of
complications like sk lookup programs. In the past, single purpose
tracepoints like trace_udp_fail_queue_rcv_skb, trace_sock_rcvqueue_full,
etc are added as needed to provide more visibility. This could be
handled in a more generic way.
In this change set we propose a new 'sk_skb_reason_drop' call as a drop-in
replacement for kfree_skb_reason at various local input path. It accepts
an extra receiving socket argument. Both issues above can be resolved
via this new argument.
V4->V5: rename rx_skaddr to rx_sk to be more clear visually, suggested
by Jesper Dangaard Brouer.
V3->V4: adjusted the TP_STRUCT field order to align better, suggested by
Steven Rostedt.
V2->V3: fixed drop_monitor function signatures; fixed a few uninitialized sks;
Added a few missing report tags from test bots (also noticed by Dan
Carpenter and Simon Horman).
V1->V2: instead of using skb->cb, directly add the needed argument to
trace_kfree_skb tracepoint. Also renamed functions as Eric Dumazet
suggested.
V4: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/cover.1718136376.git.yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
V3: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/cover.1717529533.git.yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
V2: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel/cover.1717206060.git.yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
V1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/cover.1717105215.git.yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Yan Zhai (7):
net: add rx_sk to trace_kfree_skb
net: introduce sk_skb_reason_drop function
ping: use sk_skb_reason_drop to free rx packets
net: raw: use sk_skb_reason_drop to free rx packets
tcp: use sk_skb_reason_drop to free rx packets
udp: use sk_skb_reason_drop to free rx packets
af_packet: use sk_skb_reason_drop to free rx packets
include/linux/skbuff.h | 10 ++++++++--
include/trace/events/skb.h | 11 +++++++----
net/core/dev.c | 2 +-
net/core/drop_monitor.c | 9 ++++++---
net/core/skbuff.c | 22 ++++++++++++----------
net/ipv4/ping.c | 2 +-
net/ipv4/raw.c | 4 ++--
net/ipv4/syncookies.c | 2 +-
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 2 +-
net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 6 +++---
net/ipv4/udp.c | 10 +++++-----
net/ipv6/raw.c | 8 ++++----
net/ipv6/syncookies.c | 2 +-
net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 6 +++---
net/ipv6/udp.c | 10 +++++-----
net/packet/af_packet.c | 10 +++++-----
16 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
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