On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 01:58:48PM +0900, Toshiaki Makita wrote:
> On 2019/04/25 2:37, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 11:13:42AM -0600, David Ahern wrote:
> >> seeing an RCU warning testing xdp with virtio net. net-next as of commit
> >> b2f97f7de2f6a4df8e431330cf467576486651c5. No obvious changes so hoping
> >> this rings a bell with someone else.
> >>
> >>
> >> [ 121.990304] =============================
> >> [ 121.991488] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
> >> [ 121.992392] 5.1.0-rc5+ #60 Not tainted
> >> [ 121.993220] -----------------------------
> >> [ 121.994158] /home/dsa/kernel-3.git/drivers/net/virtio_net.c:516
> >> suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
> >> [ 121.996284]
> >> other info that might help us debug this:
> >>
> >> [ 121.997988]
> >> rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
> >> [ 121.999321] no locks held by swapper/1/0.
> >> [ 122.000328]
> >> stack backtrace:
> >> [ 122.001253] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 5.1.0-rc5+ #60
> >> [ 122.002474] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),
> >> BIOS 1.11.1-1 04/01/2014
> >> [ 122.004141] Call Trace:
> >> [ 122.004651] <IRQ>
> >> [ 122.005082] dump_stack+0x7e/0xbb
> >> [ 122.005757] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x102/0x10b
> >> [ 122.006654] virtnet_xdp_xmit+0x104/0x4fe
> >> [ 122.007447] ? kasan_check_read+0x11/0x13
> >> [ 122.008267] ? mergeable_rx_buffer_size_show+0x163/0x163
> >> [ 122.009299] ? __asan_loadN+0xf/0x11
> >> [ 122.010010] ? pvclock_clocksource_read+0xfa/0x189
> >> [ 122.010975] bq_xmit_all+0xdc/0x358
> >> [ 122.011699] __dev_map_flush+0xc2/0xef
> >> [ 122.012472] xdp_do_flush_map+0x5b/0x74
> >> [ 122.013238] virtnet_poll+0x58f/0x679
> >
> > Well virtnet_xdp_xmit seems to be called from .ndo_xdp_xmit
> > and that isn't in an RCU read-side critical section.
> >
> > Looks like we just need to add RCU read lock/unlock.
> > Like the below perhaps?
> >
> > This issue was introduced by 8dcc5b0ab0 however I find it
>
> Probably not 8dcc5b0ab0, but 5d053f9da431 ("bpf: devmap prepare xdp
> frames for bulking").
>
> > inelegant that we need to do checks in each driver,
> > and add RCU locks just for a startup initialization issue.
> > Can't XDP core make sure the callback isn't invoked
> > at an inappropriate time instead?
>
> Before commit 5d053f9da431, .ndo_xdp_xmit() should have always been
> called under RCU. After the commit, xdp_do_flush_map() also can trigger
> .ndo_xdp_xmit() but we forgot to add RCU read lock there?
> I guess veth has the same problem and I feel like it should be fixed in
> __dev_map_flush(). dev_map_flush_old() needs to be cared too.
I don't have a problem either way. Jesper, what do you think?
> --
> Toshiaki Makita
