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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 net] net: udp: fix Fast/frag0 UDP GRO
From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2020 14:06:07 -0500

> On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 1:54 PM Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11/9/20 7:28 PM, Willem de Bruijn wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 12:37 PM Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 11/9/20 5:56 PM, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
>>>>> While testing UDP GSO fraglists forwarding through driver that uses
>>>>> Fast GRO (via napi_gro_frags()), I was observing lots of out-of-order
>>>>> iperf packets:
>>>>>
>>>>> [ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Jitter
>>>>> [SUM] 0.0-40.0 sec 12106 datagrams received out-of-order
>>>>>
>>>>> Simple switch to napi_gro_receive() any other method without frag0
>>>>> shortcut completely resolved them.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've found that UDP GRO uses udp_hdr(skb) in its .gro_receive()
>>>>> callback. While it's probably OK for non-frag0 paths (when all
>>>>> headers or even the entire frame are already in skb->data), this
>>>>> inline points to junk when using Fast GRO (napi_gro_frags() or
>>>>> napi_gro_receive() with only Ethernet header in skb->data and all
>>>>> the rest in shinfo->frags) and breaks GRO packet compilation and
>>>>> the packet flow itself.
>>>>> To support both modes, skb_gro_header_fast() + skb_gro_header_slow()
>>>>> are typically used. UDP even has an inline helper that makes use of
>>>>> them, udp_gro_udphdr(). Use that instead of troublemaking udp_hdr()
>>>>> to get rid of the out-of-order delivers.
>>>>>
>>>>> Present since the introduction of plain UDP GRO in 5.0-rc1.
>>>>>
>>>>> Since v1 [1]:
>>>>> - added a NULL pointer check for "uh" as suggested by Willem.
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/YazU6GEzBdpyZMDMwJirxDX7B4sualpDG68ADZYvJI@cp4-web-034.plabs.ch
>>>>>
>>>>> Fixes: e20cf8d3f1f7 ("udp: implement GRO for plain UDP sockets.")
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@pm.me>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> net/ipv4/udp_offload.c | 7 ++++++-
>>>>> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/net/ipv4/udp_offload.c b/net/ipv4/udp_offload.c
>>>>> index e67a66fbf27b..7f6bd221880a 100644
>>>>> --- a/net/ipv4/udp_offload.c
>>>>> +++ b/net/ipv4/udp_offload.c
>>>>> @@ -366,13 +366,18 @@ static struct sk_buff *udp4_ufo_fragment(struct sk_buff *skb,
>>>>> static struct sk_buff *udp_gro_receive_segment(struct list_head *head,
>>>>> struct sk_buff *skb)
>>>>> {
>>>>> - struct udphdr *uh = udp_hdr(skb);
>>>>> + struct udphdr *uh = udp_gro_udphdr(skb);
>>>>> struct sk_buff *pp = NULL;
>>>>> struct udphdr *uh2;
>>>>> struct sk_buff *p;
>>>>> unsigned int ulen;
>>>>> int ret = 0;
>>>>>
>>>>> + if (unlikely(!uh)) {
>>>>
>>>> How uh could be NULL here ?
>>>>
>>>> My understanding is that udp_gro_receive() is called
>>>> only after udp4_gro_receive() or udp6_gro_receive()
>>>> validated that udp_gro_udphdr(skb) was not NULL.
>>>
>>> Oh indeed. This has already been checked before.
>>>
>>>>> + NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->flush = 1;
>>>>> + return NULL;
>>>>> + }
>>>>> +
>>>>> /* requires non zero csum, for symmetry with GSO */
>>>>> if (!uh->check) {
>>>>> NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->flush = 1;
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Why uh2 is left unchanged ?
>>>>
>>>> uh2 = udp_hdr(p);
>>>
>>> Isn't that the same as th2 = tcp_hdr(p) in tcp_gro_receive? no frag0
>>> optimization to worry about for packets on the list.
>>
>> My feeling was that tcp_gro_receive() is terminal in the GRO stack.
>>
>> While UDP could be encapsulated in UDP :)
>>
>> I guess we do not support this yet.
>>
>> Years ago we made sure to propagate the current header offset into GRO stack
>> (when we added SIT/IPIP/GRE support to GRO)
>> 299603e8370a93dd5d8e8d800f0dff1ce2c53d36 ("net-gro: Prepare GRO stack for the upcoming tunneling support")
>
> On which note, and Alexander's mention of udp4_lib_lookup_skb(), that
> performs a standard ip_hdr on the possibly frag0 optimized incoming
> packet:
>
> struct sock *udp4_lib_lookup_skb(struct sk_buff *skb,
> __be16 sport, __be16 dport)
> {
> const struct iphdr *iph = ip_hdr(skb);
>
> return __udp4_lib_lookup(dev_net(skb->dev), iph->saddr, sport,
> iph->daddr, dport, inet_iif(skb),
> inet_sdif(skb), &udp_table, NULL);
> }
>
> This should use skb_gro_header_.. too, then?

Well, both of udp{4,6}_lib_lookup_skb() and a couple of neighbour
functions use ip_hdr(skb). I didn't check this path before as my
test case was NAT/forwarding with no sk.
I suspect they should use skb_gro_network_header() to obtain an IP
header. I'll fix them in v3, thanks for pointing this out!

Al

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