Messages in this thread | | | From | Peilin Ye <> | Subject | [PATCH net 0/3] ip_gre, ip6_gre: o_seqno fixes | Date | Thu, 21 Apr 2022 15:06:39 -0700 |
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From: Peilin Ye <peilin.ye@bytedance.com>
Hi all,
As pointed out [1] by Jakub Kicinski, currently using TUNNEL_SEQ in collect_md mode is racy for [IP6]GRE[TAP] devices, since they (typically, e.g. if created using "ip") use lockless TX.
Patch [3/3] fixes it by making o_seqno atomic_t.
As mentioned by Eric Dumazet in commit b790e01aee74 ("ip_gre: lockless xmit"), making o_seqno atomic_t increases "chance for packets being out of order at receiver" when using lockless TX.
Another way to fix it would be: users must specify "external" and "oseq" at the same time if they want the kernel to allow using TUNNEL_SEQ (e.g. via eBPF) in collect_md mode, but that would break userspace.
I found another issue while reading the code: patches [1,2/3] make o_seqno start from 0 in native mode, as described in RFC 2890 [2] section 2.2.: "The first datagram is sent with a sequence number of 0."
Now we could make [IP6]GRE[TAP] (and probably [IP6]ERSPAN ?) devices completely NETIF_F_LLTX, but that's out of scope of this fix and will be sent as separate [net-next] patches.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20220415191133.0597a79a@kernel.org/ [2] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2890#section-2.2
Thanks, Peilin Ye (3): ip_gre: Make o_seqno start from 0 in native mode ip6_gre: Make o_seqno start from 0 in native mode ip_gre, ip6_gre: Fix race condition on o_seqno in collect_md mode
include/net/ip6_tunnel.h | 2 +- include/net/ip_tunnels.h | 2 +- net/ipv4/ip_gre.c | 12 +++++------- net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c | 16 ++++++++-------- 4 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
-- 2.20.1
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