Re: [PATCH] mlx4: Fix tx ring affinity_mask creation

[Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.de>]

On 2015/04/12 10:03, Ido Shamay wrote:
> Hi Benjamin,
> 
> On 4/10/2015 7:27 PM, Benjamin Poirier wrote:
> >By default, the number of tx queues is limited by the number of online cpus in
> >mlx4_en_get_profile(). However, this limit no longer holds after the ethtool
> >.set_channels method has been called. In that situation, the driver may access
> >invalid bits of certain cpumask variables when queue_index > nr_cpu_ids.
> 
> I must say I don't see the above issue with the current code.
> Whatever is the modified value of priv->num_tx_rings_p_up, it will set XPS
> only on queues which have
> been set with CPU affinity mask (no access to invalid bits).

The problem is not with the call to netif_set_xps_queue() it is with the
calls to cpu_online() and cpumask_set_cpu().

For example, if the user calls `ethtool -L ethX tx 32`, queue_index in
mlx4_en_create_tx_ring() can be up to 255. Depending on CONFIG_NR_CPUS
and CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK this may result in calls to cpu_online() and
cpumask_set_cpu() with cpu >= nr_cpumask_bits which is an invalid usage
of the cpumask api. The driver will potentially read or write beyond the
end of the bitmap. With CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y and
CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS=y, the aforementioned ethtool call on a system
with <32 cpus triggers the warning in cpumask_check(). 

> 
> It's true that when priv->num_tx_rings_p_up > nr_cpus. not all queues will
> be set with XPS.
> This is because the code tries to preserve 1:1 mapping of queues to cores,
> to avoid a double mapping
> of queues to cores.
> I guess it's ok to break the 1:1 mapping in this condition, but the commit
> message should say that instead
> of invalid bits. Please fix me if I'm wrong.
> 
> >Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.de>
> >---
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_tx.c | 8 +++++---
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_tx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_tx.c
> >index 55f9f5c..8c234ec 100644
> >--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_tx.c
> >+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_tx.c
> >@@ -143,8 +143,10 @@ int mlx4_en_create_tx_ring(struct mlx4_en_priv *priv,
> >  	ring->hwtstamp_tx_type = priv->hwtstamp_config.tx_type;
> >  	ring->queue_index = queue_index;
> >-	if (queue_index < priv->num_tx_rings_p_up && cpu_online(queue_index))
> >-		cpumask_set_cpu(queue_index, &ring->affinity_mask);
> >+	if (queue_index < priv->num_tx_rings_p_up)
> >+			cpumask_set_cpu_local_first(queue_index,
> >+					    priv->mdev->dev->numa_node,
> >+					    &ring->affinity_mask);
> Moving from cpumask_set_cpu to cpumask_set_cpu_local_first is great, but
> should come in a different commit, since
> the behavior of the XPS is changed here (xps_cpus[tx_ring[queue_index]] !=
> queue_index from now).
> Commit should state of this behavior change.
> Thanks a lot Benjamin.
> >  	*pring = ring;
> >  	return 0;
> >@@ -213,7 +215,7 @@ int mlx4_en_activate_tx_ring(struct mlx4_en_priv *priv,
> >  	err = mlx4_qp_to_ready(mdev->dev, &ring->wqres.mtt, &ring->context,
> >  			       &ring->qp, &ring->qp_state);
> >-	if (!user_prio && cpu_online(ring->queue_index))
> >+	if (!cpumask_empty(&ring->affinity_mask))
> >  		netif_set_xps_queue(priv->dev, &ring->affinity_mask,
> >  				    ring->queue_index);
>