[PATCH] net/smc: fix application data exception

[PATCH] net/smc: fix application data exception

[D. Wythe]

From: "D. Wythe" <alibuda@linux.alibaba.com>

There is a certain probability that following
exceptions will occur in the wrk benchmark test:

Running 10s test @ http://11.213.45.6:80
  8 threads and 64 connections
  Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
    Latency     3.72ms   13.94ms 245.33ms   94.17%
    Req/Sec     1.96k   713.67     5.41k    75.16%
  155262 requests in 10.10s, 23.10MB read
Non-2xx or 3xx responses: 3

We will find that the error is HTTP 400 error, which is a serious
exception in our test, which means the application data was
corrupted.

Consider the following scenarios:

CPU0                            CPU1

buf_desc->used = 0;
                                cmpxchg(buf_desc->used, 0, 1)
                                deal_with(buf_desc)

memset(buf_desc->cpu_addr,0);

This will cause the data received by a victim connection to be cleared,
thus triggering an HTTP 400 error in the server.

This patch exchange the order between clear used and memset, add
barrier to ensure memory consistency.

Fixes: 1c5526968e27 ("net/smc: Clear memory when release and reuse buffer")
Signed-off-by: D. Wythe <alibuda@linux.alibaba.com>
---
 net/smc/smc_core.c | 17 ++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/smc/smc_core.c b/net/smc/smc_core.c
index c305d8d..c19d4b7 100644
--- a/net/smc/smc_core.c
+++ b/net/smc/smc_core.c
@@ -1120,8 +1120,9 @@ static void smcr_buf_unuse(struct smc_buf_desc *buf_desc, bool is_rmb,
 
 		smc_buf_free(lgr, is_rmb, buf_desc);
 	} else {
-		buf_desc->used = 0;
-		memset(buf_desc->cpu_addr, 0, buf_desc->len);
+		/* memzero_explicit provides potential memory barrier semantics */
+		memzero_explicit(buf_desc->cpu_addr, buf_desc->len);
+		WRITE_ONCE(buf_desc->used, 0);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -1132,19 +1133,17 @@ static void smc_buf_unuse(struct smc_connection *conn,
 		if (!lgr->is_smcd && conn->sndbuf_desc->is_vm) {
 			smcr_buf_unuse(conn->sndbuf_desc, false, lgr);
 		} else {
-			conn->sndbuf_desc->used = 0;
-			memset(conn->sndbuf_desc->cpu_addr, 0,
-			       conn->sndbuf_desc->len);
+			memzero_explicit(conn->sndbuf_desc->cpu_addr, conn->sndbuf_desc->len);
+			WRITE_ONCE(conn->sndbuf_desc->used, 0);
 		}
 	}
 	if (conn->rmb_desc) {
 		if (!lgr->is_smcd) {
 			smcr_buf_unuse(conn->rmb_desc, true, lgr);
 		} else {
-			conn->rmb_desc->used = 0;
-			memset(conn->rmb_desc->cpu_addr, 0,
-			       conn->rmb_desc->len +
-			       sizeof(struct smcd_cdc_msg));
+			memzero_explicit(conn->rmb_desc->cpu_addr,
+					 conn->rmb_desc->len + sizeof(struct smcd_cdc_msg));
+			WRITE_ONCE(conn->rmb_desc->used, 0);
 		}
 	}
 }
-- 
1.8.3.1

Re: [PATCH] net/smc: fix application data exception

[D. Wythe]

On 2/16/23 2:29 PM, D. Wythe wrote:
> From: "D. Wythe" <alibuda@linux.alibaba.com>
> 
> There is a certain probability that following
> exceptions will occur in the wrk benchmark test:
> 
> Running 10s test @ http://11.213.45.6:80
>    8 threads and 64 connections
>    Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
>      Latency     3.72ms   13.94ms 245.33ms   94.17%
>      Req/Sec     1.96k   713.67     5.41k    75.16%
>    155262 requests in 10.10s, 23.10MB read
> Non-2xx or 3xx responses: 3
> 

Please ignore this patch,
There are some problems with the format of this patch. Sorry!

D. Wythe