Re: [PATCH net-next] tuntap: Fallback to automq on TUNSETSTEERINGEBPF prog negative return

Matt Cover
2019-09-23T03:19:08Z

On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 7:34 PM Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 2019/9/23 上午9:15, Matt Cover wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 5:51 PM Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 2019/9/23 上午6:30, Matt Cover wrote:
> >>> On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 1:36 PM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>>> On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 10:43:19AM -0700, Matt Cover wrote:
> >>>>> On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 5:37 AM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>>>>> On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 11:58:43AM -0700, Matthew Cover wrote:
> >>>>>>> Treat a negative return from a TUNSETSTEERINGEBPF bpf prog as a signal
> >>>>>>> to fallback to tun_automq_select_queue() for tx queue selection.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Compilation of this exact patch was tested.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> For functional testing 3 additional printk()s were added.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Functional testing results (on 2 txq tap device):
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> [Fri Sep 20 18:33:27 2019] ========== tun no prog ==========
> >>>>>>> [Fri Sep 20 18:33:27 2019] tuntap: tun_ebpf_select_queue() returned '-1'
> >>>>>>> [Fri Sep 20 18:33:27 2019] tuntap: tun_automq_select_queue() ran
> >>>>>>> [Fri Sep 20 18:33:27 2019] ========== tun prog -1 ==========
> >>>>>>> [Fri Sep 20 18:33:27 2019] tuntap: bpf_prog_run_clear_cb() returned '-1'
> >>>>>>> [Fri Sep 20 18:33:27 2019] tuntap: tun_ebpf_select_queue() returned '-1'
> >>>>>>> [Fri Sep 20 18:33:27 2019] tuntap: tun_automq_select_queue() ran
> >>>>>>> [Fri Sep 20 18:33:27 2019] ========== tun prog 0 ==========
> >>>>>>> [Fri Sep 20 18:33:27 2019] tuntap: bpf_prog_run_clear_cb() returned '0'
> >>>>>>> [Fri Sep 20 18:33:27 2019] tuntap: tun_ebpf_select_queue() returned '0'
> >>>>>>> [Fri Sep 20 18:33:27 2019] ========== tun prog 1 ==========
> >>>>>>> [Fri Sep 20 18:33:27 2019] tuntap: bpf_prog_run_clear_cb() returned '1'
> >>>>>>> [Fri Sep 20 18:33:27 2019] tuntap: tun_ebpf_select_queue() returned '1'
> >>>>>>> [Fri Sep 20 18:33:27 2019] ========== tun prog 2 ==========
> >>>>>>> [Fri Sep 20 18:33:27 2019] tuntap: bpf_prog_run_clear_cb() returned '2'
> >>>>>>> [Fri Sep 20 18:33:27 2019] tuntap: tun_ebpf_select_queue() returned '0'
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Matthew Cover <matthew.cover@stackpath.com>
> >>>>>> Could you add a bit more motivation data here?
> >>>>> Thank you for these questions Michael.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I'll plan on adding the below information to the
> >>>>> commit message and submitting a v2 of this patch
> >>>>> when net-next reopens. In the meantime, it would
> >>>>> be very helpful to know if these answers address
> >>>>> some of your concerns.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> 1. why is this a good idea
> >>>>> This change allows TUNSETSTEERINGEBPF progs to
> >>>>> do any of the following.
> >>>>> 1. implement queue selection for a subset of
> >>>>> traffic (e.g. special queue selection logic
> >>>>> for ipv4, but return negative and use the
> >>>>> default automq logic for ipv6)
> >>>>> 2. determine there isn't sufficient information
> >>>>> to do proper queue selection; return
> >>>>> negative and use the default automq logic
> >>>>> for the unknown
> >>>>> 3. implement a noop prog (e.g. do
> >>>>> bpf_trace_printk() then return negative and
> >>>>> use the default automq logic for everything)
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> 2. how do we know existing userspace does not rely on existing behaviour
> >>>>> Prior to this change a negative return from a
> >>>>> TUNSETSTEERINGEBPF prog would have been cast
> >>>>> into a u16 and traversed netdev_cap_txqueue().
> >>>>>
> >>>>> In most cases netdev_cap_txqueue() would have
> >>>>> found this value to exceed real_num_tx_queues
> >>>>> and queue_index would be updated to 0.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It is possible that a TUNSETSTEERINGEBPF prog
> >>>>> return a negative value which when cast into a
> >>>>> u16 results in a positive queue_index less than
> >>>>> real_num_tx_queues. For example, on x86_64, a
> >>>>> return value of -65535 results in a queue_index
> >>>>> of 1; which is a valid queue for any multiqueue
> >>>>> device.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It seems unlikely, however as stated above is
> >>>>> unfortunately possible, that existing
> >>>>> TUNSETSTEERINGEBPF programs would choose to
> >>>>> return a negative value rather than return the
> >>>>> positive value which holds the same meaning.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It seems more likely that future
> >>>>> TUNSETSTEERINGEBPF programs would leverage a
> >>>>> negative return and potentially be loaded into
> >>>>> a kernel with the old behavior.
> >>>> OK if we are returning a special
> >>>> value, shouldn't we limit it? How about a special
> >>>> value with this meaning?
> >>>> If we are changing an ABI let's at least make it
> >>>> extensible.
> >>>>
> >>> A special value with this meaning sounds
> >>> good to me. I'll plan on adding a define
> >>> set to -1 to cause the fallback to automq.
> >>
> >> Can it really return -1?
> >>
> >> I see:
> >>
> >> static inline u32 bpf_prog_run_clear_cb(const struct bpf_prog *prog,
> >> struct sk_buff *skb)
> >> ...
> >>
> >>
> >>> The way I was initially viewing the old
> >>> behavior was that returning negative was
> >>> undefined; it happened to have the
> >>> outcomes I walked through, but not
> >>> necessarily by design.
> >>
> >> Having such fallback may bring extra troubles, it requires the eBPF
> >> program know the existence of the behavior which is not a part of kernel
> >> ABI actually. And then some eBPF program may start to rely on that which
> >> is pretty dangerous. Note, one important consideration is to have
> >> macvtap support where does not have any stuffs like automq.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> > How about we call this TUN_SSE_ABORT
> > instead of TUN_SSE_DO_AUTOMQ?
> >
> > TUN_SSE_ABORT could be documented as
> > falling back to the default queue
> > selection method in either space
> > (presumably macvtap has some queue
> > selection method when there is no prog).
>
>
> This looks like a more complex API, we don't want userspace to differ
> macvtap from tap too much.
>
> Thanks
>

This is barely more complex and provides
similar to what is done in many places.
For xdp, an XDP_PASS enacts what the
kernel would do if there was no bpf prog.
For tc cls in da mode, TC_ACT_OK enacts
what the kernel would do if there was
no bpf prog. For xt_bpf, false enacts
what the kernel would do if there was
no bpf prog (as long as negation
isn't in play in the rule, I believe).

I know that this is somewhat of an
oversimplification and that each of
these also means something else in
the respective hookpoint, but I standby
seeing value in this change.

macvtap must have some default (i.e the
action which it takes when no prog is
loaded), even if that is just use queue
0. We can provide the same TUN_SSE_ABORT
in userspace which does the same thing;
enacts the default when returned. Any
differences left between tap and macvtap
would be in what the default is, not in
these changes. And that difference already
exists today.

>
> >
> >>> In order to keep the new behavior
> >>> extensible, how should we state that a
> >>> negative return other than -1 is
> >>> undefined and therefore subject to
> >>> change. Is something like this
> >>> sufficient?
> >>>
> >>> Documentation/networking/tc-actions-env-rules.txt
> >>>
> >>> Additionally, what should the new
> >>> behavior implement when a negative other
> >>> than -1 is returned? I would like to have
> >>> it do the same thing as -1 for now, but
> >>> with the understanding that this behavior
> >>> is undefined. Does this sound reasonable?
> >>>
> >>>>>> 3. why doesn't userspace need a way to figure out whether it runs on a kernel with and
> >>>>>> without this patch
> >>>>> There may be some value in exposing this fact
> >>>>> to the ebpf prog loader. What is the standard
> >>>>> practice here, a define?
> >>>> We'll need something at runtime - people move binaries between kernels
> >>>> without rebuilding then. An ioctl is one option.
> >>>> A sysfs attribute is another, an ethtool flag yet another.
> >>>> A combination of these is possible.
> >>>>
> >>>> And if we are doing this anyway, maybe let userspace select
> >>>> the new behaviour? This way we can stay compatible with old
> >>>> userspace...
> >>>>
> >>> Understood. I'll look into adding an
> >>> ioctl to activate the new behavior. And
> >>> perhaps a method of checking which is
> >>> behavior is currently active (in case we
> >>> ever want to change the default, say
> >>> after some suitably long transition
> >>> period).
> >>>
> >>>>>> thanks,
> >>>>>> MST
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> ---
> >>>>>>> drivers/net/tun.c | 20 +++++++++++---------
> >>>>>>> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
> >>>>>>> index aab0be4..173d159 100644
> >>>>>>> --- a/drivers/net/tun.c
> >>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
> >>>>>>> @@ -583,35 +583,37 @@ static u16 tun_automq_select_queue(struct tun_struct *tun, struct sk_buff *skb)
> >>>>>>> return txq;
> >>>>>>> }
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> -static u16 tun_ebpf_select_queue(struct tun_struct *tun, struct sk_buff *skb)
> >>>>>>> +static int tun_ebpf_select_queue(struct tun_struct *tun, struct sk_buff *skb)
> >>>>>>> {
> >>>>>>> struct tun_prog *prog;
> >>>>>>> u32 numqueues;
> >>>>>>> - u16 ret = 0;
> >>>>>>> + int ret = -1;
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> numqueues = READ_ONCE(tun->numqueues);
> >>>>>>> if (!numqueues)
> >>>>>>> return 0;
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> + rcu_read_lock();
> >>>>>>> prog = rcu_dereference(tun->steering_prog);
> >>>>>>> if (prog)
> >>>>>>> ret = bpf_prog_run_clear_cb(prog->prog, skb);
> >>>>>>> + rcu_read_unlock();
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> - return ret % numqueues;
> >>>>>>> + if (ret >= 0)
> >>>>>>> + ret %= numqueues;
> >>>>>>> +
> >>>>>>> + return ret;
> >>>>>>> }
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> static u16 tun_select_queue(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
> >>>>>>> struct net_device *sb_dev)
> >>>>>>> {
> >>>>>>> struct tun_struct *tun = netdev_priv(dev);
> >>>>>>> - u16 ret;
> >>>>>>> + int ret;
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> - rcu_read_lock();
> >>>>>>> - if (rcu_dereference(tun->steering_prog))
> >>>>>>> - ret = tun_ebpf_select_queue(tun, skb);
> >>>>>>> - else
> >>>>>>> + ret = tun_ebpf_select_queue(tun, skb);
> >>>>>>> + if (ret < 0)
> >>>>>>> ret = tun_automq_select_queue(tun, skb);
> >>>>>>> - rcu_read_unlock();
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> return ret;
> >>>>>>> }
> >>>>>>> --
> >>>>>>> 1.8.3.1