Re: Linux 4.14 - regression: broken tun/tap / bridge network with virtio - bisected

[Andreas Hartmann <andihartmann@01019freenet.de>]

On 12/06/2017 at 04:08 AM Jason Wang wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2017年12月06日 00:23, Andreas Hartmann wrote:
>> On 12/05/2017 at 04:50 AM Jason Wang wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2017年12月05日 00:28, Andreas Hartmann wrote:
>>>> On 12/03/2017 at 12:35 PM Andreas Hartmann wrote:
>>>>> On 12/01/2017 at 11:11 AM Andreas Hartmann wrote:
>>>>>> Hello!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I hopefully could get rid of both of my problems (hanging network w/
>>>>>> virtio) and endless hanging qemu-process on VM shutdown by upgrading
>>>>>> qemu from 2.6.2 to 2.10.1. I hope it will persist.
>>>>> It didn't persist. 10h later - same problems happened again. It's just
>>>>> much harder to trigger the problems.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm now trying it with
>>>>>
>>>>> CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y and
>>>>> rcu_nocbs=0-15
>>>>>
>>>>> Since then, I didn't see any problem any more. But this doesn't mean
>>>>> anything until now ... .
>>>> Didn't work ether. Disabling vhost_net's zcopy hadn't any effect, too.
>>>>
>>>> => It's just finally broken since
>>>>
>>>> 2ddf71e23cc246e95af72a6deed67b4a50a7b81c
>>>> net: add notifier hooks for devmap bpf map
>>> Hi:
>>>
>>> Did you use XDP devmap in host? If not, please double check it was the
>>> first bad commit since the patch should only work when XDP/devmap is
>>> used on host.
>> How do I know if XDP/devmap is enabled / used? Could you please give
>> some hint?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andreas
> 
> Something like:
> 
> ./ip link | grep xdp
> 10: tap0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 xdp qdisc mq master
> kvmbr0 state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
>     prog/xdp id 4 tag 0381911915bc8d7f
> 
> But you should have some recent version of ip.


Thanks for this hint - I'm not using xdp. Therefore I rechecked my
bisect and detected a mistake. The rebisect now leads to



[v2,RFC,11/13] net: Remove all references to SKB_GSO_UDP. [1]



For the repeated bisect, I switched back to the original qemu 2.6.2
(instead of 2.10.1), because problems can be seen reliably with 2.6.2.

All my VMs are using virtio_net. BTW: I couldn't see the problems
(sometimes, the VM couldn't be stopped at all) if all my VMs are using
e1000 as interface instead.

This finding now matches pretty much the responsible UDP-package which
caused the stall. I already mentioned it here [2].

To prove it, I reverted from the patch series "[PATCH v2 RFC 0/13]
Remove UDP Fragmentation Offload support" [3]

11/13 [v2,RFC,11/13] net: Remove all references to SKB_GSO_UDP. [4]
12/13 [v2,RFC,12/13] inet: Remove software UFO fragmenting code. [5]
13/13 [v2,RFC,13/13] net: Kill NETIF_F_UFO and SKB_GSO_UDP. [6]

and applied it to Linux 4.14.4. It compiled fine and is running fine.
The vnet doesn't die anymore. Yet, I can't say if the qemu stop hangs
are gone, too.

Obviously, there is something broken with the new UDP handling. Could
you please analyze this problem? I could test some more patches ... .



Thanks,
kind regards,
Andreas



[1] http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/785411/
[2] https://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg201635.html
[3] http://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2017/07/07/26
[4] http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/785411/
[5] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/785413/
[6] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/785412/