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The test Davide added in commit ca22da2 ("act_mirred: use the backlog
for nested calls to mirred ingress") hangs our testing VMs every 10 or so
runs, with the familiar tcp_v4_rcv -> tcp_v4_rcv deadlock reported by
lockdep.

The problem as previously described by Davide (see Link) is that
if we reverse flow of traffic with the redirect (egress -> ingress)
we may reach the same socket which generated the packet. And we may
still be holding its socket lock. The common solution to such deadlocks
is to put the packet in the Rx backlog, rather than run the Rx path
inline. Do that for all egress -> ingress reversals, not just once
we started to nest mirred calls.

In the past there was a concern that the backlog indirection will
lead to loss of error reporting / less accurate stats. But the current
workaround does not seem to address the issue.

Fixes: 53592b3 ("net/sched: act_mirred: Implement ingress actions")
Cc: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Davide Caratti <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/33dc43f587ec1388ba456b4915c75f02a8aae226.1663945716.git.dcaratti@redhat.com/
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
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kuba-moo authored and gregkh committed Mar 1, 2024
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14 changes: 5 additions & 9 deletions net/sched/act_mirred.c
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Expand Up @@ -206,18 +206,14 @@ static int tcf_mirred_init(struct net *net, struct nlattr *nla,
return err;
}

static bool is_mirred_nested(void)
{
return unlikely(__this_cpu_read(mirred_nest_level) > 1);
}

static int tcf_mirred_forward(bool want_ingress, struct sk_buff *skb)
static int
tcf_mirred_forward(bool at_ingress, bool want_ingress, struct sk_buff *skb)
{
int err;

if (!want_ingress)
err = tcf_dev_queue_xmit(skb, dev_queue_xmit);
else if (is_mirred_nested())
else if (!at_ingress)
err = netif_rx(skb);
else
err = netif_receive_skb(skb);
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -293,9 +289,9 @@ static int tcf_mirred_to_dev(struct sk_buff *skb, struct tcf_mirred *m,

skb_set_redirected(skb_to_send, skb_to_send->tc_at_ingress);

err = tcf_mirred_forward(want_ingress, skb_to_send);
err = tcf_mirred_forward(at_ingress, want_ingress, skb_to_send);
} else {
err = tcf_mirred_forward(want_ingress, skb_to_send);
err = tcf_mirred_forward(at_ingress, want_ingress, skb_to_send);
}

if (err) {
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3 changes: 0 additions & 3 deletions tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/tc_actions.sh
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Expand Up @@ -235,9 +235,6 @@ mirred_egress_to_ingress_tcp_test()
check_err $? "didn't mirred redirect ICMP"
tc_check_packets "dev $h1 ingress" 102 10
check_err $? "didn't drop mirred ICMP"
local overlimits=$(tc_rule_stats_get ${h1} 101 egress .overlimits)
test ${overlimits} = 10
check_err $? "wrong overlimits, expected 10 got ${overlimits}"

tc filter del dev $h1 egress protocol ip pref 100 handle 100 flower
tc filter del dev $h1 egress protocol ip pref 101 handle 101 flower
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