Re: [PATCH v3 net-next] net: Remove redundant calls of sk_tx_queue_clear().

[Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.co.jp>]

From:   Tariq Toukan <ttoukan.linux@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 28 Jan 2021 13:07:26 +0200
> On 1/28/2021 4:19 AM, Kuniyuki Iwashima wrote:
> > The commit 41b14fb8724d ("net: Do not clear the sock TX queue in
> > sk_set_socket()") removes sk_tx_queue_clear() from sk_set_socket() and adds
> > it instead in sk_alloc() and sk_clone_lock() to fix an issue introduced in
> > the commit e022f0b4a03f ("net: Introduce sk_tx_queue_mapping"). On the
> > other hand, the original commit had already put sk_tx_queue_clear() in
> > sk_prot_alloc(): the callee of sk_alloc() and sk_clone_lock(). Thus
> > sk_tx_queue_clear() is called twice in each path.
> > 
> > If we remove sk_tx_queue_clear() in sk_alloc() and sk_clone_lock(), it
> > currently works well because (i) sk_tx_queue_mapping is defined between
> > sk_dontcopy_begin and sk_dontcopy_end, and (ii) sock_copy() called after
> > sk_prot_alloc() in sk_clone_lock() does not overwrite sk_tx_queue_mapping.
> > However, if we move sk_tx_queue_mapping out of the no copy area, it
> > introduces a bug unintentionally.
> > 
> > Therefore, this patch adds a runtime 
> 
> compile-time

Oh, shame on me...
I'll fix it in the next spin.

Thank you,
Kuniyuki


> > check to take care of the order of
> > sock_copy() and sk_tx_queue_clear() and removes sk_tx_queue_clear() from
> > sk_prot_alloc() so that it does the only allocation and its callers
> > initialize fields.
> > 
> > v3:
> > * Remove Fixes: tag
> > * Add BUILD_BUG_ON
> > * Remove sk_tx_queue_clear() from sk_prot_alloc()
> >    instead of sk_alloc() and sk_clone_lock()
> > 
> > v2: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20210127132215.10842-1-kuniyu@amazon.co.jp/
> > * Remove Reviewed-by: tag
> > 
> > v1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20210127125018.7059-1-kuniyu@amazon.co.jp/
> > 
> > CC: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>
> > CC: Boris Pismenny <borisp@mellanox.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.co.jp>
> > ---
> >   net/core/sock.c | 11 ++++++++++-
> >   1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c
> > index bbcd4b97eddd..cfbd62a5e079 100644
> > --- a/net/core/sock.c
> > +++ b/net/core/sock.c
> > @@ -1657,6 +1657,16 @@ static void sock_copy(struct sock *nsk, const struct sock *osk)
> >   #ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK
> >   	void *sptr = nsk->sk_security;
> >   #endif
> > +
> > +	/* If we move sk_tx_queue_mapping out of the private section,
> > +	 * we must check if sk_tx_queue_clear() is called after
> > +	 * sock_copy() in sk_clone_lock().
> > +	 */
> > +	BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetof(struct sock, sk_tx_queue_mapping) <
> > +		     offsetof(struct sock, sk_dontcopy_begin) ||
> > +		     offsetof(struct sock, sk_tx_queue_mapping) >=
> > +		     offsetof(struct sock, sk_dontcopy_end));
> > +
> >   	memcpy(nsk, osk, offsetof(struct sock, sk_dontcopy_begin));
> >   
> >   	memcpy(&nsk->sk_dontcopy_end, &osk->sk_dontcopy_end,
> > @@ -1690,7 +1700,6 @@ static struct sock *sk_prot_alloc(struct proto *prot, gfp_t priority,
> >   
> >   		if (!try_module_get(prot->owner))
> >   			goto out_free_sec;
> > -		sk_tx_queue_clear(sk);
> >   	}
> >   
> >   	return sk;
> >