Re: [Bug report] NFS patch breaks TLS device-offloaded TX zerocopy

[Tariq Toukan <ttoukan.linux@gmail.com>]

On 11/08/2024 21:33, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
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> On 11/08/2024 14:21, Tariq Toukan wrote:
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>> On 06/08/2024 13:07, Tariq Toukan wrote:
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>>> On 06/08/2024 11:09, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
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>>>> On 06/08/2024 7:43, Tariq Toukan wrote:
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>>>>> On 05/08/2024 14:43, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
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>>>>>> On 05/08/2024 13:40, Tariq Toukan wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi,
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>>>>>>> A recent patch [1] to 'fs' broke the TX TLS device-offloaded flow 
>>>>>>> starting from v6.11-rc1.
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>>>>>>> The kernel crashes. Different runs result in different kernel 
>>>>>>> traces.
>>>>>>> See below [2].
>>>>>>> All of them disappear once patch [1] is reverted.
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>>>>>>> The issues appears only with "sendfile on and zerocopy on".
>>>>>>> We couldn't repro with "sendfile off", or with "sendfile on and 
>>>>>>> zerocopy off".
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>>>>>>> The repro test is as simple as a repeated client/server 
>>>>>>> communication (wrk/nginx), with sendfile on and zc on, and with 
>>>>>>> "tls-hw-tx-offload: on".
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>>>>>>> $ for i in `seq 10`; do wrk -b::2:2:2:3 -t10 -c100 -d15 --timeout 
>>>>>>> 5s https://[::2:2:2:2]:20448/16000b.img; done
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>>>>>>> We can provide more details if needed, to help with the analysis 
>>>>>>> and debug.
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>>>>>> Does tls sw (i.e. no offload) also break?
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>>>>> No it doesn't.
>>>>> Only the "sendfile with ZC" flow of the TX device-offloaded TLS.
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>>> Adding Maxim Mikityanskiy, he might have some insights.
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>>>> Not familiar with the TLS offload code, are there any assumptions on 
>>>> PAGE_SIZE contig buffers? Or assumptions on individual
>>>> page references/lifetime?
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>>>> The sporadic panics you reported look like a result of memory 
>>>> corruption or use-after-free conditions.
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>> You can find the original patch that implements it here:
>> c1318b39c7d3 tls: Add opt-in zerocopy mode of sendfile()
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>> In this flow (sendfile + ZC), page is shared for kernel and userspace, 
>> and the extra copy is skipped.
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>> There were a few code changes in this area since the feature was 
>> introduced.
>> Adding relevant ppl, including David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>, 
>> who removed the sendpage() routine and added MSG_SPLICE_PAGES support 
>> to tls_device.
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> Tariq,
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> Can you explain where in your test is NFS used? Is the nginx server runs 
> on an NFS mount?

I checked with the team.
The requested file, as well as the wrk and nginx apps, all reside on an 
NFS mount.