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veth: Fix race with AF_XDP exposing old or uninitialized descriptors
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2164865
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Author: Shawn Bohrer <sbohrer@cloudflare.com>
Date: Tue Dec 20 12:59:03 2022 -0600
veth: Fix race with AF_XDP exposing old or uninitialized descriptors
When AF_XDP is used on on a veth interface the RX ring is updated in two
steps. veth_xdp_rcv() removes packet descriptors from the FILL ring
fills them and places them in the RX ring updating the cached_prod
pointer. Later xdp_do_flush() syncs the RX ring prod pointer with the
cached_prod pointer allowing user-space to see the recently filled in
descriptors. The rings are intended to be SPSC, however the existing
order in veth_poll allows the xdp_do_flush() to run concurrently with
another CPU creating a race condition that allows user-space to see old
or uninitialized descriptors in the RX ring. This bug has been observed
in production systems.
To summarize, we are expecting this ordering:
CPU 0 __xsk_rcv_zc()
CPU 0 __xsk_map_flush()
CPU 2 __xsk_rcv_zc()
CPU 2 __xsk_map_flush()
But we are seeing this order:
CPU 0 __xsk_rcv_zc()
CPU 2 __xsk_rcv_zc()
CPU 0 __xsk_map_flush()
CPU 2 __xsk_map_flush()
This occurs because we rely on NAPI to ensure that only one napi_poll
handler is running at a time for the given veth receive queue.
napi_schedule_prep() will prevent multiple instances from getting
scheduled. However calling napi_complete_done() signals that this
napi_poll is complete and allows subsequent calls to
napi_schedule_prep() and __napi_schedule() to succeed in scheduling a
concurrent napi_poll before the xdp_do_flush() has been called. For the
veth driver a concurrent call to napi_schedule_prep() and
__napi_schedule() can occur on a different CPU because the veth xmit
path can additionally schedule a napi_poll creating the race.
The fix as suggested by Magnus Karlsson, is to simply move the
xdp_do_flush() call before napi_complete_done(). This syncs the
producer ring pointers before another instance of napi_poll can be
scheduled on another CPU. It will also slightly improve performance by
moving the flush closer to when the descriptors were placed in the
RX ring.
Fixes: d139600 ("veth: Add XDP TX and REDIRECT")
Suggested-by: Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <sbohrer@cloudflare.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221220185903.1105011-1-sbohrer@cloudflare.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Davide Caratti <dcaratti@redhat.com>1 parent 081d5c4 commit 75dacf7
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