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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 net-next] net: Remove redundant calls of
 sk_tx_queue_clear().
To:     Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.co.jp>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc:     Amit Shah <aams@amazon.de>, Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuni1840@gmail.com>,
        netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>,
        Boris Pismenny <borisp@mellanox.com>
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From:   Tariq Toukan <ttoukan.linux@gmail.com>
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Date:   Thu, 28 Jan 2021 15:09:51 +0200
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On 1/28/2021 2:42 PM, 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 compile-time 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.
> 
> v4:
> * Fix typo in the changelog (runtime -> compile-time)
> 
> v3: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20210128021905.57471-1-kuniyu@amazon.co.jp/
> * 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/
> 

Sorry for not pointing this out earlier, but shouldn't the changelog 
come after the --- separator? Unless you want it to appear as part of 
the commit message.

Other than that, I think now I'm fine with the patch.

Acked-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>

Thanks,
Tariq

> 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;
>