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From:   Jonathan Maxwell <jmaxwell37@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 8 Jan 2023 10:46:09 +1100
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Subject: Re: [net-next] ipv6: fix routing cache overflow for raw sockets
To:     Andrea Mayer <andrea.mayer@uniroma2.it>
Cc:     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, davem@davemloft.net,
        edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org,
        dsahern@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Stefano Salsano <stefano.salsano@uniroma2.it>,
        Paolo Lungaroni <paolo.lungaroni@uniroma2.it>,
        Ahmed Abdelsalam <ahabdels.dev@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Jan 7, 2023 at 10:27 AM Andrea Mayer <andrea.mayer@uniroma2.it> wrote:
>
> Hi Jon,
> please see after, thanks.
>
> >
> > > Any chance you could test this patch based on the latest net-next
> > > kernel and let me know the result?
> > >
> > > diff --git a/include/net/dst_ops.h b/include/net/dst_ops.h
> > > index 88ff7bb2bb9b..632086b2f644 100644
> > > --- a/include/net/dst_ops.h
> > > +++ b/include/net/dst_ops.h
> > > @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ struct dst_ops {
> > >         unsigned short          family;
> > >         unsigned int            gc_thresh;
> > >
> > > -       int                     (*gc)(struct dst_ops *ops);
> > > +       void                    (*gc)(struct dst_ops *ops);
> > >         struct dst_entry *      (*check)(struct dst_entry *, __u32 cookie);
> > >         unsigned int            (*default_advmss)(const struct dst_entry *);
> > >         unsigned int            (*mtu)(const struct dst_entry *);
> > > diff --git a/net/core/dst.c b/net/core/dst.c
> > > index 6d2dd03dafa8..31c08a3386d3 100644
> > > --- a/net/core/dst.c
> > > +++ b/net/core/dst.c
> > > @@ -82,12 +82,8 @@ void *dst_alloc(struct dst_ops *ops, struct net_device *dev,
> > >
> > >         if (ops->gc &&
> > >             !(flags & DST_NOCOUNT) &&
> > > -           dst_entries_get_fast(ops) > ops->gc_thresh) {
> > > -               if (ops->gc(ops)) {
> > > -                       pr_notice_ratelimited("Route cache is full:
> > > consider increasing sysctl net.ipv6.route.max_size.\n");
> > > -                       return NULL;
> > > -               }
> > > -       }
> > > +           dst_entries_get_fast(ops) > ops->gc_thresh)
> > > +               ops->gc(ops);
> > >
> > >         dst = kmem_cache_alloc(ops->kmem_cachep, GFP_ATOMIC);
> > >         if (!dst)
> > > diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
> > > index e74e0361fd92..b643dda68d31 100644
> > > --- a/net/ipv6/route.c
> > > +++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
> > > @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ static struct dst_entry *ip6_negative_advice(struct
> > > dst_entry *);
> > >  static void            ip6_dst_destroy(struct dst_entry *);
> > >  static void            ip6_dst_ifdown(struct dst_entry *,
> > >                                        struct net_device *dev, int how);
> > > -static int              ip6_dst_gc(struct dst_ops *ops);
> > > +static void             ip6_dst_gc(struct dst_ops *ops);
> > >
> > >  static int             ip6_pkt_discard(struct sk_buff *skb);
> > >  static int             ip6_pkt_discard_out(struct net *net, struct
> > > sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb);
> > > @@ -3284,11 +3284,10 @@ struct dst_entry *icmp6_dst_alloc(struct
> > > net_device *dev,
> > >         return dst;
> > >  }
> > >
> > > -static int ip6_dst_gc(struct dst_ops *ops)
> > > +static void ip6_dst_gc(struct dst_ops *ops)
> > >  {
> > >         struct net *net = container_of(ops, struct net, ipv6.ip6_dst_ops);
> > >         int rt_min_interval = net->ipv6.sysctl.ip6_rt_gc_min_interval;
> > > -       int rt_max_size = net->ipv6.sysctl.ip6_rt_max_size;
> > >         int rt_elasticity = net->ipv6.sysctl.ip6_rt_gc_elasticity;
> > >         int rt_gc_timeout = net->ipv6.sysctl.ip6_rt_gc_timeout;
> > >         unsigned long rt_last_gc = net->ipv6.ip6_rt_last_gc;
> > > @@ -3296,11 +3295,10 @@ static int ip6_dst_gc(struct dst_ops *ops)
> > >         int entries;
> > >
> > >         entries = dst_entries_get_fast(ops);
> > > -       if (entries > rt_max_size)
> > > +       if (entries > ops->gc_thresh)
> > >                 entries = dst_entries_get_slow(ops);
> > >
> > > -       if (time_after(rt_last_gc + rt_min_interval, jiffies) &&
> > > -           entries <= rt_max_size)
> > > +       if (time_after(rt_last_gc + rt_min_interval, jiffies))
> > >                 goto out;
> > >
> > >         fib6_run_gc(atomic_inc_return(&net->ipv6.ip6_rt_gc_expire), net, true);
> > > @@ -3310,7 +3308,6 @@ static int ip6_dst_gc(struct dst_ops *ops)
> > >  out:
> > >         val = atomic_read(&net->ipv6.ip6_rt_gc_expire);
> > >         atomic_set(&net->ipv6.ip6_rt_gc_expire, val - (val >> rt_elasticity));
> > > -       return entries > rt_max_size;
> > >  }
> > >
> > >  static int ip6_nh_lookup_table(struct net *net, struct fib6_config *cfg,
> > > @@ -6512,7 +6509,7 @@ static int __net_init ip6_route_net_init(struct net *net)
> > >  #endif
> > >
> > >         net->ipv6.sysctl.flush_delay = 0;
> > > -       net->ipv6.sysctl.ip6_rt_max_size = 4096;
> > > +       net->ipv6.sysctl.ip6_rt_max_size = INT_MAX;
> > >         net->ipv6.sysctl.ip6_rt_gc_min_interval = HZ / 2;
> > >         net->ipv6.sysctl.ip6_rt_gc_timeout = 60*HZ;
> > >         net->ipv6.sysctl.ip6_rt_gc_interval = 30*HZ;
> > >
> >
> > Yes, I will apply this patch in the next days and check how it deals with the
> > seg6 subsystem. I will keep you posted.
> >
>
> I applied the patch* to the net-next (HEAD 6bd4755c7c49) and did some tests on
> the seg6 subsystem, specifically running the End.X/DX6 behaviors. They seem to
> work fine.

Thanks Andrea much appreciated. It worked fine in my raw socket tests as well.
I'll look at submitting it soon.

>
> (*) I had to slightly edit the patch because of the code formatting, e.g.
>     some incorrect line breaks, spaces, etc.
>

Sorry about that, I should have sent it from git to avoid that.

Regards

Jon

> Ciao,
> Andrea
>
> >
> > > On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 6:38 PM Jonathan Maxwell <jmaxwell37@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 7:28 AM Andrea Mayer <andrea.mayer@uniroma2.it> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi Jon,
> > > > > please see below, thanks.
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wed, 21 Dec 2022 08:48:11 +1100
> > > > > Jonathan Maxwell <jmaxwell37@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 11:35 PM Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On Mon, 2022-12-19 at 10:48 +1100, Jon Maxwell wrote:
> > > > > > > > Sending Ipv6 packets in a loop via a raw socket triggers an issue where a
> > > > > > > > route is cloned by ip6_rt_cache_alloc() for each packet sent. This quickly
> > > > > > > > consumes the Ipv6 max_size threshold which defaults to 4096 resulting in
> > > > > > > > these warnings:
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > [1]   99.187805] dst_alloc: 7728 callbacks suppressed
> > > > > > > > [2] Route cache is full: consider increasing sysctl net.ipv6.route.max_size.
> > > > > > > > .
> > > > > > > > .
> > > > > > > > [300] Route cache is full: consider increasing sysctl net.ipv6.route.max_size.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > If I read correctly, the maximum number of dst that the raw socket can
> > > > > > > use this way is limited by the number of packets it allows via the
> > > > > > > sndbuf limit, right?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Yes, but in my test sndbuf limit is never hit so it clones a route for
> > > > > > every packet.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > e.g:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > output from C program sending 5000000 packets via a raw socket.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ip raw: total num pkts 5000000
> > > > > >
> > > > > > # bpftrace -e 'kprobe:dst_alloc {@count[comm] = count()}'
> > > > > > Attaching 1 probe...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > @count[a.out]: 5000009
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Are other FLOWI_FLAG_KNOWN_NH users affected, too? e.g. nf_dup_ipv6,
> > > > > > > ipvs, seg6?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Any call to ip6_pol_route(s) where no res.nh->fib_nh_gw_family is 0 can do it.
> > > > > > But we have only seen this for raw sockets so far.
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > In the SRv6 subsystem, the seg6_lookup_nexthop() is used by some
> > > > > cross-connecting behaviors such as End.X and End.DX6 to forward traffic to a
> > > > > specified nexthop. SRv6 End.X/DX6 can specify an IPv6 DA (i.e., a nexthop)
> > > > > different from the one carried by the IPv6 header. For this purpose,
> > > > > seg6_lookup_nexthop() sets the FLOWI_FLAG_KNOWN_NH.
> > > > >
> > > > Hi Andrea,
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for pointing that datapath out. The more generic approach we are
> > > > taking bringing Ipv6 closer to Ipv4 in this regard should fix all instances
> > > > of this.
> > > >
> > > > > > > > [1]   99.187805] dst_alloc: 7728 callbacks suppressed
> > > > > > > > [2] Route cache is full: consider increasing sysctl net.ipv6.route.max_size.
> > > > > > > > .
> > > > > > > > .
> > > > > > > > [300] Route cache is full: consider increasing sysctl net.ipv6.route.max_size.
> > > > >
> > > > > I can reproduce the same warning messages reported by you, by instantiating an
> > > > > End.X behavior whose nexthop is handled by a route for which there is no "via".
> > > > > In this configuration, the ip6_pol_route() (called by seg6_lookup_nexthop())
> > > > > triggers ip6_rt_cache_alloc() because i) the FLOWI_FLAG_KNOWN_NH is present ii)
> > > > > and the res.nh->fib_nh_gw_family is 0 (as already pointed out).
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Nice, when I get back after the holiday break I'll submit the next patch. It
> > > > would be great if you could test the new patch and let me know how it works in
> > > > your tests at that juncture. I'll keep you posted.
> > > >
> > > > Regards
> > > >
> > > > Jon
> > > >
> > > > > > Regards
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Jon
> > > > >
> > > > > Ciao,
> > > > > Andrea
> >
> >
> > --
> > Andrea Mayer <andrea.mayer@uniroma2.it>
>
>
> --
> Andrea Mayer <andrea.mayer@uniroma2.it>