Jakub Sitnicki wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 11:48 PM CEST, John Fastabend wrote:
> > We don't want strparser to run and pass skbs into skmsg handlers when
> > the psock is null. We just sk_drop them in this case. When removing
> > a live socket from map it means extra drops that we do not need to
> > incur. Move the zap below strparser close to avoid this condition.
> >
> > This way we stop the stream parser first stopping it from processing
> > packets and then delete the psock.
> >
> > Fixes: a136678c0bdbb ("bpf: sk_msg, zap ingress queue on psock down")
> > Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> To confirm my understanding - the extra drops can happen because
> currently we are racing to clear SK_PSOCK_TX_ENABLED flag in
> sk_psock_drop with sk_psock_verdict_apply, which checks the flag before
> pushing skb onto psock->ingress_skb queue (or possibly straight into
> psock->ingress_msg queue on no redirect).
Correct. If strparser hands a skb to the sk_psock_* handlers then before
they enqueue the packet the flag is checked and the packet will be
dropped in this case. I noticed this while testing. So rather than
letting packets get into sk_psock_* handlers this patch just stops the
strparser.
