On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 02:07:57PM -0800, John Hickey wrote:
> In commit 'ixgbe: let the xdpdrv work with more than 64 cpus'
> (4fe815850bdc), support was added to allow XDP programs to run on systems
> with more than 64 CPUs by locking the XDP TX rings and indexing them
> using cpu % 64 (IXGBE_MAX_XDP_QS).
>
> Upon trying this out patch via the Intel 5.18.6 out of tree driver
> on a system with more than 64 cores, the kernel paniced with an
> array-index-out-of-bounds at the return in ixgbe_determine_xdp_ring in
> ixgbe.h, which means ixgbe_determine_xdp_q_idx was just returning the
> cpu instead of cpu % IXGBE_MAX_XDP_QS. An example splat:
i am assuming that in-tree driver is also affected so the info about OOT
driver is irrelevant here :)
>
> ==========================================================================
> UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in
> /var/lib/dkms/ixgbe/5.18.6+focal-1/build/src/ixgbe.h:1147:26
> index 65 is out of range for type 'ixgbe_ring *[64]'
> ==========================================================================
> BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000058
> #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
> #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
> PGD 0 P4D 0
> Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
> CPU: 65 PID: 408 Comm: ksoftirqd/65
> Tainted: G IOE 5.15.0-48-generic #54~20.04.1-Ubuntu
> Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R640/0W23H8, BIOS 2.5.4 01/13/2020
> RIP: 0010:ixgbe_xmit_xdp_ring+0x1b/0x1c0 [ixgbe]
> Code: 3b 52 d4 cf e9 42 f2 ff ff 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 b9
> 00 00 00 00 48 89 e5 41 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 48 83 ec 08 <44> 0f b7
> 47 58 0f b7 47 5a 0f b7 57 54 44 0f b7 76 08 66 41 39 c0
> RSP: 0018:ffffbc3fcd88fcb0 EFLAGS: 00010282
> RAX: ffff92a253260980 RBX: ffffbc3fe68b00a0 RCX: 0000000000000000
> RDX: ffff928b5f659000 RSI: ffff928b5f659000 RDI: 0000000000000000
> RBP: ffffbc3fcd88fce0 R08: ffff92b9dfc20580 R09: 0000000000000001
> R10: 3d3d3d3d3d3d3d3d R11: 3d3d3d3d3d3d3d3d R12: 0000000000000000
> R13: ffff928b2f0fa8c0 R14: ffff928b9be20050 R15: 000000000000003c
> FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff92b9dfc00000(0000)
> knlGS:0000000000000000
> CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> CR2: 0000000000000058 CR3: 000000011dd6a002 CR4: 00000000007706e0
> DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> PKRU: 55555554
> Call Trace:
> <TASK>
> ixgbe_poll+0x103e/0x1280 [ixgbe]
> ? sched_clock_cpu+0x12/0xe0
> __napi_poll+0x30/0x160
> net_rx_action+0x11c/0x270
> __do_softirq+0xda/0x2ee
> run_ksoftirqd+0x2f/0x50
> smpboot_thread_fn+0xb7/0x150
> ? sort_range+0x30/0x30
> kthread+0x127/0x150
> ? set_kthread_struct+0x50/0x50
> ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
> </TASK>
>
> I think this is how it happens:
>
> Upon loading the first XDP program on a system with more than 64 CPUs,
> ixgbe_xdp_locking_key is incremented in ixgbe_xdp_setup. However,
> immediately after this, the rings are reconfigured by ixgbe_setup_tc.
> ixgbe_setup_tc calls ixgbe_clear_interrupt_scheme which calls
> ixgbe_free_q_vectors which calls ixgbe_free_q_vector in a loop.
> ixgbe_free_q_vector decrements ixgbe_xdp_locking_key once per call if
> it is non-zero. Commenting out the decrement in ixgbe_free_q_vector
> stopped my system from panicing.
>
> I suspect to make the original patch work, I would need to load an XDP
> program and then replace it in order to get ixgbe_xdp_locking_key back
> above 0 since ixgbe_setup_tc is only called when transitioning between
> XDP and non-XDP ring configurations, while ixgbe_xdp_locking_key is
> incremented every time ixgbe_xdp_setup is called.
>
> Also, ixgbe_setup_tc can be called via ethtool --set-channels, so this
> becomes another path to decrement ixgbe_xdp_locking_key to 0 on systems
> with greater than 64 CPUs.
>
> For this patch, I have changed static_branch_inc to static_branch_enable
> in ixgbe_setup_xdp. We weren't counting references. The
> ixgbe_xdp_locking_key only protects code in the XDP_TX path, which is
> not run when an XDP program is loaded. The other condition for setting
> it on is the number of CPUs, which I assume is static.
>From technical POV i think the contents here are fine. Maybe we could even
move this check to probe path because as you said this is static. I saw
that others had some wording/style comments, so if you decide to fix it
and push a v4, then you can add:
Reviewed-by: Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Fixes: 4fe815850bdc ("ixgbe: let the xdpdrv work with more than 64 cpus")
> Signed-off-by: John Hickey <jjh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v1 -> v2:
> Added Fixes and net tag. No code changes.
> v2 -> v3:
> Added splat. Slight clarification as to why ixgbe_xdp_locking_key
> is not turned off. Based on feedback from Maciej Fijalkowski.
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_lib.c | 3 ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_lib.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_lib.c
> index f8156fe4b1dc..0ee943db3dc9 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_lib.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_lib.c
> @@ -1035,9 +1035,6 @@ static void ixgbe_free_q_vector(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter, int v_idx)
> adapter->q_vector[v_idx] = NULL;
> __netif_napi_del(&q_vector->napi);
>
> - if (static_key_enabled(&ixgbe_xdp_locking_key))
> - static_branch_dec(&ixgbe_xdp_locking_key);
> -
> /*
> * after a call to __netif_napi_del() napi may still be used and
> * ixgbe_get_stats64() might access the rings on this vector,
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
> index ab8370c413f3..cd2fb72c67be 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
> @@ -10283,7 +10283,7 @@ static int ixgbe_xdp_setup(struct net_device *dev, struct bpf_prog *prog)
> if (nr_cpu_ids > IXGBE_MAX_XDP_QS * 2)
> return -ENOMEM;
> else if (nr_cpu_ids > IXGBE_MAX_XDP_QS)
> - static_branch_inc(&ixgbe_xdp_locking_key);
> + static_branch_enable(&ixgbe_xdp_locking_key);
>
> old_prog = xchg(&adapter->xdp_prog, prog);
> need_reset = (!!prog != !!old_prog);
> --
> 2.37.2
>
