On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 10:30:16AM +0000, Alexander Graf wrote:
Ever since the introduction of the virtio vsock driver, it included
pushback logic that blocks it from taking any new RX packets until the
TX queue backlog becomes shallower than the virtqueue size.
This logic works fine when you connect a user space application on the
hypervisor with a virtio-vsock target, because the guest will stop
receiving data until the host pulled all outstanding data from the VM.
So, why not skipping this only when talking with a sibling VM?
With Nitro Enclaves however, we connect 2 VMs directly via vsock:
Parent Enclave
RX -------- TX
TX -------- RX
This means we now have 2 virtio-vsock backends that both have the pushback
logic. If the parent's TX queue runs full at the same time as the
Enclave's, both virtio-vsock drivers fall into the pushback path and
no longer accept RX traffic. However, that RX traffic is TX traffic on
the other side which blocks that driver from making any forward
progress. We're not in a deadlock.
To resolve this, let's remove that pushback logic altogether and rely on
higher levels (like credits) to ensure we do not consume unbounded
memory.
I spoke quickly with Stefan who has been following the development from
the beginning and actually pointed out that there might be problems
with the control packets, since credits only covers data packets, so
it doesn't seem like a good idea remove this mechanism completely.
Fixes: 0ea9e1d3a9e3 ("VSOCK: Introduce virtio_transport.ko")
I'm not sure we should add this Fixes tag, this seems very risky
backporting on stable branches IMHO.
If we cannot find a better mechanism to replace this with something
that works both guest <-> host and guest <-> guest, I would prefer
to do this just for guest <-> guest communication.
Because removing this completely seems too risky for me, at least
without a proof that control packets are fine.
Thanks,
Stefano
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <graf@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c | 51 ++------------------------------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c
index 64a07acfef12..53e79779886c 100644
--- a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c
+++ b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c
@@ -44,8 +44,6 @@ struct virtio_vsock {
struct work_struct send_pkt_work;
struct sk_buff_head send_pkt_queue;
- atomic_t queued_replies;
-
/* The following fields are protected by rx_lock. vqs[VSOCK_VQ_RX]
* must be accessed with rx_lock held.
*/
@@ -171,17 +169,6 @@ virtio_transport_send_pkt_work(struct work_struct *work)
virtio_transport_deliver_tap_pkt(skb);
- if (reply) {
- struct virtqueue *rx_vq = vsock->vqs[VSOCK_VQ_RX];
- int val;
-
- val = atomic_dec_return(&vsock->queued_replies);
-
- /* Do we now have resources to resume rx processing? */
- if (val + 1 == virtqueue_get_vring_size(rx_vq))
- restart_rx = true;
- }
-
added = true;
}
@@ -218,9 +205,6 @@ virtio_transport_send_pkt(struct sk_buff *skb)
goto out_rcu;
}
- if (virtio_vsock_skb_reply(skb))
- atomic_inc(&vsock->queued_replies);
-
virtio_vsock_skb_queue_tail(&vsock->send_pkt_queue, skb);
queue_work(virtio_vsock_workqueue, &vsock->send_pkt_work);
@@ -233,7 +217,7 @@ static int
virtio_transport_cancel_pkt(struct vsock_sock *vsk)
{
struct virtio_vsock *vsock;
- int cnt = 0, ret;
+ int ret;
rcu_read_lock();
vsock = rcu_dereference(the_virtio_vsock);
@@ -242,17 +226,7 @@ virtio_transport_cancel_pkt(struct vsock_sock *vsk)
goto out_rcu;
}
- cnt = virtio_transport_purge_skbs(vsk, &vsock->send_pkt_queue);
-
- if (cnt) {
- struct virtqueue *rx_vq = vsock->vqs[VSOCK_VQ_RX];
- int new_cnt;
-
- new_cnt = atomic_sub_return(cnt, &vsock->queued_replies);
- if (new_cnt + cnt >= virtqueue_get_vring_size(rx_vq) &&
- new_cnt < virtqueue_get_vring_size(rx_vq))
- queue_work(virtio_vsock_workqueue, &vsock->rx_work);
- }
+ virtio_transport_purge_skbs(vsk, &vsock->send_pkt_queue);
ret = 0;
@@ -323,18 +297,6 @@ static void virtio_transport_tx_work(struct work_struct *work)
queue_work(virtio_vsock_workqueue, &vsock->send_pkt_work);
}
-/* Is there space left for replies to rx packets? */
-static bool virtio_transport_more_replies(struct virtio_vsock *vsock)
-{
- struct virtqueue *vq = vsock->vqs[VSOCK_VQ_RX];
- int val;
-
- smp_rmb(); /* paired with atomic_inc() and atomic_dec_return() */
- val = atomic_read(&vsock->queued_replies);
-
- return val < virtqueue_get_vring_size(vq);
-}
-
/* event_lock must be held */
static int virtio_vsock_event_fill_one(struct virtio_vsock *vsock,
struct virtio_vsock_event *event)
@@ -581,14 +543,6 @@ static void virtio_transport_rx_work(struct work_struct *work)
struct sk_buff *skb;
unsigned int len;
- if (!virtio_transport_more_replies(vsock)) {
- /* Stop rx until the device processes already
- * pending replies. Leave rx virtqueue
- * callbacks disabled.
- */
- goto out;
- }
-
skb = virtqueue_get_buf(vq, &len);
if (!skb)
break;
@@ -735,7 +689,6 @@ static int virtio_vsock_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
vsock->rx_buf_nr = 0;
vsock->rx_buf_max_nr = 0;
- atomic_set(&vsock->queued_replies, 0);
mutex_init(&vsock->tx_lock);
mutex_init(&vsock->rx_lock);
--
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