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[v2,net-next,1/2] ipv6: release nexthop on device removal

Message ID 604c45c188c609b732286b47ac2a451a40f6cf6d.1730828007.git.pabeni@redhat.com
State Accepted
Commit eb02688c5c45c3e7af7e71f036a7144f5639cbfe
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Series ipv6: fix hangup on device removal | expand

Commit Message

Paolo Abeni Nov. 5, 2024, 6:23 p.m. UTC
The CI is hitting some aperiodic hangup at device removal time in the
pmtu.sh self-test:

unregister_netdevice: waiting for veth_A-R1 to become free. Usage count = 6
ref_tracker: veth_A-R1@ffff888013df15d8 has 1/5 users at
	dst_init+0x84/0x4a0
	dst_alloc+0x97/0x150
	ip6_dst_alloc+0x23/0x90
	ip6_rt_pcpu_alloc+0x1e6/0x520
	ip6_pol_route+0x56f/0x840
	fib6_rule_lookup+0x334/0x630
	ip6_route_output_flags+0x259/0x480
	ip6_dst_lookup_tail.constprop.0+0x5c2/0x940
	ip6_dst_lookup_flow+0x88/0x190
	udp_tunnel6_dst_lookup+0x2a7/0x4c0
	vxlan_xmit_one+0xbde/0x4a50 [vxlan]
	vxlan_xmit+0x9ad/0xf20 [vxlan]
	dev_hard_start_xmit+0x10e/0x360
	__dev_queue_xmit+0xf95/0x18c0
	arp_solicit+0x4a2/0xe00
	neigh_probe+0xaa/0xf0

While the first suspect is the dst_cache, explicitly tracking the dst
owing the last device reference via probes proved such dst is held by
the nexthop in the originating fib6_info.

Similar to commit f5b51fe804ec ("ipv6: route: purge exception on
removal"), we need to explicitly release the originating fib info when
disconnecting a to-be-removed device from a live ipv6 dst: move the
fib6_info cleanup into ip6_dst_ifdown().

Tested running:

./pmtu.sh cleanup_ipv6_exception

in a tight loop for more than 400 iterations with no spat, running an
unpatched kernel  I observed a splat every ~10 iterations.

Fixes: f88d8ea67fbd ("ipv6: Plumb support for nexthop object in a fib6_info")
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
---
v1 -> v2:
 - dropped unintended whitespace change
---
 net/ipv6/route.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Comments

Paolo Abeni Nov. 6, 2024, 9:11 a.m. UTC | #1
On 11/5/24 22:40, David Ahern wrote:
> On 11/5/24 11:23 AM, Paolo Abeni wrote:
>> The CI is hitting some aperiodic hangup at device removal time in the
>> pmtu.sh self-test:
>>
>> unregister_netdevice: waiting for veth_A-R1 to become free. Usage count = 6
>> ref_tracker: veth_A-R1@ffff888013df15d8 has 1/5 users at
>> 	dst_init+0x84/0x4a0
>> 	dst_alloc+0x97/0x150
>> 	ip6_dst_alloc+0x23/0x90
>> 	ip6_rt_pcpu_alloc+0x1e6/0x520
>> 	ip6_pol_route+0x56f/0x840
>> 	fib6_rule_lookup+0x334/0x630
>> 	ip6_route_output_flags+0x259/0x480
>> 	ip6_dst_lookup_tail.constprop.0+0x5c2/0x940
>> 	ip6_dst_lookup_flow+0x88/0x190
>> 	udp_tunnel6_dst_lookup+0x2a7/0x4c0
>> 	vxlan_xmit_one+0xbde/0x4a50 [vxlan]
>> 	vxlan_xmit+0x9ad/0xf20 [vxlan]
>> 	dev_hard_start_xmit+0x10e/0x360
>> 	__dev_queue_xmit+0xf95/0x18c0
>> 	arp_solicit+0x4a2/0xe00
>> 	neigh_probe+0xaa/0xf0
>>
>> While the first suspect is the dst_cache, explicitly tracking the dst
>> owing the last device reference via probes proved such dst is held by
>> the nexthop in the originating fib6_info.
>>
>> Similar to commit f5b51fe804ec ("ipv6: route: purge exception on
>> removal"), we need to explicitly release the originating fib info when
>> disconnecting a to-be-removed device from a live ipv6 dst: move the
>> fib6_info cleanup into ip6_dst_ifdown().
>>
>> Tested running:
>>
>> ./pmtu.sh cleanup_ipv6_exception
>>
>> in a tight loop for more than 400 iterations with no spat, running an
>> unpatched kernel  I observed a splat every ~10 iterations.
>>
>> Fixes: f88d8ea67fbd ("ipv6: Plumb support for nexthop object in a fib6_info")
> 
> are you sure that is the correct Fixes? That commit is June 2019 and
> there have been stable periods since then without netdev release problems.

"Sure" is a big word ;) AFAICS the mentioned commit let fib6_info store
indirectly the extra dev reference via nexthop and does not clean it at
device removal time.

Note that the issue is not deterministic - I needed ~30 mptu.sh
iterations in a row to see it, so it could go unnoticed for a long time.

>> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
>> ---
>> v1 -> v2:
>>  - dropped unintended whitespace change
>> ---
>>  net/ipv6/route.c | 6 +++---
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
> 
> Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>

Thanks!

Paolo
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Patch

diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
index d7ce5cf2017a..038c1eeef0be 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -374,6 +374,7 @@  static void ip6_dst_ifdown(struct dst_entry *dst, struct net_device *dev)
 {
 	struct rt6_info *rt = dst_rt6_info(dst);
 	struct inet6_dev *idev = rt->rt6i_idev;
+	struct fib6_info *from;
 
 	if (idev && idev->dev != blackhole_netdev) {
 		struct inet6_dev *blackhole_idev = in6_dev_get(blackhole_netdev);
@@ -383,6 +384,8 @@  static void ip6_dst_ifdown(struct dst_entry *dst, struct net_device *dev)
 			in6_dev_put(idev);
 		}
 	}
+	from = unrcu_pointer(xchg(&rt->from, NULL));
+	fib6_info_release(from);
 }
 
 static bool __rt6_check_expired(const struct rt6_info *rt)
@@ -1455,7 +1458,6 @@  static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(rt6_exception_lock);
 static void rt6_remove_exception(struct rt6_exception_bucket *bucket,
 				 struct rt6_exception *rt6_ex)
 {
-	struct fib6_info *from;
 	struct net *net;
 
 	if (!bucket || !rt6_ex)
@@ -1467,8 +1469,6 @@  static void rt6_remove_exception(struct rt6_exception_bucket *bucket,
 	/* purge completely the exception to allow releasing the held resources:
 	 * some [sk] cache may keep the dst around for unlimited time
 	 */
-	from = unrcu_pointer(xchg(&rt6_ex->rt6i->from, NULL));
-	fib6_info_release(from);
 	dst_dev_put(&rt6_ex->rt6i->dst);
 
 	hlist_del_rcu(&rt6_ex->hlist);