linux-dev/include/net/netns, branch master

netns: Replace zero-length array with DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY() helper

2022-09-29T01:51:47Z

Zero-length arrays are deprecated and we are moving towards adopting C99 flexible-array members, instead. So, replace zero-length arrays declarations in anonymous union with the new DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY() helper macro. This helper allows for flexible-array members in unions. Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/193 Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/225 Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YzIvfGXxfjdXmIS3@work Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net/smc: Unbind r/w buffer size from clcsock and make them tunable

2022-09-22T10:58:21Z

Currently, SMC uses smc->sk.sk_{rcv|snd}buf to create buffers for send buffer and RMB. And the values of buffer size are from tcp_{w|r}mem in clcsock. The buffer size from TCP socket doesn't fit SMC well. Generally, buffers are usually larger than TCP for SMC-R/-D to get higher performance, for they are different underlay devices and paths. So this patch unbinds buffer size from TCP, and introduces two sysctl knobs to tune them independently. Also, these knobs are per net namespace and work for containers. Signed-off-by: Tony Lu Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

net/smc: Introduce a specific sysctl for TEST_LINK time

2022-09-22T10:58:21Z

SMC-R tests the viability of link by sending out TEST_LINK LLC messages over RoCE fabric when connections on link have been idle for a time longer than keepalive interval (testlink time). But using tcp_keepalive_time as testlink time maybe not quite suitable because it is default no less than two hours[1], which is too long for single link to find peer dead. The active host will still use peer-dead link (QP) sending messages, and can't find out until get IB_WC_RETRY_EXC_ERR error CQEs, which takes more time than TEST_LINK timeout (SMC_LLC_WAIT_TIME) normally. So this patch introduces a independent sysctl for SMC-R to set link keepalive time, in order to detect link down in time. The default value is 30 seconds. [1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1122#page-101 Signed-off-by: Wen Gu Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

tcp: Introduce optional per-netns ehash.

2022-09-20T17:21:50Z

The more sockets we have in the hash table, the longer we spend looking up the socket. While running a number of small workloads on the same host, they penalise each other and cause performance degradation. The root cause might be a single workload that consumes much more resources than the others. It often happens on a cloud service where different workloads share the same computing resource. On EC2 c5.24xlarge instance (196 GiB memory and 524288 (1Mi / 2) ehash entries), after running iperf3 in different netns, creating 24Mi sockets without data transfer in the root netns causes about 10% performance regression for the iperf3's connection. thash_entries sockets length Gbps 524288 1 1 50.7 24Mi 48 45.1 It is basically related to the length of the list of each hash bucket. For testing purposes to see how performance drops along the length, I set 131072 (1Mi / 8) to thash_entries, and here's the result. thash_entries sockets length Gbps 131072 1 1 50.7 1Mi 8 49.9 2Mi 16 48.9 4Mi 32 47.3 8Mi 64 44.6 16Mi 128 40.6 24Mi 192 36.3 32Mi 256 32.5 40Mi 320 27.0 48Mi 384 25.0 To resolve the socket lookup degradation, we introduce an optional per-netns hash table for TCP, but it's just ehash, and we still share the global bhash, bhash2 and lhash2. With a smaller ehash, we can look up non-listener sockets faster and isolate such noisy neighbours. In addition, we can reduce lock contention. We can control the ehash size by a new sysctl knob. However, depending on workloads, it will require very sensitive tuning, so we disable the feature by default (net.ipv4.tcp_child_ehash_entries == 0). Moreover, we can fall back to using the global ehash in case we fail to allocate enough memory for a new ehash. The maximum size is 16Mi, which is large enough that even if we have 48Mi sockets, the average list length is 3, and regression would be less than 1%. We can check the current ehash size by another read-only sysctl knob, net.ipv4.tcp_ehash_entries. A negative value means the netns shares the global ehash (per-netns ehash is disabled or failed to allocate memory). # dmesg | cut -d ' ' -f 5- | grep "established hash" TCP established hash table entries: 524288 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes, vmalloc hugepage) # sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_ehash_entries net.ipv4.tcp_ehash_entries = 524288 # can be changed by thash_entries # sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_child_ehash_entries net.ipv4.tcp_child_ehash_entries = 0 # disabled by default # ip netns add test1 # ip netns exec test1 sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_ehash_entries net.ipv4.tcp_ehash_entries = -524288 # share the global ehash # sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_child_ehash_entries=100 net.ipv4.tcp_child_ehash_entries = 100 # ip netns add test2 # ip netns exec test2 sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_ehash_entries net.ipv4.tcp_ehash_entries = 128 # own a per-netns ehash with 2^n buckets When more than two processes in the same netns create per-netns ehash concurrently with different sizes, we need to guarantee the size in one of the following ways: 1) Share the global ehash and create per-netns ehash First, unshare() with tcp_child_ehash_entries==0. It creates dedicated netns sysctl knobs where we can safely change tcp_child_ehash_entries and clone()/unshare() to create a per-netns ehash. 2) Control write on sysctl by BPF We can use BPF_PROG_TYPE_CGROUP_SYSCTL to allow/deny read/write on sysctl knobs. Note that the global ehash allocated at the boot time is spread over available NUMA nodes, but inet_pernet_hashinfo_alloc() will allocate pages for each per-netns ehash depending on the current process's NUMA policy. By default, the allocation is done in the local node only, so the per-netns hash table could fully reside on a random node. Thus, depending on the NUMA policy the netns is created with and the CPU the current thread is running on, we could see some performance differences for highly optimised networking applications. Note also that the default values of two sysctl knobs depend on the ehash size and should be tuned carefully: tcp_max_tw_buckets : tcp_child_ehash_entries / 2 tcp_max_syn_backlog : max(128, tcp_child_ehash_entries / 128) As a bonus, we can dismantle netns faster. Currently, while destroying netns, we call inet_twsk_purge(), which walks through the global ehash. It can be potentially big because it can have many sockets other than TIME_WAIT in all netns. Splitting ehash changes that situation, where it's only necessary for inet_twsk_purge() to clean up TIME_WAIT sockets in each netns. With regard to this, we do not free the per-netns ehash in inet_twsk_kill() to avoid UAF while iterating the per-netns ehash in inet_twsk_purge(). Instead, we do it in tcp_sk_exit_batch() after calling tcp_twsk_purge() to keep it protocol-family-independent. In the future, we could optimise ehash lookup/iteration further by removing netns comparison for the per-netns ehash. Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

tcp: Don't allocate tcp_death_row outside of struct netns_ipv4.

2022-09-20T17:21:49Z

We will soon introduce an optional per-netns ehash and access hash tables via net->ipv4.tcp_death_row->hashinfo instead of &tcp_hashinfo in most places. It could harm the fast path because dereferences of two fields in net and tcp_death_row might incur two extra cache line misses. To save one dereference, let's place tcp_death_row back in netns_ipv4 and fetch hashinfo via net->ipv4.tcp_death_row"."hashinfo. Note tcp_death_row was initially placed in netns_ipv4, and commit fbb8295248e1 ("tcp: allocate tcp_death_row outside of struct netns_ipv4") changed it to a pointer so that we can fire TIME_WAIT timers after freeing net. However, we don't do so after commit 04c494e68a13 ("Revert "tcp/dccp: get rid of inet_twsk_purge()""), so we need not define tcp_death_row as a pointer. Also, we move refcount_dec_and_test(&tw_refcount) from tcp_sk_exit() to tcp_sk_exit_batch() as a debug check. Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2022-09-08T16:38:30Z

drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec.h 7d650df99d52 ("net: fec: add pm_qos support on imx6q platform") 40c79ce13b03 ("net: fec: add stop mode support for imx8 platform") Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netfilter/nf

2022-09-03T02:38:25Z

Florian Westphal says: ==================== netfilter: bug fixes for net 1. Fix IP address check in irc DCC conntrack helper, this should check the opposite direction rather than the destination address of the packets' direction, from David Leadbeater. 2. bridge netfilter needs to drop dst references, from Harsh Modi. This was fine back in the day the code was originally written, but nowadays various tunnels can pre-set metadata dsts on packets. 3. Remove nf_conntrack_helper sysctl and the modparam toggle, users need to explicitily assign the helpers to use via nftables or iptables. Conntrack helpers, by design, may be used to add dynamic port redirections to internal machines, so its necessary to restrict which hosts/peers are allowed to use them. It was discovered that improper checking in the irc DCC helper makes it possible to trigger the 'please do dynamic port forward' from outside by embedding a 'DCC' in a PING request; if the client echos that back a expectation/port forward gets added. The auto-assign-for-everything mechanism has been in "please don't do this" territory since 2012. From Pablo. 4. Fix a memory leak in the netdev hook error unwind path, also from Pablo. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netfilter/nf: netfilter: nf_conntrack_irc: Fix forged IP logic netfilter: nf_tables: clean up hook list when offload flags check fails netfilter: br_netfilter: Drop dst references before setting. netfilter: remove nf_conntrack_helper sysctl and modparam toggles ==================== Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220901071238.3044-1-fw@strlen.de Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2022-09-01T19:58:02Z

tools/testing/selftests/net/.gitignore sort the net-next version and use it Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

tcp: make global challenge ack rate limitation per net-ns and default disabled

2022-09-01T02:56:48Z

Because per host rate limiting has been proven problematic (side channel attacks can be based on it), per host rate limiting of challenge acks ideally should be per netns and turned off by default. This is a long due followup of following commits: 083ae308280d ("tcp: enable per-socket rate limiting of all 'challenge acks'") f2b2c582e824 ("tcp: mitigate ACK loops for connections as tcp_sock") 75ff39ccc1bd ("tcp: make challenge acks less predictable") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Jason Baron Acked-by: Neal Cardwell Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

netfilter: remove nf_conntrack_helper sysctl and modparam toggles

2022-08-31T10:12:32Z

__nf_ct_try_assign_helper() remains in place but it now requires a template to configure the helper. A toggle to disable automatic helper assignment was added by: a9006892643a ("netfilter: nf_ct_helper: allow to disable automatic helper assignment") in 2012 to address the issues described in "Secure use of iptables and connection tracking helpers". Automatic conntrack helper assignment was disabled by: 3bb398d925ec ("netfilter: nf_ct_helper: disable automatic helper assignment") back in 2016. This patch removes the sysctl and modparam toggles, users now have to rely on explicit conntrack helper configuration via ruleset. Update tools/testing/selftests/netfilter/nft_conntrack_helper.sh to check that auto-assignment does not happen anymore. Acked-by: Aaron Conole Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso