net: solve a NAPI race

While playing with mlx4 hardware timestamping of RX packets, I found
that some packets were received by TCP stack with a ~200 ms delay...

Since the timestamp was provided by the NIC, and my probe was added
in tcp_v4_rcv() while in BH handler, I was confident it was not
a sender issue, or a drop in the network.

This would happen with a very low probability, but hurting RPC
workloads.

A NAPI driver normally arms the IRQ after the napi_complete_done(),
after NAPI_STATE_SCHED is cleared, so that the hard irq handler can grab
it.

Problem is that if another point in the stack grabs NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit
while IRQ are not disabled, we might have later an IRQ firing and
finding this bit set, right before napi_complete_done() clears it.

This can happen with busy polling users, or if gro_flush_timeout is
used. But some other uses of napi_schedule() in drivers can cause this
as well.

thread 1                                 thread 2 (could be on same cpu, or not)

// busy polling or napi_watchdog()
napi_schedule();
...
napi->poll()

device polling:
read 2 packets from ring buffer
                                          Additional 3rd packet is
available.
                                          device hard irq

                                          // does nothing because
NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit is owned by thread 1
                                          napi_schedule();

napi_complete_done(napi, 2);
rearm_irq();

Note that rearm_irq() will not force the device to send an additional
IRQ for the packet it already signaled (3rd packet in my example)

This patch adds a new NAPI_STATE_MISSED bit, that napi_schedule_prep()
can set if it could not grab NAPI_STATE_SCHED

Then napi_complete_done() properly reschedules the napi to make sure
we do not miss something.

Since we manipulate multiple bits at once, use cmpxchg() like in
sk_busy_loop() to provide proper transactions.

In v2, I changed napi_watchdog() to use a relaxed variant of
napi_schedule_prep() : No need to set NAPI_STATE_MISSED from this point.

In v3, I added more details in the changelog and clears
NAPI_STATE_MISSED in busy_poll_stop()

In v4, I added the ideas given by Alexander Duyck in v3 review

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index f40f0ab3847a..97456b2539e4 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -330,6 +330,7 @@ struct napi_struct {
 
 enum {
 	NAPI_STATE_SCHED,	/* Poll is scheduled */
+	NAPI_STATE_MISSED,	/* reschedule a napi */
 	NAPI_STATE_DISABLE,	/* Disable pending */
 	NAPI_STATE_NPSVC,	/* Netpoll - don't dequeue from poll_list */
 	NAPI_STATE_HASHED,	/* In NAPI hash (busy polling possible) */
@@ -338,12 +339,13 @@ enum {
 };
 
 enum {
-	NAPIF_STATE_SCHED	 = (1UL << NAPI_STATE_SCHED),
-	NAPIF_STATE_DISABLE	 = (1UL << NAPI_STATE_DISABLE),
-	NAPIF_STATE_NPSVC	 = (1UL << NAPI_STATE_NPSVC),
-	NAPIF_STATE_HASHED	 = (1UL << NAPI_STATE_HASHED),
-	NAPIF_STATE_NO_BUSY_POLL = (1UL << NAPI_STATE_NO_BUSY_POLL),
-	NAPIF_STATE_IN_BUSY_POLL = (1UL << NAPI_STATE_IN_BUSY_POLL),
+	NAPIF_STATE_SCHED	 = BIT(NAPI_STATE_SCHED),
+	NAPIF_STATE_MISSED	 = BIT(NAPI_STATE_MISSED),
+	NAPIF_STATE_DISABLE	 = BIT(NAPI_STATE_DISABLE),
+	NAPIF_STATE_NPSVC	 = BIT(NAPI_STATE_NPSVC),
+	NAPIF_STATE_HASHED	 = BIT(NAPI_STATE_HASHED),
+	NAPIF_STATE_NO_BUSY_POLL = BIT(NAPI_STATE_NO_BUSY_POLL),
+	NAPIF_STATE_IN_BUSY_POLL = BIT(NAPI_STATE_IN_BUSY_POLL),
 };
 
 enum gro_result {
@@ -414,20 +416,7 @@ static inline bool napi_disable_pending(struct napi_struct *n)
 	return test_bit(NAPI_STATE_DISABLE, &n->state);
 }
 
-/**
- *	napi_schedule_prep - check if NAPI can be scheduled
- *	@n: NAPI context
- *
- * Test if NAPI routine is already running, and if not mark
- * it as running.  This is used as a condition variable to
- * insure only one NAPI poll instance runs.  We also make
- * sure there is no pending NAPI disable.
- */
-static inline bool napi_schedule_prep(struct napi_struct *n)
-{
-	return !napi_disable_pending(n) &&
-		!test_and_set_bit(NAPI_STATE_SCHED, &n->state);
-}
+bool napi_schedule_prep(struct napi_struct *n);
 
 /**
  *	napi_schedule - schedule NAPI poll