Commit d3fd65484c ("net: core: add dev_sw_netstats_tx_add") has added
function "dev_sw_netstats_tx_add()" to update net device per-cpu TX
stats.
Use this function instead of own code.
While on it, remove internal_get_stats() and replace it
with dev_get_tstats64().
Signed-off-by: Lev Stipakov <lev@openvpn.net>
Reviewed-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201113215336.145998-1-lev@openvpn.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
commit 174e23810c
("sk_buff: drop all skb extensions on free and skb scrubbing") made napi
recycle always drop skb extensions. The additional skb_ext_del() that is
performed via nf_reset on napi skb recycle is not needed anymore.
Most nf_reset() calls in the stack are there so queued skb won't block
'rmmod nf_conntrack' indefinitely.
This removes the skb_ext_del from nf_reset, and renames it to a more
fitting nf_reset_ct().
In a few selected places, add a call to skb_ext_reset to make sure that
no active extensions remain.
I am submitting this for "net", because we're still early in the release
cycle. The patch applies to net-next too, but I think the rename causes
needless divergence between those trees.
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
"Lots of bug fixes here:
1) Out of bounds access in __bpf_skc_lookup, from Lorenz Bauer.
2) Fix rate reporting in cfg80211_calculate_bitrate_he(), from John
Crispin.
3) Use after free in psock backlog workqueue, from John Fastabend.
4) Fix source port matching in fdb peer flow rule of mlx5, from Raed
Salem.
5) Use atomic_inc_not_zero() in fl6_sock_lookup(), from Eric Dumazet.
6) Network header needs to be set for packet redirect in nfp, from
John Hurley.
7) Fix udp zerocopy refcnt, from Willem de Bruijn.
8) Don't assume linear buffers in vxlan and geneve error handlers,
from Stefano Brivio.
9) Fix TOS matching in mlxsw, from Jiri Pirko.
10) More SCTP cookie memory leak fixes, from Neil Horman.
11) Fix VLAN filtering in rtl8366, from Linus Walluij.
12) Various TCP SACK payload size and fragmentation memory limit fixes
from Eric Dumazet.
13) Use after free in pneigh_get_next(), also from Eric Dumazet.
14) LAPB control block leak fix from Jeremy Sowden"
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (145 commits)
lapb: fixed leak of control-blocks.
tipc: purge deferredq list for each grp member in tipc_group_delete
ax25: fix inconsistent lock state in ax25_destroy_timer
neigh: fix use-after-free read in pneigh_get_next
tcp: fix compile error if !CONFIG_SYSCTL
hv_sock: Suppress bogus "may be used uninitialized" warnings
be2net: Fix number of Rx queues used for flow hashing
net: handle 802.1P vlan 0 packets properly
tcp: enforce tcp_min_snd_mss in tcp_mtu_probing()
tcp: add tcp_min_snd_mss sysctl
tcp: tcp_fragment() should apply sane memory limits
tcp: limit payload size of sacked skbs
Revert "net: phylink: set the autoneg state in phylink_phy_change"
bpf: fix nested bpf tracepoints with per-cpu data
bpf: Fix out of bounds memory access in bpf_sk_storage
vsock/virtio: set SOCK_DONE on peer shutdown
net: dsa: rtl8366: Fix up VLAN filtering
net: phylink: set the autoneg state in phylink_phy_change
net: add high_order_alloc_disable sysctl/static key
tcp: add tcp_tx_skb_cache sysctl
...
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Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190529141334.228102212@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The method ndo_start_xmit() is defined as returning an 'netdev_tx_t',
which is a typedef for an enum type, so make sure the implementation in
this driver has returns 'netdev_tx_t' value, and change the function
return type to netdev_tx_t.
Found by coccinelle.
Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Preempt counter APIs have been split out, currently, hardirq.h just
includes irq_enter/exit APIs which are not used by openvswitch at all.
So, remove the unused hardirq.h.
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.s@alibaba-inc.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: dev@openvswitch.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
After commit 3a927bc7cf ("ovs: propagate per dp max headroom to
all vports") the need_headroom for the internal vport is updated
accordingly to the max needed headroom in its datapath.
That avoids the pskb_expand_head() costs when sending/forwarding
packets towards tunnel devices, at least for some scenarios.
We still require such copy when using the ovs-preferred configuration
for vxlan tunnels:
br_int
/ \
tap vxlan
(remote_ip:X)
br_phy
\
NIC
where the route towards the IP 'X' is via 'br_phy'.
When forwarding traffic from the tap towards the vxlan device, we
will call pskb_expand_head() in vxlan_build_skb() because
br-phy->needed_headroom is equal to tun->needed_headroom.
With this change we avoid updating the internal vport needed_headroom,
so that in the above scenario no head copy is needed, giving 5%
performance improvement in UDP throughput test.
As a trade-off, packets sent from the internal port towards a tunnel
device will now experience the head copy overhead. The rationale is
that the latter use-case is less relevant performance-wise.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Network devices can allocate reasources and private memory using
netdev_ops->ndo_init(). However, the release of these resources
can occur in one of two different places.
Either netdev_ops->ndo_uninit() or netdev->destructor().
The decision of which operation frees the resources depends upon
whether it is necessary for all netdev refs to be released before it
is safe to perform the freeing.
netdev_ops->ndo_uninit() presumably can occur right after the
NETDEV_UNREGISTER notifier completes and the unicast and multicast
address lists are flushed.
netdev->destructor(), on the other hand, does not run until the
netdev references all go away.
Further complicating the situation is that netdev->destructor()
almost universally does also a free_netdev().
This creates a problem for the logic in register_netdevice().
Because all callers of register_netdevice() manage the freeing
of the netdev, and invoke free_netdev(dev) if register_netdevice()
fails.
If netdev_ops->ndo_init() succeeds, but something else fails inside
of register_netdevice(), it does call ndo_ops->ndo_uninit(). But
it is not able to invoke netdev->destructor().
This is because netdev->destructor() will do a free_netdev() and
then the caller of register_netdevice() will do the same.
However, this means that the resources that would normally be released
by netdev->destructor() will not be.
Over the years drivers have added local hacks to deal with this, by
invoking their destructor parts by hand when register_netdevice()
fails.
Many drivers do not try to deal with this, and instead we have leaks.
Let's close this hole by formalizing the distinction between what
private things need to be freed up by netdev->destructor() and whether
the driver needs unregister_netdevice() to perform the free_netdev().
netdev->priv_destructor() performs all actions to free up the private
resources that used to be freed by netdev->destructor(), except for
free_netdev().
netdev->needs_free_netdev is a boolean that indicates whether
free_netdev() should be done at the end of unregister_netdevice().
Now, register_netdevice() can sanely release all resources after
ndo_ops->ndo_init() succeeds, by invoking both ndo_ops->ndo_uninit()
and netdev->priv_destructor().
And at the end of unregister_netdevice(), we invoke
netdev->priv_destructor() and optionally call free_netdev().
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Commit 91572088e3 ("net: use core MTU range checking in core net
infra") changed the openvswitch internal device to use the core net
infra for controlling the MTU range, but failed to actually set the
max_mtu as described in the commit message, which now defaults to
ETH_DATA_LEN.
This patch fixes this by setting max_mtu to ETH_MAX_MTU after
ether_setup() call.
Fixes: 91572088e3 ("net: use core MTU range checking in core net infra")
Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jarno@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The network device operation for reading statistics is only called
in one place, and it ignores the return value. Having a structure
return value is potentially confusing because some future driver could
incorrectly assume that the return value was used.
Fix all drivers with ndo_get_stats64 to have a void function.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
geneve:
- Merge __geneve_change_mtu back into geneve_change_mtu, set max_mtu
- This one isn't quite as straight-forward as others, could use some
closer inspection and testing
macvlan:
- set min/max_mtu
tun:
- set min/max_mtu, remove tun_net_change_mtu
vxlan:
- Merge __vxlan_change_mtu back into vxlan_change_mtu
- Set max_mtu to IP_MAX_MTU and retain dynamic MTU range checks in
change_mtu function
- This one is also not as straight-forward and could use closer inspection
and testing from vxlan folks
bridge:
- set max_mtu of IP_MAX_MTU and retain dynamic MTU range checks in
change_mtu function
openvswitch:
- set min/max_mtu, remove internal_dev_change_mtu
- note: max_mtu wasn't checked previously, it's been set to 65535, which
is the largest possible size supported
sch_teql:
- set min/max_mtu (note: max_mtu previously unchecked, used max of 65535)
macsec:
- min_mtu = 0, max_mtu = 65535
macvlan:
- min_mtu = 0, max_mtu = 65535
ntb_netdev:
- min_mtu = 0, max_mtu = 65535
veth:
- min_mtu = 68, max_mtu = 65535
8021q:
- min_mtu = 0, max_mtu = 65535
CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org
CC: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
CC: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
CC: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
CC: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
CC: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
CC: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
CC: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
CC: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
CC: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
CC: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
CC: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
CC: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
CC: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
CC: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
CC: Maxim Krasnyansky <maxk@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The internal device does support 802.1AD offloading since 018c1dda5f
("openvswitch: 802.1AD Flow handling, actions, vlan parsing, netlink
attributes").
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Acked-by: Eric Garver <e@erig.me>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net_device->ndo_set_rx_headroom (introduced in
871b642ade) says
"Setting a negtaive value reset the rx headroom
to the default value".
It seems that the OVS implementation in
3a927bc7cf overlooked this and sets
dev->needed_headroom unconditionally.
This doesn't have an immediate effect, but can mess up later
LL_RESERVED_SPACE calculations, such as done in
net/ipv6/mcast.c:mld_newpack. For reference, this issue was found
from a skb_panic raised there after the length calculations had given
the wrong result.
Note the other current users of this interface
(drivers/net/tun.c:tun_set_headroom and
drivers/net/veth.c:veth_set_rx_headroom) are both checking this
correctly thus need no modification.
Thanks to Ben for some pointers from the crash dumps!
Cc: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.com>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1361414
Signed-off-by: Ian Wienand <iwienand@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Set name_assign_type of internal port to NET_NAME_USER.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Shengju <zhangshengju@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch implements bookkeeping support to compute the maximum
headroom for all the devices in each datapath. When said value
changes, the underlying devs are notified via the
ndo_set_rx_headroom method.
This also increases the internal vports xmit performance.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Conflicts:
net/ipv6/xfrm6_output.c
net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c
net/openvswitch/vport-gre.c
net/openvswitch/vport-vxlan.c
net/openvswitch/vport.c
net/openvswitch/vport.h
The openvswitch conflicts were overlapping changes. One was
the egress tunnel info fix in 'net' and the other was the
vport ->send() op simplification in 'net-next'.
The xfrm6_output.c conflicts was also a simplification
overlapping a bug fix.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
With use of lwtunnel, we can directly call dev_queue_xmit()
rather than calling netdev vport send operation.
Following change make tunnel vport code bit cleaner.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
"openvswitch: Remove vport stats" removed the per-vport statistics, in
order to use the netdev's statistics fields.
"openvswitch: Fix ovs_vport_get_stats()" fixed the export of these stats
to user-space, by using the provided netdev_ops to collate them - but ovs
internal devices still use an unallocated dev->tstats field to count
packets, which are no longer exported by this api.
Allocate the dev->tstats field for ovs internal devices, and wire up
ndo_get_stats64 with the original implementation of
ovs_vport_get_stats().
On its own, "openvswitch: Fix ovs_vport_get_stats()" fixes the OOPs,
unmasking a full-on panic on arm64:
=============%<==============
[<ffffffbffc00ce4c>] internal_dev_recv+0xa8/0x170 [openvswitch]
[<ffffffbffc0008b4>] do_output.isra.31+0x60/0x19c [openvswitch]
[<ffffffbffc000bf8>] do_execute_actions+0x208/0x11c0 [openvswitch]
[<ffffffbffc001c78>] ovs_execute_actions+0xc8/0x238 [openvswitch]
[<ffffffbffc003dfc>] ovs_packet_cmd_execute+0x21c/0x288 [openvswitch]
[<ffffffc0005e8c5c>] genl_family_rcv_msg+0x1b0/0x310
[<ffffffc0005e8e60>] genl_rcv_msg+0xa4/0xe4
[<ffffffc0005e7ddc>] netlink_rcv_skb+0xb0/0xdc
[<ffffffc0005e8a94>] genl_rcv+0x38/0x50
[<ffffffc0005e76c0>] netlink_unicast+0x164/0x210
[<ffffffc0005e7b70>] netlink_sendmsg+0x304/0x368
[<ffffffc0005a21c0>] sock_sendmsg+0x30/0x4c
[SNIP]
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
=============%<==============
Fixes: 8c876639c9 ("openvswitch: Remove vport stats.")
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Since all vport types are now backed by netdev, we can directly
use netdev stats. Following patch removes redundant stat
from vport.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add this helper so code can easily figure out if netdev is openswitch.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This allows to get rid of the get_name() vport ops later on.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This is the first step in representing all OVS vports as regular
struct net_devices. Move the net_device pointer into the vport
structure itself to get rid of struct vport_netdev.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
If the internal device is not up, it should drop received
packets. Sometimes it receive the broadcast or multicast
packets, and the ip protocol stack will casue more cpu
usage wasted.
Signed-off-by: Chunhe Li <lichunhe@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
The internal and netdev vport remain part of openvswitch.ko. Encap
vports including vxlan, gre, and geneve can be built as separate
modules and are loaded on demand. Modules can be unloaded after use.
Datapath ports keep a reference to the vport module during their
lifetime.
Allows to remove the error prone maintenance of the global list
vport_ops_list.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Following patch enables all available tunnel GSO features for OVS
bridge device so that ovs can use hardware offloads available to
underling device.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
This stub now allows userspace to see IFLA_INFO_KIND for ovs master and
IFLA_INFO_SLAVE_KIND for slave.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net: get rid of SET_ETHTOOL_OPS
Dave Miller mentioned he'd like to see SET_ETHTOOL_OPS gone.
This does that.
Mostly done via coccinelle script:
@@
struct ethtool_ops *ops;
struct net_device *dev;
@@
- SET_ETHTOOL_OPS(dev, ops);
+ dev->ethtool_ops = ops;
Compile tested only, but I'd seriously wonder if this broke anything.
Suggested-by: Dave Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Wilfried Klaebe <w-lkml@lebenslange-mailadresse.de>
Acked-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
OVS already can handle all types of segmentation offloads that
are supported by the kernel.
Following patch specifically enables UDP and IPV6 segmentation
offloads.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Add ovs tunnel interface for set tunnel action for userspace.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The only user is get_dpifindex(), no need to redirect via the port
operations.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Rename the hardware VLAN acceleration features to include "CTAG" to indicate
that they only support CTAGs. Follow up patches will introduce 802.1ad
server provider tagging (STAGs) and require the distinction for hardware not
supporting acclerating both.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Currently OVS uses combination of genl and rtnl lock to protect
datapath state. This was done due to networking stack locking.
But this has complicated locking and there are few lock ordering
issues with new tunneling protocols.
Following patch simplifies locking by introducing new ovs mutex
and now this lock is used to protect entire ovs state.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Conflicts:
net/openvswitch/vport-internal_dev.c
Jesse Gross says:
====================
A couple of minor enhancements for net-next/3.10. The largest is an
extension to allow variable length metadata to be passed to userspace
with packets.
There is a merge conflict in net/openvswitch/vport-internal_dev.c:
A existing commit modifies internal_dev_mac_addr() and a new commit
deletes it. The new one is correct, so you can just remove that function.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use strlcpy where possible to ensure the string is \0 terminated.
Use always sizeof(string) instead of 32, ETHTOOL_BUSINFO_LEN
and custom defines.
Use snprintf instead of sprint.
Remove unnecessary inits of ->fw_version
Remove unnecessary inits of drvinfo struct.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
NET_ADDR_SET is set in dev_set_mac_address() no need to alter
dev->addr_assign_type value in drivers.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
bonus: if we ever are to use IFF_LIVE_ADDR_CHANGE for
anything further than to check availability in eth_mac_addr(),
Open vSwitch will be ready for that.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Following patch adds support for network namespace to openvswitch.
Since it must release devices when namespaces are destroyed, a
side effect of this patch is that the module no longer keeps a
refcount but instead cleans up any state when it is unloaded.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
It's possible that packets that are sent on internal devices (from
the OVS perspective) have already traversed the local IP stack.
After they go through the internal device, they will again travel
through the IP stack which may get confused by the presence of
existing information in the skb. The problem can be observed
when switching between namespaces. This clears out that information
to avoid problems but deliberately leaves other metadata alone.
This is to provide maximum flexibility in chaining together OVS
and other Linux components.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Replaced all instances of Nicira Networks(, Inc) to Nicira, Inc.
Signed-off-by: Raju Subramanian <rsubramanian@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Use eth_hw_addr_random() instead of calling random_ether_addr()
to set addr_assign_type correctly to NET_ADDR_RANDOM.
Reset the state to NET_ADDR_PERM as soon as the MAC get
changed via .ndo_set_mac_address.
v2: adapt to renamed eth_hw_addr_random()
Signed-off-by: Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka@bisect.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
remove version.h includes in net/openswitch/ as reported by make versioncheck.
Signed-off-by: Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Open vSwitch is a multilayer Ethernet switch targeted at virtualized
environments. In addition to supporting a variety of features
expected in a traditional hardware switch, it enables fine-grained
programmatic extension and flow-based control of the network.
This control is useful in a wide variety of applications but is
particularly important in multi-server virtualization deployments,
which are often characterized by highly dynamic endpoints and the need
to maintain logical abstractions for multiple tenants.
The Open vSwitch datapath provides an in-kernel fast path for packet
forwarding. It is complemented by a userspace daemon, ovs-vswitchd,
which is able to accept configuration from a variety of sources and
translate it into packet processing rules.
See http://openvswitch.org for more information and userspace
utilities.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
