Re: [PATCH] net: Fix hang while unregistering device bound to xdp socket

From: BjÃrn TÃpel
Date: Fri Jun 07 2019 - 03:02:19 EST



On 2019-06-07 08:36, Ilya Maximets wrote:
On 06.06.2019 21:03, Jonathan Lemon wrote:
On 6 Jun 2019, at 5:40, Ilya Maximets wrote:

Device that bound to XDP socket will not have zero refcount until the
userspace application will not close it. This leads to hang inside
'netdev_wait_allrefs()' if device unregistering requested:

# ip link del p1
< hang on recvmsg on netlink socket >

# ps -x | grep ip
5126 pts/0 D+ 0:00 ip link del p1

# journalctl -b

Jun 05 07:19:16 kernel:
unregister_netdevice: waiting for p1 to become free. Usage count = 1

Jun 05 07:19:27 kernel:
unregister_netdevice: waiting for p1 to become free. Usage count = 1
...

Fix that by counting XDP references for the device and failing
RTM_DELLINK with EBUSY if device is still in use by any XDP socket.

With this change:

# ip link del p1
RTNETLINK answers: Device or resource busy

Fixes: 965a99098443 ("xsk: add support for bind for Rx")
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---

Another option could be to force closing all the corresponding AF_XDP
sockets, but I didn't figure out how to do this properly yet.

include/linux/netdevice.h | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
net/core/dev.c | 10 ++++++++++
net/core/rtnetlink.c | 6 ++++++
net/xdp/xsk.c | 7 ++++++-
4 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 44b47e9df94a..24451cfc5590 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -1705,6 +1705,7 @@ enum netdev_priv_flags {
* @watchdog_timer: List of timers
*
* @pcpu_refcnt: Number of references to this device
+ * @pcpu_xdp_refcnt: Number of XDP socket references to this device
* @todo_list: Delayed register/unregister
* @link_watch_list: XXX: need comments on this one
*
@@ -1966,6 +1967,7 @@ struct net_device {
struct timer_list watchdog_timer;

int __percpu *pcpu_refcnt;
+ int __percpu *pcpu_xdp_refcnt;
struct list_head todo_list;


I understand the intention here, but don't think that putting a XDP reference
into the generic netdev structure is the right way of doing this. Likely the
NETDEV_UNREGISTER notifier should be used so the socket and umem unbinds from
the device.


Thanks for the pointer! That is exactly what I looked for.
I'll make a new version that will unbind resources using netdevice notifier.

Best regards, Ilya Maximets.


Thanks for working on this.

This would open up for supporting killing sockets via ss(8) (-K,
--kill), as well!


BjÃrn