[PATCH RFC] net: add in_softirq() debug checking in napi_consume_skb()

From: Yunsheng Lin
Date: Tue Sep 22 2020 - 07:41:19 EST


The current semantic for napi_consume_skb() is that caller need
to provide non-zero budget when calling from NAPI context, and
breaking this semantic will cause hard to debug problem, because
_kfree_skb_defer() need to run in atomic context in order to push
the skb to the particular cpu' napi_alloc_cache atomically.

So add a in_softirq() debug checking in napi_consume_skb() to catch
this kind of error.

Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/netdevice.h | 6 ++++++
net/Kconfig | 7 +++++++
net/core/skbuff.c | 4 ++++
3 files changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index fef0eb9..e06d5e5 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -5095,6 +5095,12 @@ do { \
})
#endif

+#if defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_NET)
+#define DEBUG_NET_WARN(condition, ...) WARN(condition, ##__VA_ARGS__)
+#else
+#define DEBUG_NET_WARN(condition, ...)
+#endif
+
/*
* The list of packet types we will receive (as opposed to discard)
* and the routines to invoke.
diff --git a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig
index 3831206..b176670 100644
--- a/net/Kconfig
+++ b/net/Kconfig
@@ -460,6 +460,13 @@ config ETHTOOL_NETLINK
netlink. It provides better extensibility and some new features,
e.g. notification messages.

+config DEBUG_NET
+ bool "Net debugging and diagnostics"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+ default n
+ help
+ Say Y here to add some extra checks and diagnostics to networking.
+
endif # if NET

# Used by archs to tell that they support BPF JIT compiler plus which flavour.
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index e077447..378e66c 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -901,6 +901,10 @@ void napi_consume_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, int budget)
return;
}

+ DEBUG_NET_WARN(!in_softirq(),
+ "%s is called with non-zero budget outside softirq context.\n",
+ __func__);
+
if (!skb_unref(skb))
return;

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2.8.1