[PATCH 2/2] net: tun: track dropped skb via kfree_skb_reason()

From: Dongli Zhang
Date: Mon Feb 07 2022 - 22:56:43 EST


The TUN can be used as vhost-net backend. E.g, the tun_net_xmit() is the
interface to forward the skb from TUN to vhost-net/virtio-net.

However, there are many "goto drop" in the TUN driver. Therefore, the
kfree_skb_reason() is involved at each "goto drop" to help userspace
ftrace/ebpf to track the reason for the loss of packets.

Cc: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joe Jin <joe.jin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/tun.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
include/linux/skbuff.h | 6 ++++++
include/trace/events/skb.h | 6 ++++++
3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index fed85447701a..d67f2419dbb4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -1062,13 +1062,16 @@ static netdev_tx_t tun_net_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
struct netdev_queue *queue;
struct tun_file *tfile;
int len = skb->len;
+ int drop_reason = SKB_DROP_REASON_NOT_SPECIFIED;

rcu_read_lock();
tfile = rcu_dereference(tun->tfiles[txq]);

/* Drop packet if interface is not attached */
- if (!tfile)
+ if (!tfile) {
+ drop_reason = SKB_DROP_REASON_DEV_NOT_ATTACHED;
goto drop;
+ }

if (!rcu_dereference(tun->steering_prog))
tun_automq_xmit(tun, skb);
@@ -1078,19 +1081,27 @@ static netdev_tx_t tun_net_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
/* Drop if the filter does not like it.
* This is a noop if the filter is disabled.
* Filter can be enabled only for the TAP devices. */
- if (!check_filter(&tun->txflt, skb))
+ if (!check_filter(&tun->txflt, skb)) {
+ drop_reason = SKB_DROP_REASON_TAP_RUN_FILTER;
goto drop;
+ }

if (tfile->socket.sk->sk_filter &&
- sk_filter(tfile->socket.sk, skb))
+ sk_filter(tfile->socket.sk, skb)) {
+ drop_reason = SKB_DROP_REASON_SKB_TRIM;
goto drop;
+ }

len = run_ebpf_filter(tun, skb, len);
- if (len == 0 || pskb_trim(skb, len))
+ if (len == 0 || pskb_trim(skb, len)) {
+ drop_reason = SKB_DROP_REASON_SKB_TRIM;
goto drop;
+ }

- if (unlikely(skb_orphan_frags_rx(skb, GFP_ATOMIC)))
+ if (unlikely(skb_orphan_frags_rx(skb, GFP_ATOMIC))) {
+ drop_reason = SKB_DROP_REASON_SKB_ORPHAN_FRAGS;
goto drop;
+ }

skb_tx_timestamp(skb);

@@ -1101,8 +1112,10 @@ static netdev_tx_t tun_net_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)

nf_reset_ct(skb);

- if (ptr_ring_produce(&tfile->tx_ring, skb))
+ if (ptr_ring_produce(&tfile->tx_ring, skb)) {
+ drop_reason = SKB_DROP_REASON_PTR_FULL;
goto drop;
+ }

/* NETIF_F_LLTX requires to do our own update of trans_start */
queue = netdev_get_tx_queue(dev, txq);
@@ -1119,7 +1132,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t tun_net_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
drop:
atomic_long_inc(&dev->tx_dropped);
skb_tx_error(skb);
- kfree_skb(skb);
+ kfree_skb_reason(skb, drop_reason);
rcu_read_unlock();
return NET_XMIT_DROP;
}
@@ -1717,6 +1730,7 @@ static ssize_t tun_get_user(struct tun_struct *tun, struct tun_file *tfile,
u32 rxhash = 0;
int skb_xdp = 1;
bool frags = tun_napi_frags_enabled(tfile);
+ int drop_reason = SKB_DROP_REASON_NOT_SPECIFIED;

if (!(tun->flags & IFF_NO_PI)) {
if (len < sizeof(pi))
@@ -1820,9 +1834,10 @@ static ssize_t tun_get_user(struct tun_struct *tun, struct tun_file *tfile,

if (err) {
err = -EFAULT;
+ drop_reason = SKB_DROP_REASON_SKB_COPY_DATA;
drop:
atomic_long_inc(&tun->dev->rx_dropped);
- kfree_skb(skb);
+ kfree_skb_reason(skb, drop_reason);
if (frags) {
tfile->napi.skb = NULL;
mutex_unlock(&tfile->napi_mutex);
@@ -1869,6 +1884,7 @@ static ssize_t tun_get_user(struct tun_struct *tun, struct tun_file *tfile,
case IFF_TAP:
if (frags && !pskb_may_pull(skb, ETH_HLEN)) {
err = -ENOMEM;
+ drop_reason = SKB_DROP_REASON_SKB_PULL;
goto drop;
}
skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, tun->dev);
@@ -1922,6 +1938,7 @@ static ssize_t tun_get_user(struct tun_struct *tun, struct tun_file *tfile,
if (unlikely(!(tun->dev->flags & IFF_UP))) {
err = -EIO;
rcu_read_unlock();
+ drop_reason = SKB_DROP_REASON_DEV_DOWN;
goto drop;
}

diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index 16c30d2e20dc..db2ef8e8d878 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -323,8 +323,14 @@ enum skb_drop_reason {
SKB_DROP_REASON_SKB_GSO_SEGMENT,
SKB_DROP_REASON_SKB_CHECKSUM,
SKB_DROP_REASON_SKB_COPY_DATA,
+ SKB_DROP_REASON_SKB_TRIM,
+ SKB_DROP_REASON_SKB_ORPHAN_FRAGS,
+ SKB_DROP_REASON_SKB_PULL,
+ SKB_DROP_REASON_DEV_NOT_ATTACHED,
+ SKB_DROP_REASON_DEV_DOWN,
SKB_DROP_REASON_PTR_FULL,
SKB_DROP_REASON_VIRTNET_HDR,
+ SKB_DROP_REASON_TAP_RUN_FILTER,
SKB_DROP_REASON_MAX,
};

diff --git a/include/trace/events/skb.h b/include/trace/events/skb.h
index bf1509c31cea..03121373d2f0 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/skb.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/skb.h
@@ -19,8 +19,14 @@
EM(SKB_DROP_REASON_SKB_GSO_SEGMENT, SKB_GSO_SEGMENT) \
EM(SKB_DROP_REASON_SKB_CHECKSUM, SKB_CHECKSUM) \
EM(SKB_DROP_REASON_SKB_COPY_DATA, SKB_COPY_DATA) \
+ EM(SKB_DROP_REASON_SKB_TRIM, SKB_TRIM) \
+ EM(SKB_DROP_REASON_SKB_ORPHAN_FRAGS, SKB_ORPHAN_FRAGS) \
+ EM(SKB_DROP_REASON_SKB_PULL, SKB_PULL) \
+ EM(SKB_DROP_REASON_DEV_NOT_ATTACHED, DEV_NOT_ATTACHED) \
+ EM(SKB_DROP_REASON_DEV_DOWN, DEV_DOWN) \
EM(SKB_DROP_REASON_PTR_FULL, PTR_FULL) \
EM(SKB_DROP_REASON_VIRTNET_HDR, VIRTNET_HDR) \
+ EM(SKB_DROP_REASON_TAP_RUN_FILTER, TAP_RUN_FILTER) \
EMe(SKB_DROP_REASON_MAX, MAX)

#undef EM
--
2.17.1