Re: [PATCH net v2] gso: do not skip outer ip header in case of ipip and net_failover

[Willem de Bruijn]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 3:23 AM Tao Liu <thomas.liu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We encounter a tcp drop issue in our cloud environment. Packet GROed in
> host forwards to a VM virtio_net nic with net_failover enabled. VM acts
> as a IPVS LB with ipip encapsulation. The full path like:
> host gro -> vm virtio_net rx -> net_failover rx -> ipvs fullnat
>  -> ipip encap -> net_failover tx -> virtio_net tx
>
> When net_failover transmits a ipip pkt (gso_type = 0x0103), there is no gso
> did because it supports TSO and GSO_IPXIP4. But network_header points to
> inner ip header.
>
> Call Trace:
>  tcp4_gso_segment        ------> return NULL
>  inet_gso_segment        ------> inner iph, network_header points to
>  ipip_gso_segment
>  inet_gso_segment        ------> outer iph
>  skb_mac_gso_segment
>
> Afterwards virtio_net transmits the pkt, only inner ip header is modified.
> And the outer one just keeps unchanged. The pkt will be dropped in remote
> host. So we need to reset network header in this case.
>
> Call Trace:
>  inet_gso_segment        ------> inner iph, outer iph is skipped
>  skb_mac_gso_segment
>  __skb_gso_segment
>  validate_xmit_skb
>  validate_xmit_skb_list
>  sch_direct_xmit
>  __qdisc_run
>  __dev_queue_xmit        ------> virtio_net
>  dev_hard_start_xmit
>  __dev_queue_xmit        ------> net_failover
>  ip_finish_output2
>  ip_output
>  iptunnel_xmit
>  ip_tunnel_xmit
>  ipip_tunnel_xmit        ------> ipip
>  dev_hard_start_xmit
>  __dev_queue_xmit
>  ip_finish_output2
>  ip_output
>  ip_forward
>  ip_rcv
>  __netif_receive_skb_one_core
>  netif_receive_skb_internal
>  napi_gro_receive
>  receive_buf
>  virtnet_poll
>  net_rx_action

I think the message could be rewritten to point out that the issue is
specific with the rare combination of SKB_GSO_DODGY and a tunnel
device that adds an SKB_GSO_ tunnel option.

> This patch also includes ipv6_gso_segment(), considering SIT, etc.
>
> Fixes: cb32f511a70b ("ipip: add GSO/TSO support")
> Fixes: cfc80d9a1163 ("net: Introduce net_failover driver")

This is not a net_failover issue.

I'm not sure whether the issue existed at the time tunnel support was
added, or introduced later. It's reasonable to assume that it was
always there, but it might be worth a quick code inspection.

> Signed-off-by: Tao Liu <thomas.liu@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  net/ipv4/af_inet.c     | 5 ++++-
>  net/ipv6/ip6_offload.c | 2 ++
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/af_inet.c b/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
> index 9c465ba..72fde28 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
> @@ -1376,8 +1376,11 @@ struct sk_buff *inet_gso_segment(struct sk_buff *skb,
>         }
>
>         ops = rcu_dereference(inet_offloads[proto]);
> -       if (likely(ops && ops->callbacks.gso_segment))
> +       if (likely(ops && ops->callbacks.gso_segment)) {
>                 segs = ops->callbacks.gso_segment(skb, features);
> +               if (!segs)
> +                       skb->network_header = skb_mac_header(skb) + nhoff - skb->head;
> +       }
>
>         if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(segs))
>                 goto out;

It's unfortunate that we have to add a branch in the common path. But
I also don't immediately see a cleaner option.