Re: [PATCH] cifs: Fix problem with encrypted RDMA data read

From: Namjae Jeon
Date: Wed Nov 16 2022 - 00:20:08 EST


2022-11-16 9:57 GMT+09:00, Stefan Metzmacher <metze@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi David,
>
> see below...
>
>> When the cifs client is talking to the ksmbd server by RDMA and the ksmbd
>> server has "smb3 encryption = yes" in its config file, the normal PDU
>> stream is encrypted, but the directly-delivered data isn't in the stream
>> (and isn't encrypted), but is rather delivered by DDP/RDMA packets (at
>> least with IWarp).
>>
>> Currently, the direct delivery fails with:
>>
>> buf can not contain only a part of read data
>> WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 4619 at fs/cifs/smb2ops.c:4731
>> handle_read_data+0x393/0x405
>> ...
>> RIP: 0010:handle_read_data+0x393/0x405
>> ...
>> smb3_handle_read_data+0x30/0x37
>> receive_encrypted_standard+0x141/0x224
>> cifs_demultiplex_thread+0x21a/0x63b
>> kthread+0xe7/0xef
>> ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
>>
>> The problem apparently stemming from the fact that it's trying to manage
>> the decryption, but the data isn't in the smallbuf, the bigbuf or the
>> page
>> array).
>>
>> This can be fixed simply by inserting an extra case into
>> handle_read_data()
>> that checks to see if use_rdma_mr is true, and if it is, just setting
>> rdata->got_bytes to the length of data delivered and allowing normal
>> continuation.
>>
>> This can be seen in an IWarp packet trace. With the upstream code, it
>> does
>> a DDP/RDMA packet, which produces the warning above and then retries,
>> retrieving the data inline, spread across several SMBDirect messages that
>> get glued together into a single PDU. With the patch applied, only the
>> DDP/RDMA packet is seen.
>>
>> Note that this doesn't happen if the server isn't told to encrypt stuff
>> and
>> it does also happen with softRoCE.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> cc: Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx>
>> cc: Tom Talpey <tom@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> cc: Long Li <longli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> cc: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> cc: Stefan Metzmacher <metze@xxxxxxxxx>
>> cc: linux-cifs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> ---
>>
>> fs/cifs/smb2ops.c | 3 +++
>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/cifs/smb2ops.c b/fs/cifs/smb2ops.c
>> index 880cd494afea..8d459f60f27b 100644
>> --- a/fs/cifs/smb2ops.c
>> +++ b/fs/cifs/smb2ops.c
>> @@ -4726,6 +4726,9 @@ handle_read_data(struct TCP_Server_Info *server,
>> struct mid_q_entry *mid,
>> iov.iov_base = buf + data_offset;
>> iov.iov_len = data_len;
>> iov_iter_kvec(&iter, WRITE, &iov, 1, data_len);
>> + } else if (use_rdma_mr) {
>> + /* The data was delivered directly by RDMA. */
>> + rdata->got_bytes = data_len;
>> } else {
>> /* read response payload cannot be in both buf and pages */
>> WARN_ONCE(1, "buf can not contain only a part of read data");
>
> I'm not sure I understand why this would fix anything when encryption is
> enabled.
>
> Is the payload still be offloaded as plaintext? Otherwise we wouldn't have
> use_rdma_mr...
> So this rather looks like a fix for the non encrypted case.
ksmbd doesn't encrypt RDMA payload on read/write operation, Currently
only smb2 response is encrypted for this. And as you pointed out, We
need to implement SMB2 RDMA Transform to encrypt it.

>
> Before smbd_register_mr() is called we typically have a check like this:
>
> if (server->rdma && !server->sign && wdata->bytes >=
> server->smbd_conn->rdma_readwrite_threshold) {
>
> I'm wondering if server->sign is true for the encryption case, otherwise
> we would have to add a !encrypt check in addition as we should never use
> RDMA offload for encrypted connections.
>
> Latest Windows servers allow encrypted/signed offload, but that needs to be
> negotiated via MS-SMB2 2.2.3.1.6 SMB2_RDMA_TRANSFORM_CAPABILITIES, see
> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-smb2/52b74a74-9838-4f51-b2b0-efeb23bd79d6
> And SMB2_READFLAG_RESPONSE_RDMA_TRANSFORM in MS-SMB2 2.2.20 SMB2 READ
> Response
> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-smb2/3e3d2f2c-0e2f-41ea-ad07-fbca6ffdfd90
> As well as SMB2_CHANNEL_RDMA_TRANSFORM in 2.2.21 SMB2 WRITE Request
> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-smb2/e7046961-3318-4350-be2a-a8d69bb59ce8
> But none of this is implemented in Linux yet.
>
> metze
>