Re: [Intel-wired-lan] bug with rx-udp-gro-forwarding offloading?

[Alexander Lobakin]

From: Ian Kumlien <ian.kumlien@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2023 16:25:24 +0200

> On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 4:18 PM Alexander Lobakin
> <aleksander.lobakin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> From: Ian Kumlien <ian.kumlien@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2023 12:59:54 +0200
>>
>>> It could actually be that it's related to: rx-gro-list but
>>> rx-udp-gro-forwarding makes it trigger quicker...  I have yet to
>>> trigger it on igb
>>
>> Hi, the rx-udp-gro-forwarding author here.
>>
>> (good thing this appeared on IWL, which I read time to time, but please
>>  Cc netdev next time)
>> (thus +Cc Jakub, Eric, and netdev)
> 
> Well, two things, it seems like rx-udp-gro-forwarding accelerates it
> but the issue is actually in: rx-gro-list

Do you enable them simultaneously? I remember, when I was adding
gro-fwd, it was working (and working good) as follows:

1. gro-fwd on, gro-list off: gro-fwd
2. gro-fwd off, gro-list on: gro-list
3. gro-fwd on, gro-list on: gro-list

Note that their receive paths are independent[0]: skb_gro_receive_list()
vs skb_gro_receive(), thus I'm still not really sure how gro-fwd can
trigger gro-list's bug.

> 
> And since i've only been able to trigger it in ixgbe i thought it
> might be a driver issue =)

Your screenshot says "__udp_gso_segment", which means that the
problematic UDP GRO packet hits the Tx path. Rx is in general
driver-independent. Tx has separate netdev feature ("tx-gso-list"), but
it's not supported by any driver, just software stack. It might be that
your traffic goes through a bridge or tunnel or anything else that
triggers GSO and software segmentation then booms for some reason.
BTW, __udp_gso_segment() is one-liner when the passed skb was
gro-listed[1], so having it in the bug splat could mean the skb didn't
take that route. But hard to say with no full stacktrace.

[...]

>>>> But correlating that with the source is beyond me, it could be generic
>>>> but i thought i'd send it you first since it's part of the redhat
>>>> guide to speeding up udp traffic
>> [0]
>> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/f83d79d6-f8d7-a229-941a-7d7427975160@xxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Olek

[0]
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/net/ipv4/udp_offload.c#L518
[1]
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/net/ipv4/udp_offload.c#L277

Thanks,
Olek