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Re: [PATCH net-next v5 2/2] L2TP:Adjust intf MTU, add underlay L3, L2 hdrs.

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Hi Guillaume,

Please see inline:

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Guillaume Nault <g.nault@alphalink.fr> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 09:39:58AM -0700, R Parameswaran wrote:
>> Hi Guillaume,
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 3:40 AM, Guillaume Nault <g.nault@alphalink.fr> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 05:00:07PM -0700, R. Parameswaran wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Change-set here uses the new kernel function, kernel_sock_ip_overhead(),
>> >> to factor the outer IP overhead on the L2TP tunnel socket (including
>> >> IP Options, if any) when calculating the default MTU for an Ethernet
>> >> pseudowire, along with consideration of the inner Ethernet header.
>> >>
>> > I get the following warning with CONFIG_LOCKDEP when creating a new
>> > session:
>> > # ip l2tp add tunnel local 10.1.8.64 remote 10.1.8.32 udp_sport 1701 udp_dport 1701 tunnel_id 1 peer_tunnel_id 1
>> > # ip l2tp add session tunnel_id 1 session_id 1 peer_session_id 1
>> > ...
>>
>> Thanks for reporting this - I'll try and put up a patch soon,
>> hopefully the patch can stay in while I add this. One Q - how many CPU
>> cores do you have?
> This is a virtual machine with 4 vcores, but that shouldn't matter.
>
>> Can you give me some idea of how many tunnels and
>> sessions when you saw this?
>>
> Creating one session is enough. I simply used the following command:
> # ip l2tp add tunnel local 10.1.8.64 remote 10.1.8.32 udp_sport 1701 udp_dport 1701 tunnel_id 1 peer_tunnel_id 1
> # ip l2tp add session tunnel_id 1 session_id 1 peer_session_id 1
>
>> I did not see this warning in my testing, possibly because
>> CONFIG_LOCKDEP_SUPPORT is turned off on the product build? Will
>> re-test with this turned on.
>>
> Yes, enabling lockdep should let you reproduce the problem.
>
> The issue goes away if the tunnel's socket is locked while calling
> kernel_sock_ip_overhead():
> +       lock_sock(tunnel->sock);
>         kernel_sock_ip_overhead(tunnel->sock);
> +       release_sock(tunnel->sock);

Ack, thanks - was thinking along this line, since I see similar code
at other places in L2TP. I'll try and have a preliminary
patch out by tonight.

regards,

Ramkumar

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Re: [PATCH net-next v5 2/2] L2TP:Adjust intf MTU, add underlay L3,  L2 hdrs. Guillaume Nault <g.nault@alphalink.fr> - 2017-04-11 12:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH net-next v5 2/2] L2TP:Adjust intf MTU, add underlay L3, L2 hdrs. R Parameswaran <parameswaran.r7@gmail.com> - 2017-04-11 18:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH net-next v5 2/2] L2TP:Adjust intf MTU, add underlay L3,  L2 hdrs. Guillaume Nault <g.nault@alphalink.fr> - 2017-04-11 19:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH net-next v5 2/2] L2TP:Adjust intf MTU, add underlay L3, L2 hdrs. R Parameswaran <parameswaran.r7@gmail.com> - 2017-04-11 21:20 +0200

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