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Re: [PATCH] tun: make tun_build_skb() thread safe

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On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 10:14:33PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> 
> tun_build_skb() is not thread safe since it uses per queue page frag,
> this will break things when multiple threads are sending through same
> queue. Switch to use per-thread generator (no lock involved).
> 
> Fixes: 66ccbc9c87c2 ("tap: use build_skb() for small packet")
> Tested-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

Jason, given the switch to task_frag, would it be worth it to look at
using higher order allocs along the lines of
5640f7685831e088fe6c2e1f863a6805962f8e81 as well?

> ---
>  drivers/net/tun.c | 7 +------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
> index 5892284..c38cd84 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/tun.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
> @@ -175,7 +175,6 @@ struct tun_file {
>  	struct list_head next;
>  	struct tun_struct *detached;
>  	struct skb_array tx_array;
> -	struct page_frag alloc_frag;
>  };
>  
>  struct tun_flow_entry {
> @@ -578,8 +577,6 @@ static void __tun_detach(struct tun_file *tfile, bool clean)
>  		}
>  		if (tun)
>  			skb_array_cleanup(&tfile->tx_array);
> -		if (tfile->alloc_frag.page)
> -			put_page(tfile->alloc_frag.page);
>  		sock_put(&tfile->sk);
>  	}
>  }
> @@ -1272,7 +1269,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *tun_build_skb(struct tun_struct *tun,
>  				     struct virtio_net_hdr *hdr,
>  				     int len, int *generic_xdp)
>  {
> -	struct page_frag *alloc_frag = &tfile->alloc_frag;
> +	struct page_frag *alloc_frag = &current->task_frag;
>  	struct sk_buff *skb;
>  	struct bpf_prog *xdp_prog;
>  	int buflen = SKB_DATA_ALIGN(len + TUN_RX_PAD) +
> @@ -2580,8 +2577,6 @@ static int tun_chr_open(struct inode *inode, struct file * file)
>  	tfile->sk.sk_write_space = tun_sock_write_space;
>  	tfile->sk.sk_sndbuf = INT_MAX;
>  
> -	tfile->alloc_frag.page = NULL;
> -
>  	file->private_data = tfile;
>  	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&tfile->next);
>  
> -- 
> 2.7.4

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[PATCH] tun: make tun_build_skb() thread safe Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> - 2017-08-16 16:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] tun: make tun_build_skb() thread safe Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> - 2017-08-16 16:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] tun: make tun_build_skb() thread safe "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2017-08-16 19:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] tun: make tun_build_skb() thread safe Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> - 2017-08-17 05:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] tun: make tun_build_skb() thread safe David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2017-08-16 23:30 +0200

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