kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/net/dccp/proto.c, branch master

net: Retire DCCP socket.

2025-04-12T01:58:10+00:00

DCCP was orphaned in 2021 by commit 054c4610bd05 ("MAINTAINERS: dccp: move Gerrit Renker to CREDITS"), which noted that the last maintainer had been inactive for five years. In recent years, it has become a playground for syzbot, and most changes to DCCP have been odd bug fixes triggered by syzbot. Apart from that, the only changes have been driven by treewide or networking API updates or adjustments related to TCP. Thus, in 2023, we announced we would remove DCCP in 2025 via commit b144fcaf46d4 ("dccp: Print deprecation notice."). Since then, only one individual has contacted the netdev mailing list. [0] There is ongoing research for Multipath DCCP. The repository is hosted on GitHub [1], and development is not taking place through the upstream community. While the repository is published under the GPLv2 license, the scheduling part remains proprietary, with a LICENSE file [2] stating: "This is not Open Source software." The researcher mentioned a plan to address the licensing issue, upstream the patches, and step up as a maintainer, but there has been no further communication since then. Maintaining DCCP for a decade without any real users has become a burden. Therefore, it's time to remove it. Removing DCCP will also provide significant benefits to TCP. It allows us to freely reorganize the layout of struct inet_connection_sock, which is currently shared with DCCP, and optimize it to reduce the number of cachelines accessed in the TCP fast path. Note that we keep DCCP netfilter modules as requested. [3] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20230710182253.81446-1-kuniyu@amazon.com/T/#u #[0] Link: https://github.com/telekom/mp-dccp #[1] Link: https://github.com/telekom/mp-dccp/blob/mpdccp_v03_k5.10/net/dccp/non_gpl_scheduler/LICENSE #[2] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/Z_VQ0KlCRkqYWXa-@calendula/ #[3] Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Acked-by: Paul Moore (LSM and SELinux) Acked-by: Casey Schaufler Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250410023921.11307-3-kuniyu@amazon.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

dccp: annotate data-races in dccp_poll()

2023-08-19T02:30:24+00:00

We changed tcp_poll() over time, bug never updated dccp. Note that we also could remove dccp instead of maintaining it. Fixes: 7c657876b63c ("[DCCP]: Initial implementation") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230818015820.2701595-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

dccp: fix data-race around dp->dccps_mss_cache

2023-08-05T01:27:58+00:00

dccp_sendmsg() reads dp->dccps_mss_cache before locking the socket. Same thing in do_dccp_getsockopt(). Add READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() annotations, and change dccp_sendmsg() to check again dccps_mss_cache after socket is locked. Fixes: 7c657876b63c ("[DCCP]: Initial implementation") Reported-by: syzbot Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230803163021.2958262-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: ioctl: Use kernel memory on protocol ioctl callbacks

2023-06-16T05:33:26+00:00

Most of the ioctls to net protocols operates directly on userspace argument (arg). Usually doing get_user()/put_user() directly in the ioctl callback. This is not flexible, because it is hard to reuse these functions without passing userspace buffers. Change the "struct proto" ioctls to avoid touching userspace memory and operate on kernel buffers, i.e., all protocol's ioctl callbacks is adapted to operate on a kernel memory other than on userspace (so, no more {put,get}_user() and friends being called in the ioctl callback). This changes the "struct proto" ioctl format in the following way: int (*ioctl)(struct sock *sk, int cmd, - unsigned long arg); + int *karg); (Important to say that this patch does not touch the "struct proto_ops" protocols) So, the "karg" argument, which is passed to the ioctl callback, is a pointer allocated to kernel space memory (inside a function wrapper). This buffer (karg) may contain input argument (copied from userspace in a prep function) and it might return a value/buffer, which is copied back to userspace if necessary. There is not one-size-fits-all format (that is I am using 'may' above), but basically, there are three type of ioctls: 1) Do not read from userspace, returns a result to userspace 2) Read an input parameter from userspace, and does not return anything to userspace 3) Read an input from userspace, and return a buffer to userspace. The default case (1) (where no input parameter is given, and an "int" is returned to userspace) encompasses more than 90% of the cases, but there are two other exceptions. Here is a list of exceptions: * Protocol RAW: * cmd = SIOCGETVIFCNT: * input and output = struct sioc_vif_req * cmd = SIOCGETSGCNT * input and output = struct sioc_sg_req * Explanation: for the SIOCGETVIFCNT case, userspace passes the input argument, which is struct sioc_vif_req. Then the callback populates the struct, which is copied back to userspace. * Protocol RAW6: * cmd = SIOCGETMIFCNT_IN6 * input and output = struct sioc_mif_req6 * cmd = SIOCGETSGCNT_IN6 * input and output = struct sioc_sg_req6 * Protocol PHONET: * cmd == SIOCPNADDRESOURCE | SIOCPNDELRESOURCE * input int (4 bytes) * Nothing is copied back to userspace. For the exception cases, functions sock_sk_ioctl_inout() will copy the userspace input, and copy it back to kernel space. The wrapper that prepare the buffer and put the buffer back to user is sk_ioctl(), so, instead of calling sk->sk_prot->ioctl(), the callee now calls sk_ioctl(), which will handle all cases. Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Reviewed-by: David Ahern Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230609152800.830401-1-leitao@debian.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

dccp: Print deprecation notice.

2023-06-15T22:08:59+00:00

DCCP was marked as Orphan in the MAINTAINERS entry 2 years ago in commit 054c4610bd05 ("MAINTAINERS: dccp: move Gerrit Renker to CREDITS"). It says we haven't heard from the maintainer for five years, so DCCP is not well maintained for 7 years now. Recently DCCP only receives updates for bugs, and major distros disable it by default. Removing DCCP would allow for better organisation of TCP fields to reduce the number of cache lines hit in the fast path. Let's add a deprecation notice when DCCP socket is created and schedule its removal to 2025. Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2022-11-29T21:04:52+00:00

tools/lib/bpf/ringbuf.c 927cbb478adf ("libbpf: Handle size overflow for ringbuf mmap") b486d19a0ab0 ("libbpf: checkpatch: Fixed code alignments in ringbuf.c") https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221121122707.44d1446a@canb.auug.org.au/ Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

dccp/tcp: Fixup bhash2 bucket when connect() fails.

2022-11-23T04:15:37+00:00

If a socket bound to a wildcard address fails to connect(), we only reset saddr and keep the port. Then, we have to fix up the bhash2 bucket; otherwise, the bucket has an inconsistent address in the list. Also, listen() for such a socket will fire the WARN_ON() in inet_csk_get_port(). [0] Note that when a system runs out of memory, we give up fixing the bucket and unlink sk from bhash and bhash2 by inet_put_port(). [0]: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 207 at net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c:548 inet_csk_get_port (net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c:548 (discriminator 1)) Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 207 Comm: bhash2_prev_rep Not tainted 6.1.0-rc3-00799-gc8421681c845 #63 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.0-1.amzn2022.0.1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:inet_csk_get_port (net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c:548 (discriminator 1)) Code: 74 a7 eb 93 48 8b 54 24 18 0f b7 cb 4c 89 e6 4c 89 ff e8 48 b2 ff ff 49 8b 87 18 04 00 00 e9 32 ff ff ff 0f 0b e9 34 ff ff ff <0f> 0b e9 42 ff ff ff 41 8b 7f 50 41 8b 4f 54 89 fe 81 f6 00 00 ff RSP: 0018:ffffc900003d7e50 EFLAGS: 00010202 RAX: ffff8881047fb500 RBX: 0000000000004e20 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 000000000000000a RSI: 00000000fffffe00 RDI: 00000000ffffffff RBP: ffffffff8324dc00 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000001 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000004e20 R15: ffff8881054e1280 FS: 00007f8ac04dc740(0000) GS:ffff88842fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000020001540 CR3: 00000001055fa003 CR4: 0000000000770ef0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace: inet_csk_listen_start (net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c:1205) inet_listen (net/ipv4/af_inet.c:228) __sys_listen (net/socket.c:1810) __x64_sys_listen (net/socket.c:1819 net/socket.c:1817 net/socket.c:1817) do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80) entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:120) RIP: 0033:0x7f8ac051de5d Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 93 af 1b 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 RSP: 002b:00007ffc1c177248 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000032 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000020001550 RCX: 00007f8ac051de5d RDX: ffffffffffffff80 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000004 RBP: 00007ffc1c177270 R08: 0000000000000018 R09: 0000000000000007 R10: 0000000020001540 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 00007ffc1c177388 R13: 0000000000401169 R14: 0000000000403e18 R15: 00007f8ac0723000 Fixes: 28044fc1d495 ("net: Add a bhash2 table hashed by port and address") Reported-by: syzbot Reported-by: Mat Martineau Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Acked-by: Joanne Koong Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

dccp: Call inet6_destroy_sock() via sk->sk_destruct().

2022-10-24T08:40:38+00:00

After commit d38afeec26ed ("tcp/udp: Call inet6_destroy_sock() in IPv6 sk->sk_destruct()."), we call inet6_destroy_sock() in sk->sk_destruct() by setting inet6_sock_destruct() to it to make sure we do not leak inet6-specific resources. DCCP sets its own sk->sk_destruct() in the dccp_init_sock(), and DCCPv6 socket shares it by calling the same init function via dccp_v6_init_sock(). To call inet6_sock_destruct() from DCCPv6 sk->sk_destruct(), we export it and set dccp_v6_sk_destruct() in the init function. Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: Introduce optional per-netns ehash.

2022-09-20T17:21:50+00:00

The more sockets we have in the hash table, the longer we spend looking up the socket. While running a number of small workloads on the same host, they penalise each other and cause performance degradation. The root cause might be a single workload that consumes much more resources than the others. It often happens on a cloud service where different workloads share the same computing resource. On EC2 c5.24xlarge instance (196 GiB memory and 524288 (1Mi / 2) ehash entries), after running iperf3 in different netns, creating 24Mi sockets without data transfer in the root netns causes about 10% performance regression for the iperf3's connection. thash_entries sockets length Gbps 524288 1 1 50.7 24Mi 48 45.1 It is basically related to the length of the list of each hash bucket. For testing purposes to see how performance drops along the length, I set 131072 (1Mi / 8) to thash_entries, and here's the result. thash_entries sockets length Gbps 131072 1 1 50.7 1Mi 8 49.9 2Mi 16 48.9 4Mi 32 47.3 8Mi 64 44.6 16Mi 128 40.6 24Mi 192 36.3 32Mi 256 32.5 40Mi 320 27.0 48Mi 384 25.0 To resolve the socket lookup degradation, we introduce an optional per-netns hash table for TCP, but it's just ehash, and we still share the global bhash, bhash2 and lhash2. With a smaller ehash, we can look up non-listener sockets faster and isolate such noisy neighbours. In addition, we can reduce lock contention. We can control the ehash size by a new sysctl knob. However, depending on workloads, it will require very sensitive tuning, so we disable the feature by default (net.ipv4.tcp_child_ehash_entries == 0). Moreover, we can fall back to using the global ehash in case we fail to allocate enough memory for a new ehash. The maximum size is 16Mi, which is large enough that even if we have 48Mi sockets, the average list length is 3, and regression would be less than 1%. We can check the current ehash size by another read-only sysctl knob, net.ipv4.tcp_ehash_entries. A negative value means the netns shares the global ehash (per-netns ehash is disabled or failed to allocate memory). # dmesg | cut -d ' ' -f 5- | grep "established hash" TCP established hash table entries: 524288 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes, vmalloc hugepage) # sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_ehash_entries net.ipv4.tcp_ehash_entries = 524288 # can be changed by thash_entries # sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_child_ehash_entries net.ipv4.tcp_child_ehash_entries = 0 # disabled by default # ip netns add test1 # ip netns exec test1 sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_ehash_entries net.ipv4.tcp_ehash_entries = -524288 # share the global ehash # sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_child_ehash_entries=100 net.ipv4.tcp_child_ehash_entries = 100 # ip netns add test2 # ip netns exec test2 sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_ehash_entries net.ipv4.tcp_ehash_entries = 128 # own a per-netns ehash with 2^n buckets When more than two processes in the same netns create per-netns ehash concurrently with different sizes, we need to guarantee the size in one of the following ways: 1) Share the global ehash and create per-netns ehash First, unshare() with tcp_child_ehash_entries==0. It creates dedicated netns sysctl knobs where we can safely change tcp_child_ehash_entries and clone()/unshare() to create a per-netns ehash. 2) Control write on sysctl by BPF We can use BPF_PROG_TYPE_CGROUP_SYSCTL to allow/deny read/write on sysctl knobs. Note that the global ehash allocated at the boot time is spread over available NUMA nodes, but inet_pernet_hashinfo_alloc() will allocate pages for each per-netns ehash depending on the current process's NUMA policy. By default, the allocation is done in the local node only, so the per-netns hash table could fully reside on a random node. Thus, depending on the NUMA policy the netns is created with and the CPU the current thread is running on, we could see some performance differences for highly optimised networking applications. Note also that the default values of two sysctl knobs depend on the ehash size and should be tuned carefully: tcp_max_tw_buckets : tcp_child_ehash_entries / 2 tcp_max_syn_backlog : max(128, tcp_child_ehash_entries / 128) As a bonus, we can dismantle netns faster. Currently, while destroying netns, we call inet_twsk_purge(), which walks through the global ehash. It can be potentially big because it can have many sockets other than TIME_WAIT in all netns. Splitting ehash changes that situation, where it's only necessary for inet_twsk_purge() to clean up TIME_WAIT sockets in each netns. With regard to this, we do not free the per-netns ehash in inet_twsk_kill() to avoid UAF while iterating the per-netns ehash in inet_twsk_purge(). Instead, we do it in tcp_sk_exit_batch() after calling tcp_twsk_purge() to keep it protocol-family-independent. In the future, we could optimise ehash lookup/iteration further by removing netns comparison for the per-netns ehash. Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: Add a bhash2 table hashed by port and address

2022-08-25T02:30:07+00:00

The current bind hashtable (bhash) is hashed by port only. In the socket bind path, we have to check for bind conflicts by traversing the specified port's inet_bind_bucket while holding the hashbucket's spinlock (see inet_csk_get_port() and inet_csk_bind_conflict()). In instances where there are tons of sockets hashed to the same port at different addresses, the bind conflict check is time-intensive and can cause softirq cpu lockups, as well as stops new tcp connections since __inet_inherit_port() also contests for the spinlock. This patch adds a second bind table, bhash2, that hashes by port and sk->sk_rcv_saddr (ipv4) and sk->sk_v6_rcv_saddr (ipv6). Searching the bhash2 table leads to significantly faster conflict resolution and less time holding the hashbucket spinlock. Please note a few things: * There can be the case where the a socket's address changes after it has been bound. There are two cases where this happens: 1) The case where there is a bind() call on INADDR_ANY (ipv4) or IPV6_ADDR_ANY (ipv6) and then a connect() call. The kernel will assign the socket an address when it handles the connect() 2) In inet_sk_reselect_saddr(), which is called when rebuilding the sk header and a few pre-conditions are met (eg rerouting fails). In these two cases, we need to update the bhash2 table by removing the entry for the old address, and add a new entry reflecting the updated address. * The bhash2 table must have its own lock, even though concurrent accesses on the same port are protected by the bhash lock. Bhash2 must have its own lock to protect against cases where sockets on different ports hash to different bhash hashbuckets but to the same bhash2 hashbucket. This brings up a few stipulations: 1) When acquiring both the bhash and the bhash2 lock, the bhash2 lock will always be acquired after the bhash lock and released before the bhash lock is released. 2) There are no nested bhash2 hashbucket locks. A bhash2 lock is always acquired+released before another bhash2 lock is acquired+released. * The bhash table cannot be superseded by the bhash2 table because for bind requests on INADDR_ANY (ipv4) or IPV6_ADDR_ANY (ipv6), every socket bound to that port must be checked for a potential conflict. The bhash table is the only source of port->socket associations. Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski