History log of /linux-master/kernel/bpf/bpf_lru_list.c
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# ee9fd0ac 10-May-2023 Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>

bpf: Address KCSAN report on bpf_lru_list

KCSAN reported a data-race when accessing node->ref.
Although node->ref does not have to be accurate,
take this chance to use a more common READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE()
pattern instead of data_race().

There is an existing bpf_lru_node_is_ref() and bpf_lru_node_set_ref().
This patch also adds bpf_lru_node_clear_ref() to do the
WRITE_ONCE(node->ref, 0) also.

==================================================================
BUG: KCSAN: data-race in __bpf_lru_list_rotate / __htab_lru_percpu_map_update_elem

write to 0xffff888137038deb of 1 bytes by task 11240 on cpu 1:
__bpf_lru_node_move kernel/bpf/bpf_lru_list.c:113 [inline]
__bpf_lru_list_rotate_active kernel/bpf/bpf_lru_list.c:149 [inline]
__bpf_lru_list_rotate+0x1bf/0x750 kernel/bpf/bpf_lru_list.c:240
bpf_lru_list_pop_free_to_local kernel/bpf/bpf_lru_list.c:329 [inline]
bpf_common_lru_pop_free kernel/bpf/bpf_lru_list.c:447 [inline]
bpf_lru_pop_free+0x638/0xe20 kernel/bpf/bpf_lru_list.c:499
prealloc_lru_pop kernel/bpf/hashtab.c:290 [inline]
__htab_lru_percpu_map_update_elem+0xe7/0x820 kernel/bpf/hashtab.c:1316
bpf_percpu_hash_update+0x5e/0x90 kernel/bpf/hashtab.c:2313
bpf_map_update_value+0x2a9/0x370 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:200
generic_map_update_batch+0x3ae/0x4f0 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:1687
bpf_map_do_batch+0x2d9/0x3d0 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4534
__sys_bpf+0x338/0x810
__do_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5096 [inline]
__se_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5094 [inline]
__x64_sys_bpf+0x43/0x50 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5094
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x41/0xc0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

read to 0xffff888137038deb of 1 bytes by task 11241 on cpu 0:
bpf_lru_node_set_ref kernel/bpf/bpf_lru_list.h:70 [inline]
__htab_lru_percpu_map_update_elem+0x2f1/0x820 kernel/bpf/hashtab.c:1332
bpf_percpu_hash_update+0x5e/0x90 kernel/bpf/hashtab.c:2313
bpf_map_update_value+0x2a9/0x370 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:200
generic_map_update_batch+0x3ae/0x4f0 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:1687
bpf_map_do_batch+0x2d9/0x3d0 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4534
__sys_bpf+0x338/0x810
__do_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5096 [inline]
__se_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5094 [inline]
__x64_sys_bpf+0x43/0x50 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5094
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x41/0xc0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

value changed: 0x01 -> 0x00

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 0 PID: 11241 Comm: syz-executor.3 Not tainted 6.3.0-rc7-syzkaller-00136-g6a66fdd29ea1 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/30/2023
==================================================================

Reported-by: syzbot+ebe648a84e8784763f82@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230511043748.1384166-1-martin.lau@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>


# 6df8fb83 08-Feb-2021 Marco Elver <elver@google.com>

bpf_lru_list: Read double-checked variable once without lock

For double-checked locking in bpf_common_lru_push_free(), node->type is
read outside the critical section and then re-checked under the lock.
However, concurrent writes to node->type result in data races.

For example, the following concurrent access was observed by KCSAN:

write to 0xffff88801521bc22 of 1 bytes by task 10038 on cpu 1:
__bpf_lru_node_move_in kernel/bpf/bpf_lru_list.c:91
__local_list_flush kernel/bpf/bpf_lru_list.c:298
...
read to 0xffff88801521bc22 of 1 bytes by task 10043 on cpu 0:
bpf_common_lru_push_free kernel/bpf/bpf_lru_list.c:507
bpf_lru_push_free kernel/bpf/bpf_lru_list.c:555
...

Fix the data races where node->type is read outside the critical section
(for double-checked locking) by marking the access with READ_ONCE() as
well as ensuring the variable is only accessed once.

Fixes: 3a08c2fd7634 ("bpf: LRU List")
Reported-by: syzbot+3536db46dfa58c573458@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+516acdb03d3e27d91bcd@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210209112701.3341724-1-elver@google.com


# 25763b3c 28-May-2019 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 206

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of version 2 of the gnu general public license as
published by the free software foundation

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 107 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Steve Winslow <swinslow@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras <alexios.zavras@intel.com>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190528171438.615055994@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 695ba265 14-Apr-2017 Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>

bpf: lru: Lower the PERCPU_NR_SCANS from 16 to 4

After doing map_perf_test with a much bigger
BPF_F_NO_COMMON_LRU map, the perf report shows a
lot of time spent in rotating the inactive list (i.e.
__bpf_lru_list_rotate_inactive):
> map_perf_test 32 8 10000 1000000 | awk '{sum += $3}END{print sum}'
19644783 (19M/s)
> map_perf_test 32 8 10000000 10000000 | awk '{sum += $3}END{print sum}'
6283930 (6.28M/s)

By inactive, it usually means the element is not in cache. Hence,
there is a need to tune the PERCPU_NR_SCANS value.

This patch finds a better number of elements to
scan during each list rotation. The PERCPU_NR_SCANS (which
is defined the same as PERCPU_FREE_TARGET) decreases
from 16 elements to 4 elements. This change only
affects the BPF_F_NO_COMMON_LRU map.

The test_lru_dist does not show meaningful difference
between 16 and 4. Our production L4 load balancer which uses
the LRU map for conntrack-ing also shows little change in cache
hit rate. Since both benchmark and production data show no
cache-hit difference, PERCPU_NR_SCANS is lowered from 16 to 4.
We can consider making it configurable if we find a usecase
later that shows another value works better and/or use
a different rotation strategy.

After this change:
> map_perf_test 32 8 10000000 10000000 | awk '{sum += $3}END{print sum}'
9240324 (9.2M/s)

i.e. 6.28M/s -> 9.2M/s

The test_lru_dist has not shown meaningful difference:
> test_lru_dist zipf.100k.a1_01.out 4000 1:
nr_misses: 31575 (Before) vs 31566 (After)

> test_lru_dist zipf.100k.a0_01.out 40000 1
nr_misses: 67036 (Before) vs 67031 (After)

Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 3bf00333 10-Jan-2017 Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>

bpf: Make unnecessarily global functions static

Make the functions __local_list_pop_free(), __local_list_pop_pending(),
bpf_common_lru_populate() and bpf_percpu_lru_populate() static as they
are not used outide of bpf_lru_list.c

This fixes the following GCC warnings when building with 'W=1':

kernel/bpf/bpf_lru_list.c:363:22: warning: no previous prototype for ‘__local_list_pop_free’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]
kernel/bpf/bpf_lru_list.c:376:22: warning: no previous prototype for ‘__local_list_pop_pending’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]
kernel/bpf/bpf_lru_list.c:560:6: warning: no previous prototype for ‘bpf_common_lru_populate’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]
kernel/bpf/bpf_lru_list.c:577:6: warning: no previous prototype for ‘bpf_percpu_lru_populate’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]

Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# a5ef01aa 10-Jan-2017 Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>

bpf: Remove unused but set variable in __bpf_lru_list_shrink_inactive()

Remove the unused but set variable 'first_node' in
__bpf_lru_list_shrink_inactive() to fix the following GCC warning when
building with 'W=1':

kernel/bpf/bpf_lru_list.c:216:41: warning: variable ‘first_node’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]

Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 2874aa2e 15-Nov-2016 Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>

bpf: Fix compilation warning in __bpf_lru_list_rotate_inactive

gcc-6.2.1 gives the following warning:
kernel/bpf/bpf_lru_list.c: In function ‘__bpf_lru_list_rotate_inactive.isra.3’:
kernel/bpf/bpf_lru_list.c:201:28: warning: ‘next’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]

The "next" is currently initialized in the while() loop which must have >=1
iterations.

This patch initializes next to get rid of the compiler warning.

Fixes: 3a08c2fd7634 ("bpf: LRU List")
Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 961578b6 11-Nov-2016 Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>

bpf: Add percpu LRU list

Instead of having a common LRU list, this patch allows a
percpu LRU list which can be selected by specifying a map
attribute. The map attribute will be added in the later
patch.

While the common use case for LRU is #reads >> #updates,
percpu LRU list allows bpf prog to absorb unusual #updates
under pathological case (e.g. external traffic facing machine which
could be under attack).

Each percpu LRU is isolated from each other. The LRU nodes (including
free nodes) cannot be moved across different LRU Lists.

Here are the update performance comparison between
common LRU list and percpu LRU list (the test code is
at the last patch):

[root@kerneltest003.31.prn1 ~]# for i in 1 4 8; do echo -n "$i cpus: "; \
./map_perf_test 16 $i | awk '{r += $3}END{print r " updates"}'; done
1 cpus: 2934082 updates
4 cpus: 7391434 updates
8 cpus: 6500576 updates

[root@kerneltest003.31.prn1 ~]# for i in 1 4 8; do echo -n "$i cpus: "; \
./map_perf_test 32 $i | awk '{r += $3}END{printr " updates"}'; done
1 cpus: 2896553 updates
4 cpus: 9766395 updates
8 cpus: 17460553 updates

Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 3a08c2fd 11-Nov-2016 Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>

bpf: LRU List

Introduce bpf_lru_list which will provide LRU capability to
the bpf_htab in the later patch.

* General Thoughts:
1. Target use case. Read is more often than update.
(i.e. bpf_lookup_elem() is more often than bpf_update_elem()).
If bpf_prog does a bpf_lookup_elem() first and then an in-place
update, it still counts as a read operation to the LRU list concern.
2. It may be useful to think of it as a LRU cache
3. Optimize the read case
3.1 No lock in read case
3.2 The LRU maintenance is only done during bpf_update_elem()
4. If there is a percpu LRU list, it will lose the system-wise LRU
property. A completely isolated percpu LRU list has the best
performance but the memory utilization is not ideal considering
the work load may be imbalance.
5. Hence, this patch starts the LRU implementation with a global LRU
list with batched operations before accessing the global LRU list.
As a LRU cache, #read >> #update/#insert operations, it will work well.
6. There is a local list (for each cpu) which is named
'struct bpf_lru_locallist'. This local list is not used to sort
the LRU property. Instead, the local list is to batch enough
operations before acquiring the lock of the global LRU list. More
details on this later.
7. In the later patch, it allows a percpu LRU list by specifying a
map-attribute for scalability reason and for use cases that need to
prepare for the worst (and pathological) case like DoS attack.
The percpu LRU list is completely isolated from each other and the
LRU nodes (including free nodes) cannot be moved across the list. The
following description is for the global LRU list but mostly applicable
to the percpu LRU list also.

* Global LRU List:
1. It has three sub-lists: active-list, inactive-list and free-list.
2. The two list idea, active and inactive, is borrowed from the
page cache.
3. All nodes are pre-allocated and all sit at the free-list (of the
global LRU list) at the beginning. The pre-allocation reasoning
is similar to the existing BPF_MAP_TYPE_HASH. However,
opting-out prealloc (BPF_F_NO_PREALLOC) is not supported in
the LRU map.

* Active/Inactive List (of the global LRU list):
1. The active list, as its name says it, maintains the active set of
the nodes. We can think of it as the working set or more frequently
accessed nodes. The access frequency is approximated by a ref-bit.
The ref-bit is set during the bpf_lookup_elem().
2. The inactive list, as its name also says it, maintains a less
active set of nodes. They are the candidates to be removed
from the bpf_htab when we are running out of free nodes.
3. The ordering of these two lists is acting as a rough clock.
The tail of the inactive list is the older nodes and
should be released first if the bpf_htab needs free element.

* Rotating the Active/Inactive List (of the global LRU list):
1. It is the basic operation to maintain the LRU property of
the global list.
2. The active list is only rotated when the inactive list is running
low. This idea is similar to the current page cache.
Inactive running low is currently defined as
"# of inactive < # of active".
3. The active list rotation always starts from the tail. It moves
node without ref-bit set to the head of the inactive list.
It moves node with ref-bit set back to the head of the active
list and then clears its ref-bit.
4. The inactive rotation is pretty simply.
It walks the inactive list and moves the nodes back to the head of
active list if its ref-bit is set. The ref-bit is cleared after moving
to the active list.
If the node does not have ref-bit set, it just leave it as it is
because it is already in the inactive list.

* Shrinking the Inactive List (of the global LRU list):
1. Shrinking is the operation to get free nodes when the bpf_htab is
full.
2. It usually only shrinks the inactive list to get free nodes.
3. During shrinking, it will walk the inactive list from the tail,
delete the nodes without ref-bit set from bpf_htab.
4. If no free node found after step (3), it will forcefully get
one node from the tail of inactive or active list. Forcefully is
in the sense that it ignores the ref-bit.

* Local List:
1. Each CPU has a 'struct bpf_lru_locallist'. The purpose is to
batch enough operations before acquiring the lock of the
global LRU.
2. A local list has two sub-lists, free-list and pending-list.
3. During bpf_update_elem(), it will try to get from the free-list
of (the current CPU local list).
4. If the local free-list is empty, it will acquire from the
global LRU list. The global LRU list can either satisfy it
by its global free-list or by shrinking the global inactive
list. Since we have acquired the global LRU list lock,
it will try to get at most LOCAL_FREE_TARGET elements
to the local free list.
5. When a new element is added to the bpf_htab, it will
first sit at the pending-list (of the local list) first.
The pending-list will be flushed to the global LRU list
when it needs to acquire free nodes from the global list
next time.

* Lock Consideration:
The LRU list has a lock (lru_lock). Each bucket of htab has a
lock (buck_lock). If both locks need to be acquired together,
the lock order is always lru_lock -> buck_lock and this only
happens in the bpf_lru_list.c logic.

In hashtab.c, both locks are not acquired together (i.e. one
lock is always released first before acquiring another lock).

Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>