On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 11:44:38 -0800 Cong Wang wrote:
> From: Dongdong Wang <wangdongd...@bytedance.com>
>
> The per-cpu bpf_redirect_info is shared among all skb_do_redirect()
> and BPF redirect helpers. Callers on RX path are all in BH context,
> disabling preemption is not sufficient to prevent BH interruption.
>
> In production, we observed strange packet drops because of the race
> condition between LWT xmit and TC ingress, and we verified this issue
> is fixed after we disable BH.
>
> Although this bug was technically introduced from the beginning, that
> is commit 3a0af8fd61f9 ("bpf: BPF for lightweight tunnel infrastructure"),
> at that time call_rcu() had to be call_rcu_bh() to match the RCU context.
> So this patch may not work well before RCU flavor consolidation has been
> completed around v5.0.
>
> Update the comments above the code too, as call_rcu() is now BH friendly.
>
> Cc: Thomas Graf <tg...@suug.ch>
> Cc: b...@vger.kernel.org
> Reviewed-by: Cong Wang <cong.w...@bytedance.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dongdong Wang <wangdongd...@bytedance.com>
Fixes?
