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Commit ad7e615f authored by Magnus Karlsson's avatar Magnus Karlsson Committed by Jakub Kicinski
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virtio-net: execute xdp_do_flush() before napi_complete_done()

Make sure that xdp_do_flush() is always executed before
napi_complete_done(). This is important for two reasons. First, a
redirect to an XSKMAP assumes that a call to xdp_do_redirect() from
napi context X on CPU Y will be followed by a xdp_do_flush() from the
same napi context and CPU. This is not guaranteed if the
napi_complete_done() is executed before xdp_do_flush(), as it tells
the napi logic that it is fine to schedule napi context X on another
CPU. Details from a production system triggering this bug using the
veth driver can be found following the first link below.

The second reason is that the XDP_REDIRECT logic in itself relies on
being inside a single NAPI instance through to the xdp_do_flush() call
for RCU protection of all in-kernel data structures. Details can be
found in the second link below.

Fixes: 186b3c99

 ("virtio-net: support XDP_REDIRECT")
Signed-off-by: default avatarMagnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarToke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221220185903.1105011-1-sbohrer@cloudflare.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210624160609.292325-1-toke@redhat.com/


Acked-by: default avatarMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent 12b57179
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