[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix wrong segmented packet in Rx

[Jiawei Zhu]

Hi, Slava

Thanks for reading my patch, my issue may not be clear.
Here I give a possible error.
- we assume segs_n is 4 and we are receiving 4 segments multi-segment 
packet.
- we fail to alloc mbuf when receive the 3th segment，so it will free the 
mbufs which packet chain we have built. Here are the 1st and 2nd segment.
- Rx queue in this stride, the 1st and the 2nd segment are fill the new 
mbuf and there data will be rand, but the 3th and 4th segment are still 
fill the last data. So next if still begin on this stride， it will 
reveice wrong multi-segment packet.

- So we should discarded this packets and pass this stride. After exit 
the loop, we should align the next consumer index.

What Do you thinking?

With best regards
Jiawei

On 2021/2/24 9:20 PM, Slava Ovsiienko wrote:
> Hi, Jiawei
> 
> Thank you for the patch, but It seems I need some clarifications.
> As far I understand the issue:
> 
> - we are in the midst of receiving the multi-segment packet
> - we have some mbufs allocated and packet chain is partially built
> - we fail on allocation replenishing mbuf for the segment
> - we free all the mbuf of the built chain
> - exit from the rx_burtst loop
> - rq_ci is expected to be kept pointing to the beginning of the current
>    stride - it is supposed on next rx_burst() invocation we'll continue
>    Rx queue handling from the stride where we failed
> - on loop exit we see the code:
>     if (unlikely((i == 0) && ((rq_ci >> sges_n) == rxq->rq_ci)))
>            return 0;
>     /* Update the consumer index. */
>     rxq->rq_ci = rq_ci >> sges_n;
> hence, rq_ci is always shifted by sges_n, all increments happened
> during failed packet processing are just discarded, it seems no fix is needed.
> 
> Did I miss something?
> 
> With best regards,
> Slava
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jiawei Zhu <17826875952 at 163.com>
>> Sent: Monday, February 15, 2021 12:15
>> To: dev at dpdk.org
>> Cc: zhujiawei12 at huawei.com; Matan Azrad <matan at nvidia.com>; Shahaf
>> Shuler <shahafs at nvidia.com>; Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>;
>> Jiawei Zhu <17826875952 at 163.com>; stable at dpdk.org
>> Subject: [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix wrong segmented packet in Rx
>>
>> Fixed issue could occur when Mbuf starvation happens in a middle of
>> reception of a segmented packet.
>> In such a situation, after release the segments of that packet, it does not align
>> consumer index to the next stride.
>> This would cause receive a wrong segmented packet.
>>
>> Fixes: 15a756b63734 ("net/mlx5: fix possible NULL dereference in Rx path")
>> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jiawei Zhu <17826875952 at 163.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx.c | 3 +++
>>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx.c index
>> 2e4b87c..e3ce9fd 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx.c
>> @@ -1480,6 +1480,9 @@ enum mlx5_txcmp_code {
>>   				rte_mbuf_raw_free(pkt);
>>   				pkt = rep;
>>   			}
>> +			rq_ci >>= sges_n;
>> +			++rq_ci;
>> +			rq_ci <<= sges_n;
>>   			break;
>>   		}
>>   		if (!pkt) {
>> --
>> 1.8.3.1
>>
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