RE: [Patch bpf-next v3 3/9] udp: implement ->sendmsg_locked()

Cong Wang wrote:

From: Cong Wang <redacted>

UDP already has udp_sendmsg() which takes lock_sock() inside.
We have to build ->sendmsg_locked() on top of it, by adding
a new parameter for whether the sock has been locked.

Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@cloudflare.com>
Cc: Lorenz Bauer <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <redacted>
---
 include/net/udp.h  |  1 +
 net/ipv4/af_inet.c |  1 +
 net/ipv4/udp.c     | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

[...]

-int udp_sendmsg(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, size_t len)
+static int __udp_sendmsg(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, size_t len, bool locked)
 {

The lock_sock is also taken by BPF_CGROUP_RUN_PROG_UDP4_SENDMSG_LOCK() in
udp_sendmsg(),

 if (cgroup_bpf_enabled(BPF_CGROUP_UDP4_SENDMSG) && !connected) {
    err = BPF_CGROUP_RUN_PROG_UDP4_SENDMSG_LOCK(sk,
                                    (struct sockaddr *)usin, &ipc.addr);

so that will also need to be handled.

It also looks like sk_dst_set() wants the sock lock to be held, but I'm not
seeing how its covered in the current code,

 static inline void
 __sk_dst_set(struct sock *sk, struct dst_entry *dst)
 {
        struct dst_entry *old_dst;

        sk_tx_queue_clear(sk);
        sk->sk_dst_pending_confirm = 0;
        old_dst = rcu_dereference_protected(sk->sk_dst_cache,
                                            lockdep_sock_is_held(sk));
        rcu_assign_pointer(sk->sk_dst_cache, dst);
        dst_release(old_dst);
 }

I guess this could trip lockdep now, I'll dig a bit more Monday and see
if its actually the case.

In general I don't really like code that wraps locks in 'if' branches
like this. It seem fragile to me. I didn't walk every path in the code
to see if a lock is taken in any of the called functions but it looks
like ip_send_skb() can call into netfilter code and may try to take
the sock lock.

Do we need this locked send at all? We use it in sk_psock_backlog
but that routine needs an optimization rewrite for TCP anyways.
Its dropping a lot of performance on the floor for no good reason.

.John