Re: [PATCH net v2] usbnet: fix smp_processor_id() use in preemptible context

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- [Medium] The commit message's premise is only true for one of the two
  changed sites, and the Fixes: tag is provably wrong.
- [Medium] The patch replaces the arch-tuned u64_stats irqsave helpers
  with an unconditional local_irq_save()/local_irq_restore() pair around…

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usbnet: fix smp_processor_id() use in preemptible context

This patch moves the this_cpu_ptr() lookup of dev->net->tstats inside a
local_irq_save()/local_irq_restore() region in usbnet_skb_return() and
tx_complete(), and switches the u64_stats writers from the irqsave
helpers to the plain begin/end variants.

Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=04cd90bb99c6ef81a65d

Two questions on the changelog first:

    usbnet_skb_return() and tx_complete() call this_cpu_ptr() before
    disabling IRQs, which triggers a BUG when running with PREEMPT_FULL:

[Severity: Medium]
Is the "usbnet_skb_return()" half of that sentence reachable?  Every
caller I can find already runs with preemption disabled.

rx_process() -> usbnet_skb_return() is only reached from usbnet_bh(),
which is either the dev->delay timer callback:

	timer_setup(&dev->delay, usbnet_bh, 0);

or run from usbnet_bh_work() queued on the BH workqueue:

	queue_work(system_bh_wq, &dev->bh_work);

and BH work items execute from workqueue_softirq_action(), i.e. softirq
context.  The minidriver ->rx_fixup() call sites (asix_common.c,
cdc_ncm.c, rndis_host.c, cx82310_eth.c, lg-vl600.c, ...) are all invoked
from that same rx_process() context.

The one remaining caller explicitly disables BH around the loop:

	local_bh_disable();
	clear_bit(EVENT_RX_PAUSED, &dev->flags);

	while ((skb = skb_dequeue(&dev->rxq_pause)) != NULL) {
		usbnet_skb_return(dev, skb);
	...

That leaves tx_complete(), which really can run in preemptible task
context when the HCD does not use HCD_BH and usb_hcd_giveback_urb()
completes "in the caller's context".  Would it make sense to describe the
change as a tx_complete() fix, or is there an RX path that reaches
usbnet_skb_return() with preemption enabled?

    Fixes: 43daa96b166c ("usbnet: Stop RX Q on MTU change")

[Severity: Medium]
Does this Fixes: tag point at the right commit?  43daa96b166c is from
2016 and only added usbnet_pause_rx()/usbnet_resume_rx() calls to
usbnet_change_mtu() plus an EVENT_RX_PAUSED test in usbnet_bh(); it never
touched the stats code.  git blame on the pre-patch tx_complete() block
shows:

  af0c351cc34857 (Heiner Kallweit 2020-11-10) struct pcpu_sw_netstats *stats64 = this_cpu_ptr(dev->net->tstats);
  2695578b896aea (Eric Dumazet   2018-03-05) flags = u64_stats_update_begin_irqsave(&stats64->syncp);

Should the tag name af0c351cc34857 instead, so that stable backports land
in trees that actually contain the code being changed?

[Severity: Medium]
Does this add a hardirq-off window on 64-bit where there was none?  In
include/linux/u64_stats_sync.h the 64-bit branch is:

	static inline void __u64_stats_update_begin(struct u64_stats_sync *syncp) { }
	static inline void __u64_stats_update_end(struct u64_stats_sync *syncp) { }
	static inline unsigned long __u64_stats_irqsave(void) { return 0; }

so u64_stats_update_begin_irqsave() masked nothing on 64-bit, while
local_irq_save() masks unconditionally.  usbnet_skb_return() runs once
per received packet, so this looks like a new per-packet interrupts-off
region for all 64-bit builds, PREEMPT_RT included.

The changelog describes it as ordering only:

    Fix by saving IRQs first with local_irq_save(), then calling
    this_cpu_ptr() and using the non-irqsave variants of u64_stats
    update helpers, since IRQs are already disabled at that point.

Since only preemption/migration needs to be suppressed to make
this_cpu_ptr() legal, would get_cpu_ptr()/put_cpu_ptr() around the
existing u64_stats_update_begin_irqsave()/u64_stats_update_end_irqrestore()
pair work here?  That keeps IRQ masking on 32-bit only, and matches the
core helper dev_sw_netstats_rx_add() in include/linux/netdevice.h:

	struct pcpu_sw_netstats *tstats = this_cpu_ptr(dev->tstats);

	u64_stats_update_begin(&tstats->syncp);

usbnet_resume_rx() already uses local_bh_disable() for the same purpose,
which would be another option.

[Severity: Medium]
Same question for the TX completion path: this site is the one that can
genuinely be entered preemptibly, but would get_cpu_ptr()/put_cpu_ptr()
plus the existing irqsave helpers be enough, rather than disabling
interrupts on every successful TX completion on 64-bit?

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