On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 11:58:43AM -0700, Matthew Cover wrote:
> Treat a negative return from a TUNSETSTEERINGEBPF bpf prog as a signal
> to fallback to tun_automq_select_queue() for tx queue selection.
> 
> Compilation of this exact patch was tested.
> 
> For functional testing 3 additional printk()s were added.
> 
> Functional testing results (on 2 txq tap device):
> 
>   [Fri Sep 20 18:33:27 2019] ========== tun no prog ==========
>   [Fri Sep 20 18:33:27 2019] tuntap: tun_ebpf_select_queue() returned '-1'
>   [Fri Sep 20 18:33:27 2019] tuntap: tun_automq_select_queue() ran
>   [Fri Sep 20 18:33:27 2019] ========== tun prog -1 ==========
>   [Fri Sep 20 18:33:27 2019] tuntap: bpf_prog_run_clear_cb() returned '-1'
>   [Fri Sep 20 18:33:27 2019] tuntap: tun_ebpf_select_queue() returned '-1'
>   [Fri Sep 20 18:33:27 2019] tuntap: tun_automq_select_queue() ran
>   [Fri Sep 20 18:33:27 2019] ========== tun prog 0 ==========
>   [Fri Sep 20 18:33:27 2019] tuntap: bpf_prog_run_clear_cb() returned '0'
>   [Fri Sep 20 18:33:27 2019] tuntap: tun_ebpf_select_queue() returned '0'
>   [Fri Sep 20 18:33:27 2019] ========== tun prog 1 ==========
>   [Fri Sep 20 18:33:27 2019] tuntap: bpf_prog_run_clear_cb() returned '1'
>   [Fri Sep 20 18:33:27 2019] tuntap: tun_ebpf_select_queue() returned '1'
>   [Fri Sep 20 18:33:27 2019] ========== tun prog 2 ==========
>   [Fri Sep 20 18:33:27 2019] tuntap: bpf_prog_run_clear_cb() returned '2'
>   [Fri Sep 20 18:33:27 2019] tuntap: tun_ebpf_select_queue() returned '0'
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Cover <[email protected]>


Could you add a bit more motivation data here?
1. why is this a good idea
2. how do we know existing userspace does not rely on existing behaviour
3. why doesn't userspace need a way to figure out whether it runs on a kernel 
with and
   without this patch


thanks,
MST

> ---
>  drivers/net/tun.c | 20 +++++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
> index aab0be4..173d159 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/tun.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
> @@ -583,35 +583,37 @@ static u16 tun_automq_select_queue(struct tun_struct 
> *tun, struct sk_buff *skb)
>       return txq;
>  }
>  
> -static u16 tun_ebpf_select_queue(struct tun_struct *tun, struct sk_buff *skb)
> +static int tun_ebpf_select_queue(struct tun_struct *tun, struct sk_buff *skb)
>  {
>       struct tun_prog *prog;
>       u32 numqueues;
> -     u16 ret = 0;
> +     int ret = -1;
>  
>       numqueues = READ_ONCE(tun->numqueues);
>       if (!numqueues)
>               return 0;
>  
> +     rcu_read_lock();
>       prog = rcu_dereference(tun->steering_prog);
>       if (prog)
>               ret = bpf_prog_run_clear_cb(prog->prog, skb);
> +     rcu_read_unlock();
>  
> -     return ret % numqueues;
> +     if (ret >= 0)
> +             ret %= numqueues;
> +
> +     return ret;
>  }
>  
>  static u16 tun_select_queue(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
>                           struct net_device *sb_dev)
>  {
>       struct tun_struct *tun = netdev_priv(dev);
> -     u16 ret;
> +     int ret;
>  
> -     rcu_read_lock();
> -     if (rcu_dereference(tun->steering_prog))
> -             ret = tun_ebpf_select_queue(tun, skb);
> -     else
> +     ret = tun_ebpf_select_queue(tun, skb);
> +     if (ret < 0)
>               ret = tun_automq_select_queue(tun, skb);
> -     rcu_read_unlock();
>  
>       return ret;
>  }
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1

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