Ilya Maximets <i.maxim...@ovn.org> writes:

> On 8/5/22 17:08, Paolo Valerio wrote:
>> The following test sequence:
>> 
>> conntrack - IPv4 fragmentation incomplete reassembled packet
>> conntrack - IPv4 fragmentation with fragments specified
>> 
>> leads to a systematic failure of the latter test on the kernel
>> datapath (linux).  Multiple executions of the former may also lead to
>> multiple failures.
>> This is due to the fact that fragments not yet reassembled are kept in
>> a queue for /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ipfrag_time seconds, and if the
>> kernel receives a fragment already present in the queue, it returns
>> -EINVAL.
>
> Thanks for the patch!  I've been looking at the issue earlier
> this week.  One thing I don't understand is that we're reloading
> all the netfilter modules between tests, shouldn't this clear
> all the pending queues?  Or this re-assembly is happening outside
> of the conntrack?
>

That's a fair point.
AFAICT, queues and the pending fragments sit in a per netns fragment
queue directory. In the case of the kernel dp ovs_dp_get_net(dp). If my
reading is correct, IPv4 pending fragments should be removed when the
netns is destroyed.

>> 
>> Below the related log message:
>> |00058|dpif|WARN|system@ovs-system: execute ct(commit) failed (Invalid 
>> argument)
>>   on packet 
>> udp,vlan_tci=0x0000,dl_src=50:54:00:00:00:09,dl_dst=50:54:00:00:00:0a,
>>   
>> nw_src=10.1.1.1,nw_dst=10.1.1.2,nw_tos=0,nw_ecn=0,nw_ttl=0,nw_frag=first,tp_src=1,
>>   tp_dst=2 udp_csum:0
>> 
>> Fix the sequence by sending the second fragment in "conntrack - IPv4
>> fragmentation incomplete reassembled packet", once the checks are
>> done.
>> 
>> IPv6 tests are not affected as the defrag kernel code path pretends to
>> add the duplicate fragment to the queue returning -EINPROGRESS, when a
>> duplicate is detected.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valerio <pvale...@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  tests/system-traffic.at |    5 +++++
>>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>> 
>> diff --git a/tests/system-traffic.at b/tests/system-traffic.at
>> index 1a864057c..8497b4d9e 100644
>> --- a/tests/system-traffic.at
>> +++ b/tests/system-traffic.at
>> @@ -3452,6 +3452,11 @@ AT_CHECK([ovs-ofctl bundle br0 bundle.txt])
>>  AT_CHECK([ovs-appctl dpctl/dump-conntrack | FORMAT_CT(10.1.1.2)], [0], [dnl
>>  ])
>>  
>> +dnl Send the second fragment in order to avoid keeping the first fragment
>> +dnl in the queue until the expiration occurs. Fragments already queued, if 
>> resent,
>> +dnl may lead to failures on the kernel datapath.
>> +AT_CHECK([ovs-ofctl -O OpenFlow13 packet-out br0 "in_port=1, 
>> packet=50540000000a505400000009080045000030000100320011a4860a0101010a01010200010002000800000010203040506070809000010203040506070809,
>>  actions=ct(commit)"])
>> +
>>  OVS_TRAFFIC_VSWITCHD_STOP
>>  AT_CLEANUP
>>  
>> 

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