[Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH net-next] dropwatch: Support monitoring of dropped frames

[Eric Dumazet]

On 7/7/20 10:15 AM, izabela.bakollari at gmail.com wrote:
> From: Izabela Bakollari <izabela.bakollari at gmail.com>
> 
> Dropwatch is a utility that monitors dropped frames by having userspace
> record them over the dropwatch protocol over a file. This augument
> allows live monitoring of dropped frames using tools like tcpdump.
> 
> With this feature, dropwatch allows two additional commands (start and
> stop interface) which allows the assignment of a net_device to the
> dropwatch protocol. When assinged, dropwatch will clone dropped frames,
> and receive them on the assigned interface, allowing tools like tcpdump
> to monitor for them.
> 
> With this feature, create a dummy ethernet interface (ip link add dev
> dummy0 type dummy), assign it to the dropwatch kernel subsystem, by using
> these new commands, and then monitor dropped frames in real time by
> running tcpdump -i dummy0.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Izabela Bakollari <izabela.bakollari at gmail.com>
> ---
>  include/uapi/linux/net_dropmon.h |  3 ++
>  net/core/drop_monitor.c          | 79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/net_dropmon.h b/include/uapi/linux/net_dropmon.h
> index 67e31f329190..e8e861e03a8a 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/net_dropmon.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/net_dropmon.h
> @@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ enum {
>  	NET_DM_CMD_CONFIG_NEW,
>  	NET_DM_CMD_STATS_GET,
>  	NET_DM_CMD_STATS_NEW,
> +	NET_DM_CMD_START_IFC,
> +	NET_DM_CMD_STOP_IFC,
>  	_NET_DM_CMD_MAX,
>  };
>  
> @@ -93,6 +95,7 @@ enum net_dm_attr {
>  	NET_DM_ATTR_SW_DROPS,			/* flag */
>  	NET_DM_ATTR_HW_DROPS,			/* flag */
>  	NET_DM_ATTR_FLOW_ACTION_COOKIE,		/* binary */
> +	NET_DM_ATTR_IFNAME,			/* string */
>  
>  	__NET_DM_ATTR_MAX,
>  	NET_DM_ATTR_MAX = __NET_DM_ATTR_MAX - 1
> diff --git a/net/core/drop_monitor.c b/net/core/drop_monitor.c
> index 8e33cec9fc4e..8049bff05abd 100644
> --- a/net/core/drop_monitor.c
> +++ b/net/core/drop_monitor.c
> @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
>  #include <net/genetlink.h>
>  #include <net/netevent.h>
>  #include <net/flow_offload.h>
> +#include <net/sock.h>
>  
>  #include <trace/events/skb.h>
>  #include <trace/events/napi.h>
> @@ -46,6 +47,7 @@
>   */
>  static int trace_state = TRACE_OFF;
>  static bool monitor_hw;
> +struct net_device *interface;
>  
>  /* net_dm_mutex
>   *
> @@ -220,9 +222,8 @@ static void trace_drop_common(struct sk_buff *skb, void *location)
>  	struct per_cpu_dm_data *data;
>  	unsigned long flags;
>  
> -	local_irq_save(flags);
> +	spin_lock_irqsave(&data->lock, flags);
>  	data = this_cpu_ptr(&dm_cpu_data);
> -	spin_lock(&data->lock);

This change seems unrelated ?

And also buggy, since data is essentially garbage when you call spin_lock_irqsave(&data->lock, flags);

>  	dskb = data->skb;
>  
>  	if (!dskb)
> @@ -255,6 +256,12 @@ static void trace_drop_common(struct sk_buff *skb, void *location)
>  
>  out:
>  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&data->lock, flags);
> +
> +	if (interface && interface != skb->dev) {
> +		skb = skb_clone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);

skb_clone() can return NULL

> +		skb->dev = interface;
> +		netif_receive_skb(skb);
> +	}
>  }
>  
>  static void trace_kfree_skb_hit(void *ignore, struct sk_buff *skb, void *location)
> @@ -1315,6 +1322,63 @@ static int net_dm_cmd_trace(struct sk_buff *skb,
>  	return -EOPNOTSUPP;
>  }
>  
> +static int net_dm_interface_start(struct net *net, const char *ifname)
> +{
> +	struct net_device *nd;
> +
> +	nd = dev_get_by_name(net, ifname);
> +
> +	if (nd) {
> +		interface = nd;
> +		dev_hold(interface);
> +	} else {
> +		return -ENODEV;
> +	}
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +


What happens after this monitoring is started, then the admin does :

rmmod ifb