On Wed, Mar 17, 2021, at 18:48, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> 
> 
> On 3/17/21 2:38 PM, David Marchand wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 6:49 PM Gaëtan Rivet <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Hey, thanks for taking the time to give more info!
> >>
> >> I'm in a pickle now though.
> >>
> >> To rewind back a little: flush support was implemented after this series 
> >> was written.
> >> I added support for it as well, doing a proper parallel dispatch. It needs 
> >> however some ugly sync between the thread doing the flush and offload 
> >> threads. The ovs_barrier used for this has a UAF (which does not affect 
> >> RCU or revalidators, only in very specific contexts such as this new one).
> >>
> >> It was starting to become a series on its own, on top of an already large 
> >> one, so I decided to keep it for later.
> >> It seems I will need to do it in one fell swoop instead.
> >>
> >> Sorry about this, I should have picked it up before. Well at least the 
> >> crash is pretty obvious :) .
> > 
> > Err, yes.
> > Did you consider adding more unit tests?
> > Not sure it could catch this situation though.
> > 
> > 
> >> Thanks again though, I'll send a proper v2 ASAP, but it will require a few 
> >> additional patches.
> > 
> > I'll continue looking at the v1 anyway.
> > 
> > One issue that I noticed.
> > With traffic running non stop and restarting ovs, one way of my flows
> > (pf -> vf rep) remains as partial offloads while the other way (vf rep
> > -> pf) is fully offloaded.
> > I can easily "fix" this by stopping traffic, letting flows expire and
> > restarting traffic and then, all flows are fully offloaded afterwards.
> > Flushing fdb also works.
> > 
> > I did not see this before the series, but I need to double check.
> > 
> > 
> 
> FYI, on my testbed (CX-6 Dx), I can reproduce it without this series
> applied.
> 
>

The v2 has been submitted: 
https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2021-April/382036.html

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Gaetan Rivet
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