Dear maintainers,

Could you please check out this patch?

When kernel 5.19 is released with all the added validation code, it will
make OvS matchall police offload completely broken on mlx5 without the
fix.

Thanks,
Vlad

On Wed 06 Jul 2022 at 08:53, Vlad Buslov <[email protected]> wrote:
> Referenced commit changed policer action type from TC_ACT_UNSPEC (continue)
> to TC_ACT_PIPE. However, since neither TC hardware offload layer nor mlx5
> driver at the time validated action type and always assumed 'continue', the
> breakage wasn't caught until later validation code was added. The change
> also broke valid configuration when sending from offload-capable device to
> non-offload capable. For example, when sending from mlx5 VF to OvS bridge
> netdevice the traffic that passed matchall classifier with policer could no
> longer match the following flower rule in software:
>
> filter protocol all pref 1 matchall chain 0
> filter protocol all pref 1 matchall chain 0 handle 0x1
>   in_hw (rule hit 7863)
>         action order 1:  police 0x1 rate 32Mbit burst 1000Kb mtu 64Kb action 
> drop/pipe overhead 0b
>         ref 1 bind 1  installed 17 sec firstused 17 sec
>         Action statistics:
>         Sent 152199634 bytes 102550 pkt (dropped 1315, overlimits 1315 
> requeues 0)
>         Sent software 74612172 bytes 51275 pkt
>         Sent hardware 77587462 bytes 51275 pkt
>         backlog 0b 0p requeues 0
>         used_hw_stats delayed
>
> filter protocol ip pref 3 flower chain 0
> filter protocol ip pref 3 flower chain 0 handle 0x1
>   dst_mac aa:94:1f:f2:f8:44
>   src_mac e4:00:01:08:00:02
>   eth_type ipv4
>   ip_flags nofrag
>   not_in_hw
>         action order 1: skbedit  ptype host pipe
>          index 1 ref 1 bind 1 installed 6 sec used 6 sec
>         Action statistics:
>         Sent 0 bytes 0 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 0)
>         backlog 0b 0p requeues 0
>
>         action order 2: mirred (Ingress Redirect to device br-ovs) stolen
>         index 1 ref 1 bind 1 installed 6 sec used 6 sec
>         Action statistics:
>         Sent 0 bytes 0 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 0)
>         backlog 0b 0p requeues 0
>         cookie 401a9c8b3d403c62240d3eb5e21c1604
>         no_percpu
>
> Fix the issue by restoring pps policer action type to 'continue'.
>
> Fixes: c2567e533f8a ("add port-based ingress policing based packet-per-second 
> rate-limiting")
> Signed-off-by: Vlad Buslov <[email protected]>
> ---
>  lib/netdev-linux.c | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/netdev-linux.c b/lib/netdev-linux.c
> index 2766b3f2bf67..d73391624555 100644
> --- a/lib/netdev-linux.c
> +++ b/lib/netdev-linux.c
> @@ -2621,9 +2621,9 @@ nl_msg_act_police_start_nest(struct ofpbuf *request, 
> uint32_t prio,
>  
>  static void
>  nl_msg_act_police_end_nest(struct ofpbuf *request, size_t offset,
> -                           size_t act_offset)
> +                           size_t act_offset, uint32_t notexceed_act)
>  {
> -    nl_msg_put_u32(request, TCA_POLICE_RESULT, TC_ACT_PIPE);
> +    nl_msg_put_u32(request, TCA_POLICE_RESULT, notexceed_act);
>      nl_msg_end_nested(request, offset);
>      nl_msg_end_nested(request, act_offset);
>  }
> @@ -2643,7 +2643,7 @@ nl_msg_put_act_police(struct ofpbuf *request, struct 
> tc_police police,
>          nl_msg_act_police_start_nest(request, ++prio, &offset, &act_offset);
>          tc_put_rtab(request, TCA_POLICE_RATE, &police.rate);
>          nl_msg_put_unspec(request, TCA_POLICE_TBF, &police, sizeof police);
> -        nl_msg_act_police_end_nest(request, offset, act_offset);
> +        nl_msg_act_police_end_nest(request, offset, act_offset, 
> TC_ACT_UNSPEC);
>      }
>      if (kpkts_rate) {
>          unsigned int pkt_burst_ticks, pps_rate, size;
> @@ -2658,7 +2658,7 @@ nl_msg_put_act_police(struct ofpbuf *request, struct 
> tc_police police,
>                         (uint64_t) pkt_burst_ticks);
>          nl_msg_put_unspec(request, TCA_POLICE_TBF, &null_police,
>                            sizeof null_police);
> -        nl_msg_act_police_end_nest(request, offset, act_offset);
> +        nl_msg_act_police_end_nest(request, offset, act_offset, TC_ACT_PIPE);
>      }
>  }

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