[3.8.y.z,extended,stable] Patch "rds: prevent BUG_ON triggered on congestion update to loopback" has been added to staging queue

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    rds: prevent BUG_ON triggered on congestion update to loopback

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.16.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From 32598730d143eaabc85663f38651a59ee8c0ce0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Venkat Venkatsubra <venkat.x.venkatsubra@oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 15:41:39 -0800
Subject: rds: prevent BUG_ON triggered on congestion update to loopback

[ Upstream commit 18fc25c94eadc52a42c025125af24657a93638c0 ]

After congestion update on a local connection, when rds_ib_xmit returns
less bytes than that are there in the message, rds_send_xmit calls
back rds_ib_xmit with an offset that causes BUG_ON(off & RDS_FRAG_SIZE)
to trigger.

For a 4Kb PAGE_SIZE rds_ib_xmit returns min(8240,4096)=4096 when actually
the message contains 8240 bytes. rds_send_xmit thinks there is more to send
and calls rds_ib_xmit again with a data offset "off" of 4096-48(rds header)
=4048 bytes thus hitting the BUG_ON(off & RDS_FRAG_SIZE) [RDS_FRAG_SIZE=4k].

The commit 6094628bfd94323fc1cea05ec2c6affd98c18f7f
"rds: prevent BUG_ON triggering on congestion map updates" introduced
this regression. That change was addressing the triggering of a different
BUG_ON in rds_send_xmit() on PowerPC architecture with 64Kbytes PAGE_SIZE:
 	BUG_ON(ret != 0 &&
    		 conn->c_xmit_sg == rm->data.op_nents);
This was the sequence it was going through:
(rds_ib_xmit)
/* Do not send cong updates to IB loopback */
if (conn->c_loopback
   && rm->m_inc.i_hdr.h_flags & RDS_FLAG_CONG_BITMAP) {
  	rds_cong_map_updated(conn->c_fcong, ~(u64) 0);
    	return sizeof(struct rds_header) + RDS_CONG_MAP_BYTES;
}
rds_ib_xmit returns 8240
rds_send_xmit:
  c_xmit_data_off = 0 + 8240 - 48 (rds header accounted only the first time)
   		 = 8192
  c_xmit_data_off < 65536 (sg->length), so calls rds_ib_xmit again
rds_ib_xmit returns 8240
rds_send_xmit:
  c_xmit_data_off = 8192 + 8240 = 16432, calls rds_ib_xmit again
  and so on (c_xmit_data_off 24672,32912,41152,49392,57632)
rds_ib_xmit returns 8240
On this iteration this sequence causes the BUG_ON in rds_send_xmit:
    while (ret) {
    	tmp = min_t(int, ret, sg->length - conn->c_xmit_data_off);
    	[tmp = 65536 - 57632 = 7904]
    	conn->c_xmit_data_off += tmp;
    	[c_xmit_data_off = 57632 + 7904 = 65536]
    	ret -= tmp;
    	[ret = 8240 - 7904 = 336]
    	if (conn->c_xmit_data_off == sg->length) {
    		conn->c_xmit_data_off = 0;
    		sg++;
    		conn->c_xmit_sg++;
    		BUG_ON(ret != 0 &&
    			conn->c_xmit_sg == rm->data.op_nents);
    		[c_xmit_sg = 1, rm->data.op_nents = 1]

What the current fix does:
Since the congestion update over loopback is not actually transmitted
as a message, all that rds_ib_xmit needs to do is let the caller think
the full message has been transmitted and not return partial bytes.
It will return 8240 (RDS_CONG_MAP_BYTES+48) when PAGE_SIZE is 4Kb.
And 64Kb+48 when page size is 64Kb.

Reported-by: Josh Hunt <joshhunt00@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Honggang Li <honli@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Bang Nguyen <bang.nguyen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkat Venkatsubra <venkat.x.venkatsubra@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
---
 net/rds/ib_send.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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