[43/43] vdpa/sfc: use rte strerror

Message ID 20231114082539.1858594-44-huangdengdui@huawei.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
Delegated to: Thomas Monjalon
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Series replace strerror |

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Commit Message

huangdengdui Nov. 14, 2023, 8:25 a.m. UTC
The function strerror() is insecure in a multi-thread environment.
This patch uses rte_strerror() to replace it.

Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Dengdui Huang <huangdengdui@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Chengwen Feng <fengchengwen@huawei.com>
---
 drivers/vdpa/sfc/sfc_vdpa_ops.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
  

Comments

Stephen Hemminger Oct. 23, 2024, 3:42 p.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 16:28:10 +0800
Dengdui Huang <huangdengdui@huawei.com> wrote:

> The function strerror() is insecure in a multi-thread environment.
> It is better to use rte_strerror() instead of strerror().
> In this patchset, only the libs and drivers are modified.
> 
> chang log:
> v3->v4 fix ci error
> v2->v3 drop patch "telemetry: replace strerror" due to compile fail
> v1-v2 fix ci error

Even rte_strerror is not completely safe. It depends on the calling
thread being a registered lcore.

It would be better to use a coccinelle script to do direct replacement
with strerror_r().

Also, rte_strerror is not signal safe.
  
huangdengdui Oct. 24, 2024, 6:47 a.m. UTC | #2
Hi, Stephen Hemminger

On 2024/10/23 23:42, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 16:28:10 +0800
> Dengdui Huang <huangdengdui@huawei.com> wrote:
> 
>> The function strerror() is insecure in a multi-thread environment.
>> It is better to use rte_strerror() instead of strerror().
>> In this patchset, only the libs and drivers are modified.
>>
>> chang log:
>> v3->v4 fix ci error
>> v2->v3 drop patch "telemetry: replace strerror" due to compile fail
>> v1-v2 fix ci error
> 
> Even rte_strerror is not completely safe. It depends on the calling
> thread being a registered lcore.

As discussed earlier, it is still safe if used from non-DPDK registered threads[1]:

#define RTE_DEFINE_PER_LCORE(type, name)			\
	__thread __typeof__(type) per_lcore_##name

[1]: https://elixir.bootlin.com/dpdk/v23.11-rc3/source/lib/eal/include/rte_per_lcore.h#L37

> 
> It would be better to use a coccinelle script to do direct replacement
> with strerror_r().
> 
> Also, rte_strerror is not signal safe.

Can we use strerror_r() in the signal processing context and replace it with rte_strerror() everywhere else?
  
Thomas Monjalon Oct. 25, 2024, 9:56 p.m. UTC | #3
24/10/2024 08:47, huangdengdui:
> On 2024/10/23 23:42, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 16:28:10 +0800
> > Dengdui Huang <huangdengdui@huawei.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> The function strerror() is insecure in a multi-thread environment.
> >> It is better to use rte_strerror() instead of strerror().
> >> In this patchset, only the libs and drivers are modified.
> > 
> > Even rte_strerror is not completely safe. It depends on the calling
> > thread being a registered lcore.
> 
> As discussed earlier, it is still safe if used from non-DPDK registered threads[1]:
> 
> #define RTE_DEFINE_PER_LCORE(type, name)			\
> 	__thread __typeof__(type) per_lcore_##name
> 
> [1]: https://elixir.bootlin.com/dpdk/v23.11-rc3/source/lib/eal/include/rte_per_lcore.h#L37
> 
> > 
> > It would be better to use a coccinelle script to do direct replacement
> > with strerror_r().
> > 
> > Also, rte_strerror is not signal safe.
> 
> Can we use strerror_r() in the signal processing context and replace it with rte_strerror() everywhere else?

It does not make sense to use rte_strerror after libc functions.
Please restrict the use of rte_strerror for error numbers from DPDK functions.
  
Huisong Li Oct. 29, 2024, 1:16 a.m. UTC | #4
For series,
Acked-by: Huisong Li <lihuisong@huawei.com>


在 2024/10/23 16:28, Dengdui Huang 写道:
> The function strerror() is insecure in a multi-thread environment.
> It is better to use rte_strerror() instead of strerror().
> In this patchset, only the libs and drivers are modified.
>
> chang log:
> v3->v4 fix ci error
> v2->v3 drop patch "telemetry: replace strerror" due to compile fail
> v1-v2 fix ci error
>
> Dengdui Huang (42):
>    devtools: forbid use of strerror
>    eal: use rte strerror
>    eventdev: use rte strerror
>    latency: use rte strerror
>    node: use rte strerror
>    pdump: use rte strerror
>    power: use rte strerror
>    vhost: use rte strerror
>    bpf: use rte strerror
>    bus/cdx: use rte strerror
>    bus/dpaa: use rte strerror
>    bus/fslmc: use rte strerror
>    bus/pci: use rte strerror
>    bus/vdev: use rte strerror
>    bus/vmbus: use rte strerror
>    common/cnxk: use rte strerror
>    common/mlx5: use rte strerror
>    crypto/caam_jr: use rte strerror
>    dma/idxd: use rte strerror
>    net/af_packet: use rte strerror
>    net/bnxt: use rte strerror
>    net/af_xdp: use rte strerror
>    net/bonding: use rte strerror
>    net/dpaa: use rte strerror
>    net/dpaa2: use rte strerror
>    net/enetfec: use rte strerror
>    net/failsafe: use rte strerror
>    net/i40e: use rte strerror
>    net/ice: use rte strerror
>    net/ixgbe: use rte strerror
>    net/memif: use rte strerror
>    net/mlx4: use rte strerror
>    net/mlx5: use rte strerror
>    net/qede: use rte strerror
>    net/sfc: use rte strerror
>    net/tap: use rte strerror
>    net/vhost: use rte strerror
>    net/virtio: use rte strerror
>    raw/ifpga: use rte strerror
>    vdpa/ifc: use rte strerror
>    vdpa/mlx5: use rte strerror
>    vdpa/sfc: use rte strerror
>
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>
  
huangdengdui Nov. 1, 2024, 9:16 a.m. UTC | #5
On 2024/10/26 5:56, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 24/10/2024 08:47, huangdengdui:
>> On 2024/10/23 23:42, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>>> On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 16:28:10 +0800
>>> Dengdui Huang <huangdengdui@huawei.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The function strerror() is insecure in a multi-thread environment.
>>>> It is better to use rte_strerror() instead of strerror().
>>>> In this patchset, only the libs and drivers are modified.
>>>
>>> Even rte_strerror is not completely safe. It depends on the calling
>>> thread being a registered lcore.
>>
>> As discussed earlier, it is still safe if used from non-DPDK registered threads[1]:
>>
>> #define RTE_DEFINE_PER_LCORE(type, name)			\
>> 	__thread __typeof__(type) per_lcore_##name
>>
>> [1]: https://elixir.bootlin.com/dpdk/v23.11-rc3/source/lib/eal/include/rte_per_lcore.h#L37
>>
>>>
>>> It would be better to use a coccinelle script to do direct replacement
>>> with strerror_r().
>>>
>>> Also, rte_strerror is not signal safe.
>>
>> Can we use strerror_r() in the signal processing context and replace it with rte_strerror() everywhere else?
> 
> It does not make sense to use rte_strerror after libc functions.
> Please restrict the use of rte_strerror for error numbers from DPDK functions.
> 
> 

The Windows platform does not support strerror_r(). Using strerror_r() instead of strerror() is not a good idea,
Platform differences have been handled in rte_strerror()[1].
The rte_strerror() can also handle errno from libc functions[2][3].
So is it better to use rte_strerror() instead of strerror()?

[1]https://elixir.bootlin.com/dpdk/v23.11-rc3/source/lib/eal/common/eal_common_errno.c#L15
[2]https://elixir.bootlin.com/dpdk/v23.11-rc3/source/lib/eal/common/eal_common_errno.c#L49
[3]https://elixir.bootlin.com/dpdk/v23.11-rc3/source/lib/eal/include/rte_errno.h#L32
  
Stephen Hemminger Nov. 4, 2024, 6:22 p.m. UTC | #6
On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 16:28:10 +0800
Dengdui Huang <huangdengdui@huawei.com> wrote:

> The function strerror() is insecure in a multi-thread environment.
> It is better to use rte_strerror() instead of strerror().
> In this patchset, only the libs and drivers are modified.
> 
> chang log:
> v3->v4 fix ci error
> v2->v3 drop patch "telemetry: replace strerror" due to compile fail
> v1-v2 fix ci error
> 
> Dengdui Huang (42):
>   devtools: forbid use of strerror
>   eal: use rte strerror
>   eventdev: use rte strerror
>   latency: use rte strerror
>   node: use rte strerror
>   pdump: use rte strerror
>   power: use rte strerror
>   vhost: use rte strerror
>   bpf: use rte strerror
>   bus/cdx: use rte strerror
>   bus/dpaa: use rte strerror
>   bus/fslmc: use rte strerror
>   bus/pci: use rte strerror
>   bus/vdev: use rte strerror
>   bus/vmbus: use rte strerror
>   common/cnxk: use rte strerror
>   common/mlx5: use rte strerror
>   crypto/caam_jr: use rte strerror
>   dma/idxd: use rte strerror
>   net/af_packet: use rte strerror
>   net/bnxt: use rte strerror
>   net/af_xdp: use rte strerror
>   net/bonding: use rte strerror
>   net/dpaa: use rte strerror
>   net/dpaa2: use rte strerror
>   net/enetfec: use rte strerror
>   net/failsafe: use rte strerror
>   net/i40e: use rte strerror
>   net/ice: use rte strerror
>   net/ixgbe: use rte strerror
>   net/memif: use rte strerror
>   net/mlx4: use rte strerror
>   net/mlx5: use rte strerror
>   net/qede: use rte strerror
>   net/sfc: use rte strerror
>   net/tap: use rte strerror
>   net/vhost: use rte strerror
>   net/virtio: use rte strerror
>   raw/ifpga: use rte strerror
>   vdpa/ifc: use rte strerror
>   vdpa/mlx5: use rte strerror
>   vdpa/sfc: use rte strerror
> 
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>  drivers/net/bnxt/tf_core/tf_em_common.c       |  26 +-
>  .../net/bnxt/tf_core/tf_em_hash_internal.c    |   4 +-
>  drivers/net/bnxt/tf_core/tf_em_host.c         |  24 +-
>  drivers/net/bnxt/tf_core/tf_em_internal.c     |  14 +-
>  drivers/net/bnxt/tf_core/tf_global_cfg.c      |  10 +-
>  drivers/net/bnxt/tf_core/tf_identifier.c      |   8 +-
>  drivers/net/bnxt/tf_core/tf_if_tbl.c          |   6 +-
>  drivers/net/bnxt/tf_core/tf_msg.c             | 160 ++++++------
>  drivers/net/bnxt/tf_core/tf_rm.c              |   6 +-
>  drivers/net/bnxt/tf_core/tf_session.c         |  72 +++---
>  drivers/net/bnxt/tf_core/tf_sram_mgr.c        |  22 +-
>  drivers/net/bnxt/tf_core/tf_tbl.c             |  28 +-
>  drivers/net/bnxt/tf_core/tf_tbl_sram.c        |  48 ++--
>  drivers/net/bnxt/tf_core/tf_tcam.c            |  24 +-
>  drivers/net/bonding/bonding_testpmd.c         |   4 +-
>  drivers/net/bonding/rte_eth_bond_api.c        |   2 +-
>  drivers/net/bonding/rte_eth_bond_flow.c       |   4 +-
>  drivers/net/bonding/rte_eth_bond_pmd.c        |   6 +-
>  drivers/net/dpaa/dpaa_ethdev.c                |   4 +-
>  drivers/net/dpaa/fmlib/fm_lib.c               |   6 +-
>  drivers/net/dpaa2/dpaa2_ethdev.c              |   4 +-
>  drivers/net/enetfec/enet_uio.c                |   2 +-
>  drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe.c               |   8 +-
>  drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe_args.c          |   4 +-
>  drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe_eal.c           |   4 +-
>  drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe_flow.c          |   4 +-
>  drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe_ops.c           |   2 +-
>  drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe_private.h       |   6 +-
>  drivers/net/i40e/i40e_testpmd.c               |  42 +--
>  drivers/net/ice/ice_testpmd.c                 |   4 +-
>  drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_testpmd.c             |  12 +-
>  drivers/net/memif/memif_socket.c              |   4 +-
>  drivers/net/memif/rte_eth_memif.c             |  20 +-
>  drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4.c                       |  14 +-
>  drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_ethdev.c                |  18 +-
>  drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_rxq.c                   |  10 +-
>  drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_txq.c                   |  10 +-
>  drivers/net/mlx5/hws/mlx5dr_matcher.c         |   2 +-
>  drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_ethdev_os.c       |  22 +-
>  drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_os.c              |  18 +-
>  drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_socket.c          |  16 +-
>  drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_verbs.c           |   8 +-
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c                       |   8 +-
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_devx.c                  |   4 +-
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_mac.c                   |   2 +-
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxmode.c                |   8 +-
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxq.c                   |   4 +-
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx.c                  |   2 +-
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_stats.c                 |   4 +-
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_testpmd.c               |  26 +-
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_trigger.c               |  12 +-
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_vlan.c                  |   2 +-
>  drivers/net/mlx5/windows/mlx5_ethdev_os.c     |   2 +-
>  drivers/net/mlx5/windows/mlx5_os.c            |  12 +-
>  drivers/net/qede/qede_regs.c                  |   4 +-
>  drivers/net/sfc/sfc_flow.c                    |   2 +-
>  drivers/net/sfc/sfc_flow_tunnel.c             |   2 +-
>  drivers/net/sfc/sfc_mae.c                     |  58 ++---
>  drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c                 |  28 +-
>  drivers/net/tap/tap_flow.c                    |  14 +-
>  drivers/net/tap/tap_netlink.c                 |   5 +-
>  drivers/net/tap/tap_tcmsgs.c                  |   6 +-
>  drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c             |   6 +-
>  drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user/vhost_kernel.c |   8 +-
>  .../net/virtio/virtio_user/vhost_kernel_tap.c |  25 +-
>  drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user/vhost_user.c   |  20 +-
>  drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user/vhost_vdpa.c   |  12 +-
>  .../net/virtio/virtio_user/virtio_user_dev.c  |   8 +-
>  drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user_ethdev.c       |   6 +-
>  drivers/raw/ifpga/afu_pmd_n3000.c             |   5 +-
>  drivers/raw/ifpga/base/ifpga_fme_rsu.c        |  12 +-
>  drivers/raw/ifpga/ifpga_rawdev.c              |   2 +-
>  drivers/vdpa/ifc/ifcvf_vdpa.c                 |  23 +-
>  drivers/vdpa/mlx5/mlx5_vdpa_virtq.c           |   2 +-
>  drivers/vdpa/sfc/sfc_vdpa_ops.c               |   6 +-
>  lib/bpf/bpf_load_elf.c                        |   2 +-
>  lib/eal/common/eal_common_fbarray.c           |   2 +-
>  lib/eal/common/eal_common_options.c           |   7 +-
>  lib/eal/common/eal_common_proc.c              |  12 +-
>  lib/eal/common/eal_common_trace_utils.c       |   6 +-
>  lib/eal/freebsd/eal.c                         |   4 +-
>  lib/eal/freebsd/eal_interrupts.c              |   8 +-
>  lib/eal/freebsd/eal_memory.c                  |   2 +-
>  lib/eal/freebsd/eal_timer.c                   |   7 +-
>  lib/eal/linux/eal.c                           |  10 +-
>  lib/eal/linux/eal_dev.c                       |   2 +-
>  lib/eal/linux/eal_hugepage_info.c             |   5 +-
>  lib/eal/linux/eal_interrupts.c                |  18 +-
>  lib/eal/linux/eal_memalloc.c                  |  47 ++--
>  lib/eal/linux/eal_memory.c                    |  42 +--
>  lib/eal/linux/eal_timer.c                     |   2 +-
>  lib/eal/linux/eal_vfio.c                      |  42 +--
>  lib/eal/unix/eal_filesystem.c                 |   5 +-
>  lib/eal/unix/eal_unix_memory.c                |   6 +-
>  lib/eal/unix/rte_thread.c                     |   6 +-
>  lib/eventdev/rte_event_eth_rx_adapter.c       |   2 +-
>  lib/latencystats/rte_latencystats.c           |   4 +-
>  lib/node/kernel_tx.c                          |   2 +-
>  lib/pdump/rte_pdump.c                         |   6 +-
>  lib/power/guest_channel.c                     |   7 +-
>  lib/power/power_kvm_vm.c                      |   3 +-
>  lib/power/power_pstate_cpufreq.c              |   7 +-
>  lib/power/rte_power_pmd_mgmt.c                |   2 +-
>  lib/vhost/fd_man.c                            |   7 +-
>  lib/vhost/socket.c                            |  13 +-
>  lib/vhost/vduse.c                             |  45 ++--
>  lib/vhost/vhost_user.c                        |  10 +-
>  135 files changed, 956 insertions(+), 913 deletions(-)
> 

I don't think this is necessary because strerror() does not have the same
problems as strtok does. The function is documented to return a pointer
to an immutable string; there is no thread safety issue here.

Internally, Glibc uses TLS to make sure that it either returns a value
from the error list, or it a pointer to  an internal TLS error buffer.

Can't see the justification.
  

Patch

diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/sfc/sfc_vdpa_ops.c b/drivers/vdpa/sfc/sfc_vdpa_ops.c
index 00f9a4b04c..56fb7f96d8 100644
--- a/drivers/vdpa/sfc/sfc_vdpa_ops.c
+++ b/drivers/vdpa/sfc/sfc_vdpa_ops.c
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@  sfc_vdpa_enable_vfio_intr(struct sfc_vdpa_ops_data *ops_data)
 	if (rc) {
 		sfc_vdpa_err(ops_data->dev_handle,
 			     "error enabling MSI-X interrupts: %s",
-			     strerror(errno));
+			     rte_strerror(errno));
 		return -1;
 	}
 
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@  sfc_vdpa_disable_vfio_intr(struct sfc_vdpa_ops_data *ops_data)
 	if (rc) {
 		sfc_vdpa_err(ops_data->dev_handle,
 			     "error disabling MSI-X interrupts: %s",
-			     strerror(errno));
+			     rte_strerror(errno));
 		return -1;
 	}
 
@@ -841,7 +841,7 @@  sfc_vdpa_get_notify_area(int vid, int qid, uint64_t *offset, uint64_t *size)
 	ret = ioctl(vfio_dev_fd, VFIO_DEVICE_GET_REGION_INFO, &reg);
 	if (ret != 0) {
 		sfc_vdpa_err(dev, "could not get device region info: %s",
-			     strerror(errno));
+			     rte_strerror(errno));
 		return ret;
 	}