wg-crypt-wg0 process

[Fatih USTA]

Hi Jason,

Thanks for the detailed research and explanation.That's ok for me.

Regards.

Fatih USTA

On 30.12.2020 15:39, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Hi Fatih,
>
> Thanks for the report and the detailed test case. From what I can see,
> this behavior presents itself both with the explicit ip link del and
> without. When running with debugging enabled, I can see this in dmesg:
>
> [558758.361056] wireguard: wg0: Keypair 244 destroyed for peer 21
> [558758.546649] wireguard: wg0: Peer 21 (10.150.150.2:51820) destroyed
> [558758.563317] wireguard: wg0: Interface destroyed
> [558758.567803] wireguard: wg0: Keypair 243 destroyed for peer 22
> [558758.733287] wireguard: wg0: Peer 22 (10.150.150.1:51820) destroyed
> [558758.749991] wireguard: wg0: Interface destroyed
>
> The fact that I see "Interface destroyed" for both interfaces means
> that wg_destruct() is being called, which includes these calls:
>
>          destroy_workqueue(wg->handshake_receive_wq);
>          destroy_workqueue(wg->handshake_send_wq);
>          destroy_workqueue(wg->packet_crypt_wq);
>
> In doing so, the output of ps changes from:
>
> $ ps aux|grep wg0
> root      200479  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        I    13:06   0:00
> [kworker/0:2-wg-crypt-wg0]
> root      201226  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        I    13:08   0:00
> [kworker/1:4-wg-crypt-wg0]
> root      201476  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        I<   13:11   0:00
> [wg-crypt-wg0]
> root      201484  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        I<   13:11   0:00
> [wg-crypt-wg0]
>
> to:
>
> $ ps aux|grep wg0
> root      200479  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        I    13:06   0:00
> [kworker/0:2-wg-crypt-wg0]
> root      201226  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        I    13:08   0:00
> [kworker/1:4-wg-crypt-wg0]
>
> What I suspect is happening is that destroying the workqueue does not
> actually destroy the kthreads that they were using, so that they can
> be reused (and eventually relabeled) by other drivers. Looking at the
> stack of those indicates this is probably the case:
>
> $ cat /proc/200479/stack
> [<0>] worker_thread+0xba/0x3c0
> [<0>] kthread+0x114/0x130
> [<0>] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
>
> So it's just hanging out there idle waiting to be scheduled by
> something new. In fact, while I was writing this email, that worker
> already seems to have been reclaimed by another driver:
>
> $ cat /proc/200479/comm
> kworker/0:2-events
>
> Now it's called "events".
>
> This is happening because the kthread isn't actually destroyed, and
> task->comm is being hijacked. In proc_task_name we have:
>
>          if (p->flags & PF_WQ_WORKER)
>                 wq_worker_comm(tcomm, sizeof(tcomm), p);
>         else
>                 __get_task_comm(tcomm, sizeof(tcomm), p);
>
> That top condition holds for workqueue workers, and wq_worker_comm
> winds up scnprintf'ing the current worker description in there:
>
>                          /*
>                          * ->desc tracks information (wq name or
>                          * set_worker_desc()) for the latest execution.  If
>                          * current, prepend '+', otherwise '-'.
>                          */
>                         if (worker->desc[0] != '\0') {
>                                 if (worker->current_work)
>                                         scnprintf(buf + off, size - off, "+%s",
>                                                   worker->desc);
>                                 else
>                                         scnprintf(buf + off, size - off, "-%s",
>                                                   worker->desc);
>
> But worker->desc isn't set until process_one_work is called:
>
>          /*
>          * Record wq name for cmdline and debug reporting, may get
>          * overridden through set_worker_desc().
>          */
>         strscpy(worker->desc, pwq->wq->name, WORKER_DESC_LEN);
>
> And it's never unset after the work is done and it's waiting idle in
> worker_thread for the scheduler to reschedule it and eventually call
> process_one_work on a new work unit.
>
> It would be easy to just null out that string after the work is done
> with something like:
>
>          worker->current_func(work);
>          worker->desc[0] = '\0';
>
> But I guess this has never sufficiently bothered anyone before. I
> suppose I could submit a patch and see how it's received. But it also
> looks like the scnprintf above in wq_worker_comm distinguishes these
> cases anyway. If there's a + it means that the work is active and if
> there's a - it means that it's an old leftover thread. So maybe this
> is fine as-is?
>
> Jason