Re: CFT: if_bridge performance improvements

Just using pf is enough to provoke this panic. I had the same back trace. This patch from Kristof fixed it for me.

diff --git a/sys/net/if_bridge.c b/sys/net/if_bridge.c
index 373fa096d70..83c453090bb 100644
--- a/sys/net/if_bridge.c
+++ b/sys/net/if_bridge.c
_at__at_ -2529,7 +2529,6 _at__at_ bridge_input(struct ifnet *ifp, struct mbuf *m)
                             OR_PFIL_HOOKED_INET6)) {                   \
                                if (bridge_pfil(&m, NULL, ifp,          \
                                    PFIL_IN) != 0 || m == NULL) {       \
-                                       BRIDGE_UNLOCK(sc);              \
                                        return (NULL);                  \
                                }                                       \
                                eh = mtod(m, struct ether_header *);    \


> On 22 Apr 2020, at 18:15, Xin Li <delphij_at_delphij.net> wrote:
> 
> On 4/22/20 01:45, Kristof Provost wrote:
>> On 22 Apr 2020, at 10:20, Xin Li wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> On 4/14/20 02:51, Kristof Provost wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks to support from The FreeBSD Foundation I’ve been able to work on
>>>> improving the throughput of if_bridge.
>>>> It changes the (data path) locking to use the NET_EPOCH infrastructure.
>>>> Benchmarking shows substantial improvements (x5 in test setups).
>>>> 
>>>> This work is ready for wider testing now.
>>>> 
>>>> It’s under review here: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24250
>>>> 
>>>> Patch for CURRENT: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24250?download=true
>>>> Patches for stable/12:
>>>> https://people.freebsd.org/~kp/if_bridge/stable_12/
>>>> 
>>>> I’m not currently aware of any panics or issues resulting from these
>>>> patches.
>>> 
>>> I have observed the following panic with latest stable/12 after applying
>>> the stable_12 patchset, it appears like a race condition related NULL
>>> pointer deference, but I haven't took a deeper look yet.
>>> 
>>> The box have 7 igb(4) NICs, with several bridge and VLAN configured
>>> acting as a router.  Please let me know if you need additional
>>> information; I can try -CURRENT as well, but it would take some time as
>>> the box is relatively slow (it's a ZFS based system so I can create a
>>> separate boot environment for -CURRENT if needed, but that would take
>>> some time as I might have to upgrade the packages, should there be any
>>> ABI breakages).
>>> 
>> Thanks for the report. I don’t immediately see how this could happen.
>> 
>> Are you running an L2 firewall on that bridge by any chance? An earlier
>> version of the patch had issues with a stray unlock in that code path.
> 
> I don't think I have a L2 firewall (I assume means filtering based on
> MAC address like what can be done with e.g. ipfw?  The bridges were
> created on vlan interfaces though, do they count as L2 firewall?), the
> system is using pf with a few NAT rules:
> 
> $ sudo pfctl -s rules
> anchor "miniupnpd" all
> pass in quick inet6 proto tcp from <myv6> to any flags S/SA keep state
> block drop in quick inet6 proto tcp from ! <myv6> to <myv6> flags S/SA
> block drop in quick proto tcp from any os "Linux" to any port = ssh
> pass out on igb6 inet proto tcp from (igb6) to any port = domain flags
> S/SA keep state queue dns
> pass out on igb6 inet proto udp from (igb6) to any port = domain keep
> state queue dns
> pass in on igb6 proto tcp from any to (igb6) port = http flags S/SA
> modulate state queue(web, ack)
> pass in on igb6 proto tcp from any to (igb6) port = https flags S/SA
> modulate state queue(web, ack)
> pass out on igb6 inet proto tcp from (igb6) to any flags S/SA modulate
> state queue bulk
> block drop in quick on igb6 proto tcp from <sshguard> to any port = ssh
> label "ssh bruteforce"
> block drop in on igb6 from <badhosts> to any
> 
> Cheers,