On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 02:17:17PM -0700, Joe Stringer wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 at 14:02, Alexei Starovoitov
> <alexei.starovoi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 01:55:01PM -0700, Joe Stringer wrote:
> > > On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 at 12:06, Alexei Starovoitov
> > > <alexei.starovoi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 5:06 PM, Alexei Starovoitov
> > > > <alexei.starovoi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 05:36:36PM -0700, Joe Stringer wrote:
> > > > >> This patch adds new BPF helper functions, bpf_sk_lookup_tcp() and
> > > > >> bpf_sk_lookup_udp() which allows BPF programs to find out if there
> > > > >> is a
> > > > >> socket listening on this host, and returns a socket pointer which the
> > > > >> BPF program can then access to determine, for instance, whether to
> > > > >> forward or drop traffic. bpf_sk_lookup_xxx() may take a reference on
> > > > >> the
> > > > >> socket, so when a BPF program makes use of this function, it must
> > > > >> subsequently pass the returned pointer into the newly added
> > > > >> sk_release()
> > > > >> to return the reference.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> By way of example, the following pseudocode would filter inbound
> > > > >> connections at XDP if there is no corresponding service listening for
> > > > >> the traffic:
> > > > >>
> > > > >> struct bpf_sock_tuple tuple;
> > > > >> struct bpf_sock_ops *sk;
> > > > >>
> > > > >> populate_tuple(ctx, &tuple); // Extract the 5tuple from the packet
> > > > >> sk = bpf_sk_lookup_tcp(ctx, &tuple, sizeof tuple, netns, 0);
> > > > > ...
> > > > >> +struct bpf_sock_tuple {
> > > > >> + union {
> > > > >> + __be32 ipv6[4];
> > > > >> + __be32 ipv4;
> > > > >> + } saddr;
> > > > >> + union {
> > > > >> + __be32 ipv6[4];
> > > > >> + __be32 ipv4;
> > > > >> + } daddr;
> > > > >> + __be16 sport;
> > > > >> + __be16 dport;
> > > > >> + __u8 family;
> > > > >> +};
> > > > >
> > > > > since we can pass ptr_to_packet into map lookup and other helpers now,
> > > > > can you move 'family' out of bpf_sock_tuple and combine with netns_id
> > > > > arg?
> > > > > then progs wouldn't need to copy bytes from the packet into tuple
> > > > > to do a lookup.
> > >
> > > If I follow, you're proposing that users should be able to pass a
> > > pointer to the source address field of the L3 header, and assuming
> > > that the L3 header ends with saddr+daddr (no options/extheaders), and
> > > is immediately followed by the sport/dport then a packet pointer
> > > should work for performing socket lookup. Then it is up to the BPF
> > > program writer to ensure that this is the case, or otherwise fall back
> > > to populating a copy of the sock tuple on the stack.
> >
> > yep.
> >
> > > > have been thinking more about it.
> > > > since only ipv4 and ipv6 supported may be use size of bpf_sock_tuple
> > > > to infer family inside the helper, so it doesn't need to be passed
> > > > explicitly?
> > >
> > > Let me make sure I understand the proposal here.
> > >
> > > The current structure and function prototypes are:
> > >
> > > struct bpf_sock_tuple {
> > > union {
> > > __be32 ipv6[4];
> > > __be32 ipv4;
> > > } saddr;
> > > union {
> > > __be32 ipv6[4];
> > > __be32 ipv4;
> > > } daddr;
> > > __be16 sport;
> > > __be16 dport;
> > > __u8 family;
> > > };
> > ...
> > > You're proposing something like:
> > >
> > > struct bpf_sock_tuple4 {
> > > __be32 saddr;
> > > __be32 daddr;
> > > __be16 sport;
> > > __be16 dport;
> > > __u8 family;
> > > };
> > >
> > > struct bpf_sock_tuple6 {
> > > __be32 saddr[4];
> > > __be32 daddr[4];
> > > __be16 sport;
> > > __be16 dport;
> > > __u8 family;
> > > };
> >
> > I think the split is unnecessary.
> > I'm proposing:
> > struct bpf_sock_tuple {
> > union {
> > __be32 ipv6[4];
> > __be32 ipv4;
> > } saddr;
> > union {
> > __be32 ipv6[4];
> > __be32 ipv4;
> > } daddr;
> > __be16 sport;
> > __be16 dport;
> > };
> >
> > that points directly into the packet (when ipv4 options are not there)
> > and bpf_sk_lookup_tcp() uses 'size' argument to figure out ipv4/ipv6 family.
>
> Needs to be subtly different, the 'sport'/'dport' offset would be
> wrong in the IPv4 case otherwise:
ahh. right.
>
> We could take my definitions above and do the following if we want to
> try to type the helper definition:
>
> union bpf_sock_tuple {
> struct bpf_sock_tuple4 t4;
> struct bpf_sock_tuple6 t6;
> };
yes. sounds great to me. Much better than 'void *' in the helper.
