On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 11:39:46AM +0000, Lorenz Bauer wrote:
> This series adds the necessary helpers to determine wheter a given
> (encapsulated) TCP packet belongs to a connection known to the network stack.
> 
> * bpf_skc_lookup_tcp gives access to request and timewait sockets
> * bpf_tcp_check_syncookie identifies the final 3WHS ACK when syncookies
>   are enabled
> 
> The goal is to be able to implement load-balancing approaches like
> glb-director [1] or Beamer [2] in pure eBPF. Specifically, we'd like to 
> replace
> the functionality of the glb-redirect kernel module [3] by an XDP program or
> tc classifier.
> 
> Thanks to Martin KaFai Lau for his review!
> 
> Changes in v2:
> * Rename bpf_sk_check_syncookie to bpf_tcp_check_syncookie.
> * Add bpf_skc_lookup_tcp. Without it bpf_tcp_check_syncookie doesn't make 
> sense.
> * Check tcp_synq_no_recent_overflow() in bpf_tcp_check_syncookie.
> * Check th->syn in bpf_tcp_check_syncookie.
> * Require CONFIG_IPV6 to be a built in.

pls resubmit when bpf-next reopens.

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