Re: [RFC bpf-next 0/5] Extend SOCKMAP to store listening sockets

[Martin Lau <kafai@fb.com>]

On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 01:37:25PM +0200, Jakub Sitnicki wrote:
> This patch set is a follow up on a suggestion from LPC '19 discussions to
> make SOCKMAP (or a new map type derived from it) a generic type for storing
> established as well as listening sockets.
> 
> We found ourselves in need of a map type that keeps references to listening
> sockets when working on making the socket lookup programmable, aka BPF
> inet_lookup [1].  Initially we repurposed REUSEPORT_SOCKARRAY but found it
> problematic to extend due to being tightly coupled with reuseport
> logic (see slides [2]).
> So we've turned our attention to SOCKMAP instead.
> 
> As it turns out the changes needed to make SOCKMAP suitable for storing
> listening sockets are self-contained and have use outside of programming
> the socket lookup. Hence this patch set.
> 
> With these patches SOCKMAP can be used in SK_REUSEPORT BPF programs as a
> drop-in replacement for REUSEPORT_SOCKARRAY for TCP. This can hopefully
> lead to code consolidation between the two map types in the future.
What is the plan for UDP support in sockmap?

> 
> Having said that, the main intention here is to lay groundwork for using
> SOCKMAP in the next iteration of programmable socket lookup patches.
What may be the minimal to get only lookup work for UDP sockmap?
.close() and .unhash()?

> 
> I'm looking for feedback if there's anything fundamentally wrong with
> extending SOCKMAP map type like this that I might have missed.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jakub
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20190828072250.29828-1-jakub@cloudflare.com/
> [2] https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__linuxplumbersconf.org_event_4_contributions_487_attachments_238_417_Programmable-5Fsocket-5Flookup-5FLPC-5F19.pdf&d=DwIDAg&c=5VD0RTtNlTh3ycd41b3MUw&r=VQnoQ7LvghIj0gVEaiQSUw&m=Y-Ap1QuRBsqsu8gATb1wH3rPT89No2mam2qINt1BGDI&s=_sfXVfJhB2eR7znE7-WBk660dQXIBxuDLRi7jvXVpsg&e= 
> 
> 
> Jakub Sitnicki (5):
>   bpf, sockmap: Let BPF helpers use lookup operation on SOCKMAP
>   bpf, sockmap: Allow inserting listening TCP sockets into SOCKMAP
>   bpf, sockmap: Don't let child socket inherit psock or its ops on copy
>   bpf: Allow selecting reuseport socket from a SOCKMAP
>   selftests/bpf: Extend SK_REUSEPORT tests to cover SOCKMAP
> 
>  kernel/bpf/verifier.c                         |   6 +-
>  net/core/sock_map.c                           |  11 +-
>  net/ipv4/tcp_bpf.c                            |  30 ++++
>  tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile          |   7 +-
>  .../selftests/bpf/test_select_reuseport.c     | 141 ++++++++++++++----
>  .../selftests/bpf/test_select_reuseport.sh    |  14 ++
>  6 files changed, 173 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_select_reuseport.sh
> 
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