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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: fw@strlen.de, john.hurley@netronome.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	simon.horman@netronome.com, jakub.kicinski@netronome.com,
	jhs@mojatatu.com, oss-drivers@netronome.com
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next v2 1/1] net: sched: protect against loops in TC filter hooks
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 21:52:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190606195255.4uelltuxptwobhiv@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190606.111954.2036000288766363267.davem@davemloft.net>

David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
> Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 14:58:18 +0200
> 
> >> @@ -827,6 +828,7 @@ struct sk_buff {
> >>  	__u8			tc_at_ingress:1;
> >>  	__u8			tc_redirected:1;
> >>  	__u8			tc_from_ingress:1;
> >> +	__u8			tc_hop_count:2;
> > 
> > I dislike this, why can't we just use a pcpu counter?
> 
> I understand that it's because the only precise context is per-SKB not
> per-cpu doing packet processing.  This has been discussed before.

I don't think its worth it, and it won't work with physical-world
loops (e.g. a bridge setup with no spanning tree and a closed loop).

Also I fear that if we start to do this for tc, we will also have to
followup later with more l2 hopcounts for other users, e.g. veth,
bridge, ovs, and so on.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-06 19:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-06 12:49 [RFC net-next v2 1/1] net: sched: protect against loops in TC filter hooks John Hurley
2019-06-06 12:58 ` Florian Westphal
2019-06-06 13:27   ` John Hurley
2019-06-06 14:04     ` Florian Westphal
2019-06-06 18:19   ` David Miller
2019-06-06 19:52     ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2019-06-11 14:58       ` John Hurley
2019-06-11 15:03         ` Florian Westphal

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