From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
To: Eyal Birger <eyal.birger@gmail.com>
Cc: <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>, <davem@davemloft.net>,
<kuba@kernel.org>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH ipsec-next] xfrm: interface: support collect metadata mode
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 10:44:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201127094414.GC9390@gauss3.secunet.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201121142823.3629805-1-eyal.birger@gmail.com>
On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 04:28:23PM +0200, Eyal Birger wrote:
> This commit adds support for 'collect_md' mode on xfrm interfaces.
>
> Each net can have one collect_md device, created by providing the
> IFLA_XFRM_COLLECT_METADATA flag at creation. This device cannot be
> altered and has no if_id or link device attributes.
>
> On transmit to this device, the if_id is fetched from the attached dst
> metadata on the skb. The dst metadata type used is METADATA_IP_TUNNEL
> since the only needed property is the if_id stored in the tun_id member
> of the ip_tunnel_info->key.
Can we please have a separate metadata type for xfrm interfaces?
Sharing such structures turned already out to be a bad idea
on vti interfaces, let's try to avoid that misstake with
xfrm interfaces.
> On the receive side, xfrmi_rcv_cb() populates a dst metadata for each
> packet received and attaches it to the skb. The if_id used in this case is
> fetched from the xfrm state. This can later be used by upper layers such
> as tc, ebpf, and ip rules.
>
> Because the skb is scrubed in xfrmi_rcv_cb(), the attachment of the dst
> metadata is postponed until after scrubing. Similarly, xfrm_input() is
> adapted to avoid dropping metadata dsts by only dropping 'valid'
> (skb_valid_dst(skb) == true) dsts.
>
> Policy matching on packets arriving from collect_md xfrmi devices is
> done by using the xfrm state existing in the skb's sec_path.
> The xfrm_if_cb.decode_cb() interface implemented by xfrmi_decode_session()
> is changed to keep the details of the if_id extraction tucked away
> in xfrm_interface.c.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eyal Birger <eyal.birger@gmail.com>
The rest of the patch looks good.
Thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-27 9:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-21 14:28 [PATCH ipsec-next] xfrm: interface: support collect metadata mode Eyal Birger
2020-11-27 9:44 ` Steffen Klassert [this message]
2020-11-27 12:32 ` Eyal Birger
2020-12-02 9:37 ` Steffen Klassert
2020-12-28 7:03 ` Eyal Birger
2021-01-05 8:13 ` Steffen Klassert
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