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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>, Martin Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Cc: Lawrence Brakmo <brakmo@fb.com>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>, Kernel Team <Kernel-team@fb.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 bpf-next 4/9] bpf: add bpf helper bpf_skb_ecn_set_ce
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 08:52:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b6b1ceb4-8a69-a92d-ea20-1d3f228ccd30@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c9ebe42a-4fc5-74f5-1b80-30ec45772174@iogearbox.net>



On 02/25/2019 02:10 AM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:

> My understanding is that before doing any writes into skb, we should make
> sure the data area is private to us (and offset in linear data). In tc BPF
> (ingress, egress) we use bpf_try_make_writable() helper for this, others
> like act_{pedit,skbmod} or ovs have similar logic before writing into skb,
> note that in all these cases it's mostly about generic writes, so location
> could also be L4, for example.
> 
> Difference of above helper compared to net/sched/sch_*.c instances could
> be that it's i) for the qdisc case it's only on egress INET_ECN_set_ce()
> and that there may be a convention that qdiscs specifically may mangle
> it whereas the helper could be called on ingress and egress and confuse
> other subsystems since they won't see original or race by seeing partially
> updated (invalid) packet.
> 
> Eric, have a chance to clarify? Perhaps then would make sense to disallow
> the helper in cgroup ingress path.

Good observations Daniel, thanks for bringing this up.

skb_ensure_writable() seems a big hammer for the case we change some bits in IP header.

TCP cloned packets certainly can have their headers mangled, so maybe
we need to use something using skb_header_cloned() instead of skb_cloned()

  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-25 16:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-23  1:06 [PATCH v2 bpf-next 0/9] bpf: Network Resource Manager (NRM) brakmo
2019-02-23  1:06 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 1/9] bpf: Remove const from get_func_proto brakmo
2019-02-23  1:06 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 2/9] bpf: Add bpf helper bpf_tcp_enter_cwr brakmo
2019-02-24  1:32   ` Eric Dumazet
2019-02-24  3:08     ` Martin Lau
2019-02-24  4:44       ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-02-24 18:00       ` Eric Dumazet
2019-02-25 23:14   ` Stanislav Fomichev
2019-02-26  1:30     ` Martin Lau
2019-02-26  3:32       ` Stanislav Fomichev
2019-02-23  1:06 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 3/9] bpf: Test bpf_tcp_enter_cwr in test_verifier brakmo
2019-02-23  1:06 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 4/9] bpf: add bpf helper bpf_skb_ecn_set_ce brakmo
2019-02-23  1:14   ` Daniel Borkmann
2019-02-23  7:30     ` Martin Lau
2019-02-25 10:10       ` Daniel Borkmann
2019-02-25 16:52         ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2019-02-23  1:06 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 5/9] bpf: Add bpf helper bpf_tcp_check_probe_timer brakmo
2019-02-23  1:07 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 6/9] bpf: sync bpf.h to tools and update bpf_helpers.h brakmo
2019-02-23  1:07 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 7/9] bpf: Sample NRM BPF program to limit egress bw brakmo
2019-02-23  1:07 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 8/9] bpf: User program for testing NRM brakmo
2019-02-23  1:07 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 9/9] bpf: NRM test script brakmo
2019-02-23  3:03 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 0/9] bpf: Network Resource Manager (NRM) David Ahern
2019-02-23 18:39   ` Eric Dumazet
2019-02-23 20:40     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-02-23 20:43       ` Eric Dumazet
2019-02-23 23:25         ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-02-24  2:58           ` David Ahern
2019-02-24  4:48             ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-02-25  1:38               ` David Ahern

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