Re: wireguard: problem sending via libpcap's packet socket

[Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>]

> > header_ops looks like the best approach to me, too. The protocol field
> > needs to reflect the protocol of the *outer* packet, of course, but if
> > I read wg_allowedips_lookup_dst correctly, wireguard maintains the
> > same outer protocol as the inner protocol, no sit (6-in-4) and such.
>
> WireGuard does allow 6-in-4 and 4-in-6 actually. But parse_protocol is
> only ever called on the inner packet. The only code paths leading to
> it are af_packet-->ndo_start_xmit, and ndo_start_xmit examines
> skb->protocol of that inner packet, which means it entirely concerns
> the inner packet.

Of course, you are right. This inspects the packet before passing to
the device ndo_start_xmit, so before any encapsulation would take
place.

> And generally, for wireguard, userspace only ever
> deals with the inner packet. That inner packet then gets encrypted and
> poked at in strange ways, and then the encrypted blob of sludge gets
> put into a udp packet and sent some place. So I'm quite sure that the
> behavior just committed is right.
>
> And from writing a few libpcap examples, things seem to be working
> very well, including Hans' example.

Definitely. Thanks again.