netdev - Re: AF_PACKET: tx_ring mirrored in rx

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Date:	Tue, 22 Jul 2014 15:39:48 +0200
From:	Mihail Dakov <mihail.dakov@...t.com>
To:	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>
CC:	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AF_PACKET: tx_ring mirrored in rx_ring?


On 07/22/2014 12:35 AM, Willem de Bruijn wrote:
>>>> What'd you mean by local traffic? The packets which are replicated are
>>>> destined to remote machine(s).
>>>
>>> Sure, but you are sending them out via your packet socket.
>>
>> Well yes. It's just that I interpreted local as if they were not going out
>> of the machine. But in fact they do.
> That is a semantic issue. The technical point is that packet
> sockets read not only incoming packets, but also outgoing
> ones. The tap in the egress path (dev_queue_xmit_nit) is taken
> for almost all transmitted packets, included those transmitted
> by a packet socket.
>
> There is logic to avoid looping outgoing packets back into the
> originating socket (and fanout group) by detecting the source
> socket (skb_loop_sk). Other packet sockets will receive the
> outgoing packets, however. This is correct behavior, as it is
> how tcpdump can log all traffic, among others.
>
> You can use PACKET_QDISC_BYPASS on your transmit
> packet socket, as Daniel mentions, or attach a BPF filter to
> your receive socket that filters on !PACKET_OUTGOING, e.g.,:
>
>    struct sock_filter bpf_filter[] = {
>      {BPF_LD | BPF_B | BPF_ABS, 0, 0, (uint32_t) (SKF_AD_OFF + SKF_AD_PKTTYPE)},
>      {BPF_JMP | BPF_JEQ, 1, 0, PACKET_OUTGOING},
>      {BPF_RET, 0, 0, 0x00000000},
>      {BPF_RET, 0, 0, 0x0000ffff},
>    };
>    struct sock_fprog bpf_prog;
>
>    bpf_prog.filter = bpf_filter;
>    bpf_prog.len = sizeof(bpf_filter) / sizeof(struct sock_filter);
>    if (setsockopt(fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_ATTACH_FILTER, &bpf_prog,
>                   sizeof(bpf_prog))) {
>      error(1, errno, "setsockopt filter");
>    }
Thanks.
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