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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 11:09:49 -0400
From: Eric Garver <e@...g.me>
To: Joe Stringer <joe@....org>
Cc: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@....org>,
Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
ovs dev <dev@...nvswitch.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] openvswitch: add ct_clear action
On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 05:33:48AM -0700, Joe Stringer wrote:
> On 9 October 2017 at 21:41, Pravin Shelar <pshelar@....org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 9:44 AM, Eric Garver <e@...g.me> wrote:
> >> This adds a ct_clear action for clearing conntrack state. ct_clear is
> >> currently implemented in OVS userspace, but is not backed by an action
> >> in the kernel datapath. This is useful for flows that may modify a
> >> packet tuple after a ct lookup has already occurred.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Eric Garver <e@...g.me>
> > Patch mostly looks good. I have following comments.
> >
> >> ---
> >> include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h | 2 ++
> >> net/openvswitch/actions.c | 5 +++++
> >> net/openvswitch/conntrack.c | 12 ++++++++++++
> >> net/openvswitch/conntrack.h | 7 +++++++
> >> net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c | 5 +++++
> >> 5 files changed, 31 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h b/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h
> >> index 156ee4cab82e..1b6e510e2cc6 100644
> >> --- a/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h
> >> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h
> >> @@ -806,6 +806,7 @@ struct ovs_action_push_eth {
> >> * packet.
> >> * @OVS_ACTION_ATTR_POP_ETH: Pop the outermost Ethernet header off the
> >> * packet.
> >> + * @OVS_ACTION_ATTR_CT_CLEAR: Clear conntrack state from the packet.
> >> *
> >> * Only a single header can be set with a single %OVS_ACTION_ATTR_SET. Not all
> >> * fields within a header are modifiable, e.g. the IPv4 protocol and fragment
> >> @@ -835,6 +836,7 @@ enum ovs_action_attr {
> >> OVS_ACTION_ATTR_TRUNC, /* u32 struct ovs_action_trunc. */
> >> OVS_ACTION_ATTR_PUSH_ETH, /* struct ovs_action_push_eth. */
> >> OVS_ACTION_ATTR_POP_ETH, /* No argument. */
> >> + OVS_ACTION_ATTR_CT_CLEAR, /* No argument. */
> >>
> >> __OVS_ACTION_ATTR_MAX, /* Nothing past this will be accepted
> >> * from userspace. */
> >> diff --git a/net/openvswitch/actions.c b/net/openvswitch/actions.c
> >> index a54a556fcdb5..db9c7f2e662b 100644
> >> --- a/net/openvswitch/actions.c
> >> +++ b/net/openvswitch/actions.c
> >> @@ -1203,6 +1203,10 @@ static int do_execute_actions(struct datapath *dp, struct sk_buff *skb,
> >> return err == -EINPROGRESS ? 0 : err;
> >> break;
> >>
> >> + case OVS_ACTION_ATTR_CT_CLEAR:
> >> + err = ovs_ct_clear(skb, key);
> >> + break;
> >> +
> >> case OVS_ACTION_ATTR_PUSH_ETH:
> >> err = push_eth(skb, key, nla_data(a));
> >> break;
> >> @@ -1210,6 +1214,7 @@ static int do_execute_actions(struct datapath *dp, struct sk_buff *skb,
> >> case OVS_ACTION_ATTR_POP_ETH:
> >> err = pop_eth(skb, key);
> >> break;
> >> +
> >> }
> > Unrelated change.
> >
> >>
> >> if (unlikely(err)) {
> >> diff --git a/net/openvswitch/conntrack.c b/net/openvswitch/conntrack.c
> >> index d558e882ca0c..f9b73c726ad7 100644
> >> --- a/net/openvswitch/conntrack.c
> >> +++ b/net/openvswitch/conntrack.c
> >> @@ -1129,6 +1129,18 @@ int ovs_ct_execute(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb,
> >> return err;
> >> }
> >>
> >> +int ovs_ct_clear(struct sk_buff *skb, struct sw_flow_key *key)
> >> +{
> >> + if (skb_nfct(skb)) {
> >> + nf_conntrack_put(skb_nfct(skb));
> >> + nf_ct_set(skb, NULL, 0);
> > Can the new conntract state be appropriate? may be IP_CT_UNTRACKED?
> >
> >> + }
> >> +
> >> + ovs_ct_fill_key(skb, key);
> >> +
> > I do not see need to refill the key if there is no skb-nf-ct.
>
> Really this is trying to just zero the CT key fields, but reuses
> existing functions, right? This means that subsequent upcalls, for
Right.
> instance, won't have the outdated view of the CT state from the
> previous lookup (that was prior to the ct_clear). I'd expect these key
> fields to be cleared.
I assumed Pravin was saying that we don't need to clear them if there is
no conntrack state. They should already be zero.
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