netdev - Re: [bpf-next v3 0/9] bpf: Add helper to do FIB lookups

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Date:   Fri, 11 May 2018 01:30:31 +0200
From:   Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        borkmann@...earbox.net, ast@...nel.org
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, shm@...ulusnetworks.com,
        roopa@...ulusnetworks.com, brouer@...hat.com, toke@...e.dk,
        john.fastabend@...il.com
Subject: Re: [bpf-next v3 0/9] bpf: Add helper to do FIB lookups

On 05/10/2018 05:34 AM, David Ahern wrote:
> Provide a helper for doing a FIB and neighbor lookup in the kernel
> tables from an XDP program. The helper provides a fastpath for forwarding
> packets. If the packet is a local delivery or for any reason is not a
> simple lookup and forward, the packet is expected to continue up the stack
> for full processing.
> 
> The response from a FIB and neighbor lookup is either the egress index
> with the bpf_fib_lookup struct filled in with dmac and gateway or
> 0 meaning the packet should continue up the stack. In time we can
> revisit this to return the FIB lookup result errno if it is one of the
> special RTN_'s such as RTN_BLACKHOLE (-EINVAL) so that the XDP
> programs can do an early drop if desired.
> 
> Patches 1-6 do some more refactoring to IPv6 with the end goal of
> extracting a FIB lookup function that aligns with fib_lookup for IPv4,
> basically returning a fib6_info without creating a dst based entry.
> 
> Patch 7 adds lookup functions to the ipv6 stub. These are needed since
> bpf is built into the kernel and ipv6 may not be built or loaded.
> 
> Patch 8 adds the bpf helper and 9 adds a sample program.
> 
> v3
> - remove ETH_ALEN and in6_addr from uapi header

Applied to bpf-next, thanks David!