netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: sched: cls: Fix offloading when ingress dev is vxlan

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Tue, 5 Jun 2018 11:57:47 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@...pl>
To:     Paul Blakey <paulb@...lanox.com>
Cc:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>,
        Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Yevgeny Kliteynik <kliteyn@...lanox.com>,
        Roi Dayan <roid@...lanox.com>,
        Shahar Klein <shahark@...lanox.com>,
        Mark Bloch <markb@...lanox.com>,
        Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: sched: cls: Fix offloading when ingress dev is
 vxlan

On Tue,  5 Jun 2018 11:04:03 +0300, Paul Blakey wrote:
> When using a vxlan device as the ingress dev, we count it as a
> "no offload dev", so when such a rule comes and err stop is true,
> we fail early and don't try the egdev route which can offload it
> through the egress device.
> 
> Fix that by not calling the block offload if one of the devices
> attached to it is not offload capable, but make sure egress on such case
> is capable instead.
> 
> Fixes: caa7260156eb ("net: sched: keep track of offloaded filters [..]")
> Reviewed-by: Roi Dayan <roid@...lanox.com>
> Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Blakey <paulb@...lanox.com>

Very poor commit message.  What you're doing is re-enabling skip_sw
filters on tunnel devices which semantically make no sense and
shouldn't have been allowed in the first place.

This will breaks block sharing between tunnels and HW netdevs (because
you skip the tcf_block_cb_call() completely).  The entire egdev idea
remains badly broken accepting filters like this:

# tc filter add dev vxlan0 ingress \
	matchall action skip_sw \
		mirred egress redirect dev lo \
		mirred egress redirect dev sw1np0

Do we still care about correctness and not breaking backward
compatibility?