netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v5 1/4] net/sched: user-space can't set unknown tcfa

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Date:   Mon, 30 Jul 2018 15:31:57 -0400
From:   Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
To:     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>,
        Eyal Birger <eyal.birger@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 1/4] net/sched: user-space can't set unknown
 tcfa_action values

On 30/07/18 12:41 PM, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-07-30 at 10:03 -0400, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
>> On 30/07/18 08:30 AM, Paolo Abeni wrote:
>>>    	}
>>>    
>>> +	if (!tcf_action_valid(a->tcfa_action)) {
>>> +		NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "invalid action value, using TC_ACT_UNSPEC instead");
>>> +		a->tcfa_action = TC_ACT_UNSPEC;
>>> +	}
>>> +
>>>    	return a;
>>>    
>>
>>
>> I think it would make a lot more sense to just reject the entry than
>> changing it underneath the user to a default value. Least element of
>> suprise.
> 
> I fear that would break existing (bad) users ?!? This way, such users
> are notified they are doing something uncorrect, but still continue to
> work.


By "bad users" I think you mean someone setting a policy expecting
one behavior but getting a different one? If yes, that policy was
already wrong/buggy. As an example, if i configured:

match xxx action foo action goo action bar action gah

where action goo has a bad opcode
If  you "fix it"  with TC_ACT_UNSPEC then basically the above
policy is now equivalent to:

match xxx action foo action goo

Infact if there was a lower prio rule in the chain
then lookup will continue there and produce even stranger
results.


cheers,
jamal


> 
> The patch can be changed to reject bad actions, if there is agreement,
> but it would not look as the safest way to me.