linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH bpf-next 2/3] bpf: Add support for writing to nf

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Date:   Tue, 16 Aug 2022 00:25:06 +0200
From:   Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...nel.org>
To:     Daniel Xu <dxu@...uu.xyz>, bpf@...r.kernel.org, ast@...nel.org,
        daniel@...earbox.net, andrii@...nel.org, memxor@...il.com
Cc:     Daniel Xu <dxu@...uu.xyz>, pablo@...filter.org, fw@...len.de,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 2/3] bpf: Add support for writing to nf_conn:mark

Daniel Xu <dxu@...uu.xyz> writes:

> Support direct writes to nf_conn:mark from TC and XDP prog types. This
> is useful when applications want to store per-connection metadata. This
> is also particularly useful for applications that run both bpf and
> iptables/nftables because the latter can trivially access this metadata.
>
> One example use case would be if a bpf prog is responsible for advanced
> packet classification and iptables/nftables is later used for routing
> due to pre-existing/legacy code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Xu <dxu@...uu.xyz>

Didn't we agree the last time around that all field access should be
using helper kfuncs instead of allowing direct writes to struct nf_conn?

-Toke