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Message-ID: <20100106192416.GA7586@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 21:24:16 +0200
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: cfriesen@...tel.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com, nhorman@...driver.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: packet: option to only pass skb protocol
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 11:12:57AM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 03:51:50PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> > From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@...tel.com>
> > Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:13:29 -0600
> >
> > > If SOCK_RAW packets are being sent, the protocol number is embedded in
> > > the packet data
> >
> > Where exactly is that protocol value? Not every link level protocol
> > is ethernet.
> >
> > We support FDDI, HIPPI, wireless, VLAN, PPP, and a host of others.
> >
> > So you can't know for sure unless you assume ethernet, which you
> > can't do.
>
> You are right. This is TX though so the socket is bound to a specific
> device, and devices know which link protocol they use. So we could add a
> get_protocol operation to each device type, and call it if the protocol
> passed is ETH_P_ALL to get the real one.
>
> Like this: except I only added this for ethernet, and I would have to
> add this for the rest of device types. But I would like to hear what
> others think about this before I do the rest of the work for the rest of
> device types.
>
> Does the below look sane?
I mean, besides the missing semicolons etc :)
Also, maybe it's a good idea to add a socket option that would trigger
this behaviour, just to make sure existing behavior stays unchanged
even if it's broken?
> diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
> index a3fccc8..99d7801 100644
> --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
> +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
> @@ -319,6 +319,7 @@ struct header_ops {
> void (*cache_update)(struct hh_cache *hh,
> const struct net_device *dev,
> const unsigned char *haddr);
> + __be16 (*get_protocol)(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
> };
>
> /* These flag bits are private to the generic network queueing
> diff --git a/net/ethernet/eth.c b/net/ethernet/eth.c
> index 205a1c1..3e7761d 100644
> --- a/net/ethernet/eth.c
> +++ b/net/ethernet/eth.c
> @@ -231,6 +231,17 @@ int eth_header_parse(const struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned char *haddr)
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(eth_header_parse);
>
> /**
> + * eth_get_protocol - extract protocol value from packet
> + * @skb: packet to extract protocol from
> + * @dev: source device
> + */
> +__be16 eth_get_protocol(const struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
> +{
> + const struct ethhdr *eth = eth_hdr(skb);
> + return eth->h_proto
> +}
> +
> +/**
> * eth_header_cache - fill cache entry from neighbour
> * @neigh: source neighbour
> * @hh: destination cache entry
> @@ -324,6 +335,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(eth_validate_addr);
> const struct header_ops eth_header_ops ____cacheline_aligned = {
> .create = eth_header,
> .parse = eth_header_parse,
> + .get_protocol = eth_get_protocol,
> .rebuild = eth_rebuild_header,
> .cache = eth_header_cache,
> .cache_update = eth_header_cache_update,
> diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c
> index a81dae8..492e580 100644
> --- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
> +++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c
> @@ -845,7 +845,6 @@ static int tpacket_fill_skb(struct packet_sock *po, struct sk_buff *skb,
>
> ph.raw = frame;
>
> - skb->protocol = proto;
> skb->dev = dev;
> skb->priority = po->sk.sk_priority;
> skb->mark = po->sk.sk_mark;
> @@ -924,6 +923,14 @@ static int tpacket_fill_skb(struct packet_sock *po, struct sk_buff *skb,
> len = ((to_write > len_max) ? len_max : to_write);
> }
>
> + if (proto == htons(ETH_P_ALL) && dev->header_ops->get_protocol) {
> + skb->protocol = dev->header_ops->get_protocol(dev, skb);
> + if (unlikely(skb->protocol == htons(ETH_P_ALL)))
> + return -EINVAL;
> + } else {
> + skb->protocol = proto;
> + }
> +
> return tp_len;
> }
>
> @@ -1113,7 +1120,13 @@ static int packet_snd(struct socket *sock,
> if (err)
> goto out_free;
>
> - skb->protocol = proto;
> + if (proto == htons(ETH_P_ALL) && dev->header_ops->get_protocol) {
> + skb->protocol = dev->header_ops->get_protocol(dev, skb);
> + if (unlikely(skb->protocol == htons(ETH_P_ALL)))
> + return -EINVAL;
> + } else {
> + skb->protocol = proto;
> + }
> skb->dev = dev;
> skb->priority = sk->sk_priority;
> skb->mark = sk->sk_mark;
>
> --
> MST
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