netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 3/4] filter: add ANC_PAY_OFFSET instruction for loading payload start offset

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Message-ID: <1363711373.2558.19.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Date:	Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:42:53 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 3/4] filter: add ANC_PAY_OFFSET instruction
 for loading payload start offset

On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 17:39 +0100, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> It is very useful to do dynamic truncation of packets. In particular,
> we're interested to push the necessary header bytes to the user space and
> cut off user payload that should probably not be transferred for some reasons
> (e.g. privacy, speed, or others). With the ancillary extension PAY_OFFSET,
> we can load it into the accumulator, and return it. E.g. in bpfc syntax ...
> 
>         ld #poff        ; { 0x20, 0, 0, 0xfffff034 },
>         ret a           ; { 0x16, 0, 0, 0x00000000 },
> 
> ... as a filter will accomplish this without having to do a big hackery in
> a BPF filter itself. Follow-up JIT implementations are welcome.
> 
> Thanks to Eric Dumazet for suggesting and discussing this during the
> Netfilter Workshop in Copenhagen.
> 
> Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
> ---


Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>


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