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Message-ID: <52015A69.3080204@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 22:19:53 +0200
From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
To: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>
CC: davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: sctp: convert sctp_checksum_disable
module param into sctp sysctl
On 08/06/2013 09:31 PM, Vlad Yasevich wrote:
> On 08/06/2013 03:18 PM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
>> Get rid of the last module parameter for SCTP and make this
>> configurable via sysctl for SCTP like all the rest of SCTP's
>> configuration knobs.
>>
>
> But this isn't like the rest of the sctp knobs. Disabling this violates the base protocol and we don't really want to encourage
> people to do this.
>
> There was a long discussion about it back in 2009 when the original
> patch was submitted that proposed a sysctl. Nothing has changed since
> then to convince me that this sysctl would be a good idea.
Ah, okay. I didn't follow that discussion. Actually both can easily be
set or unset as it's just /sys/module/sctp/parameters/no_checksums, but
I understand your reasoning that sysctl is something more "official".
> -vlad
>
>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
>> ---
>> Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 8 ++++++++
>> include/net/netns/sctp.h | 3 +++
>> include/net/sctp/structs.h | 5 -----
>> net/sctp/input.c | 4 ++--
>> net/sctp/output.c | 5 ++++-
>> net/sctp/protocol.c | 5 +++--
>> net/sctp/sysctl.c | 10 +++++++++-
>> 7 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
>> index 36be26b..6f5b813 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
>> @@ -1507,6 +1507,14 @@ sack_timeout - INTEGER
>>
>> Default: 200
>>
>> +checksum_disable - BOOLEAN
>> + Disable SCTP checksum computing and verification for debugging purpose.
>> +
>> + 1: Disable checksumming
>> + 0: Enable checksumming
>> +
>> + Default: 0
>> +
>> valid_cookie_life - INTEGER
>> The default lifetime of the SCTP cookie (in milliseconds). The cookie
>> is used during association establishment.
>> diff --git a/include/net/netns/sctp.h b/include/net/netns/sctp.h
>> index 3573a81..ebfdf1e 100644
>> --- a/include/net/netns/sctp.h
>> +++ b/include/net/netns/sctp.h
>> @@ -129,6 +129,9 @@ struct netns_sctp {
>>
>> /* Threshold for autoclose timeout, in seconds. */
>> unsigned long max_autoclose;
>> +
>> + /* Flag to disable SCTP checksumming. */
>> + int checksum_disable;
>> };
>>
>> #endif /* __NETNS_SCTP_H__ */
>> diff --git a/include/net/sctp/structs.h b/include/net/sctp/structs.h
>> index d9c93a7..06ebeaa 100644
>> --- a/include/net/sctp/structs.h
>> +++ b/include/net/sctp/structs.h
>> @@ -141,10 +141,6 @@ extern struct sctp_globals {
>> /* This is the sctp port control hash. */
>> int port_hashsize;
>> struct sctp_bind_hashbucket *port_hashtable;
>> -
>> - /* Flag to indicate whether computing and verifying checksum
>> - * is disabled. */
>> - bool checksum_disable;
>> } sctp_globals;
>>
>> #define sctp_max_instreams (sctp_globals.max_instreams)
>> @@ -156,7 +152,6 @@ extern struct sctp_globals {
>> #define sctp_assoc_hashtable (sctp_globals.assoc_hashtable)
>> #define sctp_port_hashsize (sctp_globals.port_hashsize)
>> #define sctp_port_hashtable (sctp_globals.port_hashtable)
>> -#define sctp_checksum_disable (sctp_globals.checksum_disable)
>>
>> /* SCTP Socket type: UDP or TCP style. */
>> typedef enum {
>> diff --git a/net/sctp/input.c b/net/sctp/input.c
>> index fa91aff..b9a25e1 100644
>> --- a/net/sctp/input.c
>> +++ b/net/sctp/input.c
>> @@ -140,8 +140,8 @@ int sctp_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb)
>> __skb_pull(skb, skb_transport_offset(skb));
>> if (skb->len < sizeof(struct sctphdr))
>> goto discard_it;
>> - if (!sctp_checksum_disable && !skb_csum_unnecessary(skb) &&
>> - sctp_rcv_checksum(net, skb) < 0)
>> + if (!net->sctp.checksum_disable && !skb_csum_unnecessary(skb) &&
>> + sctp_rcv_checksum(net, skb) < 0)
>> goto discard_it;
>>
>> skb_pull(skb, sizeof(struct sctphdr));
>> diff --git a/net/sctp/output.c b/net/sctp/output.c
>> index 5a55c55d..cdb5f49 100644
>> --- a/net/sctp/output.c
>> +++ b/net/sctp/output.c
>> @@ -395,6 +395,7 @@ int sctp_packet_transmit(struct sctp_packet *packet)
>> int padding; /* How much padding do we need? */
>> __u8 has_data = 0;
>> struct dst_entry *dst = tp->dst;
>> + struct net *net;
>> unsigned char *auth = NULL; /* pointer to auth in skb data */
>> __u32 cksum_buf_len = sizeof(struct sctphdr);
>>
>> @@ -541,7 +542,9 @@ int sctp_packet_transmit(struct sctp_packet *packet)
>> * Note: Adler-32 is no longer applicable, as has been replaced
>> * by CRC32-C as described in <draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctpcsum-02.txt>.
>> */
>> - if (!sctp_checksum_disable) {
>> + net = dev_net(dst->dev);
>> +
>> + if (!net->sctp.checksum_disable) {
>> if (!(dst->dev->features & NETIF_F_SCTP_CSUM)) {
>> __u32 crc32 = sctp_start_cksum((__u8 *)sh, cksum_buf_len);
>>
>> diff --git a/net/sctp/protocol.c b/net/sctp/protocol.c
>> index b52ec25..a570a63 100644
>> --- a/net/sctp/protocol.c
>> +++ b/net/sctp/protocol.c
>> @@ -1193,6 +1193,9 @@ static int __net_init sctp_net_init(struct net *net)
>> /* Whether Cookie Preservative is enabled(1) or not(0) */
>> net->sctp.cookie_preserve_enable = 1;
>>
>> + /* Whether SCTP checksumming is disabled(1) or not(0) */
>> + net->sctp.checksum_disable = 0;
>> +
>> /* Default sctp sockets to use md5 as their hmac alg */
>> #if defined (CONFIG_SCTP_DEFAULT_COOKIE_HMAC_MD5)
>> net->sctp.sctp_hmac_alg = "md5";
>> @@ -1549,6 +1552,4 @@ MODULE_ALIAS("net-pf-" __stringify(PF_INET) "-proto-132");
>> MODULE_ALIAS("net-pf-" __stringify(PF_INET6) "-proto-132");
>> MODULE_AUTHOR("Linux Kernel SCTP developers <linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org>");
>> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Support for the SCTP protocol (RFC2960)");
>> -module_param_named(no_checksums, sctp_checksum_disable, bool, 0644);
>> -MODULE_PARM_DESC(no_checksums, "Disable checksums computing and verification");
>> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>> diff --git a/net/sctp/sysctl.c b/net/sctp/sysctl.c
>> index 1906747..754809a 100644
>> --- a/net/sctp/sysctl.c
>> +++ b/net/sctp/sysctl.c
>> @@ -296,7 +296,15 @@ static struct ctl_table sctp_net_table[] = {
>> .extra1 = &max_autoclose_min,
>> .extra2 = &max_autoclose_max,
>> },
>> -
>> + {
>> + .procname = "checksum_disable",
>> + .data = &init_net.sctp.checksum_disable,
>> + .maxlen = sizeof(int),
>> + .mode = 0644,
>> + .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax,
>> + .extra1 = &zero,
>> + .extra2 = &one,
>> + },
>> { /* sentinel */ }
>> };
>>
>>
>
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