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Message-ID: <1430505777.3711.135.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>
Date: Fri, 01 May 2015 11:42:57 -0700
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To: Eric B Munson <emunson@...mai.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-api@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow TCP connections to cache SYN packet for userspace
inspection
On Fri, 2015-05-01 at 13:43 -0400, Eric B Munson wrote:
> In order to enable policy decisions in userspace, the data contained in
> the SYN packet would be useful for tracking or identifying connections.
> Only parts of this data are available to userspace after the hand shake
> is completed. This patch exposes a new setsockopt() option that will,
> when used with a listening socket, ask the kernel to cache the skb
> holding the SYN packet for retrieval later. The SYN skbs will not be
> saved while the kernel is in syn cookie mode.
>
> The same option will ask the kernel for the packet headers when used
> with getsockopt() with the socket returned from accept(). The cached
> packet will only be available for the first getsockopt() call, the skb
> is consumed after the requested data is copied to userspace. Subsequent
> calls will return -ENOENT. Because of this behavior, getsockopt() will
> return -E2BIG if the caller supplied a buffer that is too small to hold
> the skb header.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@...mai.com>
> Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>
> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
> Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-api@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> ---
We have a similar patch here at Google, but we do not hold one skb and
dst per saved syn. That can be ~4KB for some drivers.
Only a kmalloc() with the needed part (headers), usually less than 128
bytes. We store the length in first byte of this allocation.
This has a huge difference if you want to have ~4 million request socks.
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