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Message-ID: <0555b355-be53-ed2f-2a8b-8093bf8aef2c@iogearbox.net>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 13:00:41 +0200
From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To: Mathieu Xhonneux <m.xhonneux@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: dlebrun@...gle.com, alexei.starovoitov@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v7 3/6] bpf: Add IPv6 Segment Routing helpers
On 05/24/2018 12:18 PM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> On 05/20/2018 03:58 PM, Mathieu Xhonneux wrote:
>> The BPF seg6local hook should be powerful enough to enable users to
>> implement most of the use-cases one could think of. After some thinking,
>> we figured out that the following actions should be possible on a SRv6
>> packet, requiring 3 specific helpers :
>> - bpf_lwt_seg6_store_bytes: Modify non-sensitive fields of the SRH
>> - bpf_lwt_seg6_adjust_srh: Allow to grow or shrink a SRH
>> (to add/delete TLVs)
>> - bpf_lwt_seg6_action: Apply some SRv6 network programming actions
>> (specifically End.X, End.T, End.B6 and
>> End.B6.Encap)
>>
>> The specifications of these helpers are provided in the patch (see
>> include/uapi/linux/bpf.h).
>>
>> The non-sensitive fields of the SRH are the following : flags, tag and
>> TLVs. The other fields can not be modified, to maintain the SRH
>> integrity. Flags, tag and TLVs can easily be modified as their validity
>> can be checked afterwards via seg6_validate_srh. It is not allowed to
>> modify the segments directly. If one wants to add segments on the path,
>> he should stack a new SRH using the End.B6 action via
>> bpf_lwt_seg6_action.
>>
>> Growing, shrinking or editing TLVs via the helpers will flag the SRH as
>> invalid, and it will have to be re-validated before re-entering the IPv6
>> layer. This flag is stored in a per-CPU buffer, along with the current
>> header length in bytes.
>>
>> Storing the SRH len in bytes in the control block is mandatory when using
>> bpf_lwt_seg6_adjust_srh. The Header Ext. Length field contains the SRH
>> len rounded to 8 bytes (a padding TLV can be inserted to ensure the 8-bytes
>> boundary). When adding/deleting TLVs within the BPF program, the SRH may
>> temporary be in an invalid state where its length cannot be rounded to 8
>> bytes without remainder, hence the need to store the length in bytes
>> separately. The caller of the BPF program can then ensure that the SRH's
>> final length is valid using this value. Again, a final SRH modified by a
>> BPF program which doesn’t respect the 8-bytes boundary will be discarded
>> as it will be considered as invalid.
>>
>> Finally, a fourth helper is provided, bpf_lwt_push_encap, which is
>> available from the LWT BPF IN hook, but not from the seg6local BPF one.
>> This helper allows to encapsulate a Segment Routing Header (either with
>> a new outer IPv6 header, or by inlining it directly in the existing IPv6
>> header) into a non-SRv6 packet. This helper is required if we want to
>> offer the possibility to dynamically encapsulate a SRH for non-SRv6 packet,
>> as the BPF seg6local hook only works on traffic already containing a SRH.
>> This is the BPF equivalent of the seg6 LWT infrastructure, which achieves
>> the same purpose but with a static SRH per route.
>>
>> These helpers require CONFIG_IPV6=y (and not =m).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Xhonneux <m.xhonneux@...il.com>
>> Acked-by: David Lebrun <dlebrun@...gle.com>
>
> One minor comments for follow-ups in here below.
>
>> +BPF_CALL_4(bpf_lwt_seg6_store_bytes, struct sk_buff *, skb, u32, offset,
>> + const void *, from, u32, len)
>> +{
>> +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6_SEG6_BPF)
>> + struct seg6_bpf_srh_state *srh_state =
>> + this_cpu_ptr(&seg6_bpf_srh_states);
>> + void *srh_tlvs, *srh_end, *ptr;
>> + struct ipv6_sr_hdr *srh;
>> + int srhoff = 0;
>> +
>> + if (ipv6_find_hdr(skb, &srhoff, IPPROTO_ROUTING, NULL, NULL) < 0)
>> + return -EINVAL;
>> +
>> + srh = (struct ipv6_sr_hdr *)(skb->data + srhoff);
>> + srh_tlvs = (void *)((char *)srh + ((srh->first_segment + 1) << 4));
>> + srh_end = (void *)((char *)srh + sizeof(*srh) + srh_state->hdrlen);
>> +
>> + ptr = skb->data + offset;
>> + if (ptr >= srh_tlvs && ptr + len <= srh_end)
>> + srh_state->valid = 0;
>> + else if (ptr < (void *)&srh->flags ||
>> + ptr + len > (void *)&srh->segments)
>> + return -EFAULT;
>> +
>> + if (unlikely(bpf_try_make_writable(skb, offset + len)))
>> + return -EFAULT;
>> +
>> + memcpy(skb->data + offset, from, len);
>> + return 0;
>> +#else /* CONFIG_IPV6_SEG6_BPF */
>> + return -EOPNOTSUPP;
>> +#endif
>> +}
>
> Instead of doing this inside the helper you can reject the program already
> in the lwt_*_func_proto() by returning NULL when !CONFIG_IPV6_SEG6_BPF. That
> way programs get rejected at verification time instead of runtime, so the
> user can probe availability more easily.
Mathieu, before this gets lost in archives, plan to follow-up on this one?
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