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Date:   Fri, 31 Jul 2020 08:57:29 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>
Cc:     bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        kernel-team <kernel-team@...com>,
        Lawrence Brakmo <brakmo@...com>,
        Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 bpf-next 1/9] tcp: Use a struct to represent a saved_syn

On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 1:57 PM Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com> wrote:
>
> The TCP_SAVE_SYN has both the network header and tcp header.
> The total length of the saved syn packet is currently stored in
> the first 4 bytes (u32) of an array and the actual packet data is
> stored after that.
>
> A latter patch will add a bpf helper that allows to get the tcp header

s/latter/later/

> alone from the saved syn without the network header.  It will be more
> convenient to have a direct offset to a specific header instead of
> re-parsing it.  This requires to separately store the network hdrlen.
> The total header length (i.e. network + tcp) is still needed for the
> current usage in getsockopt.  Although this total length can be obtained
> by looking into the tcphdr and then get the (th->doff << 2), this patch
> chooses to directly store the tcp hdrlen in the second four bytes of
> this newly created "struct saved_syn".  By using a new struct, it can
> give a readable name to each individual header length.
>
> Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>


> diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
> index a018bafd7bdf..6c38ca9de17e 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
> @@ -6598,13 +6598,14 @@ static void tcp_reqsk_record_syn(const struct sock *sk,
>  {
>         if (tcp_sk(sk)->save_syn) {
>                 u32 len = skb_network_header_len(skb) + tcp_hdrlen(skb);
> -               u32 *copy;
> -
> -               copy = kmalloc(len + sizeof(u32), GFP_ATOMIC);
> -               if (copy) {
> -                       copy[0] = len;
> -                       memcpy(&copy[1], skb_network_header(skb), len);
> -                       req->saved_syn = copy;
> +               struct saved_syn *saved_syn;
> +
> +               saved_syn = kmalloc(len + sizeof(*saved_syn), GFP_ATOMIC);

Please use
                  saved_syn = kmalloc(struct_size(saved_syn, data,
len), GFP_ATOMIC)

This will avoid yet another trivial patch in the future.

> +               if (saved_syn) {
> +                       saved_syn->network_hdrlen = skb_network_header_len(skb);
> +                       saved_syn->tcp_hdrlen = tcp_hdrlen(skb);
> +                       memcpy(saved_syn->data, skb_network_header(skb), len);
> +                       req->saved_syn = saved_syn;
>                 }
>         }
>  }
> --
> 2.24.1
>

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