netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH v4 bpf-next 01/12] tcp: Use a struct to represent a saved

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Date:   Mon, 3 Aug 2020 17:19:40 -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: [RFC PATCH v4 bpf-next 01/12] tcp: Use a struct to represent a saved_syn

On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 4:10 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 later patch will add a bpf helper that allows to get the tcp header
> 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>
> ---

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