netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v4 4/6] gtp: Implement GTP echo response

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Message-ID: <YgeUgvrjGcDYOvm2@nataraja>
Date:   Sat, 12 Feb 2022 12:05:38 +0100
From:   Harald Welte <laforge@...monks.org>
To:     "Drewek, Wojciech" <wojciech.drewek@...el.com>
Cc:     Marcin Szycik <marcin.szycik@...ux.intel.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "michal.swiatkowski@...ux.intel.com" 
        <michal.swiatkowski@...ux.intel.com>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "kuba@...nel.org" <kuba@...nel.org>,
        "pablo@...filter.org" <pablo@...filter.org>,
        "osmocom-net-gprs@...ts.osmocom.org" 
        <osmocom-net-gprs@...ts.osmocom.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v4 4/6] gtp: Implement GTP echo response

Hi Wojciech,

On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 12:48:35PM +0000, Drewek, Wojciech wrote:
> I have one question. The new cmd should be allowed to send echo request
> only to the peers stored in the kernel space (PDP contexts) or the userspace
> daemon has its own list of peers and any request should be allowed to be send?

I think we can expect userspace to know the peers (after all, it has created those
sessions and knows about the peer IP addresses), so we don't have to verify
in the kernel if it is a "valid" peer or not.

So a pure "send GTP ECHO req to given IP" and a corresponding "received GTP ECHO resp
from given IP" (with relevant parameters) without tracking any state in the kernel should
be sufficient.

-- 
- Harald Welte <laforge@...monks.org>           http://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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