netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] net: tcp: add skb drop reasons to route

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Date:   Fri, 29 Apr 2022 09:27:11 +0800
From:   Menglong Dong <menglong8.dong@...il.com>
To:     Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>
Cc:     Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Biao Jiang <benbjiang@...cent.com>,
        Hao Peng <flyingpeng@...cent.com>,
        Menglong Dong <imagedong@...cent.com>,
        Martin Lau <kafai@...com>, Talal Ahmad <talalahmad@...gle.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Mengen Sun <mengensun@...cent.com>,
        Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@...cle.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] net: tcp: add skb drop reasons to route_req()

On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 9:22 PM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> menglong8.dong@...il.com writes:
>
> > From: Menglong Dong <imagedong@...cent.com>
> >
> > Add skb drop reasons to the route_req() in struct tcp_request_sock_ops.
> > Following functions are involved:
> >
> >   tcp_v4_route_req()
> >   tcp_v6_route_req()
> >   subflow_v4_route_req()
> >   subflow_v6_route_req()
> >
> > And the new reason SKB_DROP_REASON_SECURITY is added, which is used when
> > skb is dropped by LSM.
>
> Could we maybe pick a slightly less generic name? If I saw
> "SKB_DROP_REASON_SECURITY" my first thought would be something related
> to *network* security, like a firewall. Maybe just SKB_DROP_REASON_LSM?
>

Thanks for your suggestion, and I think SKB_DROP_REASON_LSM is fine.
I'll change it in the next version.

Menglong Dong

> -Toke
>