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Date:   Wed, 11 May 2022 14:48:21 +0300
From:   Maxim Mikityanskiy <maximmi@...dia.com>
To:     Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v9 0/5] New BPF helpers to accelerate synproxy

On 2022-05-11 02:59, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 12:21 PM Maxim Mikityanskiy <maximmi@...dia.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 2022-05-07 00:51, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 10:14 AM Maxim Mikityanskiy <maximmi@...dia.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The first patch of this series is a documentation fix.
>>>>
>>>> The second patch allows BPF helpers to accept memory regions of fixed
>>>> size without doing runtime size checks.
>>>>
>>>> The two next patches add new functionality that allows XDP to
>>>> accelerate iptables synproxy.
>>>>
>>>> v1 of this series [1] used to include a patch that exposed conntrack
>>>> lookup to BPF using stable helpers. It was superseded by series [2] by
>>>> Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi, which implements this functionality using
>>>> unstable helpers.
>>>>
>>>> The third patch adds new helpers to issue and check SYN cookies without
>>>> binding to a socket, which is useful in the synproxy scenario.
>>>>
>>>> The fourth patch adds a selftest, which includes an XDP program and a
>>>> userspace control application. The XDP program uses socketless SYN
>>>> cookie helpers and queries conntrack status instead of socket status.
>>>> The userspace control application allows to tune parameters of the XDP
>>>> program. This program also serves as a minimal example of usage of the
>>>> new functionality.
>>>>
>>>> The last patch exposes the new helpers to TC BPF.
>>>>
>>>> The draft of the new functionality was presented on Netdev 0x15 [3].
>>>>
>>>> v2 changes:
>>>>
>>>> Split into two series, submitted bugfixes to bpf, dropped the conntrack
>>>> patches, implemented the timestamp cookie in BPF using bpf_loop, dropped
>>>> the timestamp cookie patch.
>>>>
>>>> v3 changes:
>>>>
>>>> Moved some patches from bpf to bpf-next, dropped the patch that changed
>>>> error codes, split the new helpers into IPv4/IPv6, added verifier
>>>> functionality to accept memory regions of fixed size.
>>>>
>>>> v4 changes:
>>>>
>>>> Converted the selftest to the test_progs runner. Replaced some
>>>> deprecated functions in xdp_synproxy userspace helper.
>>>>
>>>> v5 changes:
>>>>
>>>> Fixed a bug in the selftest. Added questionable functionality to support
>>>> new helpers in TC BPF, added selftests for it.
>>>>
>>>> v6 changes:
>>>>
>>>> Wrap the new helpers themselves into #ifdef CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES, replaced
>>>> fclose with pclose and fixed the MSS for IPv6 in the selftest.
>>>>
>>>> v7 changes:
>>>>
>>>> Fixed the off-by-one error in indices, changed the section name to
>>>> "xdp", added missing kernel config options to vmtest in CI.
>>>>
>>>> v8 changes:
>>>>
>>>> Properly rebased, dropped the first patch (the same change was applied
>>>> by someone else), updated the cover letter.
>>>>
>>>> v9 changes:
>>>>
>>>> Fixed selftests for no_alu32.
>>>>
>>>> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211020095815.GJ28644@breakpoint.cc/t/
>>>> [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220114163953.1455836-1-memxor@gmail.com/
>>>> [3]: https://netdevconf.info/0x15/session.html?Accelerating-synproxy-with-XDP
>>>>
>>>> Maxim Mikityanskiy (5):
>>>>     bpf: Fix documentation of th_len in bpf_tcp_{gen,check}_syncookie
>>>>     bpf: Allow helpers to accept pointers with a fixed size
>>>>     bpf: Add helpers to issue and check SYN cookies in XDP
>>>>     bpf: Add selftests for raw syncookie helpers
>>>>     bpf: Allow the new syncookie helpers to work with SKBs
>>>>
>>>
>>> Is it expected that your selftests will fail on s390x? Please check [0]
>>
>> I see it fails with:
>>
>> test_synproxy:FAIL:ethtool -K tmp0 tx off unexpected error: 32512 (errno 2)
>>
>> errno 2 is ENOENT, probably the ethtool binary is missing from the s390x
>> image? When reviewing v6, you said you added ethtool to the CI image.
>> Maybe it was added to x86_64 only? Could you add it to s390x?
>>
> 
> Could be that it was outdated in s390x, but with [0] just merged in it
> should have pretty recent one.

Do you mean the image was outdated and didn't contain ethtool? Or 
ethtool was in the image, but was outdated? If the latter, I would 
expect it to work, this specific ethtool command has worked for ages.

>    [0] https://github.com/libbpf/ci/pull/16
> 
>> [1]:
>> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20220422172422.4037988-6-maximmi@nvidia.com/
>>
>>>     [0] https://github.com/kernel-patches/bpf/runs/6277764463?check_suite_focus=true#step:6:6130
>>>
>>>>    include/linux/bpf.h                           |  10 +
>>>>    include/net/tcp.h                             |   1 +
>>>>    include/uapi/linux/bpf.h                      |  88 +-
>>>>    kernel/bpf/verifier.c                         |  26 +-
>>>>    net/core/filter.c                             | 128 +++
>>>>    net/ipv4/tcp_input.c                          |   3 +-
>>>>    scripts/bpf_doc.py                            |   4 +
>>>>    tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h                |  88 +-
>>>>    tools/testing/selftests/bpf/.gitignore        |   1 +
>>>>    tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile          |   5 +-
>>>>    .../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/xdp_synproxy.c   | 144 +++
>>>>    .../selftests/bpf/progs/xdp_synproxy_kern.c   | 819 ++++++++++++++++++
>>>>    tools/testing/selftests/bpf/xdp_synproxy.c    | 466 ++++++++++
>>>>    13 files changed, 1761 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
>>>>    create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/xdp_synproxy.c
>>>>    create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/xdp_synproxy_kern.c
>>>>    create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/xdp_synproxy.c
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> 2.30.2
>>>>
>>

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