netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] net/handshake: Create a NETLINK service for handling handshake requests

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Message-ID: <EB241BE0-8829-4719-99EC-2C3E74384FA9@oracle.com>
Date:   Fri, 10 Feb 2023 14:17:28 +0000
From:   Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
CC:     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        "open list:NETWORKING [GENERAL]" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "hare@...e.com" <hare@...e.com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@...hat.com>,
        Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@...app.com>,
        "jmeneghi@...hat.com" <jmeneghi@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] net/handshake: Create a NETLINK service for
 handling handshake requests



> On Feb 9, 2023, at 9:07 PM, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 9 Feb 2023 15:43:06 +0000 Chuck Lever III wrote:
>>>> @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
>>>> #define NETLINK_RDMA		20
>>>> #define NETLINK_CRYPTO		21	/* Crypto layer */
>>>> #define NETLINK_SMC		22	/* SMC monitoring */
>>>> +#define NETLINK_HANDSHAKE	23	/* transport layer sec handshake requests */  
>>> 
>>> The extra indirection of genetlink introduces some complications?  
>> 
>> I don't think it does, necessarily. But neither does it seem
>> to add any value (for this use case). <shrug>
> 
> Our default is to go for generic netlink, it's where we invest most time
> in terms of infrastructure.

v2 of the series used generic netlink for the downcall piece.
I can convert back to using generic netlink for v4 of the
series.


> It can take care of attribute parsing, and
> allows user space to dump information about the family (eg. the parsing
> policy). Most recently we added support for writing the policies in
> (simple) YAML:
> 
> https://docs.kernel.org/next/userspace-api/netlink/intro-specs.html
> 
> It takes care of a lot of the netlink tedium. If you're willing to make
> use of it I'm happy to help converting etc. We merged this stuff last
> month, so there are likely sharp edges.

--
Chuck Lever