netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] io_uring: Initial support for {s,g}etsockopt commands

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Message-ID: <ZNNfK5e+lc0tsjj/@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2023 02:40:59 -0700
From: Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>
To: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>
Cc: axboe@...nel.dk, asml.silence@...il.com,
	willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	io-uring@...r.kernel.org, kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] io_uring: Initial support for {s,g}etsockopt
 commands

On Tue, Aug 08, 2023 at 10:35:08AM -0700, Stanislav Fomichev wrote:
> On 08/08, Breno Leitao wrote:
> > This patchset adds support for getsockopt (SOCKET_URING_OP_GETSOCKOPT)
> > and setsockopt (SOCKET_URING_OP_SETSOCKOPT) in io_uring commands.
> > SOCKET_URING_OP_SETSOCKOPT implements generic case, covering all levels
> > nad optnames. On the other hand, SOCKET_URING_OP_GETSOCKOPT just
> > implements level SOL_SOCKET case, which seems to be the
> > most common level parameter for get/setsockopt(2).
> > 
> > struct proto_ops->setsockopt() uses sockptr instead of userspace
> > pointers, which makes it easy to bind to io_uring. Unfortunately
> > proto_ops->getsockopt() callback uses userspace pointers, except for
> > SOL_SOCKET, which is handled by sk_getsockopt(). Thus, this patchset
> > leverages sk_getsockopt() to imlpement the SOCKET_URING_OP_GETSOCKOPT
> > case.
> > 
> > In order to support BPF hooks, I modified the hooks to use  sockptr, so,
> > it is flexible enough to accept user or kernel pointers for
> > optval/optlen.
> > 
> > PS1: For getsockopt command, the optlen field is not a userspace
> > pointers, but an absolute value, so this is slightly different from
> > getsockopt(2) behaviour. The new optlen value is returned in cqe->res.
> > 
> > PS2: The userspace pointers need to be alive until the operation is
> > completed.
> > 
> > These changes were tested with a new test[1] in liburing. On the BPF
> > side, I tested that no regression was introduced by running "test_progs"
> > self test using "sockopt" test case.
> > 
> > [1] Link: https://github.com/leitao/liburing/blob/getsock/test/socket-getsetsock-cmd.c
> > 
> > RFC -> V1:
> > 	* Copy user memory at io_uring subsystem, and call proto_ops
> > 	  callbacks using kernel memory
> > 	* Implement all the cases for SOCKET_URING_OP_SETSOCKOPT
> 
> I did a quick pass, will take a close look later today. So far everything makes
> sense to me.
> 
> Should we properly test it as well?
> We have tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/sockopt.c which does
> most of the sanity checks, but it uses regular socket/{g,s}etsockopt
> syscalls.

Right, that is what I've been using to test the changes.

> Seems like it should be pretty easy to extend this with
> io_uring path? tools/testing/selftests/net/io_uring_zerocopy_tx.c
> already implements minimal wrappers which we can most likely borrow.

Sure, I can definitely do it. Do you want to see the new tests in this
patchset, or, in a following patches?