From patchwork Fri Oct 9 22:40:02 2020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Daniel Borkmann X-Patchwork-Id: 299135 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-12.7 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_PATCH, MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SIGNED_OFF_BY, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF9BFC43457 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 2020 22:40:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75A20222C4 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 2020 22:40:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2391975AbgJIWkQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Oct 2020 18:40:16 -0400 Received: from www62.your-server.de ([213.133.104.62]:59476 "EHLO www62.your-server.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2391489AbgJIWkP (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Oct 2020 18:40:15 -0400 Received: from 75.57.196.178.dynamic.wline.res.cust.swisscom.ch ([178.196.57.75] helo=localhost) by www62.your-server.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kR13d-0001Ea-Ku; Sat, 10 Oct 2020 00:40:13 +0200 From: Daniel Borkmann To: ast@kernel.org Cc: daniel@iogearbox.net, john.fastabend@gmail.com, yhs@fb.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org, David Ahern Subject: [PATCH bpf-next v4 1/6] bpf: improve bpf_redirect_neigh helper description Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 00:40:02 +0200 Message-Id: <20201009224007.30447-2-daniel@iogearbox.net> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.21.0 In-Reply-To: <20201009224007.30447-1-daniel@iogearbox.net> References: <20201009224007.30447-1-daniel@iogearbox.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Authenticated-Sender: daniel@iogearbox.net X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (ClamAV 0.102.4/25952/Fri Oct 9 15:52:40 2020) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org Follow-up to address David's feedback that we should better describe internals of the bpf_redirect_neigh() helper. Suggested-by: David Ahern Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Reviewed-by: David Ahern --- include/uapi/linux/bpf.h | 10 +++++++--- tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h | 10 +++++++--- 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h b/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h index 42d2df799397..4272cc53d478 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h @@ -3679,10 +3679,14 @@ union bpf_attr { * Redirect the packet to another net device of index *ifindex* * and fill in L2 addresses from neighboring subsystem. This helper * is somewhat similar to **bpf_redirect**\ (), except that it - * fills in e.g. MAC addresses based on the L3 information from - * the packet. This helper is supported for IPv4 and IPv6 protocols. + * populates L2 addresses as well, meaning, internally, the helper + * performs a FIB lookup based on the skb's networking header to + * get the address of the next hop and then relies on the neighbor + * lookup for the L2 address of the nexthop. + * * The *flags* argument is reserved and must be 0. The helper is - * currently only supported for tc BPF program types. + * currently only supported for tc BPF program types, and enabled + * for IPv4 and IPv6 protocols. * Return * The helper returns **TC_ACT_REDIRECT** on success or * **TC_ACT_SHOT** on error. diff --git a/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h b/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h index 42d2df799397..4272cc53d478 100644 --- a/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h +++ b/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h @@ -3679,10 +3679,14 @@ union bpf_attr { * Redirect the packet to another net device of index *ifindex* * and fill in L2 addresses from neighboring subsystem. This helper * is somewhat similar to **bpf_redirect**\ (), except that it - * fills in e.g. MAC addresses based on the L3 information from - * the packet. This helper is supported for IPv4 and IPv6 protocols. + * populates L2 addresses as well, meaning, internally, the helper + * performs a FIB lookup based on the skb's networking header to + * get the address of the next hop and then relies on the neighbor + * lookup for the L2 address of the nexthop. + * * The *flags* argument is reserved and must be 0. The helper is - * currently only supported for tc BPF program types. + * currently only supported for tc BPF program types, and enabled + * for IPv4 and IPv6 protocols. * Return * The helper returns **TC_ACT_REDIRECT** on success or * **TC_ACT_SHOT** on error.