From: Jon Maloy <jmaloy@redhat.com>
To: sbrivio@redhat.com, dgibson@redhat.com,
david@gibson.dropbear.id.au, jmaloy@redhat.com,
passt-dev@passt.top
Subject: [PATCH v7 4/8] flow: add MAC address of LAN local remote hosts to flow
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:03:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250910150355.366780-5-jmaloy@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250910150355.366780-1-jmaloy@redhat.com>
When communicating with remote hosts on the local network, some guest
applications want to see the real MAC address of that host instead
of PASST/PASTA's own tap address. The flow_common structure is a
convenient location for storing that address, so we do that in this
commit.
Note that we don´t add actual usage of this address here, that will
be done in later commits.
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jmaloy@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
---
v3: - Moved the remote host macaddress from struct flowside to
struct flow_common. I chose to call it 'omac' as suggested
by David, although in my understanding the correct name would be
'emac'. (In general I find the address naming scheme confusing.)
- Adapted to new signature of function nl_mac_get(), now passing
it the index of the template interface.
v4: - Renamed flow_commeon->omac to flow_common->tap_omac to make is
role in the code clearer
v5: - Modified the criteria for ARP/NDP table lookup like in the
previous commits.
- Removed the PIF_TAP lookup case, as David suggested, and did
instead give the flow->tap_omac field a value marking it as
non-initialized.
- Calling the cache table instead of netlink for ARP/NDP lookup.
- Unconditionally using the potentially translated IP address
in the lookup, instead of only if NAT really was applied.
v6: - Using MAC_ZERO instead of own definitions
---
flow.c | 2 ++
flow.h | 2 ++
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/flow.c b/flow.c
index feefda3..510f3c5 100644
--- a/flow.c
+++ b/flow.c
@@ -449,6 +449,7 @@ struct flowside *flow_target(const struct ctx *c, union flow *flow,
switch (f->pif[INISIDE]) {
case PIF_TAP:
+ memcpy(f->tap_omac, MAC_ZERO, ETH_ALEN);
tgtpif = fwd_nat_from_tap(c, proto, ini, tgt);
break;
@@ -458,6 +459,7 @@ struct flowside *flow_target(const struct ctx *c, union flow *flow,
case PIF_HOST:
tgtpif = fwd_nat_from_host(c, proto, ini, tgt);
+ fwd_neigh_mac_get(c, &ini->eaddr, f->tap_omac);
break;
default:
diff --git a/flow.h b/flow.h
index cac618a..f342895 100644
--- a/flow.h
+++ b/flow.h
@@ -177,6 +177,7 @@ int flowside_connect(const struct ctx *c, int s,
* @type: Type of packet flow
* @pif[]: Interface for each side of the flow
* @side[]: Information for each side of the flow
+ * @tap_omac: MAC address of remote endpoint as seen from the guest
*/
struct flow_common {
#ifdef __GNUC__
@@ -192,6 +193,7 @@ struct flow_common {
#endif
uint8_t pif[SIDES];
struct flowside side[SIDES];
+ uint8_t tap_omac[6];
};
#define FLOW_INDEX_BITS 17 /* 128k - 1 */
--
@@ -177,6 +177,7 @@ int flowside_connect(const struct ctx *c, int s,
* @type: Type of packet flow
* @pif[]: Interface for each side of the flow
* @side[]: Information for each side of the flow
+ * @tap_omac: MAC address of remote endpoint as seen from the guest
*/
struct flow_common {
#ifdef __GNUC__
@@ -192,6 +193,7 @@ struct flow_common {
#endif
uint8_t pif[SIDES];
struct flowside side[SIDES];
+ uint8_t tap_omac[6];
};
#define FLOW_INDEX_BITS 17 /* 128k - 1 */
--
2.50.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-10 15:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-10 15:03 [PATCH v7 0/8] Use true MAC address of LAN local remote hosts Jon Maloy
2025-09-10 15:03 ` [PATCH v7 1/8] netlink: add function to extract MAC addresses from NDP/ARP table Jon Maloy
2025-09-10 15:03 ` [PATCH v7 2/8] fwd: Added cache table for ARP/NDP contents Jon Maloy
2025-09-10 15:03 ` [PATCH v7 3/8] arp/ndp: respond with true MAC address of LAN local remote hosts Jon Maloy
2025-09-10 15:03 ` Jon Maloy [this message]
2025-09-10 15:03 ` [PATCH v7 5/8] udp: forward external source MAC address through tap interface Jon Maloy
2025-09-10 15:03 ` [PATCH v7 6/8] tcp: " Jon Maloy
2025-09-10 15:03 ` [PATCH v7 7/8] tap: change signature of function tap_push_l2h() Jon Maloy
2025-09-10 15:03 ` [PATCH v7 8/8] icmp: let icmp use mac address from flowside structure Jon Maloy
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