From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: passt-dev@passt.top, Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: [PATCH 02/18] conf: Simplify handling of default forwarding mode
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2026 13:16:14 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260407031630.2457081-3-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260407031630.2457081-1-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
For passt, the default forwarding mode is "none", which falls out naturally
from the other handling: if we don't get any options, we get empty
forwarding tables, which corresponds to "none" behaviour. However, for
pasta the default is "auto". This is handled a bit oddly: in conf_ports()
we set the mode variable, but don't set up the rules we need for "auto"
mode. Instead we want until nearly the end of conf() and if the mode is
FWD_MODE_AUTO or unset, we make conf_ports_range_except() calls to set up
the "auto" rules.
Simplify this a bit, by creating the rules within conf_ports() itself when
we parse -[tuTU] auto. For the case of no forwarding options we call
into conf_ports() itself with synthetic arguments. As well as making the
code a little shorter, this makes it more obvious that giving no arguments
really is equivalent to -[tuTU] auto.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
---
conf.c | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------------
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
diff --git a/conf.c b/conf.c
index c515480b..7d718f91 100644
--- a/conf.c
+++ b/conf.c
@@ -345,6 +345,10 @@ static void conf_ports(const struct ctx *c, char optname, const char *optarg,
die("'auto' port forwarding is only allowed for pasta");
*mode = FWD_MODE_AUTO;
+
+ conf_ports_range_except(c, optname, optarg, fwd, NULL, NULL,
+ 1, NUM_PORTS - 1, NULL, 1, FWD_SCAN);
+
return;
}
@@ -1576,7 +1580,6 @@ void conf(struct ctx *c, int argc, char **argv)
enum fwd_mode udp_out_mode = FWD_MODE_UNSET;
enum fwd_mode tcp_in_mode = FWD_MODE_UNSET;
enum fwd_mode udp_in_mode = FWD_MODE_UNSET;
- enum fwd_mode fwd_default = FWD_MODE_NONE;
bool v4_only = false, v6_only = false;
unsigned dns4_idx = 0, dns6_idx = 0;
unsigned long max_mtu = IP_MAX_MTU;
@@ -1593,10 +1596,8 @@ void conf(struct ctx *c, int argc, char **argv)
gid_t gid;
- if (c->mode == MODE_PASTA) {
+ if (c->mode == MODE_PASTA)
c->no_dhcp_dns = c->no_dhcp_dns_search = 1;
- fwd_default = FWD_MODE_AUTO;
- }
if (tap_l2_max_len(c) - ETH_HLEN < max_mtu)
max_mtu = tap_l2_max_len(c) - ETH_HLEN;
@@ -2244,34 +2245,23 @@ void conf(struct ctx *c, int argc, char **argv)
if_indextoname(c->ifi6, c->pasta_ifn);
}
- if (!tcp_in_mode)
- tcp_in_mode = fwd_default;
- if (!tcp_out_mode)
- tcp_out_mode = fwd_default;
- if (!udp_in_mode)
- udp_in_mode = fwd_default;
- if (!udp_out_mode)
- udp_out_mode = fwd_default;
-
- if (tcp_in_mode == FWD_MODE_AUTO) {
- conf_ports_range_except(c, 't', "auto", c->fwd[PIF_HOST],
- NULL, NULL, 1, NUM_PORTS - 1, NULL, 1,
- FWD_SCAN);
- }
- if (tcp_out_mode == FWD_MODE_AUTO) {
- conf_ports_range_except(c, 'T', "auto", c->fwd[PIF_SPLICE],
- NULL, "lo", 1, NUM_PORTS - 1, NULL, 1,
- FWD_SCAN);
- }
- if (udp_in_mode == FWD_MODE_AUTO) {
- conf_ports_range_except(c, 'u', "auto", c->fwd[PIF_HOST],
- NULL, NULL, 1, NUM_PORTS - 1, NULL, 1,
- FWD_SCAN);
- }
- if (udp_out_mode == FWD_MODE_AUTO) {
- conf_ports_range_except(c, 'U', "auto", c->fwd[PIF_SPLICE],
- NULL, "lo", 1, NUM_PORTS - 1, NULL, 1,
- FWD_SCAN);
+ if (c->mode == MODE_PASTA) {
+ if (!tcp_in_mode) {
+ conf_ports(c, 't', "auto",
+ c->fwd[PIF_HOST], &tcp_in_mode);
+ }
+ if (!tcp_out_mode) {
+ conf_ports(c, 'T', "auto",
+ c->fwd[PIF_SPLICE], &tcp_out_mode);
+ }
+ if (!udp_in_mode) {
+ conf_ports(c, 'u', "auto",
+ c->fwd[PIF_HOST], &udp_in_mode);
+ }
+ if (!udp_out_mode) {
+ conf_ports(c, 'U', "auto",
+ c->fwd[PIF_SPLICE], &udp_out_mode);
+ }
}
if (!c->quiet)
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-07 3:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-07 3:16 [PATCH 00/18] Rework forwarding option parsing David Gibson
2026-04-07 3:16 ` [PATCH 01/18] conf: Split parsing of port specifiers from the rest of -[tuTU] parsing David Gibson
2026-04-07 3:16 ` David Gibson [this message]
2026-04-07 23:14 ` [PATCH 02/18] conf: Simplify handling of default forwarding mode Stefano Brivio
2026-04-08 1:10 ` David Gibson
2026-04-07 3:16 ` [PATCH 03/18] conf: Move first pass handling of -[TU] next to handling of -[tu] David Gibson
2026-04-07 3:16 ` [PATCH 04/18] doc: Consolidate -[tu] option descriptions for passt and pasta David Gibson
2026-04-07 23:14 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-04-08 1:23 ` David Gibson
2026-04-07 3:16 ` [PATCH 05/18] conf: Permit -[tTuU] all in pasta mode David Gibson
2026-04-07 3:16 ` [PATCH 06/18] fwd: Better split forwarding rule specification from associated sockets David Gibson
2026-04-07 23:14 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-04-08 1:30 ` David Gibson
2026-04-08 21:39 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-04-09 0:47 ` David Gibson
2026-04-07 3:16 ` [PATCH 07/18] fwd_rule: Move forwarding rule formatting David Gibson
2026-04-07 3:16 ` [PATCH 08/18] conf: Pass protocol explicitly to conf_ports_range_except() David Gibson
2026-04-07 3:16 ` [PATCH 09/18] fwd: Split rule building from rule adding David Gibson
2026-04-07 3:16 ` [PATCH 10/18] fwd_rule: Move rule conflict checking from fwd_rule_add() to caller David Gibson
2026-04-07 23:14 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-04-08 1:37 ` David Gibson
2026-04-08 4:42 ` David Gibson
2026-04-07 3:16 ` [PATCH 11/18] fwd: Improve error handling in fwd_rule_add() David Gibson
2026-04-08 21:40 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-04-09 0:10 ` David Gibson
2026-04-07 3:16 ` [PATCH 12/18] conf: Don't be strict about exclusivity of forwarding mode David Gibson
2026-04-08 21:40 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-04-09 0:12 ` David Gibson
2026-04-07 3:16 ` [PATCH 13/18] conf: Rework stepping through chunks of port specifiers David Gibson
2026-04-08 21:40 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-04-09 0:13 ` David Gibson
2026-04-07 3:16 ` [PATCH 14/18] conf: Rework checking for garbage after a range David Gibson
2026-04-08 21:40 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-04-09 0:15 ` David Gibson
2026-04-07 3:16 ` [PATCH 15/18] conf: Move "all" handling to port specifier David Gibson
2026-04-08 21:40 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-04-07 3:16 ` [PATCH 16/18] conf: Allow user-specified auto-scanned port forwarding ranges David Gibson
2026-04-08 21:40 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-04-07 3:16 ` [PATCH 17/18] conf: Move SO_BINDTODEVICE workaround to conf_ports() David Gibson
2026-04-07 3:16 ` [PATCH 18/18] conf: Don't pass raw commandline argument to conf_ports_spec() David Gibson
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