From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Cc: passt-dev@passt.top
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/14] Split tap_ip_send() into IPv4 and IPv6 specific functions
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 23:07:43 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y06XD8EA9HLHpOn3@yekko> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221018050611.02d79478@elisabeth>
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On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 05:06:11AM +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2022 19:58:02 +1100
> David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
>
> > The IPv4 and IPv6 paths in tap_ip_send() have very little in common, and
> > it turns out that every caller (statically) knows if it is using IPv4 or
> > IPv6. So split into separate tap_ip4_send() and tap_ip6_send() functions.
> > Use a new tap_l2_hdr() function for the very small common part.
> >
> > While we're there, make some minor cleanups:
> > - We were double writing some fields in the IPv6 header, so that it
> > temporary matched the pseudo-header for checksum calculation. With
> > recent checksum reworks, this isn't neccessary any more.
> > - We don't use any IPv4 header options, so use some sizeof() constructs
> > instead of some open coded values for header length.
> > - The comment used to say that the flow label was for TCP over IPv6, but
> > in fact the only thing we used it for was ICMPv6
>
> ...right, this used to be the data path.
Makes sense. Realized that comment isn't quite correct, because it
was DHCPv6 rather than ICMPv6 traffic that got the flow labels.
> > Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> > ---
> > dhcpv6.c | 6 +-
> > icmp.c | 10 +---
> > tap.c | 176 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
> > tap.h | 6 +-
> > 4 files changed, 102 insertions(+), 96 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/dhcpv6.c b/dhcpv6.c
> > index e7640ce..7829968 100644
> > --- a/dhcpv6.c
> > +++ b/dhcpv6.c
> > @@ -531,8 +531,8 @@ int dhcpv6(struct ctx *c, const struct pool *p,
> >
> > resp_not_on_link.hdr.xid = mh->xid;
> >
> > - tap_ip_send(c, src, IPPROTO_UDP,
> > - (char *)&resp_not_on_link, n, mh->xid);
> > + tap_ip6_send(c, src, IPPROTO_UDP,
> > + (char *)&resp_not_on_link, n, mh->xid);
> >
> > return 1;
> > }
> > @@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ int dhcpv6(struct ctx *c, const struct pool *p,
> >
> > resp.hdr.xid = mh->xid;
> >
> > - tap_ip_send(c, src, IPPROTO_UDP, (char *)&resp, n, mh->xid);
> > + tap_ip6_send(c, src, IPPROTO_UDP, (char *)&resp, n, mh->xid);
> > c->ip6.addr_seen = c->ip6.addr;
> >
> > return 1;
> > diff --git a/icmp.c b/icmp.c
> > index 21ea2d7..61c2d90 100644
> > --- a/icmp.c
> > +++ b/icmp.c
> > @@ -69,10 +69,6 @@ static uint8_t icmp_act[IP_VERSIONS][DIV_ROUND_UP(ICMP_NUM_IDS, 8)];
> > void icmp_sock_handler(const struct ctx *c, union epoll_ref ref,
> > uint32_t events, const struct timespec *now)
> > {
> > - struct in6_addr a6 = { .s6_addr = { 0, 0, 0, 0,
> > - 0, 0, 0, 0,
> > - 0, 0, 0xff, 0xff,
> > - 0, 0, 0, 0 } };
> > union icmp_epoll_ref *iref = &ref.r.p.icmp;
> > struct sockaddr_storage sr;
> > socklen_t sl = sizeof(sr);
> > @@ -109,7 +105,7 @@ void icmp_sock_handler(const struct ctx *c, union epoll_ref ref,
> > icmp_id_map[V6][id].seq = seq;
> > }
> >
> > - tap_ip_send(c, &sr6->sin6_addr, IPPROTO_ICMPV6, buf, n, 0);
> > + tap_ip6_send(c, &sr6->sin6_addr, IPPROTO_ICMPV6, buf, n, 0);
> > } else {
> > struct sockaddr_in *sr4 = (struct sockaddr_in *)&sr;
> > struct icmphdr *ih = (struct icmphdr *)buf;
> > @@ -127,9 +123,7 @@ void icmp_sock_handler(const struct ctx *c, union epoll_ref ref,
> > icmp_id_map[V4][id].seq = seq;
> > }
> >
> > - memcpy(&a6.s6_addr[12], &sr4->sin_addr, sizeof(sr4->sin_addr));
> > -
> > - tap_ip_send(c, &a6, IPPROTO_ICMP, buf, n, 0);
> > + tap_ip4_send(c, sr4->sin_addr.s_addr, IPPROTO_ICMP, buf, n);
> > }
> > }
> >
> > diff --git a/tap.c b/tap.c
> > index ae75fac..45547ac 100644
> > --- a/tap.c
> > +++ b/tap.c
> > @@ -109,100 +109,110 @@ const struct in6_addr *tap_ip6_daddr(const struct ctx *c,
> > }
> >
> > /**
> > - * tap_ip_send() - Send IP packet, with L2 headers, calculating L3/L4 checksums
> > + * tap_l2_hdr() - Build an L2 header for an inbound packet
> > * @c: Execution context
> > - * @src: IPv6 source address, IPv4-mapped for IPv4 sources
> > - * @proto: L4 protocol number
> > - * @in: Payload
> > - * @len: L4 payload length
> > - * @flow: Flow label for TCP over IPv6
> > + * @buf: Buffer address at which to generate header
> > + * @proto: Ethernet protocol number for L3
> > + *
> > + * Returns a pointer at which to write the packet's payload
>
> * Return: ...
Done.
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-17 8:57 [PATCH 00/14] Clean up checksum and header generation for inbound packets David Gibson
2022-10-17 8:57 ` [PATCH 01/14] Add csum_icmp6() helper for calculating ICMPv6 checksums David Gibson
2022-10-18 3:01 ` Stefano Brivio
2022-10-18 12:05 ` David Gibson
2022-10-17 8:57 ` [PATCH 02/14] Add csum_icmp4() helper for calculating ICMPv4 checksums David Gibson
2022-10-18 3:01 ` Stefano Brivio
2022-10-18 12:06 ` David Gibson
2022-10-18 12:28 ` Stefano Brivio
2022-10-17 8:57 ` [PATCH 03/14] Add csum_udp6() helper for calculating UDP over IPv6 checksums David Gibson
2022-10-18 3:02 ` Stefano Brivio
2022-10-18 12:06 ` David Gibson
2022-10-17 8:57 ` [PATCH 04/14] Add csum_udp4() helper for calculating UDP over IPv4 checksums David Gibson
2022-10-18 3:03 ` Stefano Brivio
2022-10-18 12:06 ` David Gibson
2022-10-17 8:57 ` [PATCH 05/14] Add csum_ip4_header() helper to calculate IPv4 header checksums David Gibson
2022-10-18 3:03 ` Stefano Brivio
2022-10-18 12:07 ` David Gibson
2022-10-17 8:57 ` [PATCH 06/14] Add helpers for normal inbound packet destination addresses David Gibson
2022-10-18 3:04 ` Stefano Brivio
2022-10-18 12:07 ` David Gibson
2022-10-17 8:58 ` [PATCH 07/14] Remove support for TCP packets from tap_ip_send() David Gibson
2022-10-17 8:58 ` [PATCH 08/14] tap: Remove unhelpeful vnet_pre optimization from tap_send() David Gibson
2022-10-18 3:05 ` Stefano Brivio
2022-10-18 12:07 ` David Gibson
2022-10-17 8:58 ` [PATCH 09/14] Split tap_ip_send() into IPv4 and IPv6 specific functions David Gibson
2022-10-18 3:06 ` Stefano Brivio
2022-10-18 12:07 ` David Gibson [this message]
2022-10-17 8:58 ` [PATCH 10/14] tap: Split tap_ip6_send() into UDP and ICMP variants David Gibson
2022-10-17 8:58 ` [PATCH 11/14] ndp: Remove unneeded eh_source parameter David Gibson
2022-10-17 8:58 ` [PATCH 12/14] ndp: Use tap_icmp6_send() helper David Gibson
2022-10-17 8:58 ` [PATCH 13/14] tap: Split tap_ip4_send() into UDP and ICMP variants David Gibson
2022-10-18 3:06 ` Stefano Brivio
2022-10-18 12:07 ` David Gibson
2022-10-18 12:27 ` Stefano Brivio
2022-10-18 23:54 ` David Gibson
2022-10-17 8:58 ` [PATCH 14/14] dhcp: Use tap_udp4_send() helper in dhcp() David Gibson
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