On 03/26, Alexei Starovoitov wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 11:17:19AM -0700, Stanislav Fomichev wrote: > > On 03/26, Alexei Starovoitov wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 10:52 AM Willem de Bruijn > > > <willemdebruijn.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > The BPF flow dissector should work the same. It is fine to pass the > > > > data including ethernet header, but parsing can start at nhoff with > > > > proto explicitly passed. > > > > > > > > We should not assume Ethernet link layer. > > > > > > then skb-less dissector has to be different program type > > > because semantics are different. > > The semantics are the same as for c-based __skb_flow_dissect. > > We just need to pass nhoff and proto that has been passed to > > __skb_flow_dissect to the bpf program. In case of with-skb, > > take this initial data from skb, like __skb_flow_dissect does (and don't > > ask BPF program to do it essentially): > > > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf.git/tree/net/core/flow_dissector.c#n763 > > > > I was thinking of passing proto as flow_keys->n_proto and we already > > pass flow_keys->nhoff, so no need to do anything for it. With that, > > BPF program doesn't need to look into skb and can parse optional vlan > > and L3+ headers. The same way __skb_flow_dissect does that. > > makes sense. then I'd also prefer for proto to be in flow_keys to > high light this difference. Maybe rename existing flow_keys->n_proto to flow_keys->proto? That would match __skb_flow_dissect and remove ambiguity with both proto and n_proto in flow_keys. > may be add vlan_proto/present/tci there as well? > At least on the kernel side ctx rewriter will be the same for w/ & w/o skb cases. Why do you think we need them? My understanding was that when skb_vlan_tag_present(skb) (or skb->vlan_present) returns true, that means that vlan info has been already parsed out of the packet and stored in the vlan_tci/vlan_proto (where vlan_proto is 8021Q/8021AD); skb data points to proper L3 header. If that's correct, BPF flow dissector should not care about that. For example, look at how C-based flow dissector does that: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf.git/tree/net/core/flow_dissector.c#n944 If skb_vlan_tag_present(skb) returns true, we set proto to skb->protocol and move on. But, we would need vlan_proto/present/tci in the flow_keys in the future. We don't currently return parsed vlan data from the BPF flow dissector. But it feels like it's getting into bpf-next territory :-)
