Re: [PATCH bpf-next v4 3/6] bpf: add redirect_neigh helper as redirect drop-in

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On 9/30/20 6:08 PM, David Ahern wrote:
On 9/30/20 8:18 AM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h b/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
index 6116a7f54c8f..1f17c6752deb 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
@@ -3652,6 +3652,19 @@ union bpf_attr {
   * 		associated socket instead of the current process.
   * 	Return
   * 		The id is returned or 0 in case the id could not be retrieved.
+ *
+ * long bpf_redirect_neigh(u32 ifindex, u64 flags)
+ * 	Description
+ * 		Redirect the packet to another net device of index *ifindex*
+ * 		and fill in L2 addresses from neighboring subsystem. This helper

It is worth mentioning in the documentation that this helper does 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.

Makes sense, I'll follow-up and add it.

+ * 		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.
+ * 		The *flags* argument is reserved and must be 0. The helper is
+ * 		currently only supported for tc BPF program types.
+ * 	Return
+ * 		The helper returns **TC_ACT_REDIRECT** on success or
+ * 		**TC_ACT_SHOT** on error.
   */
  #define __BPF_FUNC_MAPPER(FN)		\
  	FN(unspec),			\

Code change looks fine to me:

Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for the reviews!



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