Re: [PATCH bpf 1/2] bpf_redirect_neigh: Support supplying the nexthop as a helper parameter

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On 10/19/20 12:23 PM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> Looks good to me, thanks! I'll wait till David gets a chance as well to
> review.
> One thing that would have made sense to me (probably worth a v2) is to
> keep the
> fib lookup flag you had back then, meaning sth like BPF_FIB_SKIP_NEIGH
> which
> would then return a BPF_FIB_LKUP_RET_NO_NEIGH before doing the neigh
> lookup inside
> the bpf_ipv{4,6}_fib_lookup() so that programs can just unconditionally
> use the
> combination of bpf_fib_lookup(skb, [...], BPF_FIB_SKIP_NEIGH) with the
> bpf_redirect_neigh([...]) extension in that case and not do this
> bpf_redirect()
> vs bpf_redirect_neigh() dance as you have in the selftest in patch 2/2.

That puts the overhead on bpf_ipv{4,6}_fib_lookup. The existiong helpers
return BPF_FIB_LKUP_RET_NO_NEIGH which is the key to the bpf program to
call the bpf_redirect_neigh - making the program deal with the overhead
as needed on failures.



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