Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 06:34:59PM CEST, ast@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>On 4/2/2015 8:21 AM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
>>On 04/02/2015 05:15 PM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>>>Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 05:00:47PM CEST, daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>>On 04/02/2015 02:12 AM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
>>>>>Commit 608cd71a9c7c ("tc: bpf: generalize pedit action") has added the
>>>>>possibility to mangle packet data to BPF programs in the tc pipeline.
>>>>>This patch adds two helpers bpf_l3_csum_replace() and
>>>>>bpf_l4_csum_replace()
>>>>>for fixing up the protocol checksums after the packet mangling.
>>>>>
>>>>>It also adds 'flags' argument to bpf_skb_store_bytes() helper to avoid
>>>>>unnecessary checksum recomputations when BPF programs adjusting l3/l4
>>>>>checksums and documents all three helpers in uapi header.
>>>>>
>>>>>Moreover, a sample program is added to show how BPF programs can
>>>>>make use
>>>>>of the mangle and csum helpers.
>>>>>
>>>>>Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>>I think in future we need to find a better place for these helpers,
>>>>as they are for cls_bpf and act_bpf.
>>>
>>>Yeah, makes sense to now have it in net/core/filter.c. How about to
>>>create net/bpf dir for these?
>>
>>I was thinking somewhere under net/sched/, f.e. net/sched/bpf.c
>>as probably kernel/bpf/ would end up in too much ifdef pasta. :/
>
>I would prefer to keep mangle and csum helpers in net/core/filter.c for
>now, since it's not clear what networking subsystems beyond TC would
>want to use them in the future. Otherwise we'll keep moving them back
>and forth.
Well, therefore I suggested net/bpf/ dir as a place to store
net-subsystem specific bpf stuff.
>
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