Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] vsock: support network namespace

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On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 04:25:18PM +0200, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> Hi David, Michael, Stefan,
> I'm restarting to work on this topic since Kata guys are interested to
> have that, especially on the guest side.
> 
> While working on the v2 I had few doubts, and I'd like to have your
> suggestions:
> 
>  1. netns assigned to the device inside the guest
> 
>    Currently I assigned this device to 'init_net'. Maybe it is better
>    if we allow the user to decide which netns assign to the device
>    or to disable this new feature to have the same behavior as before
>    (host reachable from any netns).
>    I think we can handle this in the vsock core and not in the single
>    transports.
> 
>    The simplest way that I found, is to add a new
>    IOCTL_VM_SOCKETS_ASSIGN_G2H_NETNS to /dev/vsock to enable the feature
>    and assign the device to the same netns of the process that do the
>    ioctl(), but I'm not sure it is clean enough.
> 
>    Maybe it is better to add new rtnetlink messages, but I'm not sure if
>    it is feasible since we don't have a netdev device.
> 
>    What do you suggest?

Maybe /dev/vsock-netns here too, like in the host?


> 
>  2. netns assigned in the host
> 
>     As Michael suggested, I added a new /dev/vhost-vsock-netns to allow
>     userspace application to use this new feature, leaving to
>     /dev/vhost-vsock the previous behavior (guest reachable from any
>     netns).
> 
>     I like this approach, but I had these doubts:
> 
>     - I need to allocate a new minor for that device (e.g.
>       VHOST_VSOCK_NETNS_MINOR) or is there an alternative way that I can
>       use?

Not that I see. I agree it's a bit annoying. I'll think about it a bit.

>     - It is vhost-vsock specific, should we provide something handled in
>       the vsock core, maybe centralizing the CID allocation and adding a
>       new IOCTL or rtnetlink message like for the guest side?
>       (maybe it could be a second step, and for now we can continue with
>       the new device)
> 
> 
> Thanks for the help,
> Stefano
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 06:24:25PM +0100, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> > RFC -> v1:
> >  * added 'netns' module param to vsock.ko to enable the
> >    network namespace support (disabled by default)
> >  * added 'vsock_net_eq()' to check the "net" assigned to a socket
> >    only when 'netns' support is enabled
> > 
> > RFC: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/cover/1202235/
> > 
> > Now that we have multi-transport upstream, I started to take a look to
> > support network namespace in vsock.
> > 
> > As we partially discussed in the multi-transport proposal [1], it could
> > be nice to support network namespace in vsock to reach the following
> > goals:
> > - isolate host applications from guest applications using the same ports
> >   with CID_ANY
> > - assign the same CID of VMs running in different network namespaces
> > - partition VMs between VMMs or at finer granularity
> > 
> > This new feature is disabled by default, because it changes vsock's
> > behavior with network namespaces and could break existing applications.
> > It can be enabled with the new 'netns' module parameter of vsock.ko.
> > 
> > This implementation provides the following behavior:
> > - packets received from the host (received by G2H transports) are
> >   assigned to the default netns (init_net)
> > - packets received from the guest (received by H2G - vhost-vsock) are
> >   assigned to the netns of the process that opens /dev/vhost-vsock
> >   (usually the VMM, qemu in my tests, opens the /dev/vhost-vsock)
> >     - for vmci I need some suggestions, because I don't know how to do
> >       and test the same in the vmci driver, for now vmci uses the
> >       init_net
> > - loopback packets are exchanged only in the same netns
> > 
> > I tested the series in this way:
> > l0_host$ qemu-system-x86_64 -m 4G -M accel=kvm -smp 4 \
> >             -drive file=/tmp/vsockvm0.img,if=virtio --nographic \
> >             -device vhost-vsock-pci,guest-cid=3
> > 
> > l1_vm$ echo 1 > /sys/module/vsock/parameters/netns
> > 
> > l1_vm$ ip netns add ns1
> > l1_vm$ ip netns add ns2
> >  # same CID on different netns
> > l1_vm$ ip netns exec ns1 qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1G -M accel=kvm -smp 2 \
> >             -drive file=/tmp/vsockvm1.img,if=virtio --nographic \
> >             -device vhost-vsock-pci,guest-cid=4
> > l1_vm$ ip netns exec ns2 qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1G -M accel=kvm -smp 2 \
> >             -drive file=/tmp/vsockvm2.img,if=virtio --nographic \
> >             -device vhost-vsock-pci,guest-cid=4
> > 
> >  # all iperf3 listen on CID_ANY and port 5201, but in different netns
> > l1_vm$ ./iperf3 --vsock -s # connection from l0 or guests started
> >                            # on default netns (init_net)
> > l1_vm$ ip netns exec ns1 ./iperf3 --vsock -s
> > l1_vm$ ip netns exec ns1 ./iperf3 --vsock -s
> > 
> > l0_host$ ./iperf3 --vsock -c 3
> > l2_vm1$ ./iperf3 --vsock -c 2
> > l2_vm2$ ./iperf3 --vsock -c 2
> > 
> > [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg575792.html
> > 
> > Stefano Garzarella (3):
> >   vsock: add network namespace support
> >   vsock/virtio_transport_common: handle netns of received packets
> >   vhost/vsock: use netns of process that opens the vhost-vsock device
> > 
> >  drivers/vhost/vsock.c                   | 29 ++++++++++++-----
> >  include/linux/virtio_vsock.h            |  2 ++
> >  include/net/af_vsock.h                  |  7 +++--
> >  net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c                | 41 +++++++++++++++++++------
> >  net/vmw_vsock/hyperv_transport.c        |  5 +--
> >  net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c        |  2 ++
> >  net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c | 12 ++++++--
> >  net/vmw_vsock/vmci_transport.c          |  5 +--
> >  8 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
> > 
> > -- 
> > 2.24.1
> > 




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