Re: [PATCH net-next 6/6] netfilter: nf_flow_table: hardware offload support

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On 11/11/2019 23:29, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> This patch adds the dataplane hardware offload to the flowtable
> infrastructure. Three new flags represent the hardware state of this
> flow:
>
> * FLOW_OFFLOAD_HW: This flow entry resides in the hardware.
> * FLOW_OFFLOAD_HW_DYING: This flow entry has been scheduled to be remove
>   from hardware. This might be triggered by either packet path (via TCP
>   RST/FIN packet) or via aging.
> * FLOW_OFFLOAD_HW_DEAD: This flow entry has been already removed from
>   the hardware, the software garbage collector can remove it from the
>   software flowtable.
>
> This patch supports for:
>
> * IPv4 only.
> * Aging via FLOW_CLS_STATS, no packet and byte counter synchronization
>   at this stage.
>
> This patch also adds the action callback that specifies how to convert
> the flow entry into the flow_rule object that is passed to the driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
<snip>
> +static int nf_flow_rule_match(struct nf_flow_match *match,
> +			      const struct flow_offload_tuple *tuple)
> +{
> +	struct nf_flow_key *mask = &match->mask;
> +	struct nf_flow_key *key = &match->key;
> +
> +	NF_FLOW_DISSECTOR(match, FLOW_DISSECTOR_KEY_CONTROL, control);
> +	NF_FLOW_DISSECTOR(match, FLOW_DISSECTOR_KEY_BASIC, basic);
> +	NF_FLOW_DISSECTOR(match, FLOW_DISSECTOR_KEY_IPV4_ADDRS, ipv4);
> +	NF_FLOW_DISSECTOR(match, FLOW_DISSECTOR_KEY_TCP, tcp);
> +	NF_FLOW_DISSECTOR(match, FLOW_DISSECTOR_KEY_PORTS, tp);
> +
> +	switch (tuple->l3proto) {
> +	case AF_INET:
> +		key->control.addr_type = FLOW_DISSECTOR_KEY_IPV4_ADDRS;
Is it intentional that mask->control.addr_type never gets set?

-ed



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