[PATCH bpf v2 2/4] netkit: Fix pkt_type override upon netkit pass verdict

Daniel Borkmann
2024-05-24T16:36:23Z

When running Cilium connectivity test suite with netkit in L2 mode, we
found that compared to tcx a few tests were failing which pushed traffic
into an L7 proxy sitting in host namespace. The problem in particular is
around the invocation of eth_type_trans() in netkit.

In case of tcx, this is run before the tcx ingress is triggered inside
host namespace and thus if the BPF program uses the bpf_skb_change_type()
helper the newly set type is retained. However, in case of netkit, the
late eth_type_trans() invocation overrides the earlier decision from the
BPF program which eventually leads to the test failure.

Instead of eth_type_trans(), split out the relevant parts, meaning, reset
of mac header and call to eth_skb_pkt_type() before the BPF program is run
in order to have the same behavior as with tcx, and refactor a small helper
called eth_skb_pull_mac() which is run in case it's passed up the stack
where the mac header must be pulled. With this all connectivity tests pass.

Fixes: 35dfaad7188c ("netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
---
drivers/net/netkit.c | 4 +++-
include/linux/etherdevice.h | 8 ++++++++
net/ethernet/eth.c | 4 +---
3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/netkit.c b/drivers/net/netkit.c
index 272894053e2c..16789cd446e9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netkit.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netkit.c
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ static void netkit_prep_forward(struct sk_buff *skb, bool xnet)
skb_scrub_packet(skb, xnet);
skb->priority = 0;
nf_skip_egress(skb, true);
+ skb_reset_mac_header(skb);
}

static struct netkit *netkit_priv(const struct net_device *dev)
@@ -78,6 +79,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t netkit_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
skb_orphan_frags(skb, GFP_ATOMIC)))
goto drop;
netkit_prep_forward(skb, !net_eq(dev_net(dev), dev_net(peer)));
+ eth_skb_pkt_type(skb, peer);
skb->dev = peer;
entry = rcu_dereference(nk->active);
if (entry)
@@ -85,7 +87,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t netkit_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
switch (ret) {
case NETKIT_NEXT:
case NETKIT_PASS:
- skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, skb->dev);
+ eth_skb_pull_mac(skb);
skb_postpull_rcsum(skb, eth_hdr(skb), ETH_HLEN);
if (likely(__netif_rx(skb) == NET_RX_SUCCESS)) {
dev_sw_netstats_tx_add(dev, 1, len);
diff --git a/include/linux/etherdevice.h b/include/linux/etherdevice.h
index 2ad1ffa4ccb9..0ed47d00549b 100644
--- a/include/linux/etherdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/etherdevice.h
@@ -636,6 +636,14 @@ static inline void eth_skb_pkt_type(struct sk_buff *skb,
}
}

+static inline struct ethhdr *eth_skb_pull_mac(struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+ struct ethhdr *eth = (struct ethhdr *)skb->data;
+
+ skb_pull_inline(skb, ETH_HLEN);
+ return eth;
+}
+
/**
* eth_skb_pad - Pad buffer to mininum number of octets for Ethernet frame
* @skb: Buffer to pad
diff --git a/net/ethernet/eth.c b/net/ethernet/eth.c
index 049c3adeb850..4e3651101b86 100644
--- a/net/ethernet/eth.c
+++ b/net/ethernet/eth.c
@@ -161,9 +161,7 @@ __be16 eth_type_trans(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
skb->dev = dev;
skb_reset_mac_header(skb);

- eth = (struct ethhdr *)skb->data;
- skb_pull_inline(skb, ETH_HLEN);
-
+ eth = eth_skb_pull_mac(skb);
eth_skb_pkt_type(skb, dev);

/*
--
2.34.1