Re: [PATCH bpf-next 0/7] Support defragmenting IPv(4|6) packets in BPF

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2023-06-27T14:26:29Z

> The basic idea is we bump a refcnt on the netfilter defrag module and
> then run the bpf prog after the defrag module runs. This allows bpf
> progs to transparently see full, reassembled packets. The nice thing
> about this is that progs don't have to carry around logic to detect
> fragments.

One high-level comment after glancing through the series: Instead of
allocating a flag specifically for the defrag module, why not support
loading (and holding) arbitrary netfilter modules in the UAPI? If we
need to allocate a new flag every time someone wants to use a netfilter
module along with BPF we'll run out of flags pretty quickly :)

-Toke