From: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@linux.dev>
To: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
Cc: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@shopee.com>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>, Song Liu <song@kernel.org>,
Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>,
John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>,
Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>, Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>,
bpf@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf v1 2/2] selftests/bpf: Add protocol check test for bpf_sk_assign_tcp_reqsk()
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:33:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <12cc6b53-d801-4e77-83d6-b2a4655ec1b8@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4c27a461-2714-4c27-8604-dedd506a09aa@linux.dev>
On 3/25/26 8:24 PM, Jiayuan Chen wrote:
>
> On 3/25/26 5:59 AM, Martin KaFai Lau wrote:
>> On 3/23/26 3:54 AM, Jiayuan Chen wrote:
>>> +void test_tcp_custom_syncookie_protocol_check(void)
>>> +{
>>> + struct test_tcp_custom_syncookie *skel;
>>> + struct sockaddr_in tcp_addr, udp_addr;
>>> + socklen_t addr_len = sizeof(tcp_addr);
>>> + int tcp_server = -1, udp_client = -1;
>>> + char buf[32] = "test";
>>> + int ret;
>>> +
>>> + if (setup_netns())
>>> + return;
>>> +
>>> + skel = test_tcp_custom_syncookie__open_and_load();
>>> + if (!ASSERT_OK_PTR(skel, "open_and_load"))
>>> + return;
>>> + /* Create a TCP listener so the BPF can find a LISTEN socket */
>>> + tcp_server = start_server(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, "127.0.0.1", 0, 0);
>>> + if (!ASSERT_NEQ(tcp_server, -1, "start tcp_server"))
>>> + goto destroy_skel;
>>> +
>>> + ret = getsockname(tcp_server, (struct sockaddr *)&tcp_addr,
>>> &addr_len);
>>> + if (!ASSERT_OK(ret, "getsockname"))
>>> + goto close_tcp;
>>> +
>>> + skel->bss->tcp_listener_port = ntohs(tcp_addr.sin_port);
>>> + skel->bss->udp_test_port = 9999;
>>> +
>>> + ret = bpf_program__fd(skel->progs.tcp_custom_syncookie_badproto);
>>> + if (setup_tc(ret))
>>> + goto close_tcp;
>>> +
>>> + udp_client = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
>>> + if (!ASSERT_NEQ(udp_client, -1, "udp socket"))
>>> + goto cleanup_tc;
>>> +
>>> + memset(&udp_addr, 0, sizeof(udp_addr));
>>> + udp_addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
>>> + udp_addr.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_LOOPBACK);
>>> + udp_addr.sin_port = htons(9999);
>>> +
>>> + ret = sendto(udp_client, buf, sizeof(buf), 0,
>>> + (struct sockaddr *)&udp_addr, sizeof(udp_addr));
>>> + ASSERT_EQ(ret, sizeof(buf), "sendto udp");
>>> +
>>> + /* Wait for TC ingress BPF to process the skb. */
>>> + kern_sync_rcu();
>>
>> hmm... is it guaranteed to work? Regardless, it checks the error
>> returned from bpf_sk_assign_tcp_reqsk(). Maybe bpf_prog_test_run is
>> simpler?
>>
>> pw-bot: cr
>>
>>> +
>>>
> I looked into using bpf_prog_test_run, but it won't work here
> because bpf_sk_assign_tcp_reqsk() requires the skb to come from TC ingress
> — it checks skb_at_tc_ingress() internally and returns -EINVAL otherwise.
Thanks for trying.
>
> For the synchronization concern, instead of kern_sync_rcu(), I now create
> a UDP server bound to the target port and recv() the packet after sendto().
> Since the BPF program returns TC_ACT_OK, the packet passes through TC
> ingress
> and arrives at the UDP socket. The recv() naturally blocks until the BPF
> program
> has finished processing, so no timing tricks are needed.
>
sgtm.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-26 6:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-23 10:54 [PATCH bpf v1 0/2] bpf: tcp: Fix null-ptr-deref in arbitrary SYN Cookie Jiayuan Chen
2026-03-23 10:54 ` [PATCH bpf v1 1/2] bpf: tcp: Reject non-TCP skb in bpf_sk_assign_tcp_reqsk() Jiayuan Chen
2026-03-24 21:37 ` Martin KaFai Lau
2026-03-26 0:04 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-03-26 1:54 ` Jiayuan Chen
2026-03-23 10:54 ` [PATCH bpf v1 2/2] selftests/bpf: Add protocol check test for bpf_sk_assign_tcp_reqsk() Jiayuan Chen
2026-03-24 21:59 ` Martin KaFai Lau
2026-03-25 2:03 ` Jiayuan Chen
2026-03-26 3:24 ` Jiayuan Chen
2026-03-26 6:33 ` Martin KaFai Lau [this message]
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