[PATCH bpf-next v3 0/5] net/smc: Introduce smc_ops

D. Wythe
2024-12-18T02:44:35Z

This patches attempt to introduce BPF injection capability for SMC,
and add selftest to ensure code stability.

Since the SMC protocol is not suitable for all scenarios,
especially for short-lived. For most applications, they cannot
guarantee that there are no such scenarios at all. Therefore, apps
may need some specific strategies to decide shall we need to use SMC
or not, for example, apps can limit the scope of the SMC to a specific
IP address or port.

Based on the consideration of transparent replacement, we hope that apps
can remain transparent even if they need to formulate some specific
strategies for SMC using. That is, do not need to recompile their code.

On the other hand, we need to ensure the scalability of strategies
implementation. Although it is simple to use socket options or sysctl,
it will bring more complexity to subsequent expansion.

Fortunately, BPF can solve these concerns very well, users can write
thire own strategies in eBPF to choose whether to use SMC or not.
And it's quite easy for them to modify their strategies in the future.

v2:
1. Rename smc_bpf_ops to smc_ops.
2. Change the scope of smc_ops from global to per netns.
3. Directly pass parameters to ops instead of smc_ops_ctx.
4. Remove struct smc_ops_ctx.
5. Remove exports that are no longer needed.

v3:
1. Remove find_ksym_btf_id_by_prefix_kind.
2. Enhance selftest, introduce a complete ops for filtering smc
connections based on ip pairs and a realistic topology test
to verify it.

D. Wythe (5):
bpf: export necessary sympols for modules with struct_ops
net/smc: Introduce generic hook smc_ops
net/smc: bpf: register smc_ops info struct_ops
libbpf: fix error when st-prefix_ops and ops from differ btf
bpf/selftests: add selftest for bpf_smc_ops

include/net/netns/smc.h | 3 +
include/net/smc.h | 51 ++
kernel/bpf/bpf_struct_ops.c | 2 +
kernel/bpf/syscall.c | 1 +
net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 15 +-
net/smc/Kconfig | 12 +
net/smc/Makefile | 1 +
net/smc/af_smc.c | 10 +
net/smc/smc_ops.c | 150 +++++
net/smc/smc_ops.h | 31 +
net/smc/smc_sysctl.c | 95 ++++
tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | 25 +-
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/config | 4 +
.../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/test_bpf_smc.c | 535 ++++++++++++++++++
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/bpf_smc.c | 109 ++++
15 files changed, 1032 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 net/smc/smc_ops.c
create mode 100644 net/smc/smc_ops.h
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/test_bpf_smc.c
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/bpf_smc.c

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