From: Mahe Tardy <mahe.tardy@gmail.com>
To: mahe.tardy@gmail.com
Cc: alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com, andrii@kernel.org, ast@kernel.org,
bpf@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org,
daniel@iogearbox.net, fw@strlen.de, john.fastabend@gmail.com,
lkp@intel.com, martin.lau@linux.dev, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, oe-kbuild-all@lists.linux.dev,
pablo@netfilter.org
Subject: [PATCH bpf-next v4 0/6] bpf: add icmp_send_unreach kfunc
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:58:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260420105816.72168-1-mahe.tardy@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aI0MkNvWlE4FXMV8@gmail.com>
Hello,
This is v4 of adding the icmp_send_unreach kfunc, as suggested during
LSF/MM/BPF 2025[^1]. The goal is to allow cgroup_skb programs to
actively reject east-west traffic, similarly to what is possible to do
with netfilter reject target.
The first step to implement this is using ICMP control messages, with
the ICMP_DEST_UNREACH type with various code ICMP_NET_UNREACH,
ICMP_HOST_UNREACH, ICMP_PROT_UNREACH, etc. This is easier to implement
than a TCP RST reply and will already hint the client TCP stack to abort
the connection and not retry extensively.
Note that this is different than the sock_destroy kfunc, that along
calls tcp_abort and thus sends a reset, destroying the underlying
socket.
Caveats of this kfunc design are that a program can call this function N
times, thus send N ICMP unreach control messages and that the program
can return from the BPF filter with pass leading to a potential
confusing situation where the TCP connection was established while the
client received ICMP_DEST_UNREACH messages.
Initially, this kfunc was added only to cgroup_skb programs, Alexei
suggested not creating its own kfunc set and adding it to the more
global bpf_kfunc_set_skb. Now that recursion is handled and I realized,
thanks to Martin, that fetching the dst route might be only useful in
situation in which the packet was not yet routed, I decided to extend
the kfunc to more program types and route the packet only if needed.
v2 updates:
- fix a build error from a missing function call rename;
- avoid changing return line in bpf_kfunc_init;
- return SK_DROP from the kfunc (similarly to bpf_redirect);
- check the return value in the selftest.
v3 update:
- fix an undefined reference build error.
v4 updates:
- prevent the kfunc to be called recursively and add a test (thanks to
Martin).
- do not fetch dst route when unnecessary (thanks to Martin).
- extend the test for IPv6 (thanks to Martin).
- use SK_DROP in examples and use non blocking sockets for testing
(thanks to Martin).
- test when the kfunc returns -EINVAL (thanks to Jordan).
- add the kfunc to bpf_kfunc_set_skb as suggested by Alexei.
- guard the IPv4 parts with IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_INET).
- fix a wrong initial value for client_fd (thanks to Yonghong).
- add documentation to the kfunc.
- to Jordan: I couldn't include <linux/icmp.h> because of redefines from
<network_helpers.h>.
[^1]: https://lwn.net/Articles/1022034/
Mahe Tardy (6):
net: move netfilter nf_reject_fill_skb_dst to core ipv4
net: move netfilter nf_reject6_fill_skb_dst to core ipv6
bpf: add bpf_icmp_send_unreach kfunc
selftests/bpf: add icmp_send_unreach kfunc tests
selftests/bpf: add icmp_send_unreach kfunc IPv6 tests
selftests/bpf: add icmp_send_unreach_recursion test
include/net/ip6_route.h | 2 +
include/net/route.h | 1 +
net/core/filter.c | 85 ++++++++
net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_reject_ipv4.c | 19 +-
net/ipv4/route.c | 15 ++
net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_reject_ipv6.c | 17 +-
net/ipv6/route.c | 18 ++
.../bpf/prog_tests/icmp_send_unreach_kfunc.c | 202 ++++++++++++++++++
.../selftests/bpf/progs/icmp_send_unreach.c | 100 +++++++++
9 files changed, 426 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/icmp_send_unreach_kfunc.c
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/icmp_send_unreach.c
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2.34.1
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2025-07-25 18:53 ` [PATCH bpf-next v1 0/4] bpf: add icmp_send_unreach kfunc Mahe Tardy
2025-07-25 18:53 ` [PATCH bpf-next v2 1/4] net: move netfilter nf_reject_fill_skb_dst to core ipv4 Mahe Tardy
2025-07-25 18:53 ` [PATCH bpf-next v2 2/4] net: move netfilter nf_reject6_fill_skb_dst to core ipv6 Mahe Tardy
2025-07-25 18:53 ` [PATCH bpf-next v2 3/4] bpf: add bpf_icmp_send_unreach cgroup_skb kfunc Mahe Tardy
2025-07-27 1:49 ` kernel test robot
2025-07-28 9:43 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 0/4] bpf: add icmp_send_unreach kfunc Mahe Tardy
2025-07-28 9:43 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 1/4] net: move netfilter nf_reject_fill_skb_dst to core ipv4 Mahe Tardy
2025-07-28 9:43 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 2/4] net: move netfilter nf_reject6_fill_skb_dst to core ipv6 Mahe Tardy
2025-07-28 9:43 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 3/4] bpf: add bpf_icmp_send_unreach cgroup_skb kfunc Mahe Tardy
2025-07-28 20:10 ` kernel test robot
2025-07-29 1:05 ` Martin KaFai Lau
2025-07-29 10:06 ` Mahe Tardy
2025-07-29 23:13 ` Martin KaFai Lau
2025-07-28 9:43 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 4/4] selftests/bpf: add icmp_send_unreach kfunc tests Mahe Tardy
2025-07-28 15:40 ` Yonghong Song
2025-07-28 15:59 ` Mahe Tardy
2025-07-29 1:18 ` Martin KaFai Lau
2025-07-29 9:09 ` Mahe Tardy
2025-07-29 23:27 ` Martin KaFai Lau
2025-07-30 0:01 ` Martin KaFai Lau
2025-07-30 0:32 ` Martin KaFai Lau
2025-08-05 23:26 ` Jordan Rife
2025-07-29 1:21 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 0/4] bpf: add icmp_send_unreach kfunc Martin KaFai Lau
2025-07-29 9:53 ` Mahe Tardy
2025-07-30 1:54 ` Martin KaFai Lau
2025-08-01 18:50 ` Mahe Tardy
2026-04-20 10:58 ` Mahe Tardy [this message]
2026-04-20 10:58 ` [PATCH bpf-next v4 1/6] net: move netfilter nf_reject_fill_skb_dst to core ipv4 Mahe Tardy
2026-04-20 11:36 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-04-20 13:04 ` Mahe Tardy
2026-04-20 10:58 ` [PATCH bpf-next v4 2/6] net: move netfilter nf_reject6_fill_skb_dst to core ipv6 Mahe Tardy
2026-04-20 10:58 ` [PATCH bpf-next v4 3/6] bpf: add bpf_icmp_send_unreach kfunc Mahe Tardy
2026-04-20 11:36 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-04-20 13:07 ` Mahe Tardy
2026-04-20 10:58 ` [PATCH bpf-next v4 4/6] selftests/bpf: add icmp_send_unreach kfunc tests Mahe Tardy
2026-04-20 11:36 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-04-20 13:08 ` Mahe Tardy
2026-04-20 10:58 ` [PATCH bpf-next v4 5/6] selftests/bpf: add icmp_send_unreach kfunc IPv6 tests Mahe Tardy
2026-04-20 10:58 ` [PATCH bpf-next v4 6/6] selftests/bpf: add icmp_send_unreach_recursion test Mahe Tardy
2025-07-25 18:53 ` [PATCH bpf-next v2 4/4] selftests/bpf: add icmp_send_unreach kfunc tests Mahe Tardy
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