From: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Marco Baffo <marco@mandelbit.com>,
Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>,
Ralf Lici <ralf@mandelbit.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Antonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 4/7] selftests: ovpn: enable TCP_NODELAY on TCP sockets
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2026 00:25:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260930222542.3839327-5-antonio@openvpn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260930222542.3839327-1-antonio@openvpn.net>
From: Marco Baffo <marco@mandelbit.com>
Userspace now enables TCP_NODELAY by default. Enable it for
ovpn-cli's TCP sockets too.
The TCP peer ID capture assumes that every TCP segment starts with an
ovpn length prefix followed by a data header. TCP does not preserve
record boundaries, and enabling TCP_NODELAY makes this check unreliable.
Restrict the capture-based peer ID check to UDP.
Signed-off-by: Marco Baffo <marco@mandelbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net>
---
tools/testing/selftests/net/ovpn/common.sh | 20 +++-----
tools/testing/selftests/net/ovpn/ovpn-cli.c | 23 +++++++++
tools/testing/selftests/net/ovpn/test.sh | 54 ++++++++++-----------
3 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/ovpn/common.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/net/ovpn/common.sh
index 5e9c81e885e6..2f7851b82343 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/ovpn/common.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/ovpn/common.sh
@@ -191,20 +191,14 @@ ovpn_setup_ns() {
ovpn_build_capture_filter() {
# match the first four bytes of the openvpn data payload
- if [ "${OVPN_PROTO}" == "UDP" ]; then
- # For UDP, libpcap transport indexing only works for IPv4, so
- # use an explicit IPv4 or IPv6 expression based on the peer
- # address. The IPv6 branch assumes there are no extension
- # headers in the outer packet.
- if [[ "${2}" == *:* ]]; then
- printf "ip6 and ip6[6] = 17 and ip6[48:4] = %s" "${1}"
- else
- printf "ip and udp[8:4] = %s" "${1}"
- fi
+ # For UDP, libpcap transport indexing only works for IPv4, so
+ # use an explicit IPv4 or IPv6 expression based on the peer
+ # address. The IPv6 branch assumes there are no extension
+ # headers in the outer packet.
+ if [[ "${2}" == *:* ]]; then
+ printf "ip6 and ip6[6] = 17 and ip6[48:4] = %s" "${1}"
else
- # openvpn over TCP prepends a 2-byte packet length ahead of the
- # DATA_V2 opcode, so skip it before matching the payload header
- printf "ip and tcp[(((tcp[12] & 0xf0) >> 2) + 2):4] = %s" "${1}"
+ printf "ip and udp[8:4] = %s" "${1}"
fi
}
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/ovpn/ovpn-cli.c b/tools/testing/selftests/net/ovpn/ovpn-cli.c
index 3b612a8a18fe..33f623d6b242 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/ovpn/ovpn-cli.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/ovpn/ovpn-cli.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <net/if.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
+#include <netinet/tcp.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <linux/ovpn.h>
@@ -470,6 +471,18 @@ static int ovpn_parse_key_direction(const char *dir, struct ovpn_ctx *ctx)
return 0;
}
+static int ovpn_tcp_nodelay(int socket)
+{
+ int opt = 1;
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = setsockopt(socket, IPPROTO_TCP, TCP_NODELAY, &opt, sizeof(opt));
+ if (ret < 0)
+ perror("setsockopt for TCP_NODELAY");
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
static int ovpn_socket(struct ovpn_ctx *ctx, sa_family_t family, int proto)
{
struct sockaddr_storage local_sock = { 0 };
@@ -606,6 +619,12 @@ static int ovpn_accept(struct ovpn_ctx *ctx)
goto err;
}
+ if (ovpn_tcp_nodelay(ret) < 0) {
+ close(ret);
+ ret = -1;
+ goto err;
+ }
+
return ret;
err:
close(ctx->socket);
@@ -623,6 +642,10 @@ static int ovpn_connect(struct ovpn_ctx *ovpn)
return -1;
}
+ ret = ovpn_tcp_nodelay(s);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ goto err;
+
switch (ovpn->remote.in4.sin_family) {
case AF_INET:
socklen = sizeof(struct sockaddr_in);
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/ovpn/test.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/net/ovpn/test.sh
index 392109d5e14e..e2e6ffdd29bb 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/ovpn/test.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/ovpn/test.sh
@@ -137,35 +137,33 @@ ovpn_run_basic_traffic() {
local tcpdump_timeout="1.5s"
for p in $(seq 1 ${OVPN_NUM_PEERS}); do
- # The first part of the data packet header consists of:
- # - TCP only: 2 bytes for the packet length
- # - 5 bits for opcode ("9" for DATA_V2)
- # - 3 bits for key-id ("0" at this point)
- # - 12 bytes for peer-id:
- # - with asymmetric ID: "${p}" one way and "${p} + 9" the
- # other way
- # - with symmetric ID: "${p}" both ways
- header1=$(printf "0x4800000%x" ${p})
- header2=$(printf "0x4800000%x" $((p + OVPN_ID_OFFSET)))
- raddr=""
if [ "${OVPN_PROTO}" == "UDP" ]; then
+ # The first part of the data packet header consists of:
+ # - 5 bits for opcode ("9" for DATA_V2)
+ # - 3 bits for key-id ("0" at this point)
+ # - 3 bytes for peer-id:
+ # - with asymmetric ID: "${p}" one way and "${p} + 9" the
+ # other way
+ # - with symmetric ID: "${p}" both ways
+ header1=$(printf "0x4800000%x" ${p})
+ header2=$(printf "0x4800000%x" $((p + OVPN_ID_OFFSET)))
raddr=$(awk "NR == ${p} {print \$3}" \
"${OVPN_UDP_PEERS_FILE}")
+ peer_ns="ovpn_peer${p}"
+
+ timeout ${tcpdump_timeout} ip netns exec "${peer_ns}" \
+ tcpdump --immediate-mode -p -ni veth${p} -c 1 \
+ "$(ovpn_build_capture_filter "${header1}" "${raddr}")" \
+ >/dev/null 2>&1 &
+ tcpdump_pid1=$!
+ timeout ${tcpdump_timeout} ip netns exec "${peer_ns}" \
+ tcpdump --immediate-mode -p -ni veth${p} -c 1 \
+ "$(ovpn_build_capture_filter "${header2}" "${raddr}")" \
+ >/dev/null 2>&1 &
+ tcpdump_pid2=$!
+
+ sleep 0.3
fi
- peer_ns="ovpn_peer${p}"
-
- timeout ${tcpdump_timeout} ip netns exec "${peer_ns}" \
- tcpdump --immediate-mode -p -ni veth${p} -c 1 \
- "$(ovpn_build_capture_filter "${header1}" "${raddr}")" \
- >/dev/null 2>&1 &
- tcpdump_pid1=$!
- timeout ${tcpdump_timeout} ip netns exec "${peer_ns}" \
- tcpdump --immediate-mode -p -ni veth${p} -c 1 \
- "$(ovpn_build_capture_filter "${header2}" "${raddr}")" \
- >/dev/null 2>&1 &
- tcpdump_pid2=$!
-
- sleep 0.3
ovpn_cmd_ok "send baseline traffic to peer ${p}" \
ip netns exec ovpn_peer0 \
ping -qfc 100 -w 3 5.5.5.$((p + 1))
@@ -173,8 +171,10 @@ ovpn_run_basic_traffic() {
ip netns exec ovpn_peer0 \
ping -qfc 100 -s 3000 -w 3 5.5.5.$((p + 1))
- wait "${tcpdump_pid1}" || return 1
- wait "${tcpdump_pid2}" || return 1
+ if [ "${OVPN_PROTO}" == "UDP" ]; then
+ wait "${tcpdump_pid1}" || return 1
+ wait "${tcpdump_pid2}" || return 1
+ fi
done
}
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-30 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-30 22:25 [PATCH net-next 0/7] pull request: ovpn 2026-09-30 Antonio Quartulli
2026-09-30 22:25 ` [PATCH net-next 1/7] ovpn: Fix the return value in ovpn_bind_from_sockaddr() kernel-doc Antonio Quartulli
2026-09-30 22:25 ` [PATCH net-next 2/7] ovpn: remove unused work field from struct ovpn_socket Antonio Quartulli
2026-09-30 22:25 ` [PATCH net-next 3/7] ovpn: remove redundant peer NULL checks in crypto post functions Antonio Quartulli
2026-09-30 22:25 ` Antonio Quartulli [this message]
2026-09-30 22:25 ` [PATCH net-next 5/7] selftests: ovpn: wait for the TCP server key setup before traffic Antonio Quartulli
2026-10-01 22:27 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-02 9:16 ` Antonio Quartulli
2026-09-30 22:25 ` [PATCH net-next 6/7] ovpn: send peer object along with PEER_DEL_NTF Antonio Quartulli
2026-10-01 22:27 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-09-30 22:25 ` [PATCH net-next 7/7] MAINTAINERS: ovpn: add Ralf Lici as reviewer Antonio Quartulli
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2026-10-07 13:30 [PATCH net-next 0/7] pull request: ovpn 2026-10-07 Antonio Quartulli
2026-10-07 13:30 ` [PATCH net-next 4/7] selftests: ovpn: enable TCP_NODELAY on TCP sockets Antonio Quartulli
2026-10-08 13:32 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-08 13:59 ` Neal Cardwell
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