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We start with necessary kernel change as discussed at [0] with > > Martin, then next patch adds kfuncs for handling skb refcount and on top > > of that a test case is added where one program stores skbs and then next > > program is able to retrieve them from map. > > > > Martin, regarding the kernel change I decided to go with boolean > > approach instead of what you initially suggested. Let me know if it > > works for you. > > > > Thanks, > > Maciej > > > > [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/Z0X%2F9PhIhvQwsgfW@boxer/ > > Before we go further we need a lot more details on "why" part. > In the old thread I was able to find: > > > On TC egress hook skb is stored in a map ... > > During TC ingress hook on the same interface, the skb that was previously > stored in map is retrieved ... > > This is too cryptic. I see several concerns with such use case > including netns crossing, L2/L3 mismatch, skb_scrub. > > I doubt we can make such "skb stash in a map" safe without > restricting the usage, so please provide detailed > description of the use case. Hi Alexei, We have a system with two nodes: one is a fully fledged Linux system (big node) and the other one a smaller embedded system. The big node runs Linux PTP for time synchronization, the smaller node we have no control over (might run Linux or something else). The problem is that we would like to use the Tx timestamps from the small node in the Linux PTP application on the big node. When a packet is sent out from the big node it arrives at the small node that send it out one of its interfaces. It then replies with another packet back to the big node with the Tx timestamp in it. Our current PoC for attacking this is to store the skb in a map (using this patch set) when it is sent out from the big node then retrieve it from the map when the reply from the small node is received. We then take the timestamp from the packet and put it in the skb and send it up to the socket error queue so that Linux PTP works out of the box. Note that for the purpose of setting skb->hwtstamp and sending it up to the error queue we are adding a kfunc (bpf_tx_tstamp) responsible for it, which is not included in this set, so I understand it is not obvious what we achieved with the current form of this patch set being discussed. We did not consider the restrictions that should be implemented from netns POV, so that is a good point. How would you see this being fixed?