Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v7 1/2] net: UDP tunnel encapsulation module for tunnelling different protocols like MPLS,IP,NSH etc.

From: Martin Varghese <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 08:19:43 +0530

On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 12:26:18PM -0600, Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 12:20 AM Martin Varghese
> <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >
> > From: Martin Varghese <[email-masked]>
> >
> > The Bareudp tunnel module provides a generic L3 encapsulation
> > tunnelling module for tunnelling different protocols like MPLS,
> > IP,NSH etc inside a UDP tunnel.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Martin Varghese <[email-masked]>
> 
> > +struct net_device *bareudp_dev_create(struct net *net, const char *name,
> > +                                     u8 name_assign_type,
> > +                                     struct bareudp_conf *conf)
> > +{
> > +       struct nlattr *tb[IFLA_MAX + 1];
> > +       struct net_device *dev;
> > +       LIST_HEAD(list_kill);
> > +       int err;
> > +
> > +       memset(tb, 0, sizeof(tb));
> > +       dev = rtnl_create_link(net, name, name_assign_type,
> > +                              &bareudp_link_ops, tb, NULL);
> > +       if (IS_ERR(dev))
> > +               return dev;
> > +
> > +       err = bareudp_configure(net, dev, conf);
> > +       if (err) {
> > +               free_netdev(dev);
> > +               return ERR_PTR(err);
> > +       }
> > +       err = dev_set_mtu(dev, IP_MAX_MTU);
> 
> does this not exceed dev->max_mtu?
> 
Noted.Must consider BAREUDP Overhead.
> > diff --git a/include/net/ipv6.h b/include/net/ipv6.h
> > index cec1a54..1bf8065 100644
> > --- a/include/net/ipv6.h
> > +++ b/include/net/ipv6.h
> > @@ -1027,6 +1027,12 @@ struct dst_entry *ip6_dst_lookup_flow(struct net *net, const struct sock *sk, st
> >  struct dst_entry *ip6_sk_dst_lookup_flow(struct sock *sk, struct flowi6 *fl6,
> >                                          const struct in6_addr *final_dst,
> >                                          bool connected);
> > +struct dst_entry *ip6_dst_lookup_tunnel(struct sk_buff *skb,
> > +                                       struct net_device *dev,
> > +                                       struct net *net, struct socket *sock,
> > +                                       struct in6_addr *saddr,
> > +                                       const struct ip_tunnel_info *info,
> > +                                       u8 protocol, bool use_cache);
> >  struct dst_entry *ip6_blackhole_route(struct net *net,
> >                                       struct dst_entry *orig_dst);
> >
> > diff --git a/include/net/route.h b/include/net/route.h
> > index a9c60fc..81750ae 100644
> > --- a/include/net/route.h
> > +++ b/include/net/route.h
> > @@ -128,6 +128,12 @@ static inline struct rtable *__ip_route_output_key(struct net *net,
> >
> >  struct rtable *ip_route_output_flow(struct net *, struct flowi4 *flp,
> >                                     const struct sock *sk);
> > +struct rtable *ip_route_output_tunnel(struct sk_buff *skb,
> > +                                     struct net_device *dev,
> > +                                     struct net *net, __be32 *saddr,
> > +                                     const struct ip_tunnel_info *info,
> > +                                     u8 protocol, bool use_cache);
> > +
> >  struct dst_entry *ipv4_blackhole_route(struct net *net,
> >                                        struct dst_entry *dst_orig);
> >
> 
> Ah, I now see where the difference between net/ipv4/route.c and
> net/ipv6/ip6_output.c come from. It follows from existing locations of
>  ip6_sk_dst_lookup_flow and ip_route_output_flow.
> 
> Looking for the ipv6 analog of ip_route_output_flow, I see that, e.g.,
> ipvlan uses ip6_route_output from net/ipv6/route.c without a NULL sk.
> But ping calls ip6_sk_dst_lookup_flow.
> 
> It might be a better fit behind ip6_route_output_flags, but it's
> probably moot, really.

Actually i considered both the files but i felt this function 
should naturally sit with ip6_sk_dst_lookup_flow.
If you dont have strong objection i would like to keep the
function in ip6_output.c