Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/4] net/sched: act_mirred: Implement ingress actions

From: Daniel Borkmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 16:53:33 +0200

On 09/26/2016 04:43 PM, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> On 26.09.2016 03:35, Florian Westphal wrote:
>> Jamal Hadi Salim <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>> On 16-09-25 02:31 PM, Florian Westphal wrote:
>>>> Shmulik Ladkani <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>>>> We can later address any loop-detection improvements in mirred.
>>>>> WDYT?
>>>>
>>>> You can address this after fixing infamous spinlock recursion hard
>>>> lockup (which has existed forever):
>>>>
>>>> tc qdisc add dev eth0 root handle 1: prio
>>>> tc filter add dev eth0 parent 1: protocol ip u32 match u32 0 0 flowid
>>>> 1:2 action mirred egress redirect dev eth0
>>>>
>>>> (only do this on toy vm)
>>>
>>> Realize didnt respond to this. Seems very simple to fix:
>>> if skb->dev->ifindex and m->tcfm_dev->ifindex are the
>>> same, then you can drop the packet.
>>
>> Yes, but I think we get same issue when we deal with stacked
>> interfaces, and redirect is to e.g. vlan on top of physical device.
>
> We do have the adjacent upper lists in all netdevices, calculating if a
> mirred actions would insert the skb on a stacked device above us should
> be as easy as querying netdev_has_upper_dev and should be possible to
> check that during config time.

But that would still not be enough, no? In the sense that with above
scenario, you could redirect to some arbitrary device that redirects
this back to the original device if on purpose configured as such,
thus they don't necessarily need to have a stacked relationship.

>> And we have such loops even without tc, for instance when placing
>> both veth ends in same bridge :-(
>
> We can't fix that without a ttl in the sk_buff struct.
>
> Bye,
> Hannes