Re: [PATCH 1/4] veth: move loopback logic to common location

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Thu Nov 26 2009 - 10:23:07 EST


On Tuesday 24 November 2009, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > I don't quite follow what you intend with dev_queue_xmit when the macvlan
> > is in one namespace and the real physical device is in another. Are
> > you mentioning that the packet classifier runs in the namespace where
> > the primary device lives with packets from a different namespace?
>
> Exactly. And I think we should make sure that the namespace of
> the macvlan device can't (deliberately or accidentally) cause
> misclassification.

This is independent of my series and a preexisting problem, right?

Which fields do you think need to be reset to maintain namespace
isolation for the outbound path in macvlan?
---
net: maintain namespace isolation between vlan and real device

In the vlan and macvlan drivers, the start_xmit function forwards
data to the dev_queue_xmit function for another device, which may
potentially belong to a different namespace.

To make sure that classification stays within a single namespace,
this resets the potentially critical fields.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

---
drivers/net/macvlan.c | 2 +-
include/linux/netdevice.h | 9 +++++++++
net/8021q/vlan_dev.c | 2 +-
net/core/dev.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++----
4 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/macvlan.c b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
index 322112c..edcebf1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ static int macvlan_queue_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
}

xmit_world:
- skb->dev = vlan->lowerdev;
+ skb_set_dev(skb, vlan->lowerdev);
return dev_queue_xmit(skb);
}

diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 9428793..fdf4a1a 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -1009,6 +1009,15 @@ static inline bool netdev_uses_dsa_tags(struct net_device *dev)
return 0;
}

+#ifdef CONFIG_NET_NS
+static inline void skb_set_dev(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
+{
+ skb->dev = dev;
+}
+#else /* CONFIG_NET_NS */
+void skb_set_dev(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev);
+#endif
+
static inline bool netdev_uses_trailer_tags(struct net_device *dev)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_NET_DSA_TAG_TRAILER
diff --git a/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c b/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c
index de0dc6b..51fcfff 100644
--- a/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c
+++ b/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t vlan_dev_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
}


- skb->dev = vlan_dev_info(dev)->real_dev;
+ skb_set_dev(skb, vlan_dev_info(dev)->real_dev);
len = skb->len;
ret = dev_queue_xmit(skb);

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index f8baa15..7179b58 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1448,13 +1448,10 @@ int dev_forward_skb(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
if (skb->len > (dev->mtu + dev->hard_header_len))
return NET_RX_DROP;

- skb_dst_drop(skb);
+ skb_set_dev(skb, dev);
skb->tstamp.tv64 = 0;
skb->pkt_type = PACKET_HOST;
skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, dev);
- skb->mark = 0;
- secpath_reset(skb);
- nf_reset(skb);
return netif_rx(skb);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dev_forward_skb);
@@ -1614,6 +1611,27 @@ static bool dev_can_checksum(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
return false;
}

+/**
+ * skb_dev_set -- assign a buffer to a new device
+ * @skb: buffer for the new device
+ * @dev: network device
+ *
+ * If an skb is owned by a device already, we have to reset
+ * all data private to the namespace a device belongs to
+ * before assigning it a new device.
+ */
+void skb_set_dev(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
+{
+ if (skb->dev && !net_eq(dev_net(skb->dev), dev_net(dev))) {
+ secpath_reset(skb);
+ skb_dst_drop(skb);
+ nf_reset(skb);
+ skb->mark = 0;
+ }
+ skb->dev = dev;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(skb_set_dev);
+
/*
* Invalidate hardware checksum when packet is to be mangled, and
* complete checksum manually on outgoing path.
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