Re: [PATCH bpf-next v2 1/5] bpf: expose is_mptcp flag to bpf_tcp_sock

[Song Liu]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 8:07 AM Nicolas Rybowski
<nicolas.rybowski@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> is_mptcp is a field from struct tcp_sock used to indicate that the
> current tcp_sock is part of the MPTCP protocol.
>
> In this protocol, a first socket (mptcp_sock) is created with
> sk_protocol set to IPPROTO_MPTCP (=262) for control purpose but it
> isn't directly on the wire. This is the role of the subflow (kernel)
> sockets which are classical tcp_sock with sk_protocol set to
> IPPROTO_TCP. The only way to differentiate such sockets from plain TCP
> sockets is the is_mptcp field from tcp_sock.
>
> Such an exposure in BPF is thus required to be able to differentiate
> plain TCP sockets from MPTCP subflow sockets in BPF_PROG_TYPE_SOCK_OPS
> programs.
>
> The choice has been made to silently pass the case when CONFIG_MPTCP is
> unset by defaulting is_mptcp to 0 in order to make BPF independent of
> the MPTCP configuration. Another solution is to make the verifier fail
> in 'bpf_tcp_sock_is_valid_ctx_access' but this will add an additional
> '#ifdef CONFIG_MPTCP' in the BPF code and a same injected BPF program
> will not run if MPTCP is not set.
>
> An example use-case is provided in
> https://github.com/multipath-tcp/mptcp_net-next/tree/scripts/bpf/examples
>
> Suggested-by: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Rybowski <nicolas.rybowski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/uapi/linux/bpf.h       | 1 +
>  net/core/filter.c              | 9 ++++++++-
>  tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h | 1 +
>  3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h b/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
> index 7dd314176df7..7d179eada1c3 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
> @@ -4060,6 +4060,7 @@ struct bpf_tcp_sock {
>         __u32 delivered;        /* Total data packets delivered incl. rexmits */
>         __u32 delivered_ce;     /* Like the above but only ECE marked packets */
>         __u32 icsk_retransmits; /* Number of unrecovered [RTO] timeouts */
> +       __u32 is_mptcp;         /* Is MPTCP subflow? */

Shall we have an __u32 flags, and make is_mptcp a bit of it?

Thanks,
Song
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