Re: [PATCH] af_packet: Handle outgoing VLAN packets without hardware offloading

[Willem de Bruijn]

Chengen Du wrote:
> In the outbound packet path, if hardware VLAN offloading is unavailable,
> the VLAN tag is inserted into the payload but then cleared from the
> metadata. Consequently, this could lead to a false negative result when
> checking for the presence of a VLAN tag using skb_vlan_tag_present(),
> causing the packet sniffing outcome to lack VLAN tag information. As a
> result, the packet capturing tool may be unable to parse packets as
> expected.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chengen Du <chengen.du@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This is changing established behavior, which itself may confuse
existing PF_PACKET receivers.

The contract is that the VLAN tag can be observed in the payload or
as tp_vlan_* fields if it is offloaded.
 
> @@ -2457,7 +2464,8 @@ static int tpacket_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
>  	sll->sll_halen = dev_parse_header(skb, sll->sll_addr);
>  	sll->sll_family = AF_PACKET;
>  	sll->sll_hatype = dev->type;
> -	sll->sll_protocol = skb->protocol;
> +	sll->sll_protocol = eth_type_vlan(skb->protocol) ?
> +		vlan_eth_hdr(skb)->h_vlan_encapsulated_proto : skb->protocol;

This is a particularly subtle change of behavior.

>  		if (skb_vlan_tag_present(skb)) {
>  			aux.tp_vlan_tci = skb_vlan_tag_get(skb);
>  			aux.tp_vlan_tpid = ntohs(skb->vlan_proto);
> -			aux.tp_status |= TP_STATUS_VLAN_VALID | TP_STATUS_VLAN_TPID_VALID;
> +		} else if (eth_type_vlan(skb->protocol)) {
> +			aux.tp_vlan_tci = ntohs(vlan_eth_hdr(skb)->h_vlan_TCI);
> +			aux.tp_vlan_tpid = ntohs(skb->protocol);
>  		} else {
>  			aux.tp_vlan_tci = 0;
>  			aux.tp_vlan_tpid = 0;
>  		}
> +		if (aux.tp_vlan_tci || aux.tp_vlan_tpid)
> +			aux.tp_status |= TP_STATUS_VLAN_VALID | TP_STATUS_VLAN_TPID_VALID;
>  		put_cmsg(msg, SOL_PACKET, PACKET_AUXDATA, sizeof(aux), &aux);

vlan_tci 0 is valid identifier. That's the reason explicit field
TP_STATUS_VLAN_VALID was added.