Re: [PATCH bpf-next] selftests/bpf: Avoid subtraction after htons() in ipip tests

From: Martin KaFai Lau
Date: Tue Aug 13 2024 - 21:16:15 EST


On 8/8/24 2:24 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen <ast@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

On little-endian systems, doing subtraction after htons()
leads to interesting results:

Given:
MAGIC_BYTES = 123 = 0x007B aka. in big endian: 0x7B00 = 31488
sizeof(struct iphdr) = 20

Before this patch:
__bpf_constant_htons(MAGIC_BYTES) - sizeof(struct iphdr) = 0x7AEC
0x7AEC = htons(0xEC7A) = htons(60538)

So these were outer IP packets with a total length of 123 bytes,
containing an inner IP packet with a total length of 60538 bytes.

It's just using bag of holding technology!

After this patch:
__bpf_constant_htons(MAGIC_BYTES - sizeof(struct iphdr)) = htons(103)

Now these packets are outer IP packets with a total length of 123 bytes,
containing an inner IP packet with a total length of 103 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen <ast@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to bpf-next/net. Thanks.