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packet: add sockopt to ignore outgoing packets
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Currently, the only way to ignore outgoing packets on a packet socket is
via the BPF filter.  With MSG_ZEROCOPY, packets that are looped into
AF_PACKET are copied in dev_queue_xmit_nit(), and this copy happens even
if the filter run from packet_rcv() would reject them.  So the presence
of a packet socket on the interface takes away the benefits of
MSG_ZEROCOPY, even if the packet socket is not interested in outgoing
packets.  (Even when MSG_ZEROCOPY is not used, the skb is unnecessarily
cloned, but the cost for that is much lower.)

Add a socket option to allow AF_PACKET sockets to ignore outgoing
packets to solve this.  Note that the *BSDs already have something
similar: BIOCSSEESENT/BIOCSDIRECTION and BIOCSDIRFILT.

The first intended user is lldpd.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Vincent Whitchurch authored and David S. Miller committed Sep 6, 2018
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions include/linux/netdevice.h
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Expand Up @@ -2343,6 +2343,7 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *call_gro_receive_sk(gro_receive_sk_t cb,

struct packet_type {
__be16 type; /* This is really htons(ether_type). */
bool ignore_outgoing;
struct net_device *dev; /* NULL is wildcarded here */
int (*func) (struct sk_buff *,
struct net_device *,
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions include/uapi/linux/if_packet.h
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Expand Up @@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ struct sockaddr_ll {
#define PACKET_QDISC_BYPASS 20
#define PACKET_ROLLOVER_STATS 21
#define PACKET_FANOUT_DATA 22
#define PACKET_IGNORE_OUTGOING 23

#define PACKET_FANOUT_HASH 0
#define PACKET_FANOUT_LB 1
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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions net/core/dev.c
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Expand Up @@ -1969,6 +1969,9 @@ void dev_queue_xmit_nit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
rcu_read_lock();
again:
list_for_each_entry_rcu(ptype, ptype_list, list) {
if (ptype->ignore_outgoing)
continue;

/* Never send packets back to the socket
* they originated from - MvS (miquels@drinkel.ow.org)
*/
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17 changes: 17 additions & 0 deletions net/packet/af_packet.c
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Expand Up @@ -3805,6 +3805,20 @@ packet_setsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname, char __user *optv

return fanout_set_data(po, optval, optlen);
}
case PACKET_IGNORE_OUTGOING:
{
int val;

if (optlen != sizeof(val))
return -EINVAL;
if (copy_from_user(&val, optval, sizeof(val)))
return -EFAULT;
if (val < 0 || val > 1)
return -EINVAL;

po->prot_hook.ignore_outgoing = !!val;
return 0;
}
case PACKET_TX_HAS_OFF:
{
unsigned int val;
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((u32)po->fanout->flags << 24)) :
0);
break;
case PACKET_IGNORE_OUTGOING:
val = po->prot_hook.ignore_outgoing;
break;
case PACKET_ROLLOVER_STATS:
if (!po->rollover)
return -EINVAL;
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