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authorLibravatar Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2023-02-21 18:24:12 -0800
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Merge tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-nextgrafted
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "Core: - Add dedicated kmem_cache for typical/small skb->head, avoid having to access struct page at kfree time, and improve memory use. - Introduce sysctl to set default RPS configuration for new netdevs. - Define Netlink protocol specification format which can be used to describe messages used by each family and auto-generate parsers. Add tools for generating kernel data structures and uAPI headers. - Expose all net/core sysctls inside netns. - Remove 4s sleep in netpoll if carrier is instantly detected on boot. - Add configurable limit of MDB entries per port, and port-vlan. - Continue populating drop reasons throughout the stack. - Retire a handful of legacy Qdiscs and classifiers. 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BPF: - Add a rbtree data structure following the "next-gen data structure" precedent set by recently added linked list, that is, by using kfunc + kptr instead of adding a new BPF map type. - Expose XDP hints via kfuncs with initial support for RX hash and timestamp metadata. - Add BPF_F_NO_TUNNEL_KEY extension to bpf_skb_set_tunnel_key to better support decap on GRE tunnel devices not operating in collect metadata. - Improve x86 JIT's codegen for PROBE_MEM runtime error checks. - Remove the need for trace_printk_lock for bpf_trace_printk and bpf_trace_vprintk helpers. - Extend libbpf's bpf_tracing.h support for tracing arguments of kprobes/uprobes and syscall as a special case. - Significantly reduce the search time for module symbols by livepatch and BPF. - Enable cpumasks to be used as kptrs, which is useful for tracing programs tracking which tasks end up running on which CPUs in different time intervals. - Add support for BPF trampoline on s390x and riscv64. - Add capability to export the XDP features supported by the NIC. - Add __bpf_kfunc tag for marking kernel functions as kfuncs. - Add cgroup.memory=nobpf kernel parameter option to disable BPF memory accounting for container environments. Netfilter: - Remove the CLUSTERIP target. It has been marked as obsolete for years, and we still have WARN splats wrt races of the out-of-band /proc interface installed by this target. - Add 'destroy' commands to nf_tables. They are identical to the existing 'delete' commands, but do not return an error if the referenced object (set, chain, rule...) did not exist. Driver API: - Improve cpumask_local_spread() locality to help NICs set the right IRQ affinity on AMD platforms. - Separate C22 and C45 MDIO bus transactions more clearly. - Introduce new DCB table to control DSCP rewrite on egress. - Support configuration of Physical Layer Collision Avoidance (PLCA) Reconciliation Sublayer (RS) (802.3cg-2019). Modern version of shared medium Ethernet. - Support for MAC Merge layer (IEEE 802.3-2018 clause 99). Allowing preemption of low priority frames by high priority frames. - Add support for controlling MACSec offload using netlink SET. - Rework devlink instance refcounts to allow registration and de-registration under the instance lock. Split the code into multiple files, drop some of the unnecessarily granular locks and factor out common parts of netlink operation handling. - Add TX frame aggregation parameters (for USB drivers). - Add a new attr TCA_EXT_WARN_MSG to report TC (offload) warning messages with notifications for debug. - Allow offloading of UDP NEW connections via act_ct. - Add support for per action HW stats in TC. - Support hardware miss to TC action (continue processing in SW from a specific point in the action chain). - Warn if old Wireless Extension user space interface is used with modern cfg80211/mac80211 drivers. Do not support Wireless Extensions for Wi-Fi 7 devices at all. Everyone should switch to using nl80211 interface instead. - Improve the CAN bit timing configuration. Use extack to return error messages directly to user space, update the SJW handling, including the definition of a new default value that will benefit CAN-FD controllers, by increasing their oscillator tolerance. New hardware / drivers: - Ethernet: - nVidia BlueField-3 support (control traffic driver) - Ethernet support for imx93 SoCs - Motorcomm yt8531 gigabit Ethernet PHY - onsemi NCN26000 10BASE-T1S PHY (with support for PLCA) - Microchip LAN8841 PHY (incl. cable diagnostics and PTP) - Amlogic gxl MDIO mux - WiFi: - RealTek RTL8188EU (rtl8xxxu) - Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 devices (ath12k) - CAN: - Renesas R-Car V4H Drivers: - Bluetooth: - Set Per Platform Antenna Gain (PPAG) for Intel controllers. - Ethernet NICs: - Intel (1G, igc): - support TSN / Qbv / packet scheduling features of i226 model - Intel (100G, ice): - use GNSS subsystem instead of TTY - multi-buffer XDP support - extend support for GPIO pins to E823 devices - nVidia/Mellanox: - update the shared buffer configuration on PFC commands - implement PTP adjphase function for HW offset control - TC support for Geneve and GRE with VF tunnel offload - more efficient crypto key management method - multi-port eswitch support - Netronome/Corigine: - add DCB IEEE support - support IPsec offloading for NFP3800 - Freescale/NXP (enetc): - support XDP_REDIRECT for XDP non-linear buffers - improve reconfig, avoid link flap and waiting for idle - support MAC Merge layer - Other NICs: - sfc/ef100: add basic devlink support for ef100 - ionic: rx_push mode operation (writing descriptors via MMIO) - bnxt: use the auxiliary bus abstraction for RDMA - r8169: disable ASPM and reset bus in case of tx timeout - cpsw: support QSGMII mode for J721e CPSW9G - cpts: support pulse-per-second output - ngbe: add an mdio bus driver - usbnet: optimize usbnet_bh() by avoiding unnecessary queuing - r8152: handle devices with FW with NCM support - amd-xgbe: support 10Mbps, 2.5GbE speeds and rx-adaptation - virtio-net: support multi buffer XDP - virtio/vsock: replace virtio_vsock_pkt with sk_buff - tsnep: XDP support - Ethernet high-speed switches: - nVidia/Mellanox (mlxsw): - add support for latency TLV (in FW control messages) - Microchip (sparx5): - separate explicit and implicit traffic forwarding rules, make the implicit rules always active - add support for egress DSCP rewrite - IS0 VCAP support (Ingress Classification) - IS2 VCAP filters (protos, L3 addrs, L4 ports, flags, ToS etc.) - ES2 VCAP support (Egress Access Control) - support for Per-Stream Filtering and Policing (802.1Q, 8.6.5.1) - Ethernet embedded switches: - Marvell (mv88e6xxx): - add MAB (port auth) offload support - enable PTP receive for mv88e6390 - NXP (ocelot): - support MAC Merge layer - support for the the vsc7512 internal copper phys - Microchip: - lan9303: convert to PHYLINK - lan966x: support TC flower filter statistics - lan937x: PTP support for KSZ9563/KSZ8563 and LAN937x - lan937x: support Credit Based Shaper configuration - ksz9477: support Energy Efficient Ethernet - other: - qca8k: convert to regmap read/write API, use bulk operations - rswitch: Improve TX timestamp accuracy - Intel WiFi (iwlwifi): - EHT (Wi-Fi 7) rate reporting - STEP equalizer support: transfer some STEP (connection to radio on platforms with integrated wifi) related parameters from the BIOS to the firmware. - Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k): - IPQ5018 support - Fine Timing Measurement (FTM) responder role support - channel 177 support - MediaTek WiFi (mt76): - per-PHY LED support - mt7996: EHT (Wi-Fi 7) support - Wireless Ethernet Dispatch (WED) reset support - switch to using page pool allocator - RealTek WiFi (rtw89): - support new version of Bluetooth co-existance - Mobile: - rmnet: support TX aggregation" * tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1872 commits) page_pool: add a comment explaining the fragment counter usage net: ethtool: fix __ethtool_dev_mm_supported() implementation ethtool: pse-pd: Fix double word in comments xsk: add linux/vmalloc.h to xsk.c sefltests: netdevsim: wait for devlink instance after netns removal selftest: fib_tests: Always cleanup before exit net/mlx5e: Align IPsec ASO result memory to be as required by hardware net/mlx5e: TC, Set CT miss to the specific ct action instance net/mlx5e: Rename CHAIN_TO_REG to MAPPED_OBJ_TO_REG net/mlx5: Refactor tc miss handling to a single function net/mlx5: Kconfig: Make tc offload depend on tc skb extension net/sched: flower: Support hardware miss to tc action net/sched: flower: Move filter handle initialization earlier net/sched: cls_api: Support hardware miss to tc action net/sched: Rename user cookie and act cookie sfc: fix builds without CONFIG_RTC_LIB sfc: clean up some inconsistent indentings net/mlx4_en: Introduce flexible array to silence overflow warning net: lan966x: Fix possible deadlock inside PTP net/ulp: Remove redundant ->clone() test in inet_clone_ulp(). ...
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+=========================
+Stream Parser (strparser)
+=========================
+
+Introduction
+============
+
+The stream parser (strparser) is a utility that parses messages of an
+application layer protocol running over a data stream. The stream
+parser works in conjunction with an upper layer in the kernel to provide
+kernel support for application layer messages. For instance, Kernel
+Connection Multiplexor (KCM) uses the Stream Parser to parse messages
+using a BPF program.
+
+The strparser works in one of two modes: receive callback or general
+mode.
+
+In receive callback mode, the strparser is called from the data_ready
+callback of a TCP socket. Messages are parsed and delivered as they are
+received on the socket.
+
+In general mode, a sequence of skbs are fed to strparser from an
+outside source. Message are parsed and delivered as the sequence is
+processed. This modes allows strparser to be applied to arbitrary
+streams of data.
+
+Interface
+=========
+
+The API includes a context structure, a set of callbacks, utility
+functions, and a data_ready function for receive callback mode. The
+callbacks include a parse_msg function that is called to perform
+parsing (e.g. BPF parsing in case of KCM), and a rcv_msg function
+that is called when a full message has been completed.
+
+Functions
+=========
+
+ ::
+
+ strp_init(struct strparser *strp, struct sock *sk,
+ const struct strp_callbacks *cb)
+
+ Called to initialize a stream parser. strp is a struct of type
+ strparser that is allocated by the upper layer. sk is the TCP
+ socket associated with the stream parser for use with receive
+ callback mode; in general mode this is set to NULL. Callbacks
+ are called by the stream parser (the callbacks are listed below).
+
+ ::
+
+ void strp_pause(struct strparser *strp)
+
+ Temporarily pause a stream parser. Message parsing is suspended
+ and no new messages are delivered to the upper layer.
+
+ ::
+
+ void strp_unpause(struct strparser *strp)
+
+ Unpause a paused stream parser.
+
+ ::
+
+ void strp_stop(struct strparser *strp);
+
+ strp_stop is called to completely stop stream parser operations.
+ This is called internally when the stream parser encounters an
+ error, and it is called from the upper layer to stop parsing
+ operations.
+
+ ::
+
+ void strp_done(struct strparser *strp);
+
+ strp_done is called to release any resources held by the stream
+ parser instance. This must be called after the stream processor
+ has been stopped.
+
+ ::
+
+ int strp_process(struct strparser *strp, struct sk_buff *orig_skb,
+ unsigned int orig_offset, size_t orig_len,
+ size_t max_msg_size, long timeo)
+
+ strp_process is called in general mode for a stream parser to
+ parse an sk_buff. The number of bytes processed or a negative
+ error number is returned. Note that strp_process does not
+ consume the sk_buff. max_msg_size is maximum size the stream
+ parser will parse. timeo is timeout for completing a message.
+
+ ::
+
+ void strp_data_ready(struct strparser *strp);
+
+ The upper layer calls strp_tcp_data_ready when data is ready on
+ the lower socket for strparser to process. This should be called
+ from a data_ready callback that is set on the socket. Note that
+ maximum messages size is the limit of the receive socket
+ buffer and message timeout is the receive timeout for the socket.
+
+ ::
+
+ void strp_check_rcv(struct strparser *strp);
+
+ strp_check_rcv is called to check for new messages on the socket.
+ This is normally called at initialization of a stream parser
+ instance or after strp_unpause.
+
+Callbacks
+=========
+
+There are six callbacks:
+
+ ::
+
+ int (*parse_msg)(struct strparser *strp, struct sk_buff *skb);
+
+ parse_msg is called to determine the length of the next message
+ in the stream. The upper layer must implement this function. It
+ should parse the sk_buff as containing the headers for the
+ next application layer message in the stream.
+
+ The skb->cb in the input skb is a struct strp_msg. Only
+ the offset field is relevant in parse_msg and gives the offset
+ where the message starts in the skb.
+
+ The return values of this function are:
+
+ ========= ===========================================================
+ >0 indicates length of successfully parsed message
+ 0 indicates more data must be received to parse the message
+ -ESTRPIPE current message should not be processed by the
+ kernel, return control of the socket to userspace which
+ can proceed to read the messages itself
+ other < 0 Error in parsing, give control back to userspace
+ assuming that synchronization is lost and the stream
+ is unrecoverable (application expected to close TCP socket)
+ ========= ===========================================================
+
+ In the case that an error is returned (return value is less than
+ zero) and the parser is in receive callback mode, then it will set
+ the error on TCP socket and wake it up. If parse_msg returned
+ -ESTRPIPE and the stream parser had previously read some bytes for
+ the current message, then the error set on the attached socket is
+ ENODATA since the stream is unrecoverable in that case.
+
+ ::
+
+ void (*lock)(struct strparser *strp)
+
+ The lock callback is called to lock the strp structure when
+ the strparser is performing an asynchronous operation (such as
+ processing a timeout). In receive callback mode the default
+ function is to lock_sock for the associated socket. In general
+ mode the callback must be set appropriately.
+
+ ::
+
+ void (*unlock)(struct strparser *strp)
+
+ The unlock callback is called to release the lock obtained
+ by the lock callback. In receive callback mode the default
+ function is release_sock for the associated socket. In general
+ mode the callback must be set appropriately.
+
+ ::
+
+ void (*rcv_msg)(struct strparser *strp, struct sk_buff *skb);
+
+ rcv_msg is called when a full message has been received and
+ is queued. The callee must consume the sk_buff; it can
+ call strp_pause to prevent any further messages from being
+ received in rcv_msg (see strp_pause above). This callback
+ must be set.
+
+ The skb->cb in the input skb is a struct strp_msg. This
+ struct contains two fields: offset and full_len. Offset is
+ where the message starts in the skb, and full_len is the
+ the length of the message. skb->len - offset may be greater
+ then full_len since strparser does not trim the skb.
+
+ ::
+
+ int (*read_sock_done)(struct strparser *strp, int err);
+
+ read_sock_done is called when the stream parser is done reading
+ the TCP socket in receive callback mode. The stream parser may
+ read multiple messages in a loop and this function allows cleanup
+ to occur when exiting the loop. If the callback is not set (NULL
+ in strp_init) a default function is used.
+
+ ::
+
+ void (*abort_parser)(struct strparser *strp, int err);
+
+ This function is called when stream parser encounters an error
+ in parsing. The default function stops the stream parser and
+ sets the error in the socket if the parser is in receive callback
+ mode. The default function can be changed by setting the callback
+ to non-NULL in strp_init.
+
+Statistics
+==========
+
+Various counters are kept for each stream parser instance. These are in
+the strp_stats structure. strp_aggr_stats is a convenience structure for
+accumulating statistics for multiple stream parser instances.
+save_strp_stats and aggregate_strp_stats are helper functions to save
+and aggregate statistics.
+
+Message assembly limits
+=======================
+
+The stream parser provide mechanisms to limit the resources consumed by
+message assembly.
+
+A timer is set when assembly starts for a new message. In receive
+callback mode the message timeout is taken from rcvtime for the
+associated TCP socket. In general mode, the timeout is passed as an
+argument in strp_process. If the timer fires before assembly completes
+the stream parser is aborted and the ETIMEDOUT error is set on the TCP
+socket if in receive callback mode.
+
+In receive callback mode, message length is limited to the receive
+buffer size of the associated TCP socket. If the length returned by
+parse_msg is greater than the socket buffer size then the stream parser
+is aborted with EMSGSIZE error set on the TCP socket. Note that this
+makes the maximum size of receive skbuffs for a socket with a stream
+parser to be 2*sk_rcvbuf of the TCP socket.
+
+In general mode the message length limit is passed in as an argument
+to strp_process.
+
+Author
+======
+
+Tom Herbert (tom@quantonium.net)