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[net-next] sched, bpf: let stack handle !IFF_UP devs on bpf_clone_redirect

Message ID a03c9b9daa9f779937fce9f6050a05a2dfeaaeec.1443039304.git.daniel@iogearbox.net
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Daniel Borkmann Sept. 23, 2015, 8:20 p.m. UTC
Similarly as already the case in bpf_redirect()/skb_do_redirect()
pair, let the stack deal with devs that are !IFF_UP.

dev_forward_skb() as well as dev_queue_xmit() will free the skb
and increment drop counter internally in such cases, so we can
spare the condition in bpf_clone_redirect().

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
---
 net/core/filter.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

Comments

Alexei Starovoitov Sept. 23, 2015, 8:55 p.m. UTC | #1
On 9/23/15 1:20 PM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> Similarly as already the case in bpf_redirect()/skb_do_redirect()
> pair, let the stack deal with devs that are !IFF_UP.
>
> dev_forward_skb() as well as dev_queue_xmit() will free the skb
> and increment drop counter internally in such cases, so we can
> spare the condition in bpf_clone_redirect().
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann<daniel@iogearbox.net>

thanks. was about to send the same fix.
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>

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David Miller Sept. 23, 2015, 9:26 p.m. UTC | #2
From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 22:20:15 +0200

> Similarly as already the case in bpf_redirect()/skb_do_redirect()
> pair, let the stack deal with devs that are !IFF_UP.
> 
> dev_forward_skb() as well as dev_queue_xmit() will free the skb
> and increment drop counter internally in such cases, so we can
> spare the condition in bpf_clone_redirect().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>

Applied, thanks Daniel.
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Patch

diff --git a/net/core/filter.c b/net/core/filter.c
index da3f3d9..96bd962 100644
--- a/net/core/filter.c
+++ b/net/core/filter.c
@@ -1404,9 +1404,6 @@  static u64 bpf_clone_redirect(u64 r1, u64 ifindex, u64 flags, u64 r4, u64 r5)
 	if (unlikely(!dev))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	if (unlikely(!(dev->flags & IFF_UP)))
-		return -EINVAL;
-
 	skb2 = skb_clone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (unlikely(!skb2))
 		return -ENOMEM;