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On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 08:55:40PM +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> On 10/25/2013 11:00 PM, Julian Anastasov wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> >On Fri, 25 Oct 2013, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> >
> >>Unlike UDP or TCP, we do not take the pseudo-header into account
> >>in SCTP checksums [1]. So in case port mapping is the very same, we
> >>do not need to recalculate the whole SCTP checksum in software, which
> >>is expensive.
> >>
> >>Also, similarly as in IPVS/TCP, take into account when a private
> >>helper mangled the packet. In that case, we also need to recalculate
> >>the checksum even if ports might be same.
> >>
> >> [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4960#section-6.8
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>---
> >> net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_proto_sctp.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> >> 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >>
> >>diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_proto_sctp.c
> >>b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_proto_sctp.c
> >>index 9ca7aa0..e56661e 100644
> >>--- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_proto_sctp.c
> >>+++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_proto_sctp.c
> >>@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ sctp_snat_handler(struct sk_buff *skb, struct
> >>ip_vs_protocol *pp,
> >> {
> >> sctp_sctphdr_t *sctph;
> >> unsigned int sctphoff = iph->len;
> >>+ bool payload_csum = false;
> >>
> >> #ifdef CONFIG_IP_VS_IPV6
> >> if (cp->af == AF_INET6 && iph->fragoffs)
> >>@@ -92,19 +93,27 @@ sctp_snat_handler(struct sk_buff *skb, struct
> >>ip_vs_protocol *pp,
> >
> >...
> >
> >>- sctp_nat_csum(skb, sctph, sctphoff);
> >>+ /* Only update csum if we really have to */
> >>+ if (sctph->source != cp->vport || payload_csum) {
> >
> > The above check should be little more complicated
> >because local SCTP can decide to avoid setting ->checksum,
> >there is a case when we can see CHECKSUM_PARTIAL for
> >locally generated packets. And it happens both for
> >requests (dnat_handler) and replies (snat_handler).
> >
> > I mean both places should be fixed because you can
> >see in ip_vs_ops[] that in NF_INET_LOCAL_OUT we can call both
> >snat_handler and dnat_handler.
> >
> > May be the simplest change can be to add check for
> >!skb->dev to catch the LOCAL_OUT hook, so that we can
> >perform full recalculation. We can further optimize this
> >check for dnat_handler because the dnat_handler can look
> >at the skb_dst()->dev->features as done by sctp_packet_transmit().
> >The idea is that SCTP decides to avoid csum calculation
> >if hardware supports offloading. IPVS can change the
> >device after rerouting to real server but we can preserve
> >the CHECKSUM_PARTIAL mode if the new device supports
> >offloading too. This works because skb dst is changed
> >before dnat_handler and we see the new device.
> >
> > For snat_handler it is more complex. skb contains
> >the original route and ip_vs_route_me_harder() can change
> >the route after snat_handler. So, for locally generated
> >replies from local server we can not preserve the
> >CHECKSUM_PARTIAL mode. It is an chicken or egg dilemma:
> >snat_handler needs the device after rerouting (to
> >check for NETIF_F_SCTP_CSUM), while ip_route_me_harder() wants
> >the snat_handler() to put the new saddr for proper rerouting.
> >So, for snat_handler we need just the !skb->dev check,
> >sort of:
> >
> > if (sctph->source != cp->vport || payload_csum ||
> > (!skb->dev && skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL)) {
> >
> > But I have to think more whether we can preserve
> >the ip_summed value in other cases, see skb_forward_csum()
> >for reference.
>
> Thanks for all your feedback Julian !
>
> Let me think about this, and come back to you w/ a 2nd version
> of the set at latest on Monday.
Hi Daniel,
I am happy to take the 1st patch of the series as-is.
Let me know if that works for you.
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