[Bridge] [PATCH 1/4] veth: move loopback logic to common location

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Thu Nov 26 07:21:27 PST 2009


On Tuesday 24 November 2009, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > I don't quite follow what you intend with dev_queue_xmit when the macvlan
> > is in one namespace and the real physical device is in another.  Are
> > you mentioning that the packet classifier runs in the namespace where
> > the primary device lives with packets from a different namespace?
> 
> Exactly. And I think we should make sure that the namespace of
> the macvlan device can't (deliberately or accidentally) cause
> misclassification.

This is independent of my series and a preexisting problem, right?

Which fields do you think need to be reset to maintain namespace
isolation for the outbound path in macvlan?
---
net: maintain namespace isolation between vlan and real device

In the vlan and macvlan drivers, the start_xmit function forwards
data to the dev_queue_xmit function for another device, which may
potentially belong to a different namespace.

To make sure that classification stays within a single namespace,
this resets the potentially critical fields.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>

---
 drivers/net/macvlan.c     |    2 +-
 include/linux/netdevice.h |    9 +++++++++
 net/8021q/vlan_dev.c      |    2 +-
 net/core/dev.c            |   26 ++++++++++++++++++++++----
 4 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/macvlan.c b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
index 322112c..edcebf1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ static int macvlan_queue_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 	}
 
 xmit_world:
-	skb->dev = vlan->lowerdev;
+	skb_set_dev(skb, vlan->lowerdev);
 	return dev_queue_xmit(skb);
 }
 
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 9428793..fdf4a1a 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -1009,6 +1009,15 @@ static inline bool netdev_uses_dsa_tags(struct net_device *dev)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_NET_NS
+static inline void skb_set_dev(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
+{
+	skb->dev = dev;
+}
+#else /* CONFIG_NET_NS */
+void skb_set_dev(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev);
+#endif
+
 static inline bool netdev_uses_trailer_tags(struct net_device *dev)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_NET_DSA_TAG_TRAILER
diff --git a/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c b/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c
index de0dc6b..51fcfff 100644
--- a/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c
+++ b/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t vlan_dev_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	}
 
 
-	skb->dev = vlan_dev_info(dev)->real_dev;
+	skb_set_dev(skb, vlan_dev_info(dev)->real_dev);
 	len = skb->len;
 	ret = dev_queue_xmit(skb);
 
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index f8baa15..7179b58 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1448,13 +1448,10 @@ int dev_forward_skb(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	if (skb->len > (dev->mtu + dev->hard_header_len))
 		return NET_RX_DROP;
 
-	skb_dst_drop(skb);
+	skb_set_dev(skb, dev);
 	skb->tstamp.tv64 = 0;
 	skb->pkt_type = PACKET_HOST;
 	skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, dev);
-	skb->mark = 0;
-	secpath_reset(skb);
-	nf_reset(skb);
 	return netif_rx(skb);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dev_forward_skb);
@@ -1614,6 +1611,27 @@ static bool dev_can_checksum(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	return false;
 }
 
+/**
+ * skb_dev_set -- assign a buffer to a new device
+ * @skb: buffer for the new device
+ * @dev: network device
+ *
+ * If an skb is owned by a device already, we have to reset
+ * all data private to the namespace a device belongs to
+ * before assigning it a new device.
+ */
+void skb_set_dev(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
+{
+	if (skb->dev && !net_eq(dev_net(skb->dev), dev_net(dev))) {
+		secpath_reset(skb);
+		skb_dst_drop(skb);
+		nf_reset(skb);
+		skb->mark = 0;
+	}
+	skb->dev = dev;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(skb_set_dev);
+
 /*
  * Invalidate hardware checksum when packet is to be mangled, and
  * complete checksum manually on outgoing path.


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