bpf: tcp: Allow bpf prog to write and parse TCP header option
[ Note: The TCP changes here is mainly to implement the bpf pieces into the bpf_skops_*() functions introduced in the earlier patches. ] The earlier effort in BPF-TCP-CC allows the TCP Congestion Control algorithm to be written in BPF. It opens up opportunities to allow a faster turnaround time in testing/releasing new congestion control ideas to production environment. The same flexibility can be extended to writing TCP header option. It is not uncommon that people want to test new TCP header option to improve the TCP performance. Another use case is for data-center that has a more controlled environment and has more flexibility in putting header options for internal only use. For example, we want to test the idea in putting maximum delay ACK in TCP header option which is similar to a draft RFC proposal [1]. This patch introduces the necessary BPF API and use them in the TCP stack to allow BPF_PROG_TYPE_SOCK_OPS program to parse and write TCP header options. It currently supports most of the TCP packet except RST. Supported TCP header option: ─────────────────────────── This patch allows the bpf-prog to write any option kind. Different bpf-progs can write its own option by calling the new helper bpf_store_hdr_opt(). The helper will ensure there is no duplicated option in the header. By allowing bpf-prog to write any option kind, this gives a lot of flexibility to the bpf-prog. Different bpf-prog can write its own option kind. It could also allow the bpf-prog to support a recently standardized option on an older kernel. Sockops Callback Flags: ────────────────────── The bpf program will only be called to parse/write tcp header option if the following newly added callback flags are enabled in tp->bpf_sock_ops_cb_flags: BPF_SOCK_OPS_PARSE_UNKNOWN_HDR_OPT_CB_FLAG BPF_SOCK_OPS_PARSE_ALL_HDR_OPT_CB_FLAG BPF_SOCK_OPS_WRITE_HDR_OPT_CB_FLAG A few words on the PARSE CB flags. When the above PARSE CB flags are turned on, the bpf-prog will be called on packets received at a sk that has at least reached the ESTABLISHED state. The parsing of the SYN-SYNACK-ACK will be discussed in the "3 Way HandShake" section. The default is off for all of the above new CB flags, i.e. the bpf prog will not be called to parse or write bpf hdr option. There are details comment on these new cb flags in the UAPI bpf.h. sock_ops->skb_data and bpf_load_hdr_opt() ───────────────────────────────────────── sock_ops->skb_data and sock_ops->skb_data_end covers the whole TCP header and its options. They are read only. The new bpf_load_hdr_opt() helps to read a particular option "kind" from the skb_data. Please refer to the comment in UAPI bpf.h. It has details on what skb_data contains under different sock_ops->op. 3 Way HandShake ─────────────── The bpf-prog can learn if it is sending SYN or SYNACK by reading the sock_ops->skb_tcp_flags. * Passive side When writing SYNACK (i.e. sock_ops->op == BPF_SOCK_OPS_WRITE_HDR_OPT_CB), the received SYN skb will be available to the bpf prog. The bpf prog can use the SYN skb (which may carry the header option sent from the remote bpf prog) to decide what bpf header option should be written to the outgoing SYNACK skb. The SYN packet can be obtained by getsockopt(TCP_BPF_SYN*). More on this later. Also, the bpf prog can learn if it is in syncookie mode (by checking sock_ops->args[0] == BPF_WRITE_HDR_TCP_SYNACK_COOKIE). The bpf prog can store the received SYN pkt by using the existing bpf_setsockopt(TCP_SAVE_SYN). The example in a later patch does it. [ Note that the fullsock here is a listen sk, bpf_sk_storage is not very useful here since the listen sk will be shared by many concurrent connection requests. Extending bpf_sk_storage support to request_sock will add weight to the minisock and it is not necessary better than storing the whole ~100 bytes SYN pkt. ] When the connection is established, the bpf prog will be called in the existing PASSIVE_ESTABLISHED_CB callback. At that time, the bpf prog can get the header option from the saved syn and then apply the needed operation to the newly established socket. The later patch will use the max delay ack specified in the SYN header and set the RTO of this newly established connection as an example. The received ACK (that concludes the 3WHS) will also be available to the bpf prog during PASSIVE_ESTABLISHED_CB through the sock_ops->skb_data. It could be useful in syncookie scenario. More on this later. There is an existing getsockopt "TCP_SAVED_SYN" to return the whole saved syn pkt which includes the IP[46] header and the TCP header. A few "TCP_BPF_SYN*" getsockopt has been added to allow specifying where to start getting from, e.g. starting from TCP header, or from IP[46] header. The new getsockopt(TCP_BPF_SYN*) will also know where it can get the SYN's packet from: - (a) the just received syn (available when the bpf prog is writing SYNACK) and it is the only way to get SYN during syncookie mode. or - (b) the saved syn (available in PASSIVE_ESTABLISHED_CB and also other existing CB). The bpf prog does not need to know where the SYN pkt is coming from. The getsockopt(TCP_BPF_SYN*) will hide this details. Similarly, a flags "BPF_LOAD_HDR_OPT_TCP_SYN" is also added to bpf_load_hdr_opt() to read a particular header option from the SYN packet. * Fastopen Fastopen should work the same as the regular non fastopen case. This is a test in a later patch. * Syncookie For syncookie, the later example patch asks the active side's bpf prog to resend the header options in ACK. The server can use bpf_load_hdr_opt() to look at the options in this received ACK during PASSIVE_ESTABLISHED_CB. * Active side The bpf prog will get a chance to write the bpf header option in the SYN packet during WRITE_HDR_OPT_CB. The received SYNACK pkt will also be available to the bpf prog during the existing ACTIVE_ESTABLISHED_CB callback through the sock_ops->skb_data and bpf_load_hdr_opt(). * Turn off header CB flags after 3WHS If the bpf prog does not need to write/parse header options beyond the 3WHS, the bpf prog can clear the bpf_sock_ops_cb_flags to avoid being called for header options. Or the bpf-prog can select to leave the UNKNOWN_HDR_OPT_CB_FLAG on so that the kernel will only call it when there is option that the kernel cannot handle. [1]: draft-wang-tcpm-low-latency-opt-00 https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wang-tcpm-low-latency-opt-00 Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200820190104.2885895-1-kafai@fb.com
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