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Commit bc044e8d authored by Paolo Abeni's avatar Paolo Abeni Committed by David S. Miller
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udp: perform source validation for mcast early demux

The UDP early demux can leverate the rx dst cache even for
multicast unconnected sockets.

In such scenario the ipv4 source address is validated only on
the first packet in the given flow. After that, when we fetch
the dst entry  from the socket rx cache, we stop enforcing
the rp_filter and we even start accepting any kind of martian
addresses.

Disabling the dst cache for unconnected multicast socket will
cause large performace regression, nearly reducing by half the
max ingress tput.

Instead we factor out a route helper to completely validate an
skb source address for multicast packets and we call it from
the UDP early demux for mcast packets landing on unconnected
sockets, after successful fetching the related cached dst entry.

This still gives a measurable, but limited performance
regression:

		rp_filter = 0		rp_filter = 1
edmux disabled:	1182 Kpps		1127 Kpps
edmux before:	2238 Kpps		2238 Kpps
edmux after:	2037 Kpps		2019 Kpps

The above figures ...
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