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authorEric Garver <eric@garver.life>2023-08-11 17:12:50 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2023-08-14 10:01:06 +0300
commite7bc7db9ba463e763ac6113279cade19da9cb939 (patch)
tree89787729aca818577d6f0fa568db3205a61f23a1 /include
parentec7bfb5e5a054f1178e8bdbf4f145fdafa5bf804 (diff)
downloadlinux-e7bc7db9ba463e763ac6113279cade19da9cb939.tar.xz
net: openvswitch: add explicit drop action
From: Eric Garver <eric@garver.life> This adds an explicit drop action. This is used by OVS to drop packets for which it cannot determine what to do. An explicit action in the kernel allows passing the reason _why_ the packet is being dropped or zero to indicate no particular error happened (i.e: OVS intentionally dropped the packet). Since the error codes coming from userspace mean nothing for the kernel, we squash all of them into only two drop reasons: - OVS_DROP_EXPLICIT_WITH_ERROR to indicate a non-zero value was passed - OVS_DROP_EXPLICIT to indicate a zero value was passed (no error) e.g. trace all OVS dropped skbs # perf trace -e skb:kfree_skb --filter="reason >= 0x30000" [..] 106.023 ping/2465 skb:kfree_skb(skbaddr: 0xffffa0e8765f2000, \ location:0xffffffffc0d9b462, protocol: 2048, reason: 196611) reason: 196611 --> 0x30003 (OVS_DROP_EXPLICIT) Also, this patch allows ovs-dpctl.py to add explicit drop actions as: "drop" -> implicit empty-action drop "drop(0)" -> explicit non-error action drop "drop(42)" -> explicit error action drop Signed-off-by: Eric Garver <eric@garver.life> Co-developed-by: Adrian Moreno <amorenoz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Moreno <amorenoz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h b/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h
index e94870e77ee9..efc82c318fa2 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h
@@ -965,6 +965,7 @@ struct check_pkt_len_arg {
* start of the packet or at the start of the l3 header depending on the value
* of l3 tunnel flag in the tun_flags field of OVS_ACTION_ATTR_ADD_MPLS
* argument.
+ * @OVS_ACTION_ATTR_DROP: Explicit drop action.
*
* Only a single header can be set with a single %OVS_ACTION_ATTR_SET. Not all
* fields within a header are modifiable, e.g. the IPv4 protocol and fragment
@@ -1002,6 +1003,7 @@ enum ovs_action_attr {
OVS_ACTION_ATTR_CHECK_PKT_LEN, /* Nested OVS_CHECK_PKT_LEN_ATTR_*. */
OVS_ACTION_ATTR_ADD_MPLS, /* struct ovs_action_add_mpls. */
OVS_ACTION_ATTR_DEC_TTL, /* Nested OVS_DEC_TTL_ATTR_*. */
+ OVS_ACTION_ATTR_DROP, /* u32 error code. */
__OVS_ACTION_ATTR_MAX, /* Nothing past this will be accepted
* from userspace. */