Thread (14 messages) 14 messages, 4 authors, 2021-07-28

Re: [PATCH RFC 0/9] sk_buff: optimize layout for GRO

From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Date: 2021-07-25 16:25:49
Also in: netdev, selinux

Paul Moore [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
There is the skb extension infra, does that work for you?
I was hopeful that when the skb_ext capability was introduced we might
be able to use it for the LSM(s), but when I asked netdev if they
would be willing to accept patches to leverage the skb_ext
infrastructure I was told "no".
I found

https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CAHC9VhSz1_KA1tCJtNjwK26BOkGhKGbPT7v1O82mWPduvWwd4A@mail.gmail.com/#r (local)

and from what I gather from your comments and that of Casey
I think skb extensions is the correct thing for this (i.e., needs
netlabel/secid config/enablement so typically won't be active on
a distro kernel by default).

It certainly makes more sense to me than doing lookups
in a hashtable based on a ID (I tried to do that to get rid of skb->nf_bridge
pointer years ago and it I could not figure out how to invalidate an entry
without adding a new skb destructor callback).
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