Thread (38 messages) 38 messages, 6 authors, 2010-08-11
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[RFC PATCH v8 10/16] Add a hook to intercept external buffers from NIC driver.

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Date: 2010-07-29 11:04:42
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Subsystem: networking [general], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

From: Xin Xiaohui <redacted>

The hook is called in netif_receive_skb().
Signed-off-by: Xin Xiaohui <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Zhao Yu <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Dike <redacted>
---
 net/core/dev.c |   35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 636f11b..4b379b1 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -2517,6 +2517,37 @@ err:
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(netdev_mp_port_prep);
 #endif
 
+#if defined(CONFIG_MEDIATE_PASSTHRU) || defined(CONFIG_MEDIATE_PASSTHRU_MODULE)
+/* Add a hook to intercept mediate passthru(zero-copy) packets,
+ * and insert it to the socket queue owned by mp_port specially.
+ */
+static inline struct sk_buff *handle_mpassthru(struct sk_buff *skb,
+					       struct packet_type **pt_prev,
+					       int *ret,
+					       struct net_device *orig_dev)
+{
+	struct mpassthru_port *mp_port = NULL;
+	struct sock *sk = NULL;
+
+	if (!dev_is_mpassthru(skb->dev))
+		return skb;
+	mp_port = skb->dev->mp_port;
+
+	if (*pt_prev) {
+		*ret = deliver_skb(skb, *pt_prev, orig_dev);
+		*pt_prev = NULL;
+	}
+
+	sk = mp_port->sock->sk;
+	skb_queue_tail(&sk->sk_receive_queue, skb);
+	sk->sk_state_change(sk);
+
+	return NULL;
+}
+#else
+#define handle_mpassthru(skb, pt_prev, ret, orig_dev)     (skb)
+#endif
+
 /**
  *	netif_receive_skb - process receive buffer from network
  *	@skb: buffer to process
@@ -2598,6 +2629,10 @@ int netif_receive_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)
 ncls:
 #endif
 
+	/* To intercept mediate passthru(zero-copy) packets here */
+	skb = handle_mpassthru(skb, &pt_prev, &ret, orig_dev);
+	if (!skb)
+		goto out;
 	skb = handle_bridge(skb, &pt_prev, &ret, orig_dev);
 	if (!skb)
 		goto out;
-- 
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