Re: [PATCH net] fib_rules: don't break ECN with TOS rules
From: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Date: 2016-06-12 09:28:22
Hello, On Sun, 12 Jun 2016, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
On Sun, Jun 12, 2016, at 02:09, Julian Anastasov wrote:quoted
Well, may be the confusion comes from commit 89aef8921bfb ("ipv4: Delete routing cache.") where the 'tos &= IPTOS_RT_MASK;' line is lost from ip_route_input_common. I think, we should add it back, so that we can properly match input routes with rules that specify tos value. Old kernels didn't stored ECN bits in flowi4_tos in the input path, so we should do the same.I would love to have done that but was fearing problems with user space compatibility. Also IPTOS_RT_MASK is not enough for filtering, we need to check for the whole INET_ECN_MASK.
I checked even 2.4.33 for reference. Nobody sets bit 1 in key->tos but using IPTOS_TOS_MASK on configuration allows rules with 'tos 2'. I guess, in this case such rule can not be matched. And the TOS matching was used only under CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_TOS, so the ip rules were supposed to match only bits 2..4, not full TOS values.
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+ INET_ECN_ignore(r->tos) != INET_ECN_ignore(fl4->flowi4_tos)) return 0;fib4_rule_configure already rejects ECN bits in r->tos, so no need to filter them again in fast path.The problem is that IPTOS_TOS_MASK is just the masking of the 0x1 bit, not both ECN bits. Thi stems from the pre-DSCP time where it was forbidden to use bit 0x1 in TOS.
I see, I didn't noticed it. If we decide to reject rules with tos 2 we can break scripts. May be we should just filter it: if (r->tos && ((r->tos & IPTOS_RT_MASK) != fl4->flowi4_tos)) This will allow the hidden feature 'ip rule add tos 2' to match properly bits2..4 == 0 :) But may be we should not spend extra cycles in fast path for such feature. As nobody complained for problems with 3.6+, it seems match by tos is not used often. May be we just need to restore the missing 'tos &= IPTOS_RT_MASK;' line? Regards