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2018-09-13tun: switch to new type of msg_controlJason Wang1-0/+14
This patch introduces to a new tun/tap specific msg_control: #define TUN_MSG_UBUF 1 #define TUN_MSG_PTR 2 struct tun_msg_ctl { int type; void *ptr; }; This allows us to pass different kinds of msg_control through sendmsg(). The first supported type is ubuf (TUN_MSG_UBUF) which will be used by the existed vhost_net zerocopy code. The second is XDP buff, which allows vhost_net to pass XDP buff to TUN. This could be used to implement accepting an array of XDP buffs from vhost_net in the following patches. Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-04-17tun: convert to use generic xdp_frame and xdp_return_frame APIJesper Dangaard Brouer1-2/+2
The tuntap driver invented it's own driver specific way of queuing XDP packets, by storing the xdp_buff information in the top of the XDP frame data. Convert it over to use the more generic xdp_frame structure. The main problem with the in-driver method is that the xdp_rxq_info pointer cannot be trused/used when dequeueing the frame. V3: Remove check based on feedback from Jason Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-03-09vhost_net: examine pointer types during un-producingJason Wang1-0/+4
After commit fc72d1d54dd9 ("tuntap: XDP transmission"), we can actually queueing XDP pointers in the pointer ring, so we should examine the pointer type before freeing the pointer. Fixes: fc72d1d54dd9 ("tuntap: XDP transmission") Reported-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-01-10tuntap: fix for "tuntap: XDP transmission"Stephen Rothwell1-2/+2
Fixes: fc72d1d54dd9 ("tuntap: XDP transmission") Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-01-09tuntap: XDP transmissionJason Wang1-0/+17
This patch implements XDP transmission for TAP. Since we can't create new queues for TAP during XDP set, exist ptr_ring was reused for queuing XDP buffers. To differ xdp_buff from sk_buff, TUN_XDP_FLAG (0x1UL) was encoded into lowest bit of xpd_buff pointer during ptr_ring_produce, and was decoded during consuming. XDP metadata was stored in the headroom of the packet which should work in most of cases since driver usually reserve enough headroom. Very minor changes were done for vhost_net: it just need to peek the length depends on the type of pointer. Tests were done on two Intel E5-2630 2.40GHz machines connected back to back through two 82599ES. Traffic were generated/received through MoonGen/testpmd(rxonly). It reports ~20% improvements when xdp_redirect_map is doing redirection from ixgbe to TAP (from 2.50Mpps to 3.05Mpps) Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-01-09tun/tap: use ptr_ring instead of skb_arrayJason Wang1-2/+2
This patch switches to use ptr_ring instead of skb_array. This will be used to enqueue different types of pointers by encoding type into lower bits. Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-05-18tun: export skb_arrayJason Wang1-0/+5
This patch exports skb_array through tun_get_skb_array(). Caller can then manipulate skb array directly. Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-10-13UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linuxDavid Howells1-77/+1
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2010-05-03tun: add ioctl to modify vnet header sizeMichael S. Tsirkin1-0/+2
virtio added mergeable buffers mode where 2 bytes of extra info is put after vnet header but before actual data (tun does not need this data). In hindsight, it would have been better to add the new info *before* the packet: as it is, users need a lot of tricky code to skip the extra 2 bytes in the middle of the iovec, and in fact applications seem to get it wrong, and only work with specific iovec layout. The fact we might need to split iovec also means we might in theory overflow iovec max size. This patch adds a simpler way for applications to handle this, and future proofs the interface against further extensions, by making the size of the virtio net header configurable from userspace. As a result, tun driver will simply skip the extra 2 bytes on both input and output. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-18tun: socket filter supportMichael S. Tsirkin1-0/+3
This patch adds Linux Socket Filter support to tun driver. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-15tun: export underlying socketMichael S. Tsirkin1-0/+14
Tun device looks similar to a packet socket in that both pass complete frames from/to userspace. This patch fills in enough fields in the socket underlying tun driver to support sendmsg/recvmsg operations, and message flags MSG_TRUNC and MSG_DONTWAIT, and exports access to this socket to modules. Regular read/write behaviour is unchanged. This way, code using raw sockets to inject packets into a physical device, can support injecting packets into host network stack almost without modification. First user of this interface will be vhost virtualization accelerator. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-17tun: Allow tap device to send/receive UFO packets.Sridhar Samudrala1-0/+1
- Allow setting UFO on tap device and handle UFO packets. Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com> --------------------------------------------------------- Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-27tun: add IFF_TUN_EXCL flag to avoid opening a persistent device.David Woodhouse1-0/+1
When creating a certain types of VPN, NetworkManager will first attempt to find an available tun device by iterating through 'vpn%d' until it finds one that isn't already busy. Then it'll set that to be persistent and owned by the otherwise unprivileged user that the VPN dæmon itself runs as. There's a race condition here -- during the period where the vpn%d device is created and we're waiting for the VPN dæmon to actually connect and use it, if we try to create _another_ device we could end up re-using the same one -- because trying to open it again doesn't get -EBUSY as it would while it's _actually_ busy. So solve this, we add an IFF_TUN_EXCL flag which causes tun_set_iff() to fail if it would be opening an existing persistent tundevice -- so that we can make sure we're getting an entirely _new_ device. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-06tun: Limit amount of queued packets per deviceHerbert Xu1-0/+2
Unlike a normal socket path, the tuntap device send path does not have any accounting. This means that the user-space sender may be able to pin down arbitrary amounts of kernel memory by continuing to send data to an end-point that is congested. Even when this isn't an issue because of limited queueing at most end points, this can also be a problem because its only response to congestion is packet loss. That is, when those local queues at the end-point fills up, the tuntap device will start wasting system time because it will continue to send data there which simply gets dropped straight away. Of course one could argue that everybody should do congestion control end-to-end, unfortunately there are people in this world still hooked on UDP, and they don't appear to be going away anywhere fast. In fact, we've always helped them by performing accounting in our UDP code, the sole purpose of which is to provide congestion feedback other than through packet loss. This patch attempts to apply the same bandaid to the tuntap device. It creates a pseudo-socket object which is used to account our packets just as a normal socket does for UDP. Of course things are a little complex because we're actually reinjecting traffic back into the stack rather than out of the stack. The stack complexities however should have been resolved by preceding patches. So this one can simply start using skb_set_owner_w. For now the accounting is essentially disabled by default for backwards compatibility. In particular, we set the cap to INT_MAX. This is so that existing applications don't get confused by the sudden arrival EAGAIN errors. In future we may wish (or be forced to) do this by default. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-08-16tun: TUNGETIFF interface to query name and flagsMark McLoughlin1-0/+1
Add a TUNGETIFF interface so that userspace can query a tun/tap descriptor for its name and flags. This is needed because it is common for one app to create a tap interface, exec another app and pass it the file descriptor for the interface. Without TUNGETIFF the spawned app has no way of detecting wheter the interface has e.g. IFF_VNET_HDR set. Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Acked-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-15tun: Fix/rewrite packet filtering logicMax Krasnyansky1-3/+21
Please see the following thread to get some context on this http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=121564433018903&w=2 Basically the issue is that current multi-cast filtering stuff in the TUN/TAP driver is seriously broken. Original patch went in without proper review and ACK. It was broken and confusing to start with and subsequent patches broke it completely. To give you an idea of what's broken here are some of the issues: - Very confusing comments throughout the code that imply that the character device is a network interface in its own right, and that packets are passed between the two nics. Which is completely wrong. - Wrong set of ioctls is used for setting up filters. They look like shortcuts for manipulating state of the tun/tap network interface but in reality manipulate the state of the TX filter. - ioctls that were originally used for setting address of the the TX filter got "fixed" and now set the address of the network interface itself. Which made filter totaly useless. - Filtering is done too late. Instead of filtering early on, to avoid unnecessary wakeups, filtering is done in the read() call. The list goes on and on :) So the patch cleans all that up. It introduces simple and clean interface for setting up TX filters (TUNSETTXFILTER + tun_filter spec) and does filtering before enqueuing the packets. TX filtering is useful in the scenarios where TAP is part of a bridge, in which case it gets all broadcast, multicast and potentially other packets when the bridge is learning. So for example Ethernet tunnelling app may want to setup TX filters to avoid tunnelling multicast traffic. QEMU and other hypervisors can push RX filtering that is currently done in the guest into the host context therefore saving wakeups and unnecessary data transfer. Signed-off-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-03tun: Allow GSO using virtio_net_hdrRusty Russell1-0/+2
Add a IFF_VNET_HDR flag. This uses the same ABI as virtio_net (ie. prepending struct virtio_net_hdr to packets) to indicate GSO and checksum information. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-03tun: TUNSETFEATURES to set gso features.Rusty Russell1-0/+7
ethtool is useful for setting (some) device fields, but it's root-only. Finer feature control is available through a tun-specific ioctl. (Includes Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>'s fix to hold rtnl sem). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-03tun: Interface to query tun/tap features.Rusty Russell1-0/+1
The problem with introducing checksum offload and gso to tun is they need to set dev->features to enable GSO and/or checksumming, which is supposed to be done before register_netdevice(), ie. as part of TUNSETIFF. Unfortunately, TUNSETIFF has always just ignored flags it doesn't understand, so there's no good way of detecting whether the kernel supports new IFF_ flags. This patch implements a TUNGETFEATURES ioctl which returns all the valid IFF flags. It could be extended later to include other features. Here's an example program which uses it: #include <linux/if_tun.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/ioctl.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <err.h> #include <stdio.h> static struct { unsigned int flag; const char *name; } known_flags[] = { { IFF_TUN, "TUN" }, { IFF_TAP, "TAP" }, { IFF_NO_PI, "NO_PI" }, { IFF_ONE_QUEUE, "ONE_QUEUE" }, }; int main() { unsigned int features, i; int netfd = open("/dev/net/tun", O_RDWR); if (netfd < 0) err(1, "Opening /dev/net/tun"); if (ioctl(netfd, TUNGETFEATURES, &features) != 0) { printf("Kernel does not support TUNGETFEATURES, guessing\n"); features = (IFF_TUN|IFF_TAP|IFF_NO_PI|IFF_ONE_QUEUE); } printf("Available features are: "); for (i = 0; i < sizeof(known_flags)/sizeof(known_flags[0]); i++) { if (features & known_flags[i].flag) { features &= ~known_flags[i].flag; printf("%s ", known_flags[i].name); } } if (features) printf("(UNKNOWN %#x)", features); printf("\n"); return 0; } Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-12net: remove CVS keywordsAdrian Bunk1-2/+0
This patch removes CVS keywords that weren't updated for a long time from comments. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-13net: make struct tun_struct private to tun.cRusty Russell1-39/+0
There's no reason for this to be in the header, and it just hurts recompile time. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Max Krasnyanskiy <maxk@qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-29annotate tunAl Viro1-1/+3
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-10-11[NET] drivers/net: statistics cleanup #1 -- save memory and shrink codeJeff Garzik1-1/+0
We now have struct net_device_stats embedded in struct net_device, and the default ->get_stats() hook does the obvious thing for us. Run through drivers/net/* and remove the driver-local storage of statistics, and driver-local ->get_stats() hook where applicable. This was just the low-hanging fruit in drivers/net; plenty more drivers remain to be updated. [ Resolved conflicts with napi_struct changes and fix sunqe build regression... -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-11[NET]: Allow group ownership of TUN/TAP devices.Guido Guenther1-0/+2
Introduce a new syscall TUNSETGROUP for group ownership setting of tap devices. The user now is allowed to send packages if either his euid or his egid matches the one specified via tunctl (via -u or -g respecitvely). If both, gid and uid, are set via tunctl, both have to match. Signed-off-by: Guido Guenther <agx@sigxcpu.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-02[TUNTAP]: Allow setting the linktype of the tap device from userspaceMike Kershaw1-0/+1
Currently tun/tap only supports the EN10MB ARP type. For use with wireless and other networking types it should be possible to set the ARP type via an ioctl. Patch v2: Included check that the tap interface is down before changing the link type out from underneath it Signed-off-by: Mike Kershaw <dragorn@kismetwireless.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-04-17Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds1-0/+93
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!