Commit 5eed7898 authored by Stanislav Fomichev's avatar Stanislav Fomichev Committed by Daniel Borkmann

flow_dissector: rst'ify documentation

Rename bpf_flow_dissector.txt to bpf_flow_dissector.rst and fix
formatting. Also, link it from the Documentation/networking/index.rst.

Tested with 'make htmldocs' to make sure it looks reasonable.

Fixes: ae82899b ("flow_dissector: document BPF flow dissector environment")
Signed-off-by: default avatarStanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMartin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
parent a090dbf2
.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
==================
BPF Flow Dissector
==================
......@@ -15,19 +17,19 @@ number of instructions and tail calls).
API
===
BPF flow dissector programs operate on an __sk_buff. However, only the
limited set of fields is allowed: data, data_end and flow_keys. flow_keys
is 'struct bpf_flow_keys' and contains flow dissector input and
output arguments.
BPF flow dissector programs operate on an ``__sk_buff``. However, only the
limited set of fields is allowed: ``data``, ``data_end`` and ``flow_keys``.
``flow_keys`` is ``struct bpf_flow_keys`` and contains flow dissector input
and output arguments.
The inputs are:
* nhoff - initial offset of the networking header
* thoff - initial offset of the transport header, initialized to nhoff
* n_proto - L3 protocol type, parsed out of L2 header
* ``nhoff`` - initial offset of the networking header
* ``thoff`` - initial offset of the transport header, initialized to nhoff
* ``n_proto`` - L3 protocol type, parsed out of L2 header
Flow dissector BPF program should fill out the rest of the 'struct
bpf_flow_keys' fields. Input arguments nhoff/thoff/n_proto should be also
adjusted accordingly.
Flow dissector BPF program should fill out the rest of the ``struct
bpf_flow_keys`` fields. Input arguments ``nhoff/thoff/n_proto`` should be
also adjusted accordingly.
The return code of the BPF program is either BPF_OK to indicate successful
dissection, or BPF_DROP to indicate parsing error.
......@@ -36,48 +38,57 @@ __sk_buff->data
===============
In the VLAN-less case, this is what the initial state of the BPF flow
dissector looks like:
+------+------+------------+-----------+
| DMAC | SMAC | ETHER_TYPE | L3_HEADER |
+------+------+------------+-----------+
^
|
+-- flow dissector starts here
dissector looks like::
+------+------+------------+-----------+
| DMAC | SMAC | ETHER_TYPE | L3_HEADER |
+------+------+------------+-----------+
^
|
+-- flow dissector starts here
skb->data + flow_keys->nhoff point to the first byte of L3_HEADER.
flow_keys->thoff = nhoff
flow_keys->n_proto = ETHER_TYPE
.. code:: c
skb->data + flow_keys->nhoff point to the first byte of L3_HEADER
flow_keys->thoff = nhoff
flow_keys->n_proto = ETHER_TYPE
In case of VLAN, flow dissector can be called with the two different states.
Pre-VLAN parsing:
+------+------+------+-----+-----------+-----------+
| DMAC | SMAC | TPID | TCI |ETHER_TYPE | L3_HEADER |
+------+------+------+-----+-----------+-----------+
^
|
+-- flow dissector starts here
Pre-VLAN parsing::
+------+------+------+-----+-----------+-----------+
| DMAC | SMAC | TPID | TCI |ETHER_TYPE | L3_HEADER |
+------+------+------+-----+-----------+-----------+
^
|
+-- flow dissector starts here
skb->data + flow_keys->nhoff point the to first byte of TCI.
flow_keys->thoff = nhoff
flow_keys->n_proto = TPID
.. code:: c
skb->data + flow_keys->nhoff point the to first byte of TCI
flow_keys->thoff = nhoff
flow_keys->n_proto = TPID
Please note that TPID can be 802.1AD and, hence, BPF program would
have to parse VLAN information twice for double tagged packets.
Post-VLAN parsing:
+------+------+------+-----+-----------+-----------+
| DMAC | SMAC | TPID | TCI |ETHER_TYPE | L3_HEADER |
+------+------+------+-----+-----------+-----------+
^
|
+-- flow dissector starts here
Post-VLAN parsing::
+------+------+------+-----+-----------+-----------+
| DMAC | SMAC | TPID | TCI |ETHER_TYPE | L3_HEADER |
+------+------+------+-----+-----------+-----------+
^
|
+-- flow dissector starts here
.. code:: c
skb->data + flow_keys->nhoff point the to first byte of L3_HEADER.
flow_keys->thoff = nhoff
flow_keys->n_proto = ETHER_TYPE
skb->data + flow_keys->nhoff point the to first byte of L3_HEADER
flow_keys->thoff = nhoff
flow_keys->n_proto = ETHER_TYPE
In this case VLAN information has been processed before the flow dissector
and BPF flow dissector is not required to handle it.
......@@ -93,14 +104,14 @@ handle both cases.
Reference Implementation
========================
See tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/bpf_flow.c for the reference
implementation and tools/testing/selftests/bpf/flow_dissector_load.[hc] for
the loader. bpftool can be used to load BPF flow dissector program as well.
See ``tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/bpf_flow.c`` for the reference
implementation and ``tools/testing/selftests/bpf/flow_dissector_load.[hc]``
for the loader. bpftool can be used to load BPF flow dissector program as well.
The reference implementation is organized as follows:
* jmp_table map that contains sub-programs for each supported L3 protocol
* _dissect routine - entry point; it does input n_proto parsing and does
bpf_tail_call to the appropriate L3 handler
* ``jmp_table`` map that contains sub-programs for each supported L3 protocol
* ``_dissect`` routine - entry point; it does input ``n_proto`` parsing and
does ``bpf_tail_call`` to the appropriate L3 handler
Since BPF at this point doesn't support looping (or any jumping back),
jmp_table is used instead to handle multiple levels of encapsulation (and
......@@ -111,5 +122,5 @@ Current Limitations
===================
BPF flow dissector doesn't support exporting all the metadata that in-kernel
C-based implementation can export. Notable example is single VLAN (802.1Q)
and double VLAN (802.1AD) tags. Please refer to the 'struct bpf_flow_keys'
and double VLAN (802.1AD) tags. Please refer to the ``struct bpf_flow_keys``
for a set of information that's currently can be exported from the BPF context.
......@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Contents:
netdev-FAQ
af_xdp
batman-adv
bpf_flow_dissector
can
can_ucan_protocol
device_drivers/freescale/dpaa2/index
......
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