This is much better handled by a user-land tool.
Proposed on tech-net here:
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-net/2020/04/22/msg007766.html
Note that the ioctl SIOCGIFINFO_IN6 no longer sets flags. That now
needs to be done using the pre-existing SIOCSIFINFO_FLAGS ioctl.
Compat is fully provided where it makes sense, but trying to turn on
RA handling will obviously throw an error as it no longer exists.
Note that if you use IPv6 temporary addresses, this now needs to be
turned on in dhcpcd.conf(5) rather than in sysctl.conf(5).
percpu(9) has a certain memory storage for each CPU and provides it by the piece
to users. If the storages went short, percpu(9) enlarges them by allocating new
larger memory areas, replacing old ones with them and destroying the old ones.
A percpu storage referenced by a pointer gotten via percpu_getref can be
destroyed by the mechanism after a running thread sleeps even if percpu_putref
has not been called.
Using rtcache, i.e., packet processing, typically involves sleepable operations
such as rwlock so we must avoid dereferencing a rtcache that is directly stored
in a percpu storage during packet processing. Address this situation by having
just a pointer to a rtcache in a percpu storage instead.
Reviewed by knakahara@ and yamaguchi@
We use localcount(9), not psref(9), to make the sptree and secpolicy (SP)
entries MP-safe because SPs need to be referenced over opencrypto
processing that executes a callback in a different context.
SPs on sockets aren't managed by the sptree and can be destroyed in softint.
localcount_drain cannot be used in softint so we delay the destruction of
such SPs to a thread context. To do so, a list to manage such SPs is added
(key_socksplist) and key_timehandler_spd deletes dead SPs in the list.
For more details please read the locking notes in key.c.
Proposed on tech-kern@ and tech-net@
The benefits of this change are:
- The flow is consistent with IPv4 (and FreeBSD and OpenBSD)
- old: ip6_output => nd6_output (do ND if needed) => L2_output (lookup a stored cache)
- new: ip6_output => L2_output (lookup a cache. Do ND if cache not found)
- We can remove some workarounds in nd6_output
- We can move L2 specific operations to their own place
- The performance slightly improves because one cache lookup is reduced
In the MP-safe world, a rtentry stemming from a rtcache can be freed at any
points. So we need to protect rtentries somehow say by reference couting or
passive references. Regardless of the method, we need to call some release
function of a rtentry after using it.
The change adds a new function rtcache_unref to release a rtentry. At this
point, this function does nothing because for now we don't add a reference
to a rtentry when we get one from a rtcache. We will add something useful
in a further commit.
This change is a part of changes for MP-safe routing table. It is separated
to avoid one big change that makes difficult to debug by bisecting.
Having a pointer of an interface in a mbuf isn't safe if we remove big
kernel locks; an interface object (ifnet) can be destroyed anytime in any
packet processing and accessing such object via a pointer is racy. Instead
we have to get an object from the interface collection (ifindex2ifnet) via
an interface index (if_index) that is stored to a mbuf instead of an
pointer.
The change provides two APIs: m_{get,put}_rcvif_psref that use psref(9)
for sleep-able critical sections and m_{get,put}_rcvif that use
pserialize(9) for other critical sections. The change also adds another
API called m_get_rcvif_NOMPSAFE, that is NOT MP-safe and for transition
moratorium, i.e., it is intended to be used for places where are not
planned to be MP-ified soon.
The change adds some overhead due to psref to performance sensitive paths,
however the overhead is not serious, 2% down at worst.
Proposed on tech-kern and tech-net.
Some codes in sys/net* use time_second to manage time periods such as
cache expirations. However, time_second doesn't increase monotonically
and can leap by say settimeofday(2) according to time_second(9). We
should use time_uptime instead of it to avoid such time leaps.
This change replaces time_second with time_uptime. Additionally it
converts a time based on time_uptime to a time based on time_second
when the kernel passes the time to userland programs that expect
the latter, and vice versa.
Note that we shouldn't leak time_uptime to other hosts over the
netowrk. My investigation shows there is no such leak:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-net/2015/08/06/msg005332.html
Discussed on tech-kern and tech-net.
friendly (there are only few hooks in the system). Make the structures
opaque and the interface more strict.
- Remove PFIL_HOOKS option by making pfil(9) mandatory.
KAME_IPSEC, and make IPSEC define it so that existing kernel
config files work as before
Now the default can be easily be changed to FAST_IPSEC just by
setting the IPSEC alias to FAST_IPSEC.
Many drivers set the UDP/TCP v4 flags even for v6 traffic and if the
packet is encapsulated with gif, the IPv6 header would get corrupted by
ip_output. Patch suggested by bad@
to _ro_rt. Use rtcache_getrt() to access a route cache's struct
rtentry *.
Introduce struct ifnet->if_dl that always points at the interface
identifier/link-layer address. Make code that treated the first
ifaddr on struct ifnet->if_addrlist as the interface address use
if_dl, instead.
Remove stale debugging code from net/route.c. Move the rtflush()
code into rtcache_clear() and delete rtflush(). Delete rtalloc(),
because nothing uses it any more.
Make ND6_HINT an inline, lowercase subroutine, nd6_hint.
I've done my best to convert IP Filter, the ISO stack, and the
AppleTalk stack to rtcache_getrt(). They compile, but I have not
tested them. I have given the changes to PF, GRE, IPv4 and IPv6
stacks a lot of exercise.
route_in6, struct route_iso), replacing all caches with a struct
route.
The principle benefit of this change is that all of the protocol
families can benefit from route cache-invalidation, which is
necessary for correct routing. Route-cache invalidation fixes an
ancient PR, kern/3508, at long last; it fixes various other PRs,
also.
Discussions with and ideas from Joerg Sonnenberger influenced this
work tremendously. Of course, all design oversights and bugs are
mine.
DETAILS
1 I added to each address family a pool of sockaddrs. I have
introduced routines for allocating, copying, and duplicating,
and freeing sockaddrs:
struct sockaddr *sockaddr_alloc(sa_family_t af, int flags);
struct sockaddr *sockaddr_copy(struct sockaddr *dst,
const struct sockaddr *src);
struct sockaddr *sockaddr_dup(const struct sockaddr *src, int flags);
void sockaddr_free(struct sockaddr *sa);
sockaddr_alloc() returns either a sockaddr from the pool belonging
to the specified family, or NULL if the pool is exhausted. The
returned sockaddr has the right size for that family; sa_family
and sa_len fields are initialized to the family and sockaddr
length---e.g., sa_family = AF_INET and sa_len = sizeof(struct
sockaddr_in). sockaddr_free() puts the given sockaddr back into
its family's pool.
sockaddr_dup() and sockaddr_copy() work analogously to strdup()
and strcpy(), respectively. sockaddr_copy() KASSERTs that the
family of the destination and source sockaddrs are alike.
The 'flags' argumet for sockaddr_alloc() and sockaddr_dup() is
passed directly to pool_get(9).
2 I added routines for initializing sockaddrs in each address
family, sockaddr_in_init(), sockaddr_in6_init(), sockaddr_iso_init(),
etc. They are fairly self-explanatory.
3 structs route_in6 and route_iso are no more. All protocol families
use struct route. I have changed the route cache, 'struct route',
so that it does not contain storage space for a sockaddr. Instead,
struct route points to a sockaddr coming from the pool the sockaddr
belongs to. I added a new method to struct route, rtcache_setdst(),
for setting the cache destination:
int rtcache_setdst(struct route *, const struct sockaddr *);
rtcache_setdst() returns 0 on success, or ENOMEM if no memory is
available to create the sockaddr storage.
It is now possible for rtcache_getdst() to return NULL if, say,
rtcache_setdst() failed. I check the return value for NULL
everywhere in the kernel.
4 Each routing domain (struct domain) has a list of live route
caches, dom_rtcache. rtflushall(sa_family_t af) looks up the
domain indicated by 'af', walks the domain's list of route caches
and invalidates each one.
If ip6_forward successfully forwards a packet, a cache, in this case a
ip6flow struct entry, will be created. ether_input and friends will
then be able to call ip6flow_fastforward with the packet which will then
be passed to if_output (unless an issue is found - in that case the packet
is passed back to ip6_input).
ok matt@ christos@ dyoung@ and joerg@
parentheses in return statements.
Cosmetic: don't open-code TAILQ_FOREACH().
Cosmetic: change types of variables to avoid oodles of casts: in
in6_src.c, avoid casts by changing several route_in6 pointers
to struct route pointers. Remove unnecessary casts to caddr_t
elsewhere.
Pave the way for eliminating address family-specific route caches:
soon, struct route will not embed a sockaddr, but it will hold
a reference to an external sockaddr, instead. We will set the
destination sockaddr using rtcache_setdst(). (I created a stub
for it, but it isn't used anywhere, yet.) rtcache_free() will
free the sockaddr. I have extracted from rtcache_free() a helper
subroutine, rtcache_clear(). rtcache_clear() will "forget" a
cached route, but it will not forget the destination by releasing
the sockaddr. I use rtcache_clear() instead of rtcache_free()
in rtcache_update(), because rtcache_update() is not supposed
to forget the destination.
Constify:
1 Introduce const accessor for route->ro_dst, rtcache_getdst().
2 Constify the 'dst' argument to ifnet->if_output(). This
led me to constify a lot of code called by output routines.
3 Constify the sockaddr argument to protosw->pr_ctlinput. This
led me to constify a lot of code called by ctlinput routines.
4 Introduce const macros for converting from a generic sockaddr
to family-specific sockaddrs, e.g., sockaddr_in: satocsin6,
satocsin, et cetera.