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Guillaume Nault 1bec9d0c00 ipv4: Convert ->flowi4_tos to dscp_t.
Convert the ->flowic_tos field of struct flowi_common from __u8 to
dscp_t, rename it ->flowic_dscp and propagate these changes to struct
flowi and struct flowi4.

We've had several bugs in the past where ECN bits could interfere with
IPv4 routing, because these bits were not properly cleared when setting
->flowi4_tos. These bugs should be fixed now and the dscp_t type has
been introduced to ensure that variables carrying DSCP values don't
accidentally have any ECN bits set. Several variables and structure
fields have been converted to dscp_t already, but the main IPv4 routing
structure, struct flowi4, is still using a __u8. To avoid any future
regression, this patch converts it to dscp_t.

There are many users to convert at once. Fortunately, around half of
->flowi4_tos users already have a dscp_t value at hand, which they
currently convert to __u8 using inet_dscp_to_dsfield(). For all of
these users, we just need to drop that conversion.

But, although we try to do the __u8 <-> dscp_t conversions at the
boundaries of the network or of user space, some places still store
TOS/DSCP variables as __u8 in core networking code. Those can hardly be
converted either because the data structure is part of UAPI or because
the same variable or field is also used for handling ECN in other parts
of the code. In all of these cases where we don't have a dscp_t
variable at hand, we need to use inet_dsfield_to_dscp() when
interacting with ->flowi4_dscp.

Changes since v1:
  * Fix space alignment in __bpf_redirect_neigh_v4() (Ido).

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <gnault@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/29acecb45e911d17446b9a3dbdb1ab7b821ea371.1756128932.git.gnault@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-08-26 17:34:31 -07:00
Guillaume Nault a410a0cf98 ipv6: Define dscp_t and stop taking ECN bits into account in fib6-rules
Define a dscp_t type and its appropriate helpers that ensure ECN bits
are not taken into account when handling DSCP.

Use this new type to replace the tclass field of struct fib6_rule, so
that fib6-rules don't get influenced by ECN bits anymore.

Before this patch, fib6-rules didn't make any distinction between the
DSCP and ECN bits. Therefore, rules specifying a DSCP (tos or dsfield
options in iproute2) stopped working as soon a packets had at least one
of its ECN bits set (as a work around one could create four rules for
each DSCP value to match, one for each possible ECN value).

After this patch fib6-rules only compare the DSCP bits. ECN doesn't
influence the result anymore. Also, fib6-rules now must have the ECN
bits cleared or they will be rejected.

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <gnault@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2022-02-07 20:12:45 -08:00