Currently we have tables identified by their names in userland
with internal kernel-assigned indices. This works the following way:
When userland wishes to communicate with kernel to add or change rule(s),
it makes indexed sorted array of table names
(internally ipfw_obj_ntlv entries), and refer to indices in that
array in rule manipulation.
Prior to committing new rule to the ruleset kernel
a) finds all referenced tables, bump their refcounts and change
values inside the opcodes to be real kernel indices
b) auto-creates all referenced but not existing tables and then
do a) for them.
Kernel does almost the same when exporting rules to userland:
prepares array of used tables in all rules in range, and
prepends it before the actual ruleset retaining actual in-kernel
indexes for that.
There is also special translation layer for legacy clients which is
able to provide 'real' indices for table names (basically doing atoi()).
While it is arguable that every subsystem really needs names instead of
numbers, there are several things that should be noted:
1) every non-singleton subsystem needs to store its runtime state
somewhere inside ipfw chain (and be able to get it fast)
2) we can't assume object numbers provided by humans will be dense.
Existing nat implementation (O(n) access and LIST inside chain) is a
good example.
Hence the following:
* Convert table-centric rewrite code to be more generic, callback-based
* Move most of the code from ip_fw_table.c to ip_fw_sockopt.c
* Provide abstract API to permit subsystems convert their objects
between userland string identifier and in-kernel index.
(See struct opcode_obj_rewrite) for more details
* Create another per-chain index (in next commit) shared among all subsystems
* Convert current NAT44 implementation to use new API, O(1) lookups,
shared index and names instead of numbers (in next commit).
Sponsored by: Yandex LLC
to obtain IPv4 next hop address in tablearg case.
Add `fwd tablearg' support for IPv6. ipfw(8) uses INADDR_ANY as next hop
address in O_FORWARD_IP opcode for specifying tablearg case. For IPv6 we
still use this opcode, but when packet identified as IPv6 packet, we
obtain next hop address from dedicated field nh6 in struct table_value.
Replace hopstore field in struct ip_fw_args with anonymous union and add
hopstore6 field. Use this field to copy tablearg value for IPv6.
Replace spare1 field in struct table_value with zoneid. Use it to keep
scope zone id for link-local IPv6 addresses. Since spare1 was used
internally, replace spare0 array with two variables spare0 and spare1.
Use getaddrinfo(3)/getnameinfo(3) functions for parsing and formatting
IPv6 addresses in table_value. Use zoneid field in struct table_value
to store sin6_scope_id value.
Since the kernel still uses embedded scope zone id to represent
link-local addresses, convert next_hop6 address into this form before
return from pfil processing. This also fixes in6_localip() check
for link-local addresses.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2015
Obtained from: Yandex LLC
Sponsored by: Yandex LLC
Main user-visible changes are related to tables:
* Tables are now identified by names, not numbers.
There can be up to 65k tables with up to 63-byte long names.
* Tables are now set-aware (default off), so you can switch/move
them atomically with rules.
* More functionality is supported (swap, lock, limits, user-level lookup,
batched add/del) by generic table code.
* New table types are added (flow) so you can match multiple packet fields at once.
* Ability to add different type of lookup algorithms for particular
table type has been added.
* New table algorithms are added (cidr:hash, iface:array, number:array and
flow:hash) to make certain types of lookup more effective.
* Table value are now capable of holding multiple data fields for
different tablearg users
Performance changes:
* Main ipfw lock was converted to rmlock
* Rule counters were separated from rule itself and made per-cpu.
* Radix table entries fits into 128 bytes
* struct ip_fw is now more compact so more rules will fit into 64 bytes
* interface tables uses array of existing ifindexes for faster match
ABI changes:
All functionality supported by old ipfw(8) remains functional.
Old & new binaries can work together with the following restrictions:
* Tables named other than ^\d+$ are shown as table(65535) in
ruleset in old binaries
Internal changes:.
Changing table ids to numbers resulted in format modification for
most sockopt codes. Old sopt format was compact, but very hard to
extend (no versioning, inability to add more opcodes), so
* All relevant opcodes were converted to TLV-based versioned IP_FW3-based codes.
* The remaining opcodes were also converted to be able to eliminate
all older opcodes at once
* All IP_FW3 handlers uses special API instead of calling sooptcopy*
directly to ease adding another communication methods
* struct ip_fw is now different for kernel and userland
* tablearg value has been changed to 0 to ease future extensions
* table "values" are now indexes in special value array which
holds extended data for given index
* Batched add/delete has been added to tables code
* Most changes has been done to permit batched rule addition.
* interface tracking API has been added (started on demand)
to permit effective interface tables operations
* O(1) skipto cache, currently turned off by default at
compile-time (eats 512K).
* Several steps has been made towards making libipfw:
* most of new functions were separated into "parse/prepare/show
and actuall-do-stuff" pieces (already merged).
* there are separate functions for parsing text string into "struct ip_fw"
and printing "struct ip_fw" to supplied buffer (already merged).
* Probably some more less significant/forgotten features
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: Yandex LLC
* Ensure we're flushing entries without any locks held.
* Free memory in (rare) case when interface tracker fails to register ifp.
* Add KASSERT on table values refcounts.
Drop packet if pkg->ifp is NULL, which is the case here.
ref. https://github.com/HardenedBSD/hardenedBSD
commit 4eef3881c64f6e3aa38eebbeaf27a947a5d47dd7
PR 193861 -- DUMMYNET LAYER2: kernel panic
in this case a kernel panic occurs. Hence, when we do not get an interface,
we just drop the packet in question.
PR: 193681
Submitted by: David Carlier <david.carlier@hardenedbsd.org>
Obtained from: Hardened BSD
MFC after: 2 weeks
Relnotes: yes
Kernel changes:
* Split kernel/userland nat structures eliminating IPFW_INTERNAL hack.
* Add IP_FW_NAT44_* codes resemblin old ones.
* Assume that instances can be named (no kernel support currently).
* Use both UH+WLOCK locks for all configuration changes.
* Provide full ABI support for old sockopts.
Userland changes:
* Use IP_FW_NAT44_* codes for nat operations.
* Remove undocumented ability to show ranges of nat "log" entries.
