2) Alter packet flow inside dummynet: allow certain packets to bypass
dummynet scheduler. Benefits are:
- lower latency: if packet flow does not exceed pipe bandwidth, packets
will not be (up to tick) delayed (due to dummynet's scheduler granularity).
- lower overhead: if packet avoids dummynet scheduler it shouldn't reenter ip
stack later. Such packets can be fastforwarded.
- recursion (which can lead to kernel stack exhaution) eliminated. This fix
long existed panic, which can be triggered this way:
kldload dummynet
sysctl net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass=0
ipfw pipe 1 config bw 0
for i in `jot 30`; do ipfw add 1 pipe 1 icmp from any to any; done
ping -c 1 localhost
3) Three new sysctl nodes are added:
net.inet.ip.dummynet.io_pkt - packets passed to dummynet
net.inet.ip.dummynet.io_pkt_fast - packets avoided dummynet scheduler
net.inet.ip.dummynet.io_pkt_drop - packets dropped by dummynet
P.S. Above comments are true only for layer 3 packets. Layer 2 packet flow
is not changed yet.
MFC after: 3 month
With the second (and last) part of my previous Summer of Code work, we get:
-ipfw's in kernel nat
-redirect_* and LSNAT support
General information about nat syntax and some examples are available
in the ipfw (8) man page. The redirect and LSNAT syntax are identical
to natd, so please refer to natd (8) man page.
To enable in kernel nat in rc.conf, two options were added:
o firewall_nat_enable: equivalent to natd_enable
o firewall_nat_interface: equivalent to natd_interface
Remember to set net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass to 0, if you want the packet
to continue being checked by the firewall ruleset after being
(de)aliased.
NOTA BENE: due to some problems with libalias architecture, in kernel
nat won't work with TSO enabled nic, thus you have to disable TSO via
ifconfig (ifconfig foo0 -tso).
Approved by: glebius (mentor)
seperately. Also use pfil hook/unhook instead of keeping the check
functions in pfil just to return there based on the sysctl. While here fix
some whitespace on a nearby SYSCTL_ macro.
we have a non-NULL args.rule. If the same packet later is subject to "tee"
rule, its original is sent again into ipfw_chk() and it reenters at the same
rule. This leads to infinite loop and frozen router.
Assign args.rule to NULL, any time we are going to send packet back to
ipfw_chk() after a tee rule. This is a temporary workaround, which we
will leave for RELENG_5. In HEAD we are going to make divert(4) save
next rule the same way as dummynet(4) does.
PR: kern/79546
Submitted by: Oleg Bulyzhin
Reviewed by: maxim, andre
MFC after: 3 days
- ip_fw_chk() returns action as function return value. Field retval is
removed from args structure. Action is not flag any more. It is one
of integer constants.
- Any action-specific cookies are returned either in new "cookie" field
in args structure (dummynet, future netgraph glue), or in mbuf tag
attached to packet (divert, tee, some future action).
o Convert parsing of return value from ip_fw_chk() in ipfw_check_{in,out}()
to a switch structure, so that the functions are more readable, and a future
actions can be added with less modifications.
Approved by: andre
MFC after: 2 months
Andre:
First lets get major new features into the kernel in a clean and nice way,
and then start optimizing. In this case we don't have any obfusication that
makes later profiling and/or optimizing difficult in any way.
Requested by: csjp, sam
of protocols. The call to divert_packet() is done through a function pointer. All
semantics of IPDIVERT remain intact. If IPDIVERT is not loaded ipfw will refuse to
install divert rules and natd will complain about 'protocol not supported'. Once
it is loaded both will work and accept rules and open the divert socket. The module
can only be unloaded if no divert sockets are open. It does not close any divert
sockets when an unload is requested but will return EBUSY instead.
passing along socket information. This is required to work around a LOR with
the socket code which results in an easy reproducible hard lockup with
debug.mpsafenet=1. This commit does *not* fix the LOR, but enables us to do
so later. The missing piece is to turn the filter locking into a leaf lock
and will follow in a seperate (later) commit.
This will hopefully be MT5'ed in order to fix the problem for RELENG_5 in
forseeable future.
Suggested by: rwatson
A lot of work by: csjp (he'd be even more helpful w/o mentor-reviews ;)
Reviewed by: rwatson, csjp
Tested by: -pf, -ipfw, LINT, csjp and myself
MFC after: 3 days
LOR IDs: 14 - 17 (not fixed yet)
and sent to the DIVERT socket while the original packet continues with the
next rule. Unlike a normally diverted packet no IP reassembly attemts are
made on tee'd packets and they are passed upwards totally unmodified.
Note: This will not be MFC'd to 4.x because of major infrastucture changes.
PR: kern/64240 (and many others collapsed into that one)
compile option. All FreeBSD packet filters now use the PFIL_HOOKS API and
thus it becomes a standard part of the network stack.
If no hooks are connected the entire packet filter hooks section and related
activities are jumped over. This removes any performance impact if no hooks
are active.
Both OpenBSD and DragonFlyBSD have integrated PFIL_HOOKS permanently as well.
the ipfw KLD.
For IPFIREWALL_FORWARD this does not have any side effects. If the module
has it but not the kernel it just doesn't do anything.
For IPDIVERT the KLD will be unloadable if the kernel doesn't have IPDIVERT
compiled in too. However this is the least disturbing behaviour. The user
can just recompile either module or the kernel to match the other one. The
access to the machine is not denied if ipfw refuses to load.
and preserves the ipfw ABI. The ipfw core packet inspection and filtering
functions have not been changed, only how ipfw is invoked is different.
However there are many changes how ipfw is and its add-on's are handled:
In general ipfw is now called through the PFIL_HOOKS and most associated
magic, that was in ip_input() or ip_output() previously, is now done in
ipfw_check_[in|out]() in the ipfw PFIL handler.
IPDIVERT is entirely handled within the ipfw PFIL handlers. A packet to
be diverted is checked if it is fragmented, if yes, ip_reass() gets in for
reassembly. If not, or all fragments arrived and the packet is complete,
divert_packet is called directly. For 'tee' no reassembly attempt is made
and a copy of the packet is sent to the divert socket unmodified. The
original packet continues its way through ip_input/output().
ipfw 'forward' is done via m_tag's. The ipfw PFIL handlers tag the packet
with the new destination sockaddr_in. A check if the new destination is a
local IP address is made and the m_flags are set appropriately. ip_input()
and ip_output() have some more work to do here. For ip_input() the m_flags
are checked and a packet for us is directly sent to the 'ours' section for
further processing. Destination changes on the input path are only tagged
and the 'srcrt' flag to ip_forward() is set to disable destination checks
and ICMP replies at this stage. The tag is going to be handled on output.
ip_output() again checks for m_flags and the 'ours' tag. If found, the
packet will be dropped back to the IP netisr where it is going to be picked
up by ip_input() again and the directly sent to the 'ours' section. When
only the destination changes, the route's 'dst' is overwritten with the
new destination from the forward m_tag. Then it jumps back at the route
lookup again and skips the firewall check because it has been marked with
M_SKIP_FIREWALL. ipfw 'forward' has to be compiled into the kernel with
'option IPFIREWALL_FORWARD' to enable it.
DUMMYNET is entirely handled within the ipfw PFIL handlers. A packet for
a dummynet pipe or queue is directly sent to dummynet_io(). Dummynet will
then inject it back into ip_input/ip_output() after it has served its time.
Dummynet packets are tagged and will continue from the next rule when they
hit the ipfw PFIL handlers again after re-injection.
BRIDGING and IPFW_ETHER are not changed yet and use ipfw_chk() directly as
they did before. Later this will be changed to dedicated ETHER PFIL_HOOKS.
More detailed changes to the code:
conf/files
Add netinet/ip_fw_pfil.c.
conf/options
Add IPFIREWALL_FORWARD option.
modules/ipfw/Makefile
Add ip_fw_pfil.c.
net/bridge.c
Disable PFIL_HOOKS if ipfw for bridging is active. Bridging ipfw
is still directly invoked to handle layer2 headers and packets would
get a double ipfw when run through PFIL_HOOKS as well.
netinet/ip_divert.c
Removed divert_clone() function. It is no longer used.
netinet/ip_dummynet.[ch]
Neither the route 'ro' nor the destination 'dst' need to be stored
while in dummynet transit. Structure members and associated macros
are removed.
netinet/ip_fastfwd.c
Removed all direct ipfw handling code and replace it with the new
'ipfw forward' handling code.
netinet/ip_fw.h
Removed 'ro' and 'dst' from struct ip_fw_args.
netinet/ip_fw2.c
(Re)moved some global variables and the module handling.
netinet/ip_fw_pfil.c
New file containing the ipfw PFIL handlers and module initialization.
netinet/ip_input.c
Removed all direct ipfw handling code and replace it with the new
'ipfw forward' handling code. ip_forward() does not longer require
the 'next_hop' struct sockaddr_in argument. Disable early checks
if 'srcrt' is set.
netinet/ip_output.c
Removed all direct ipfw handling code and replace it with the new
'ipfw forward' handling code.
netinet/ip_var.h
Add ip_reass() as general function. (Used from ipfw PFIL handlers
for IPDIVERT.)
netinet/raw_ip.c
Directly check if ipfw and dummynet control pointers are active.
netinet/tcp_input.c
Rework the 'ipfw forward' to local code to work with the new way of
forward tags.
netinet/tcp_sack.c
Remove include 'opt_ipfw.h' which is not needed here.
sys/mbuf.h
Remove m_claim_next() macro which was exclusively for ipfw 'forward'
and is no longer needed.
Approved by: re (scottl)
