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
* 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.
This is the last major change in given branch.
Kernel changes:
* Use 64-bytes structures to hold multi-value variables.
* Use shared array to hold values from all tables (assume
each table algo is capable of holding 32-byte variables).
* Add some placeholders to support per-table value arrays in future.
* Use simple eventhandler-style API to ease the process of adding new
table items. Currently table addition may required multiple UH drops/
acquires which is quite tricky due to atomic table modificatio/swap
support, shared array resize, etc. Deal with it by calling special
notifier capable of rolling back state before actually performing
swap/resize operations. Original operation then restarts itself after
acquiring UH lock.
* Bump all objhash users default values to at least 64
* Fix custom hashing inside objhash.
Userland changes:
* Add support for dumping shared value array via "vlist" internal cmd.
* Some small print/fill_flags dixes to support u32 values.
* valtype is now bitmask of
<skipto|pipe|fib|nat|dscp|tag|divert|netgraph|limit|ipv4|ipv6>.
New values can hold distinct values for each of this types.
* Provide special "legacy" type which assumes all values are the same.
* More helpers/docs following..
Some examples:
3:41 [1] zfscurr0# ipfw table mimimi create valtype skipto,limit,ipv4,ipv6
3:41 [1] zfscurr0# ipfw table mimimi info
+++ table(mimimi), set(0) +++
kindex: 2, type: addr
references: 0, valtype: skipto,limit,ipv4,ipv6
algorithm: addr:radix
items: 0, size: 296
3:42 [1] zfscurr0# ipfw table mimimi add 10.0.0.5 3000,10,10.0.0.1,2a02:978:2::1
added: 10.0.0.5/32 3000,10,10.0.0.1,2a02:978:2::1
3:42 [1] zfscurr0# ipfw table mimimi list
+++ table(mimimi), set(0) +++
10.0.0.5/32 3000,0,10.0.0.1,2a02:978:2::1
Most of the tablearg-supported opcodes does not accept 0 as valid value:
O_TAG, O_TAGGED, O_PIPE, O_QUEUE, O_DIVERT, O_TEE, O_SKIPTO, O_CALLRET,
O_NETGRAPH, O_NGTEE, O_NAT treats 0 as invalid input.
The rest are O_SETDSCP and O_SETFIB.
'Fix' them by adding high-order bit (0x8000) set for non-tablearg values.
Do translation in kernel for old clients (import_rule0 / export_rule0),
teach current ipfw(8) binary to add/remove given bit.
This change does not affect handling SETDSCP values, but limit
O_SETFIB values to 32767 instead of 65k. Since currently we have either
old (16) or new (2^32) max fibs, this should not be a big deal:
we're definitely OK for former and have to add another opcode to deal
with latter, regardless of tablearg value.
* Since there seems to be lack of consensus on strict value typing,
remove non-default value types. Use userland-only "value format type"
to print values.
Kernel changes:
* Add IP_FW_XMODIFY to permit table run-time modifications.
Currently we support changing limit and value format type.
Userland changes:
* Support IP_FW_XMODIFY opcode.
* Support specifying value format type (ftype) in tablble create/modify req
* Fine-print value type/value format type.
* Implement proper checks for switching between global and set-aware tables
* Split IP_FW_DEL mess into the following opcodes:
* IP_FW_XDEL (del rules matching pattern)
* IP_FW_XMOVE (move rules matching pattern to another set)
* IP_FW_SET_SWAP (swap between 2 sets)
* IP_FW_SET_MOVE (move one set to another one)
* IP_FW_SET_ENABLE (enable/disable sets)
* Add IP_FW_XZERO / IP_FW_XRESETLOG to finish IP_FW3 migration.
* Use unified ipfw_range_tlv as range description for all of the above.
* Check dynamic states IFF there was non-zero number of deleted dyn rules,
* Del relevant dynamic states with singe traversal instead of per-rule one.
Userland changes:
* Switch ipfw(8) to use new opcodes.
Kernel changes:
* Add opcode IP_FW_TABLE_XSWAP
* Add support for swapping 2 tables with the same type/ftype/vtype.
* Make skipto cache init after ipfw locks init.
Userland changes:
* Add "table X swap Y" command.
* Use different approach to ensure algo has enough space to store N elements:
- explicitly ask algo (under UH_WLOCK) before/after insertion. This (along
with existing reallocation callbacks) really guarantees us that it is safe
to insert N elements at once while holding UH_WLOCK+WLOCK.
- remove old aflags/flags approach
Kernel changes:
* Add TEI_FLAGS_DONTADD entry flag to indicate that insert is not possible
* Support given flag in all algorithms
* Add "limit" field to ipfw_xtable_info
* Add actual limiting code into add_table_entry()
Userland changes:
* Add "limit" option as "create" table sub-option. Limit modification
is currently impossible.
* Print human-readable errors in table enry addition/deletion code.
