Currently we make TCP throughput measurements for spliced connections with
a number of different MTU values. However, the results from this aren't
really interesting.
Unlike with tap connections, spliced connections only involve the loopback
interface on host and container, not a "real" external interface. lo
typically has an MTU of 65535 and there is very little reason to ever
change that. So, the measurements for smaller MTUs are rarely going to be
relevant.
In addition, the fact that we can offload all the {de,}packetization to the
kernel with splice(2) means that the throughput difference between these
MTUs isn't very great anyway.
Remove the short MTUs and only show spliced throughput for the normal
65535 byte loopback MTU. This reduces runtime of the performance tests on
my laptop by about 1 minute (out of ~24 minutes).
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Currently we start both the iperf3 server(s) and client(s) afresh each time
we want to make a bandwidth measurement. That's not really necessary as
usually a whole batch of bandwidth measurements can use the same server.
Split up the iperf3 directive into 3 directives: iperf3s to start the
server, iperf3 to make a measurement and iperf3k to kill the server, so
that we can start the server less often. This - and more importantly, the
reduced number of waits for the server to be ready - reduces runtime of the
performance tests on my laptop by about 4m (out of ~28minutes).
For now we still restart the server between IPv4 and IPv6 tests. That's
because in some cases the latency measurements we make in between use the
same ports.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
iperf3 generates statistics about its run on both the client and server
sides. They don't have exactly the same information, but both have the
pieces we need (AFAICT the server communicates some nformation to the
client over the control socket, so the most important information is in the
client side output, even if measured by the server).
Currently we use the server side information for our measurements. Using
the client side information has several advantages though:
* We can directly wait for the client to complete and we know we'll have
the output we want. We don't need to sleep to give the server time to
write out the results.
* That in turn means we can wrap up as soon as the client is done, we
don't need to wait overlong to make sure everything is finished.
* The slightly different organisation of the data in the client output
means that we always want the same json value, rather than requiring
slightly different onces for UDP and TCP.
The fact that we avoid some extra delays speeds up the overal run of the
perf tests by around 7 minutes (out of around 35 minutes) on my laptop.
The fact that we no longer unconditionally kill client and server after
a certain time means that the client could run indefinitely if the server
doesn't respond. We mitigate that by setting 1s connect timeout on the
client. This isn't foolproof - if we get an initial response, but then
lose connectivity this could still run indefinitely, however it does cover
by far the most likely failure cases. --snd-timeout would provide more
robustness, but I've hit odd failures when trying to use it.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Some older revisions used separate iperf3c and iperf3s test directives to
invoke the iperf3 client and server. Those were combined into a single
iperf3 directive some time ago, but a couple of places still have the old
syntax.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
We save sockets bound to particular ports in udp_{tap,splice}_map for
reuse later. If they're not used for a time, we time them out and close
them. However, when that happened, we weren't actually removing the fds
from the relevant map. That meant that later interactions on the same port
could get a stale fd from the map.
The stale fd might be closed, leading to unexpected EBADF errors, or it
could have been re-used by a completely different socket bound to a
different port, which could lead to us incorrectly forwarding packets.
Reported-by: Chris Kuhn <kuhnchris@kuhnchris.eu>
Reported-by: Jay <bugs.passt.top@bitsbetwixt.com>
Link: https://bugs.passt.top/show_bug.cgi?id=57
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
udp uses the udp_tap_map, udp_splice_ns and udp_splice_init tables to keep
track of already opened sockets bound to specific ports. We need a way to
indicate entries where a socket hasn't been opened, but the code isn't
consistent if this is indicated by a 0 or a -1:
* udp_splice_sendfrom() and udp_tap_handler() assume that 0 indicates
an unopened socket
* udp_sock_init() fills in -1 for a failure to open a socket
* udp_timer_one() is somewhere in between, treating only strictly
positive fds as valid
-1 (or, at least, negative) is really the correct choice here, since 0 is
a theoretically valid fd value (if very unlikely in practice). Change to
use that consistently throughout.
The table does need to be initialised to all -1 values before any calls to
udp_sock_init() which can happen from conf_ports(). Because C doesn't make
it easy to statically initialise non zero values in large tables, this does
require a somewhat awkward call to initialise the table from conf(). This
is the best approach I could see for the short term, with any luck it will
go away at some point when those socket tables are replaced by a unified
flow table.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Currently logmsg() is only available as a variadic function. This is fine
for normal use, but is awkward if we ever want to write wrappers around it
which (for example) add standardised prefix information. To allow that,
add a vlogmsg() function which takes a va_list instead, and implement
logmsg() in terms of it.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
logmsg() takes printf like arguments, but because it's not a built in, the
compiler won't generate warnings if the format string and parameters don't
match. Enable those by using the format attribute.
Strictly speaking this is a gcc extension, but I believe it is also
supported by some other common compilers. We already use some other
attributes in various places. For now, just use it and we can worry about
compilers that don't support it if it comes up.
This exposes some warnings from existing callers, both in gcc and in
clang-tidy:
- Some are straight out bugs, which we correct
- It's occasionally useful to invoke the logging functions with an empty
string, which gcc objects to, so disable that specific warning in the
Makefile
- Strictly speaking the C standard requires that the parameter for a %p
be a (void *), not some other pointer type. That's only likely to cause
problems in practice on weird architectures with different sized
representations for pointers to different types. Nonetheless add the
casts to make it happy.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
In log.c we use a macro to define logging functions for each of 4 priority
levels. The only difference between these is the priority we pass to
vsyslog() and similar functions. Because it's done as a macro, however,
the entire functions code is included in the binary 4 times.
Rearrange this to take the priority level as a parameter to a regular
function, then just use macros to define trivial wrappers which pass the
priority level.
This saves about 600 bytes of text in the executable (x86, non-AVX2).
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Use of tcp_l2_mh has been removed in commit 38fbfdbcb9,
but its declaration and initialization are always in the code.
Remove them as they are useless.
Fixes: 38fbfdbcb9 ("tcp: Get rid of iov with cached MSS, drop sendmmsg(), add deferred flush")
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
tcp_splice_sock_handler() uses the tcp_splice_dir() helper to select
which of the socket, pipe and counter fields to use depending on which
side of the connection the socket event is coming from.
Now that we are using arrays for the two sides, rather than separate named
fields, we can instead just use a variable indicating the side and use
that to index the arrays whever we need a particular side's field.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
tcp_splice_destroy() has some close-to-duplicated logic handling closing of
the socket and pipes for each side of the connection. We can use a loop
across the sides to reduce the duplication.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
tcp_splice_connect_finish() has two very similar blocks opening the two
pipes for each direction of the connection. We can deduplicate this with
a loop across the two sides.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
tcp_splice_timer() has two very similar blocks one after another that
handle the SO_RCVLOWAT flags for the two sides of the connection. We can
deduplicate this with a loop across the two sides.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Each spliced connection has two mostly, although not entirely, symmetric
sides. We currently call those "a" and "b" and have different fields in
the connection structure for each one.
We can better exploit that symmetry if we use two element arrays rather
thatn separately named fields. Do that in the places we can, and for the
others change the "a"/"b" terminology to 0/1 to match.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
To reduce latencies, the tcp splice code maintains a pool of pre-opened
pipes to use for new connections. This is structured as an array of pairs
of pipes, with each pipe, of course, being a pair of fds. Thus when we
use the pool, a single pool "slot" provides both the a->b and b->a pipes.
There's no strong reason to store the pool in pairs, though - we can
with not much difficulty instead take the a->b and b->a pipes for a new
connection independently from separate slots in the pool, or even take one
from the the pool and create the other as we need it, if there's only one
pipe left in the pool.
This marginally increases the length of code, but simplifies the structure
of the pipe pool. We should be able to re-shrink the code with later
changes, too.
In the process we also fix some minor bugs:
- If we both failed to find a pipe in the pool and to create a new one, we
didn't log an error and would silently drop the connection. That could
make debugging such a situation difficult. Add in an error message for
that case
- When refilling the pool, if we were only able to open a single pipe in
the pair, we attempted to rollback, but instead of closing the opened
pipe, we instead closed the pipe we failed to open (probably leading to
some ignored EBADFD errors).
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
We initialise the events_a and events_b variables with
tcp_splice_conn_epoll_events() function, then immediately copy the values
into ev_a.events and ev_b.events. We can't simply pass &ev_[ab].events to
tcp_splice_conn_epoll_events(), because struct epoll_event is packed,
leading to 'pointer may be unaligned' warnings if we attempt that.
We can, however, make tcp_splice_conn_epoll_events() take struct
epoll_event pointers rather than raw u32 pointers, avoiding the awkward
temporaries.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
In tcp_splice.c we forward declare tcp_splice_epoll_ctl() then define it
later on. However, there are no circular dependencies which prevent us
from simply having the full definition in place of the forward declaration.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
tcp_splice_epoll_ctl() removes both sockets from the epoll set if called
when conn->flags & CLOSING. This will always happen immediately after
setting that flag, since conn_flag_do() makes the call itself. That's also
the _only_ time it can happen: we perform the EPOLL_CTL_DEL without
clearing the conn->in_epoll flag, meaning that any further calls to
tcp_splice_epoll_ctl() would attempt EPOLL_CTL_MOD, which would necessarily
fail since the fds are no longer in the epoll.
The EPOLL_CTL_DEL path in tcp_splice_epoll_ctl() has essentially zero
overlap with anything else the function does, so just move them to be
open coded in conn_flag_do().
This does require kernel 2.6.9 or later, in order to pass NULL as the
event structure for epoll_ctl(). However, we already require at least
3.13 to allow unprivileged user namespaces.
Given that, simply directly perform the EPOLL_CTL_DEL operations from
conn_flag_do() rather than unnecessarily multiplexini
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
If we get an error from epoll_ctl() in tcp_splice_epoll_ctl() we goto the
'delete' path where we remove both sockets from the epoll set and return
an error. There are several problems with this:
- We 'return -errno' after the EPOLL_CTL_DEL operations, which means the
deleting epoll_ctl() calls may have overwritten the errno values which
actually triggered the failures.
- The call from conn_flag_do() occurs when the CLOSING flag is set, in
which case we go do the delete path regardless of error. In that case
the 'return errno' is meaningless since we don't expect the EPOLL_CTL_DEL
operations to fail and we ignore the return code anyway.
- All other calls to tcp_splice_epoll_ctl() check the return code and if
non-zero immediately call conn_flag(..., CLOSING) which will call
tcp_splice_epoll_ctl() again explicitly to remove the sockets from epoll.
That means removing them when the error first occurs is redundant.
- We never specifically report an error on the epoll_ctl() operations. We
just set the connection to CLOSING, more or less silently killing it.
This could make debugging difficult in the unlikely even that we get a
failure here.
Re-organise tcp_splice_epoll_ctl() to just log a message then return in the
error case, and only EPOLL_CTL_DEL when explicitly asked to with the
CLOSING flag.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
tcp_splice_conn_update() calls tcp_splice_epoll_ctl() twice: first ignoring
the return value, then checking it. This serves no purpose. If the first
call succeeds, the second call will do exactly the same thing again, since
nothing has changed in conn. If the first call fails, then
tcp_splice_epoll_ctl() itself will EPOLL_CTL_DEL both fds, meaning when
the second call tries to EPOLL_CTL_MOD them it will necessarily fail.
It appears that this duplication was introduced by accident in an
otherwise unrelated patch.
Fixes: bb708111 ("treewide: Packet abstraction with mandatory boundary checks")
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
For now, packets passed to the various *_tap_handler() functions always
come from the single "tap" interface. We want to allow the possibility to
broaden that in future. As preparation for that, have the code in tap.c
pass the pif id of the originating interface to each of those handler
functions.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
For certain socket types, we record in the epoll ref whether they're
sockets in the namespace, or on the host. We now have the notion of "pif"
to indicate what "place" a socket is associated with, so generalise the
simple one-bit 'ns' to a pif id.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
We have several possible ways of communicating with other entities. We use
sockets to communicate with the host and other network sites, but also in
a different context to communicate "spliced" channels to a namespace. We
also use a tuntap device or a qemu socket to communicate with the namespace
or guest.
For the time being these are just defined implicitly by how we structure
things. However, there are other communication channels we want to use in
future (e.g. virtio-user), and we want to allow more flexible forwarding
between those. To accomplish that we're going to want a specific way of
referring to those channels.
Introduce the concept of a "passt/pasta interface" or "pif" representing a
specific channel to communicate network data. Each pif is assumed to be
associated with a specific network namespace in the broad sense (that is
as a place where IP addresses have a consistent meaning - not the Linux
specific sense). But there could be multiple pifs communicating with the
same namespace (e.g. the spliced and tap interfaces in pasta).
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
udp_sock_init() has a number of paths that initialise uref differently.
However some of the fields are initialised the same way in all of them.
Move those fields into the original initialiser to save a few lines.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
get_bound_ports_*() now only use their context and ns parameters to
determine which forwarding maps they're operating on. Each function needs
the map they're actually updating, as well as the map for the other
direction, to avoid creating forwarding loops. The UDP function also
requires the corresponding TCP map, to implement the behaviour where we
forward UDP ports of the same number as bound TCP ports for tools like
iperf3.
Passing those maps directly as parameters simplifies the code without
making the callers life harder, because those already know the relevant
maps. IMO, invoking these functions in terms of where they're looking for
updated forwarding also makes more logical sense than in terms of where
they're looking for bound ports. Given that new way of looking at the
functions, also rename them to port_fwd_scan_*().
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Currently we store /proc/net fds used to implement automatic port
forwarding in the proc_net_{tcp,udp} fields of the main context structure.
However, in fact each of those is associated with a particular direction
of forwarding, and we already have struct port_fwd which collects all
other information related to a particular direction of port forwarding.
We can simplify things a bit by moving the /proc fds into struct port_fwd.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Currently get_bound_ports() takes a parameter to determine if it scans for
UDP or TCP bound ports, but in fact there's almost nothing in common
between those two paths. The parameter appears primarily to have been
a convenience for when we needed to invoke this function via NS_CALL().
Now that we don't need that, split it into separate TCP and UDP versions.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
When we want to scan for bound ports in the namespace we use NS_CALL() to
run get_bound_ports() in the namespace. However, the only thing it
actually needed to be in the namespace for was to open the /proc/net file
it was scanning. Since we now always pre-open those, we no longer need
to switch to the namespace for the actual get_bound_ports() calls.
That in turn means that tcp_port_detect() doesn't need to run in the ns
either, and we can just replace it with inline calls to get_bound_ports().
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
procfs_scan_listen() can either use an already opened fd for a /proc/net
file, or it will open it. So, effectively it will open the file on the
first call, then re-use the fd in subsequent calls. However, it's not
possible to open the /proc/net files after we isolate our filesystem in
isolate_prefork(). That means that for each /proc/net file we must call
procfs_scan_listen() at least once before isolate_prefork(), or it won't
work afterwards.
That happens to be the case, but it's a pretty fragile requirement. To
make this more robust, instead always pre-open the /proc files we will need
in get_bounds_port_init() and have procfs_scan_listen() just use those.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Most of our helpers which need to enter the pasta network namespace are
quite specialised. Add one which is rather general - it just open()s a
given file in the namespace context and returns the fd back to the main
namespace. This will have some future uses.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
procfs_scan_listen() does some slightly clunky logic to deduce the fd it
wants to use, the path it wants to open and the state it's looking for
based on parameters for protocol, IP version and whether we're in the
namespace.
However, the caller already has to make choices based on similar parameters
so it can just pass in the things that procfs_scan_listen() needs directly.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
The implementation of scanning /proc files to do automatic port forwarding
is a bit awkwardly split between procfs_scan_listen() in util.c,
get_bound_ports() and related functions in conf.c and the initial setup
code in conf().
Consolidate all of this into port_fwd.h, which already has some related
definitions, and a new port_fwd.c.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Initialisation of the forwarding mode variables is complicated a bit by the
fact that we have different defaults for passt and pasta modes. This leads
to some debateably duplicated code between those two cases.
More significantly, however, currently the final setting of the mode
variable is interleaved with the code to actually start automatic scanning
when that's selected. This essentially mingles "policy" code (setting the
default mode), with implementation code (making that happen). That's a bit
inflexible if we want to change policies in future.
Disentangle these two pieces, and use a slightly different construction to
make things briefer as well.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
With current selinux-policy-37.22-1.fc37.noarch, and presumably any
future update for Fedora 37, the user_namespace class is not
available, so statements using it prevent the policy from being
loaded.
If a class is not defined in the base policy, any related permission
is assumed to be enabled, so we can safely drop those.
Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2237996
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
...so that we'll retry sending them, instead of more-or-less silently
dropping them. This happens quite frequently if our sending buffer on
the UNIX domain socket is heavily constrained (for instance, by the
208 KiB default memory limit).
It might be argued that dropping frames is part of the expected TCP
flow: we don't dequeue those from the socket anyway, so we'll
eventually retransmit them.
But we don't need the receiver to tell us (by the way of duplicate or
missing ACKs) that we couldn't send them: we already know as
sendmsg() reports that. This seems to considerably increase
throughput stability and throughput itself for TCP connections with
default wmem_max values.
Unfortunately, the 16 bits left as padding in the frame descriptors
we use internally aren't enough to uniquely identify for which
connection we should update sequence numbers: create a parallel
array of pointers to sequence numbers and L4 lengths, of
TCP_FRAMES_MEM size, and go through it after calling sendmsg().
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
It looks like we need it as workaround for this situation, readily
reproducible at least with a 6.5 Linux kernel, with default rmem_max
and wmem_max values:
- an iperf3 client on the host sends about 160 KiB, typically
segmented into five frames by passt. We read this data using
MSG_PEEK
- the iperf3 server on the guest starts receiving
- meanwhile, the host kernel advertised a zero-sized window to the
sender, as expected
- eventually, the guest acknowledges all the data sent so far, and
we drop it from the buffer, courtesy of tcp_sock_consume(), using
recv() with MSG_TRUNC
- the client, however, doesn't get an updated window value, and
even keepalive packets are answered with zero-window segments,
until the connection is closed
It looks like dropping data from a socket using MSG_TRUNC doesn't
cause a recalculation of the window, which would be expected as a
result of any receiving operation that invalidates data on a buffer
(that is, not with MSG_PEEK).
Strangely enough, setting TCP_WINDOW_CLAMP via setsockopt(), even to
the previous value we clamped to, forces a recalculation of the
window which is advertised to the sender.
I couldn't quite confirm this issue by following all the possible
code paths in the kernel, yet. If confirmed, this should be fixed in
the kernel, but meanwhile this workaround looks robust to me (and it
will be needed for backward compatibility anyway).
Reported-by: Matej Hrica <mhrica@redhat.com>
Link: https://bugs.passt.top/show_bug.cgi?id=74
Analysed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
cppcheck 2.12.0 (and maybe some other versions) things this if condition
is always true, which is demonstrably not true. Work around the bug for
now.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Recent enough cppcheck versions (at least as of cppcheck 2.12) give this
error processing conf.c:
conf.c:1179:1: information: ValueFlow analysis is limited in conf. Use --check-level=exhaustive if full analysis is wanted. [checkLevelNormal]
Adding --check-level=exhaustive doesn't seem to significantly increase the
cppcheck run time for us, so enable it when possible, suppressing that
warning.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
In a couple of places in conf(), we use a local 'fwd' variable to reference
one of our forwarding tables. The value depends on which command line
option we're currently looking at, and is initialized rather cryptically
from an assignment side-effect within the if condition checking that
option.
Newer versions of cppcheck complain about this assignment being an always
true condition, but in any case it's both clearer and slightly shorter to
use separate if branches for the two cases and set the forwarding parameter
more directly.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Newer versions of cppcheck (as of 2.12.0, at least) added a warning for
pointers which could be declared to point at const data, but aren't.
Based on that, make many pointers throughout the codebase const.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
We have a bunch of variants of the siphash functions for different data
sizes. The callers, in tcp.c, need to pack the various values they want to
hash into a temporary structure, then call the appropriate version. We can
avoid the copy into the temporary by directly using the incremental
siphash functions.
The length specific hash functions also have an undocumented constraint
that the data pointer they take must, in fact, be aligned to avoid
unaligned accesses, which may cause crashes on some architectures.
So, prefer the incremental approach and remove the length-specific
functions.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
A number of checksum and hash functions require workarounds for the odd
behaviour of Type-Baased Alias Analysis. We have a detailed comment about
this on siphash_8b() and other functions reference that.
Move the main comment to csume_16b() instead, because we're going to
reorganise things in siphash.c.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Move a bunch of code from siphash.c to siphash.h, making it available to
other modules. This will allow places which need hashes of more complex
objects to construct them incrementally.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
To improve type safety, encapsulate the internal state of the SipHash
algorithm into a dedicated structure type.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
The PREAMBLE macro sets up the SipHash initial internal state. It also
defines that state as a variable, which isn't macro hygeinic. With
previous changes simplifying this premable, it's now possible to replace it
with a macro which simply expands to a C initialisedrfor that state.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
The SipHash algorithm starts with initializing the 32 bytes of internal
state with some magic numbers XORed with the hash key. However, our
implementation has a bug - rather than XORing the hash key, it *sets* the
initial state to copies of the key.
I don't know if that affects any of the cryptographic properties of SipHash
but it's not what we should be doing. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
The POSTAMBLE macro implements the finalisation steps of SipHash. It
relies on some variables in the environment, including returning the final
hash value that way. That isn't great hygeine.
In addition the PREAMBLE macro takes a length parameter which is used only
to initialize the 'b' value that's not used until the finalisation and is
also sometimes modified in a non-obvious way by the callers.
The 'b' value is always composed from the total length of the hash input
plus up to 7 bytes of "tail" data - that is the remainder of the hash input
after a multiple of 8 bytes has been consumed.
Simplify all this by replacing the POSTAMBLE macro with a siphash_final()
function which takes the length and tail data as parameters and returns the
final hash value.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
