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<title>tcp: do not rearm RTO when future data are sacked</title>
<updated>2013-11-20T20:37:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yuchung Cheng</name>
<email>ycheng@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-24T15:59:27+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 2f715c1dde6e1760f3101358dc26f8c9489be0bf ]

Patch ed08495c3 "tcp: use RTT from SACK for RTO" always re-arms RTO upon
obtaining a RTT sample from newly sacked data.

But technically RTO should only be re-armed when the data sent before
the last (re)transmission of write queue head are (s)acked. Otherwise
the RTO may continue to extend during loss recovery on data sent
in the future.

Note that RTTs from ACK or timestamps do not have this problem, as the RTT
source must be from data sent before.

The new RTO re-arm policy is
1) Always re-arm RTO if SND.UNA is advanced
2) Re-arm RTO if sack RTT is available, provided the sacked data was
   sent before the last time write_queue_head was sent.

Signed-off-by: Larry Brakmo &lt;brakmo@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 2f715c1dde6e1760f3101358dc26f8c9489be0bf ]

Patch ed08495c3 "tcp: use RTT from SACK for RTO" always re-arms RTO upon
obtaining a RTT sample from newly sacked data.

But technically RTO should only be re-armed when the data sent before
the last (re)transmission of write queue head are (s)acked. Otherwise
the RTO may continue to extend during loss recovery on data sent
in the future.

Note that RTTs from ACK or timestamps do not have this problem, as the RTT
source must be from data sent before.

The new RTO re-arm policy is
1) Always re-arm RTO if SND.UNA is advanced
2) Re-arm RTO if sack RTT is available, provided the sacked data was
   sent before the last time write_queue_head was sent.

Signed-off-by: Larry Brakmo &lt;brakmo@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tcp: only take RTT from timestamps if new data is acked</title>
<updated>2013-11-20T20:37:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yuchung Cheng</name>
<email>ycheng@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-24T15:55:25+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 2909d874f34eae157aecab0af27c6dc4a1751f8f ]

Patch ed08495c3 "tcp: use RTT from SACK for RTO" has a bug that
it does not check if the ACK acknowledge new data before taking
the RTT sample from TCP timestamps. This patch adds the check
back as required by the RFC.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 2909d874f34eae157aecab0af27c6dc4a1751f8f ]

Patch ed08495c3 "tcp: use RTT from SACK for RTO" has a bug that
it does not check if the ACK acknowledge new data before taking
the RTT sample from TCP timestamps. This patch adds the check
back as required by the RFC.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tcp: fix SYNACK RTT estimation in Fast Open</title>
<updated>2013-11-20T20:37:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yuchung Cheng</name>
<email>ycheng@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-24T15:44:25+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit bc15afa39ecc16f01c3389d15d8f6015a427fe85 ]

tp-&gt;lsndtime may not always be the SYNACK timestamp if a passive
Fast Open socket sends data before handshake completes. And if the
remote acknowledges both the data and the SYNACK, the RTT sample
is already taken in tcp_ack(), so no need to call
tcp_update_ack_rtt() in tcp_synack_rtt_meas() aagain.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit bc15afa39ecc16f01c3389d15d8f6015a427fe85 ]

tp-&gt;lsndtime may not always be the SYNACK timestamp if a passive
Fast Open socket sends data before handshake completes. And if the
remote acknowledges both the data and the SYNACK, the RTT sample
is already taken in tcp_ack(), so no need to call
tcp_update_ack_rtt() in tcp_synack_rtt_meas() aagain.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tcp: gso: fix truesize tracking</title>
<updated>2013-11-20T20:37:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-26T00:26:17+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 0d08c42cf9a71530fef5ebcfe368f38f2dd0476f ]

commit 6ff50cd55545 ("tcp: gso: do not generate out of order packets")
had an heuristic that can trigger a warning in skb_try_coalesce(),
because skb-&gt;truesize of the gso segments were exactly set to mss.

This breaks the requirement that

skb-&gt;truesize &gt;= skb-&gt;len + truesizeof(struct sk_buff);

It can trivially be reproduced by :

ifconfig lo mtu 1500
ethtool -K lo tso off
netperf

As the skbs are looped into the TCP networking stack, skb_try_coalesce()
warns us of these skb under-estimating their truesize.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 0d08c42cf9a71530fef5ebcfe368f38f2dd0476f ]

commit 6ff50cd55545 ("tcp: gso: do not generate out of order packets")
had an heuristic that can trigger a warning in skb_try_coalesce(),
because skb-&gt;truesize of the gso segments were exactly set to mss.

This breaks the requirement that

skb-&gt;truesize &gt;= skb-&gt;len + truesizeof(struct sk_buff);

It can trivially be reproduced by :

ifconfig lo mtu 1500
ethtool -K lo tso off
netperf

As the skbs are looped into the TCP networking stack, skb_try_coalesce()
warns us of these skb under-estimating their truesize.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tcp: initialize passive-side sk_pacing_rate after 3WHS</title>
<updated>2013-10-21T22:56:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Neal Cardwell</name>
<email>ncardwell@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-21T19:40:19+00:00</published>
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For passive TCP connections, upon receiving the ACK that completes the
3WHS, make sure we set our pacing rate after we get our first RTT
sample.

On passive TCP connections, when we receive the ACK completing the
3WHS we do not take an RTT sample in tcp_ack(), but rather in
tcp_synack_rtt_meas(). So upon receiving the ACK that completes the
3WHS, tcp_ack() leaves sk_pacing_rate at its initial value.

Originally the initial sk_pacing_rate value was 0, so passive-side
connections defaulted to sysctl_tcp_min_tso_segs (2 segs) in skbuffs
made in the first RTT. With a default initial cwnd of 10 packets, this
happened to be correct for RTTs 5ms or bigger, so it was hard to
see problems in WAN or emulated WAN testing.

Since 7eec4174ff ("pkt_sched: fq: fix non TCP flows pacing"), the
initial sk_pacing_rate is 0xffffffff. So after that change, passive
TCP connections were keeping this value (and using large numbers of
segments per skbuff) until receiving an ACK for data.

Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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For passive TCP connections, upon receiving the ACK that completes the
3WHS, make sure we set our pacing rate after we get our first RTT
sample.

On passive TCP connections, when we receive the ACK completing the
3WHS we do not take an RTT sample in tcp_ack(), but rather in
tcp_synack_rtt_meas(). So upon receiving the ACK that completes the
3WHS, tcp_ack() leaves sk_pacing_rate at its initial value.

Originally the initial sk_pacing_rate value was 0, so passive-side
connections defaulted to sysctl_tcp_min_tso_segs (2 segs) in skbuffs
made in the first RTT. With a default initial cwnd of 10 packets, this
happened to be correct for RTTs 5ms or bigger, so it was hard to
see problems in WAN or emulated WAN testing.

Since 7eec4174ff ("pkt_sched: fq: fix non TCP flows pacing"), the
initial sk_pacing_rate is 0xffffffff. So after that change, passive
TCP connections were keeping this value (and using large numbers of
segments per skbuff) until receiving an ACK for data.

Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ip_output: do skb ufo init for peeked non ufo skb as well</title>
<updated>2013-10-19T23:20:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Pirko</name>
<email>jiri@resnulli.us</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-19T10:29:17+00:00</published>
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Now, if user application does:
sendto len&lt;mtu flag MSG_MORE
sendto len&gt;mtu flag 0
The skb is not treated as fragmented one because it is not initialized
that way. So move the initialization to fix this.

introduced by:
commit e89e9cf539a28df7d0eb1d0a545368e9920b34ac "[IPv4/IPv6]: UFO Scatter-gather approach"

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@resnulli.us&gt;
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Now, if user application does:
sendto len&lt;mtu flag MSG_MORE
sendto len&gt;mtu flag 0
The skb is not treated as fragmented one because it is not initialized
that way. So move the initialization to fix this.

introduced by:
commit e89e9cf539a28df7d0eb1d0a545368e9920b34ac "[IPv4/IPv6]: UFO Scatter-gather approach"

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@resnulli.us&gt;
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tcp: remove the sk_can_gso() check from tcp_set_skb_tso_segs()</title>
<updated>2013-10-17T20:08:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-15T19:24:54+00:00</published>
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sk_can_gso() should only be used as a hint in tcp_sendmsg() to build GSO
packets in the first place. (As a performance hint)

Once we have GSO packets in write queue, we can not decide they are no
longer GSO only because flow now uses a route which doesn't handle
TSO/GSO.

Core networking stack handles the case very well for us, all we need
is keeping track of packet counts in MSS terms, regardless of
segmentation done later (in GSO or hardware)

Right now, if  tcp_fragment() splits a GSO packet in two parts,
@left and @right, and route changed through a non GSO device,
both @left and @right have pcount set to 1, which is wrong,
and leads to incorrect packet_count tracking.

This problem was added in commit d5ac99a648 ("[TCP]: skb pcount with MTU
discovery")

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Maciej Żenczykowski &lt;maze@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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sk_can_gso() should only be used as a hint in tcp_sendmsg() to build GSO
packets in the first place. (As a performance hint)

Once we have GSO packets in write queue, we can not decide they are no
longer GSO only because flow now uses a route which doesn't handle
TSO/GSO.

Core networking stack handles the case very well for us, all we need
is keeping track of packet counts in MSS terms, regardless of
segmentation done later (in GSO or hardware)

Right now, if  tcp_fragment() splits a GSO packet in two parts,
@left and @right, and route changed through a non GSO device,
both @left and @right have pcount set to 1, which is wrong,
and leads to incorrect packet_count tracking.

This problem was added in commit d5ac99a648 ("[TCP]: skb pcount with MTU
discovery")

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Maciej Żenczykowski &lt;maze@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tcp: must unclone packets before mangling them</title>
<updated>2013-10-17T20:08:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-15T18:54:30+00:00</published>
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TCP stack should make sure it owns skbs before mangling them.

We had various crashes using bnx2x, and it turned out gso_size
was cleared right before bnx2x driver was populating TC descriptor
of the _previous_ packet send. TCP stack can sometime retransmit
packets that are still in Qdisc.

Of course we could make bnx2x driver more robust (using
ACCESS_ONCE(shinfo-&gt;gso_size) for example), but the bug is TCP stack.

We have identified two points where skb_unclone() was needed.

This patch adds a WARN_ON_ONCE() to warn us if we missed another
fix of this kind.

Kudos to Neal for finding the root cause of this bug. Its visible
using small MSS.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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TCP stack should make sure it owns skbs before mangling them.

We had various crashes using bnx2x, and it turned out gso_size
was cleared right before bnx2x driver was populating TC descriptor
of the _previous_ packet send. TCP stack can sometime retransmit
packets that are still in Qdisc.

Of course we could make bnx2x driver more robust (using
ACCESS_ONCE(shinfo-&gt;gso_size) for example), but the bug is TCP stack.

We have identified two points where skb_unclone() was needed.

This patch adds a WARN_ON_ONCE() to warn us if we missed another
fix of this kind.

Kudos to Neal for finding the root cause of this bug. Its visible
using small MSS.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tcp: fix incorrect ca_state in tail loss probe</title>
<updated>2013-10-17T19:41:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yuchung Cheng</name>
<email>ycheng@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-12T17:16:27+00:00</published>
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On receiving an ACK that covers the loss probe sequence, TLP
immediately sets the congestion state to Open, even though some packets
are not recovered and retransmisssion are on the way.  The later ACks
may trigger a WARN_ON check in step D of tcp_fastretrans_alert(), e.g.,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=989251

The fix is to follow the similar procedure in recovery by calling
tcp_try_keep_open(). The sender switches to Open state if no packets
are retransmissted. Otherwise it goes to Disorder and let subsequent
ACKs move the state to Recovery or Open.

Reported-By: Michael Sterrett &lt;michael@sterretts.net&gt;
Tested-By: Dormando &lt;dormando@rydia.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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On receiving an ACK that covers the loss probe sequence, TLP
immediately sets the congestion state to Open, even though some packets
are not recovered and retransmisssion are on the way.  The later ACks
may trigger a WARN_ON check in step D of tcp_fastretrans_alert(), e.g.,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=989251

The fix is to follow the similar procedure in recovery by calling
tcp_try_keep_open(). The sender switches to Open state if no packets
are retransmissted. Otherwise it goes to Disorder and let subsequent
ACKs move the state to Recovery or Open.

Reported-By: Michael Sterrett &lt;michael@sterretts.net&gt;
Tested-By: Dormando &lt;dormando@rydia.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vti: get rid of nf mark rule in prerouting</title>
<updated>2013-10-11T18:52:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Gouault</name>
<email>christophe.gouault@6wind.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-08T15:21:22+00:00</published>
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This patch fixes and improves the use of vti interfaces (while
lightly changing the way of configuring them).

Currently:

- it is necessary to identify and mark inbound IPsec
  packets destined to each vti interface, via netfilter rules in
  the mangle table at prerouting hook.

- the vti module cannot retrieve the right tunnel in input since
  commit b9959fd3: vti tunnels all have an i_key, but the tunnel lookup
  is done with flag TUNNEL_NO_KEY, so there no chance to retrieve them.

- the i_key is used by the outbound processing as a mark to lookup
  for the right SP and SA bundle.

This patch uses the o_key to store the vti mark (instead of i_key) and
enables:

- to avoid the need for previously marking the inbound skbuffs via a
  netfilter rule.
- to properly retrieve the right tunnel in input, only based on the IPsec
  packet outer addresses.
- to properly perform an inbound policy check (using the tunnel o_key
  as a mark).
- to properly perform an outbound SPD and SAD lookup (using the tunnel
  o_key as a mark).
- to keep the current mark of the skbuff. The skbuff mark is neither
  used nor changed by the vti interface. Only the vti interface o_key
  is used.

SAs have a wildcard mark.
SPs have a mark equal to the vti interface o_key.

The vti interface must be created as follows (i_key = 0, o_key = mark):

   ip link add vti1 mode vti local 1.1.1.1 remote 2.2.2.2 okey 1

The SPs attached to vti1 must be created as follows (mark = vti1 o_key):

   ip xfrm policy add dir out mark 1 tmpl src 1.1.1.1 dst 2.2.2.2 \
      proto esp mode tunnel
   ip xfrm policy add dir in  mark 1 tmpl src 2.2.2.2 dst 1.1.1.1 \
      proto esp mode tunnel

The SAs are created with the default wildcard mark. There is no
distinction between global vs. vti SAs. Just their addresses will
possibly link them to a vti interface:

   ip xfrm state add src 1.1.1.1 dst 2.2.2.2 proto esp spi 1000 mode tunnel \
                 enc "cbc(aes)" "azertyuiopqsdfgh"

   ip xfrm state add src 2.2.2.2 dst 1.1.1.1 proto esp spi 2000 mode tunnel \
                 enc "cbc(aes)" "sqbdhgqsdjqjsdfh"

To avoid matching "global" (not vti) SPs in vti interfaces, global SPs
should no use the default wildcard mark, but explicitly match mark 0.

To avoid a double SPD lookup in input and output (in global and vti SPDs),
the NOPOLICY and NOXFRM options should be set on the vti interfaces:

   echo 1 &gt; /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/vti1/disable_policy
   echo 1 &gt; /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/vti1/disable_xfrm

The outgoing traffic is steered to vti1 by a route via the vti interface:

   ip route add 192.168.0.0/16 dev vti1

The incoming IPsec traffic is steered to vti1 because its outer addresses
match the vti1 tunnel configuration.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Gouault &lt;christophe.gouault@6wind.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This patch fixes and improves the use of vti interfaces (while
lightly changing the way of configuring them).

Currently:

- it is necessary to identify and mark inbound IPsec
  packets destined to each vti interface, via netfilter rules in
  the mangle table at prerouting hook.

- the vti module cannot retrieve the right tunnel in input since
  commit b9959fd3: vti tunnels all have an i_key, but the tunnel lookup
  is done with flag TUNNEL_NO_KEY, so there no chance to retrieve them.

- the i_key is used by the outbound processing as a mark to lookup
  for the right SP and SA bundle.

This patch uses the o_key to store the vti mark (instead of i_key) and
enables:

- to avoid the need for previously marking the inbound skbuffs via a
  netfilter rule.
- to properly retrieve the right tunnel in input, only based on the IPsec
  packet outer addresses.
- to properly perform an inbound policy check (using the tunnel o_key
  as a mark).
- to properly perform an outbound SPD and SAD lookup (using the tunnel
  o_key as a mark).
- to keep the current mark of the skbuff. The skbuff mark is neither
  used nor changed by the vti interface. Only the vti interface o_key
  is used.

SAs have a wildcard mark.
SPs have a mark equal to the vti interface o_key.

The vti interface must be created as follows (i_key = 0, o_key = mark):

   ip link add vti1 mode vti local 1.1.1.1 remote 2.2.2.2 okey 1

The SPs attached to vti1 must be created as follows (mark = vti1 o_key):

   ip xfrm policy add dir out mark 1 tmpl src 1.1.1.1 dst 2.2.2.2 \
      proto esp mode tunnel
   ip xfrm policy add dir in  mark 1 tmpl src 2.2.2.2 dst 1.1.1.1 \
      proto esp mode tunnel

The SAs are created with the default wildcard mark. There is no
distinction between global vs. vti SAs. Just their addresses will
possibly link them to a vti interface:

   ip xfrm state add src 1.1.1.1 dst 2.2.2.2 proto esp spi 1000 mode tunnel \
                 enc "cbc(aes)" "azertyuiopqsdfgh"

   ip xfrm state add src 2.2.2.2 dst 1.1.1.1 proto esp spi 2000 mode tunnel \
                 enc "cbc(aes)" "sqbdhgqsdjqjsdfh"

To avoid matching "global" (not vti) SPs in vti interfaces, global SPs
should no use the default wildcard mark, but explicitly match mark 0.

To avoid a double SPD lookup in input and output (in global and vti SPDs),
the NOPOLICY and NOXFRM options should be set on the vti interfaces:

   echo 1 &gt; /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/vti1/disable_policy
   echo 1 &gt; /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/vti1/disable_xfrm

The outgoing traffic is steered to vti1 by a route via the vti interface:

   ip route add 192.168.0.0/16 dev vti1

The incoming IPsec traffic is steered to vti1 because its outer addresses
match the vti1 tunnel configuration.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Gouault &lt;christophe.gouault@6wind.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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