kernel/include/xen/interface/io/netif.h, branch linux-5.11.y

xen: netif.h: add a new extra type for XDP

2020-07-01T22:25:14Z

The patch adds a new extra type to be able to diffirentiate between RX responses on xen-netfront side with the adjusted offset required for XDP processing. The offset value from a guest is passed via xenstore. Signed-off-by: Denis Kirjanov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

xen-netback: re-import canonical netif header

2016-03-14T02:08:01Z

The canonical netif header (in the Xen source repo) and the Linux variant have diverged significantly. Recently much documentation has been added to the canonical header which is highly useful for developers making modifications to either xen-netfront or xen-netback. This patch therefore re-imports the canonical header in its entirity. To maintain compatibility and some style consistency with the old Linux variant, the header was stripped of its emacs boilerplate, and post-processed and copied into place with the following commands: ed -s netif.h << EOF H ,s/NETTXF_/XEN_NETTXF_/g ,s/NETRXF_/XEN_NETRXF_/g ,s/NETIF_/XEN_NETIF_/g ,s/XEN_XEN_/XEN_/g ,s/netif/xen_netif/g ,s/xen_xen_/xen_/g ,s/^typedef.*$//g ,s/^ /${TAB}/g w $ w EOF indent --line-length 80 --linux-style netif.h \ -o include/xen/interface/io/netif.h Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: David Vrabel Cc: Wei Liu Acked-by: Wei Liu Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

xen-netback: add support for multicast control

2015-09-02T18:45:00Z

Xen's PV network protocol includes messages to add/remove ethernet multicast addresses to/from a filter list in the backend. This allows the frontend to request the backend only forward multicast packets which are of interest thus preventing unnecessary noise on the shared ring. The canonical netif header in git://xenbits.xen.org/xen.git specifies the message format (two more XEN_NETIF_EXTRA_TYPEs) so the minimal necessary changes have been pulled into include/xen/interface/io/netif.h. To prevent the frontend from extending the multicast filter list arbitrarily a limit (XEN_NETBK_MCAST_MAX) has been set to 64 entries. This limit is not specified by the protocol and so may change in future. If the limit is reached then the next XEN_NETIF_EXTRA_TYPE_MCAST_ADD sent by the frontend will be failed with NETIF_RSP_ERROR. Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant Cc: Ian Campbell Cc: Wei Liu Acked-by: Wei Liu Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

xen-net{back, front}: Document multi-queue feature in netif.h

2014-06-04T21:48:17Z

Document the multi-queue feature in terms of XenStore keys to be written by the backend and by the frontend. Signed-off-by: Andrew J. Bennieston Acked-by: Wei Liu Acked-by: Ian Campbell Reviewed-by: David Vrabel Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

xen-netback: enable IPv6 TCP GSO to the guest

2013-10-17T19:35:17Z

This patch adds code to handle SKB_GSO_TCPV6 skbs and construct appropriate extra or prefix segments to pass the large packet to the frontend. New xenstore flags, feature-gso-tcpv6 and feature-gso-tcpv6-prefix, are sampled to determine if the frontend is capable of handling such packets. Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant Cc: Wei Liu Cc: David Vrabel Cc: Ian Campbell Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

xen-netback: handle IPv6 TCP GSO packets from the guest

2013-10-17T19:35:17Z

This patch adds a xenstore feature flag, festure-gso-tcpv6, to advertise that netback can handle IPv6 TCP GSO packets. It creates SKB_GSO_TCPV6 skbs if the frontend passes an extra segment with the new type XEN_NETIF_GSO_TYPE_TCPV6 added to netif.h. Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant Cc: Wei Liu Cc: David Vrabel Acked-by: Ian Campbell Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

xen-netback: add support for IPv6 checksum offload to guest

2013-10-17T19:35:14Z

Check xenstore flag feature-ipv6-csum-offload to determine if a guest is happy to accept IPv6 packets with only partial checksum. Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant Cc: Wei Liu Cc: David Vrabel Cc: Ian Campbell Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

xen: netif.h: document feature-split-event-channels

2013-05-24T01:40:37Z

This patch synchronises documentation for feature-split-event-channels from Xen canonical header file. Signed-off-by: Wei Liu Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

xen-netback: coalesce slots in TX path and fix regressions

2013-04-22T19:37:01Z

This patch tries to coalesce tx requests when constructing grant copy structures. It enables netback to deal with situation when frontend's MAX_SKB_FRAGS is larger than backend's MAX_SKB_FRAGS. With the help of coalescing, this patch tries to address two regressions avoid reopening the security hole in XSA-39. Regression 1. The reduction of the number of supported ring entries (slots) per packet (from 18 to 17). This regression has been around for some time but remains unnoticed until XSA-39 security fix. This is fixed by coalescing slots. Regression 2. The XSA-39 security fix turning "too many frags" errors from just dropping the packet to a fatal error and disabling the VIF. This is fixed by coalescing slots (handling 18 slots when backend's MAX_SKB_FRAGS is 17) which rules out false positive (using 18 slots is legit) and dropping packets using 19 to `max_skb_slots` slots. To avoid reopening security hole in XSA-39, frontend sending packet using more than max_skb_slots is considered malicious. The behavior of netback for packet is thus: 1-18 slots: valid 19-max_skb_slots slots: drop and respond with an error max_skb_slots+ slots: fatal error max_skb_slots is configurable by admin, default value is 20. Also change variable name from "frags" to "slots" in netbk_count_requests. Please note that RX path still has dependency on MAX_SKB_FRAGS. This will be fixed with separate patch. Signed-off-by: Wei Liu Acked-by: Ian Campbell Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

xen-netfront: reduce gso_max_size to account for max TCP header

2013-04-22T19:37:01Z

The maximum packet including header that can be handled by netfront / netback wire format is 65535. Reduce gso_max_size accordingly. Drop skb and print warning when skb->len > 65535. This can 1) save the effort to send malformed packet to netback, 2) help spotting misconfiguration of netfront in the future. Signed-off-by: Wei Liu Acked-by: Ian Campbell Signed-off-by: David S. Miller