Re: [PATCH v4 net-next] net: multipath routing: configurable seed

[David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>]

On 4/23/21 6:44 AM, Balaev Pavel wrote:
> Ability for a user to assign seed value to multipath route hashes.
> Now kernel uses random seed value to prevent hash-flooding DoS attacks;
> however, it disables some use cases, f.e:
> 
> +-------+        +------+        +--------+
> |       |-eth0---| FW0  |---eth0-|        |
> |       |        +------+        |        |
> |  GW0  |ECMP                ECMP|  GW1   |
> |       |        +------+        |        |
> |       |-eth1---| FW1  |---eth1-|        |
> +-------+        +------+        +--------+
> 
> In this use case, two ECMP routers balance traffic between two firewalls.
> If some flow transmits a response over a different channel than request,
> such flow will be dropped, because keep-state rules are created on
> the other firewall.
> 
> This patch adds sysctl variable: net.ipv4|ipv6.fib_multipath_hash_seed.
> User can set the same seed value on GW0 and GW1 for traffic to be
> mirror-balanced. By default, random value is used.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Balaev Pavel <balaevpa@infotecs.ru>
> ---
>  Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst        |  14 +
>  include/net/flow_dissector.h                  |   4 +
>  include/net/netns/ipv4.h                      |   2 +
>  include/net/netns/ipv6.h                      |   3 +
>  net/core/flow_dissector.c                     |   9 +
>  net/ipv4/route.c                              |  10 +-
>  net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c                    |  97 +++++
>  net/ipv6/route.c                              |  10 +-
>  net/ipv6/sysctl_net_ipv6.c                    |  96 +++++
>  .../testing/selftests/net/forwarding/Makefile |   1 +
>  tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/lib.sh |  41 +++
>  .../net/forwarding/router_mpath_seed.sh       | 347 ++++++++++++++++++
>  12 files changed, 632 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/router_mpath_seed.sh

this really needs to be multiple patches. At a minimum 1 for ipv4, 1 for
ipv6 and 1 for the test script (thank you for adding that).

[ cc'ed Ido since most of the tests under
tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding come from him and team ]

> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
> index 9701906f6..d1a67e6fe 100644
> --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
> @@ -100,6 +100,20 @@ fib_multipath_hash_policy - INTEGER
>  	- 1 - Layer 4
>  	- 2 - Layer 3 or inner Layer 3 if present
>  
> +fib_multipath_hash_seed - STRING
> +	Controls seed value for multipath route hashes. By default
> +	random value is used. Only valid for kernels built with
> +	CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH enabled.
> +
> +	Valid format: two hex values set off with comma or "random"
> +	keyword.
> +
> +	Example to generate the seed value::
> +
> +		RAND=$(openssl rand -hex 16) && echo "${RAND:0:16},${RAND:16:16}"
> +
> +	Default: "random"
> +
>  fib_sync_mem - UNSIGNED INTEGER
>  	Amount of dirty memory from fib entries that can be backlogged before
>  	synchronize_rcu is forced.
> diff --git a/include/net/flow_dissector.h b/include/net/flow_dissector.h
> index ffd386ea0..2bd4e28de 100644
> --- a/include/net/flow_dissector.h
> +++ b/include/net/flow_dissector.h
> @@ -348,6 +348,10 @@ static inline bool flow_keys_have_l4(const struct flow_keys *keys)
>  }
>  
>  u32 flow_hash_from_keys(struct flow_keys *keys);
> +#ifdef CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH
> +u32 flow_multipath_hash_from_keys(struct flow_keys *keys,
> +			   const siphash_key_t *seed);

column alignment looks off here ^^^^ and a few other places; please
correct in the next version.