netkit: Fix pkt_type override upon netkit pass verdict

When running Cilium connectivity test suite with netkit in L2 mode, we
found that compared to tcx a few tests were failing which pushed traffic
into an L7 proxy sitting in host namespace. The problem in particular is
around the invocation of eth_type_trans() in netkit.

In case of tcx, this is run before the tcx ingress is triggered inside
host namespace and thus if the BPF program uses the bpf_skb_change_type()
helper the newly set type is retained. However, in case of netkit, the
late eth_type_trans() invocation overrides the earlier decision from the
BPF program which eventually leads to the test failure.

Instead of eth_type_trans(), split out the relevant parts, meaning, reset
of mac header and call to eth_skb_pkt_type() before the BPF program is run
in order to have the same behavior as with tcx, and refactor a small helper
called eth_skb_pull_mac() which is run in case it's passed up the stack
where the mac header must be pulled. With this all connectivity tests pass.

Fixes: 35dfaad ("netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>

drivers/net/netkit.c

@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ static void netkit_prep_forward(struct sk_buff *skb, bool xnet)
 	skb_scrub_packet(skb, xnet);
 	skb->priority = 0;
 	nf_skip_egress(skb, true);
+	skb_reset_mac_header(skb);
 }
 
 static struct netkit *netkit_priv(const struct net_device *dev)
@@ -78,14 +79,15 @@ static netdev_tx_t netkit_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 		     skb_orphan_frags(skb, GFP_ATOMIC)))
 		goto drop;
 	netkit_prep_forward(skb, !net_eq(dev_net(dev), dev_net(peer)));
+	eth_skb_pkt_type(skb, peer);
 	skb->dev = peer;
 	entry = rcu_dereference(nk->active);
 	if (entry)
 		ret = netkit_run(entry, skb, ret);
 	switch (ret) {
 	case NETKIT_NEXT:
 	case NETKIT_PASS:
-		skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, skb->dev);
+		eth_skb_pull_mac(skb);
 		skb_postpull_rcsum(skb, eth_hdr(skb), ETH_HLEN);
 		if (likely(__netif_rx(skb) == NET_RX_SUCCESS)) {
 			dev_sw_netstats_tx_add(dev, 1, len);

include/linux/etherdevice.h

@@ -636,6 +636,14 @@ static inline void eth_skb_pkt_type(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	}
 }
 
+static inline struct ethhdr *eth_skb_pull_mac(struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+	struct ethhdr *eth = (struct ethhdr *)skb->data;
+
+	skb_pull_inline(skb, ETH_HLEN);
+	return eth;
+}
+
 /**
  * eth_skb_pad - Pad buffer to mininum number of octets for Ethernet frame
  * @skb: Buffer to pad

net/ethernet/eth.c

@@ -161,9 +161,7 @@ __be16 eth_type_trans(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 	skb->dev = dev;
 	skb_reset_mac_header(skb);
 
-	eth = (struct ethhdr *)skb->data;
-	skb_pull_inline(skb, ETH_HLEN);
-
+	eth = eth_skb_pull_mac(skb);
 	eth_skb_pkt_type(skb, dev);
 
 	/*