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Petr Machata says: ==================== vxlan: Support user-defined reserved bits Currently the VXLAN header validation works by vxlan_rcv() going feature by feature, each feature clearing the bits that it consumes. If anything is left unparsed at the end, the packet is rejected. Unfortunately there are machines out there that send VXLAN packets with reserved bits set, even if they are configured to not use the corresponding features. One such report is here[1], and we have heard similar complaints from our customers as well. This patchset adds an attribute that makes it configurable which bits the user wishes to tolerate and which they consider reserved. This was recommended in [1] as well. A knob like that inevitably allows users to set as reserved bits that are in fact required for the features enabled by the netdevice, such as GPE. This is detected, and such configurations are rejected. In patches #1..#7, the reserved bits validation code is gradually moved away from the unparsed approach described above, to one where a given set of valid bits is precomputed and then the packet is validated against that. In patch #8, this precomputed set is made configurable through a new attribute IFLA_VXLAN_RESERVED_BITS. Patches #9 and #10 massage the testsuite a bit, so that patch #11 can introduce a selftest for the resreved bits feature. The corresponding iproute2 support is available in [2]. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/db8b9e19-ad75-44d3-bfb2-46590d426ff5@proxmox.com/ [2] https://github.com/pmachata/iproute2/commits/vxlan_reserved_bits/ ==================== Link: https://patch.msgid.link/cover.1733412063.git.petrm@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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