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authorSteffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>2023-10-04 15:05:27 +0200
committerSteffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>2023-10-06 07:30:40 +0200
commit172bf009c18d3ba4b841408f864a5322989ab6c0 (patch)
tree5abc1d1c8295810a061a8eabcf5a8fc60bbddc36 /include/net/gro.h
parentb439475a0dba2b50fb39a6356069969780e45fd4 (diff)
xfrm: Support GRO for IPv4 ESP in UDP encapsulation
This patch enables the GRO codepath for IPv4 ESP in UDP encapsulated packets. Decapsulation happens at L2 and saves a full round through the stack for each packet. This is also needed to support HW offload for ESP in UDP encapsulation. Enabling this would imporove performance for ESP in UDP datapath, i.e IPsec with NAT in between. By default GRP for ESP-in-UDP is disabled for UDP sockets. To enable this feature for an ESP socket, the following two options need to be set: 1. enable ESP-in-UDP: (this is already set by an IKE daemon). int type = UDP_ENCAP_ESPINUDP; setsockopt(fd, SOL_UDP, UDP_ENCAP, &type, sizeof(type)); 2. To enable GRO for ESP in UDP socket: type = true; setsockopt(fd, SOL_UDP, UDP_GRO, &type, sizeof(type)); Enabling ESP-in-UDP has the side effect of preventing the Linux stack from seeing ESP packets at the L3 (when ESP OFFLOAD is disabled), as packets are immediately decapsulated from UDP and decrypted. This change may affect nftable rules that match on ESP packets at L3. Also tcpdump won't see the ESP packet. Developers/admins are advised to review and adapt any nftable rules accordingly before enabling this feature to prevent potential rule breakage. Also tcpdump will not see from ESP packets from a ESP in UDP flow, when this is enabled. Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com> Co-developed-by: Antony Antony <antony.antony@secunet.com> Signed-off-by: Antony Antony <antony.antony@secunet.com> Reviewed-by: Eyal Birger <eyal.birger@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/gro.h')
-rw-r--r--include/net/gro.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/gro.h b/include/net/gro.h
index 88644b3ca660..b435f0ddbf64 100644
--- a/include/net/gro.h
+++ b/include/net/gro.h
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ struct napi_gro_cb {
/* Number of segments aggregated. */
u16 count;
- /* Used in ipv6_gro_receive() and foo-over-udp */
+ /* Used in ipv6_gro_receive() and foo-over-udp and esp-in-udp */
u16 proto;
/* Used in napi_gro_cb::free */