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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-08-17 19:37:04 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-08-17 19:37:04 -0400
commit484334198f8ce9552e20930fff9408ebf6bcf94d (patch)
treeaafb97367a459491c14e28c3e81a13f7a0059364 /block/bio-integrity.c
parentd2d371ae5dd6af9a6a3d7f50b753627c42868409 (diff)
parentadcce4d5dd46d9356c1c9a6515efc430e331fa69 (diff)
Merge branch 'strparser'
Tom Herbert says: ==================== strp: Stream parser for messages This patch set introduces a utility for parsing application layer protocol messages in a TCP stream. This is a generalization of the mechanism implemented of Kernel Connection Multiplexor. This patch set adapts KCM to use the strparser. We expect that kTLS can use this mechanism also. RDS would probably be another candidate to use a common stream parsing mechanism. The API includes a context structure, a set of callbacks, utility functions, and a data ready function. The callbacks include a parse_msg function that is called to perform parsing (e.g. BPF parsing in case of KCM), and a rcv_msg function that is called when a full message has been completed. For strparser we specify the return codes from the parser to allow the backend to indicate that control of the socket should be transferred back to userspace to handle some exceptions in the stream: The return values are: >0 : indicates length of successfully parsed message 0 : indicates more data must be received to parse the message -ESTRPIPE : current message should not be processed by the kernel, return control of the socket to userspace which can proceed to read the messages itself other < 0 : Error is parsing, give control back to userspace assuming that synchronization is lost and the stream is unrecoverable (application expected to close TCP socket) There is one issue I haven't been able to fully resolve. If parse_msg returns ESTRPIPE (wants control back to userspace) the parser may already have consumed some bytes of the message. There is no way to put bytes back into the TCP receive queue and tcp_read_sock does not allow an easy way to peek messages. In lieu of a better solution, we return ENODATA on the socket to indicate that the data stream is unrecoverable (application needs to close socket). This condition should only happen if an application layer message header is split across two skbuffs and parsing just the first skbuff wasn't sufficient to determine the that transfer to userspace is needed. This patch set contains: - strparser implementation - changes to kcm to use strparser - strparser.txt documentation v2: - Add copyright notice to C files - Remove GPL module license from strparser.c - Add report of rxpause v3: - Restore GPL module license - Use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL v4: - Removed unused function, changed another to be static as suggested by davem - Rewoked data_ready to be called from upper layer, no longer requires taking over socket data_ready callback as suggested by Lance Chao Tested: - Ran a KCM thrash test for 24 hours. No behavioral or performance differences observed. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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