[Devel] [PATCH 0/5] Replace vzethdev on veth

[Andrew Vagin]

On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 08:40:07PM +0300, Konstantin Khorenko wrote:
> Andrey, Kirill,
> 
> as patchset lacks the feature/usage description i've made a draft of it.
> Please, review and correct it, i'll put it into commit message as well.
> 
> ============================================================================
> VZ veth features:
> 
> 1) vzctl creates a pair of veth interfaces CT 0 <-> CT N
> 
> 2) vzctl in CT0 calls ioctl SIOCSVENET (in include/uapi/linux/veth.h) on one of veth interfaces,
>    it will enable Virtuozzo features for veth pair.
>    This ioctl automatically enables skb marks saving on going out of a net namespace, which can be used
>    for CT traffic accounting on CT0.
> 
>    Notes:
>    a) no need to call this ioctl for 2 interfaces
>    b) CT owner cannot call this ioctl because it's guarded by capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN), available on CT0 only
>    c) it's impossible to disable VZ features on veth pair once enabled
> 
> 3) after veth pair is created, MAC change functionality is enabled both from CT0 and from inside a CT
> 
> 4) vzctl can set appropriate MAC addresses for both veth interfaces
> 
> 5) vzctl can call SIOCSFIXEDADDR ioctl (in include/uapi/linux/veth.h) on veth interface with ifr_ifru.ifru_flags set to 1,
>    which disables ability to change MAC addresses on both ends.
>    The possibility to change MAC can be re-enabled by calling SIOCSFIXEDADDR ioctl with ifr_ifru.ifru_flags set to 0.
> 
>    Note: MAC change prevention will work _only_ after ioctl SIOCSVENET is called on a veth interface.

It looks good. Thank you for this description.
> 
> --
> Best regards,
> 
> Konstantin Khorenko,
> Virtuozzo Linux Kernel Team
> 
> On 05/28/2015 02:06 PM, Andrew Vagin wrote:
> > Add two ioctls to enable vz specific features and to control changing of mac addresses.
> > 
> > https://jira.sw.ru/browse/PSBM-32276
> > https://jira.sw.ru/browse/PSBM-26974
> > 
> > Andrew Vagin (5):
> >   vz: remove vzethdev
> >   veth: add ability to enable vz-specific features
> >   veth: filter packages accoding with mac addresses
> >   veth: add ability to prevent changing of a mac address from a
> >     container
> >   veth: don't drop skb->mark if NETIF_F_VENET is set
> > 
> >  config.OpenVZ                   |    1 -
> >  drivers/net/Makefile            |    1 -
> >  drivers/net/veth.c              |   71 ++++-
> >  drivers/net/vzethdev.c          |  697 ---------------------------------------
> >  include/linux/netdev_features.h |    2 +
> >  include/uapi/linux/veth.h       |   26 +--
> >  kernel/Kconfig.openvz           |    8 -
> >  net/core/skbuff.c               |    3 +-
> >  8 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 733 deletions(-)
> >  delete mode 100644 drivers/net/vzethdev.c
> > 
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