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authorGhanan Gowripalan <ghanan@google.com>2020-11-05 15:49:51 -0800
committergVisor bot <gvisor-bot@google.com>2020-11-05 15:52:16 -0800
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Use stack.Route exclusively for writing packets
* Remove stack.Route from incoming packet path. There is no need to pass around a stack.Route during the incoming path of a packet. Instead, pass around the packet's link/network layer information in the packet buffer since all layers may need this information. * Support address bound and outgoing packet NIC in routes. When forwarding is enabled, the source address of a packet may be bound to a different interface than the outgoing interface. This change updates stack.Route to hold both NICs so that one can be used to write packets while the other is used to check if the route's bound address is valid. Note, we need to hold the address's interface so we can check if the address is a spoofed address. * Introduce the concept of a local route. Local routes are routes where the packet never needs to leave the stack; the destination is stack-local. We can now route between interfaces within a stack if the packet never needs to leave the stack, even when forwarding is disabled. * Always obtain a route from the stack before sending a packet. If a packet needs to be sent in response to an incoming packet, a route must be obtained from the stack to ensure the stack is configured to send packets to the packet's source from the packet's destination. * Enable spoofing if a stack may send packets from unowned addresses. This change required changes to some netgophers since previously, promiscuous mode was enough to let the netstack respond to all incoming packets regardless of the packet's destination address. Now that a stack.Route is not held for each incoming packet, finding a route may fail with local addresses we don't own but accepted packets for while in promiscuous mode. Since we also want to be able to send from any address (in response the received promiscuous mode packets), we need to enable spoofing. * Skip transport layer checksum checks for locally generated packets. If a packet is locally generated, the stack can safely assume that no errors were introduced while being locally routed since the packet is never sent out the wire. Some bugs fixed: - transport layer checksum was never calculated after NAT. - handleLocal didn't handle routing across interfaces. - stack didn't support forwarding across interfaces. - always consult the routing table before creating an endpoint. Updates #4688 Fixes #3906 PiperOrigin-RevId: 340943442
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