// Copyright 2016 The Netstack Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. // Package loopback provides the implemention of loopback data-link layer // endpoints. Such endpoints just turn outbound packets into inbound ones. // // Loopback endpoints can be used in the networking stack by calling New() to // create a new endpoint, and then passing it as an argument to // Stack.CreateNIC(). package loopback import ( "gvisor.googlesource.com/gvisor/pkg/tcpip" "gvisor.googlesource.com/gvisor/pkg/tcpip/buffer" "gvisor.googlesource.com/gvisor/pkg/tcpip/stack" ) type endpoint struct { dispatcher stack.NetworkDispatcher } // New creates a new loopback endpoint. This link-layer endpoint just turns // outbound packets into inbound packets. func New() tcpip.LinkEndpointID { return stack.RegisterLinkEndpoint(&endpoint{}) } // Attach implements stack.LinkEndpoint.Attach. It just saves the stack network- // layer dispatcher for later use when packets need to be dispatched. func (e *endpoint) Attach(dispatcher stack.NetworkDispatcher) { e.dispatcher = dispatcher } // MTU implements stack.LinkEndpoint.MTU. It returns a constant that matches the // linux loopback interface. func (*endpoint) MTU() uint32 { return 65536 } // Capabilities implements stack.LinkEndpoint.Capabilities. Loopback advertises // itself as supporting checksum offload, but in reality it's just omitted. func (*endpoint) Capabilities() stack.LinkEndpointCapabilities { return stack.CapabilityChecksumOffload } // MaxHeaderLength implements stack.LinkEndpoint.MaxHeaderLength. Given that the // loopback interface doesn't have a header, it just returns 0. func (*endpoint) MaxHeaderLength() uint16 { return 0 } // LinkAddress returns the link address of this endpoint. func (*endpoint) LinkAddress() tcpip.LinkAddress { return "" } // WritePacket implements stack.LinkEndpoint.WritePacket. It delivers outbound // packets to the network-layer dispatcher. func (e *endpoint) WritePacket(_ *stack.Route, hdr *buffer.Prependable, payload buffer.View, protocol tcpip.NetworkProtocolNumber) *tcpip.Error { if len(payload) == 0 { // We don't have a payload, so just use the buffer from the // header as the full packet. v := hdr.View() vv := v.ToVectorisedView([1]buffer.View{}) e.dispatcher.DeliverNetworkPacket(e, "", protocol, &vv) } else { views := []buffer.View{hdr.View(), payload} vv := buffer.NewVectorisedView(len(views[0])+len(views[1]), views) e.dispatcher.DeliverNetworkPacket(e, "", protocol, &vv) } return nil }