netfilter: nf_tables: add rule blob layout

This patch adds a blob layout per chain to represent the ruleset in the
packet datapath.

	size (unsigned long)
	struct nft_rule_dp
	  struct nft_expr
	  ...
        struct nft_rule_dp
          struct nft_expr
          ...
        struct nft_rule_dp (is_last=1)

The new structure nft_rule_dp represents the rule in a more compact way
(smaller memory footprint) compared to the control-plane nft_rule
structure.

The ruleset blob is a read-only data structure. The first field contains
the blob size, then the rules containing expressions. There is a trailing
rule which is used by the tracing infrastructure which is equivalent to
the NULL rule marker in the previous representation. The blob size field
does not include the size of this trailing rule marker.

The ruleset blob is generated from the commit path.

This patch reuses the infrastructure available since 0cbc06b3faba
("netfilter: nf_tables: remove synchronize_rcu in commit phase") to
build the array of rules per chain.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h b/include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h
index a0d9e0b47ab8..5a046b01bdab 100644
--- a/include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h
+++ b/include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h
@@ -974,6 +974,20 @@ static inline void nft_set_elem_update_expr(const struct nft_set_ext *ext,
 
 #define NFT_CHAIN_POLICY_UNSET		U8_MAX
 
+struct nft_rule_dp {
+	u64				is_last:1,
+					dlen:12,
+					handle:42;	/* for tracing */
+	unsigned char			data[]
+		__attribute__((aligned(__alignof__(struct nft_expr))));
+};
+
+struct nft_rule_blob {
+	unsigned long			size;
+	unsigned char			data[]
+		__attribute__((aligned(__alignof__(struct nft_rule_dp))));
+};
+
 /**
  *	struct nft_chain - nf_tables chain
  *
@@ -987,8 +1001,8 @@ static inline void nft_set_elem_update_expr(const struct nft_set_ext *ext,
  *	@name: name of the chain
  */
 struct nft_chain {
-	struct nft_rule			*__rcu *rules_gen_0;
-	struct nft_rule			*__rcu *rules_gen_1;
+	struct nft_rule_blob		__rcu *blob_gen_0;
+	struct nft_rule_blob		__rcu *blob_gen_1;
 	struct list_head		rules;
 	struct list_head		list;
 	struct rhlist_head		rhlhead;
@@ -1003,7 +1017,7 @@ struct nft_chain {
 	u8				*udata;
 
 	/* Only used during control plane commit phase: */
-	struct nft_rule			**rules_next;
+	struct nft_rule_blob		*blob_next;
 };
 
 int nft_chain_validate(const struct nft_ctx *ctx, const struct nft_chain *chain);
@@ -1321,7 +1335,7 @@ struct nft_traceinfo {
 	const struct nft_pktinfo	*pkt;
 	const struct nft_base_chain	*basechain;
 	const struct nft_chain		*chain;
-	const struct nft_rule		*rule;
+	const struct nft_rule_dp	*rule;
 	const struct nft_verdict	*verdict;
 	enum nft_trace_types		type;
 	bool				packet_dumped;