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BPF classifier and actions in tc(8)  Linux BPF classifier and actions in tc(8)

NAME
       BPF - BPF programmable classifier and actions for ingress/egress queue-
       ing disciplines

SYNOPSIS
   eBPF classifier (filter) or action:
       tc filter ... bpf [ object-file OBJ_FILE ] [ section CLS_NAME ]  [  ex-
       port  UDS_FILE ] [ verbose ] [ direct-action | da ] [ skip_hw | skip_sw
       ] [ police POLICE_SPEC ] [ action ACTION_SPEC ] [ classid CLASSID ]
       tc action ... bpf [ object-file OBJ_FILE ] [ section CLS_NAME ]  [  ex-
       port UDS_FILE ] [ verbose ]

   cBPF classifier (filter) or action:
       tc  filter ... bpf [ bytecode-file BPF_FILE | bytecode BPF_BYTECODE ] [
       police POLICE_SPEC ] [ action ACTION_SPEC ] [ classid CLASSID ]
       tc action ... bpf [ bytecode-file BPF_FILE | bytecode BPF_BYTECODE ]

DESCRIPTION
       Extended Berkeley Packet Filter ( eBPF ) and  classic  Berkeley  Packet
       Filter  (originally known as BPF, for better distinction referred to as
       cBPF here) are both available as a fully programmable and highly  effi-
       cient classifier and actions. They both offer a minimal instruction set
       for implementing small programs which can safely  be  loaded  into  the
       kernel  and  thus executed in a tiny virtual machine from kernel space.
       An in-kernel verifier guarantees that a specified program always termi-
       nates and neither crashes nor leaks data from the kernel.

       In Linux, it's generally considered that eBPF is the successor of cBPF.
       The kernel internally transforms cBPF expressions into eBPF expressions
       and  executes  the latter. Execution of them can be performed in an in-
       terpreter or at setup time, they can be just-in-time compiled  (JIT'ed)
       to run as native machine code.

       Currently,  the eBPF JIT compiler is available for the following archi-
       tectures:

       *   x86_64 (since Linux 3.18)
       *   arm64 (since Linux 3.18)
       *   s390 (since Linux 4.1)
       *   ppc64 (since Linux 4.8)
       *   sparc64 (since Linux 4.12)
       *   mips64 (since Linux 4.13)
       *   arm32 (since Linux 4.14)
       *   x86_32 (since Linux 4.18)

       Whereas the following architectures have cBPF, but did not (yet) switch
       to eBPF JIT support:

       *   ppc32
       *   sparc32
       *   mips32

       eBPF's  instruction  set  has similar underlying principles as the cBPF
       instruction set, it however is modelled closer to the underlying archi-
       tecture to better mimic native instruction sets with the aim to achieve
       a better run-time performance. It is designed to be JIT'ed with  a  one
       to one mapping, which can also open up the possibility for compilers to
       generate optimized eBPF code through an eBPF backend that performs  al-
       most  as  fast as natively compiled code. Given that LLVM provides such
       an eBPF backend, eBPF programs can therefore easily be programmed in  a
       subset  of  the  C  language. Other than that, eBPF infrastructure also
       comes with a construct called "maps". eBPF maps  are  key/value  stores
       that  are  shared between multiple eBPF programs, but also between eBPF
       programs and user space applications.

       For the traffic control subsystem, classifier and actions that  can  be
       attached  to  ingress and egress qdiscs can be written in eBPF or cBPF.
       The advantage over other classifier and actions is that eBPF/cBPF  pro-
       vides  the  generic  framework,  while users can implement their highly
       specialized use cases efficiently. This means that  the  classifier  or
       action  written  that  way  will not suffer from feature bloat, and can
       therefore execute its task highly efficient. It allows  for  non-linear
       classification  and  even  merging the action part into the classifica-
       tion. Combined with efficient eBPF map data structures, user space  can
       push  new  policies  like  classids into the kernel without reloading a
       classifier, or it can gather statistics that are pushed  into  one  map
       and use another one for dynamically load balancing traffic based on the
       determined load, just to provide a few examples.

PARAMETERS
   object-file
       points to an object file that has an  executable  and  linkable  format
       (ELF) and contains eBPF opcodes and eBPF map definitions. The LLVM com-
       piler infrastructure with clang(1) as a C language  front  end  is  one
       project  that supports emitting eBPF object files that can be passed to
       the eBPF classifier (more details in the EXAMPLES section). This option
       is mandatory when an eBPF classifier or action is to be loaded.

   section
       is  the  name  of  the ELF section from the object file, where the eBPF
       classifier or action resides. By default the section name for the clas-
       sifier  is called "classifier", and for the action "action". Given that
       a single object file can contain multiple classifier and  actions,  the
       corresponding  section  name  needs to be specified, if it differs from
       the defaults.

   export
       points to a Unix domain socket file. In case the eBPF object file  also
       contains  a section named "maps" with eBPF map specifications, then the
       map file descriptors can be handed off via the Unix domain socket to an
       eBPF  "agent"  herding  all  descriptors after tc lifetime. This can be
       some third party application implementing the IPC counterpart  for  the
       import,  that uses them for calling into bpf(2) system call to read out
       or update eBPF map data from user space, for  example,  for  monitoring
       purposes or to push down new policies.

   verbose
       if set, it will dump the eBPF verifier output, even if loading the eBPF
       program was successful. By default, only on error, the verifier log  is
       being emitted to the user.

   direct-action | da
       instructs  eBPF  classifier  to not invoke external TC actions, instead
       use the TC actions return codes (TC_ACT_OK, TC_ACT_SHOT etc.) for clas-
       sifiers.

   skip_hw | skip_sw
       hardware  offload control flags. By default TC will try to offload fil-
       ters to hardware if possible.  skip_hw explicitly disables the  attempt
       to  offload.   skip_sw forces the offload and disables running the eBPF
       program in the kernel.  If hardware offload is not  possible  and  this
       flag  was  set  kernel  will report an error and filter will not be in-
       stalled at all.

   police
       is an optional parameter for an eBPF/cBPF classifier that  specifies  a
       police in tc(1) which is attached to the classifier, for example, on an
       ingress qdisc.

   action
       is an optional parameter for an eBPF/cBPF classifier that  specifies  a
       subsequent action in tc(1) which is attached to a classifier.

   classid
   flowid
       provides   the  default  traffic  control  class  identifier  for  this
       eBPF/cBPF classifier. The default class identifier can  also  be  over-
       written  by  the return code of the eBPF/cBPF program. A default return
       code of -1 specifies the here provided default class identifier  to  be
       used. A return code of the eBPF/cBPF program of 0 implies that no match
       took place, and a return code other than these two  will  override  the
       default  classid.  This allows for efficient, non-linear classification
       with only a single eBPF/cBPF program as opposed to having multiple  in-
       dividual  programs  for  various  class identifiers which would need to
       reparse packet contents.

   bytecode
       is being used for loading cBPF classifier and actions  only.  The  cBPF
       bytecode  is  directly  passed as a text string in the form of 's,c t f
       k,c t f k,c t f k,...' , where s denotes the number of subsequent 4-tu-
       ples. One such 4-tuple consists of c t f k decimals, where c represents
       the cBPF opcode, t the jump true offset target, f the jump false offset
       target  and  k  the immediate constant/literal. There are various tools
       that generate code in this loadable format, for example,  bpf_asm  that
       ships  with  the  Linux  kernel source tree under tools/net/ , so it is
       certainly not expected to hack this by hand. The bytecode or  bytecode-
       file  option  is  mandatory  when  a cBPF classifier or action is to be
       loaded.

   bytecode-file
       also being used to load a cBPF classifier or action.  It's  effectively
       the same as bytecode only that the cBPF bytecode is not passed directly
       via command line, but rather resides in a text file.

EXAMPLES
   eBPF TOOLING
       A full blown example including eBPF agent code can be found inside  the
       iproute2 source package under: examples/bpf/

       As  prerequisites, the kernel needs to have the eBPF system call namely
       bpf(2) enabled and ships with cls_bpf and act_bpf  kernel  modules  for
       the traffic control subsystem. To enable eBPF/eBPF JIT support, depend-
       ing which of the two the given architecture supports:

           echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_enable

       A given restricted C file can be compiled via LLVM as:

           clang -O2 -emit-llvm -c bpf.c -o - | llc  -march=bpf  -filetype=obj
           -o bpf.o

       The  compiler  invocation  might  still simplify in future, so for now,
       it's quite handy to alias this construct in one way or another, for ex-
       ample:

           __bcc() {
                   clang -O2 -emit-llvm -c $1 -o - | \
                   llc -march=bpf -filetype=obj -o "`basename $1 .c`.o"
           }

           alias bcc=__bcc

       A  minimal, stand-alone unit, which matches on all traffic with the de-
       fault classid (return code of -1) looks like:

           #include <linux/bpf.h>

           #ifndef __section
           # define __section(x)  __attribute__((section(x), used))
           #endif

           __section("classifier") int cls_main(struct __sk_buff *skb)
           {
                   return -1;
           }

           char __license[] __section("license") = "GPL";

       More examples can be found further below in subsection eBPF PROGRAMMING
       as focus here will be on tooling.

       There  can  be  various  other sections, for example, also for actions.
       Thus, an object file in eBPF can contain multiple entrance points.  Al-
       ways a specific entrance point, however, must be specified when config-
       uring with tc. A license must be part of the restricted C code and  the
       license  string  syntax  is the same as with Linux kernel modules.  The
       kernel reserves its right that some eBPF helper functions  can  be  re-
       stricted to GPL compatible licenses only, and thus may reject a program
       from loading into the kernel when such a license mismatch occurs.

       The resulting object file from the compilation can  be  inspected  with
       the  usual  set  of tools that also operate on normal object files, for
       example objdump(1) for inspecting ELF section headers:

           objdump -h bpf.o
           [...]
           3 classifier    000007f8  0000000000000000  0000000000000000  00000040  2**3
                           CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, READONLY, CODE
           4 action-mark   00000088  0000000000000000  0000000000000000  00000838  2**3
                           CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, READONLY, CODE
           5 action-rand   00000098  0000000000000000  0000000000000000  000008c0  2**3
                           CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, READONLY, CODE
           6 maps          00000030  0000000000000000  0000000000000000  00000958  2**2
                           CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
           7 license       00000004  0000000000000000  0000000000000000  00000988  2**0
                           CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
           [...]

       Adding an eBPF classifier from an object file that contains  a  classi-
       fier  in  the default ELF section is trivial (note that instead of "ob-
       ject-file" also shortcuts such as "obj" can be used):

           bcc bpf.c
           tc filter add dev em1 parent 1: bpf obj bpf.o flowid 1:1

       In case the classifier resides in ELF section "mycls", then  that  same
       command needs to be invoked as:

           tc filter add dev em1 parent 1: bpf obj bpf.o sec mycls flowid 1:1

       Dumping  the  classifier  configuration  will  tell the location of the
       classifier, in other words that it's from  object  file  "bpf.o"  under
       section "mycls":

           tc filter show dev em1
           filter parent 1: protocol all pref 49152 bpf
           filter  parent 1: protocol all pref 49152 bpf handle 0x1 flowid 1:1
           bpf.o:[mycls]

       The same program can also be installed on ingress qdisc side as opposed
       to egress ...

           tc qdisc add dev em1 handle ffff: ingress
           tc  filter  add dev em1 parent ffff: bpf obj bpf.o sec mycls flowid
           ffff:1

       ... and again dumped from there:

           tc filter show dev em1 parent ffff:
           filter protocol all pref 49152 bpf
           filter protocol  all  pref  49152  bpf  handle  0x1  flowid  ffff:1
           bpf.o:[mycls]

       Attaching  a  classifier and action on ingress has the restriction that
       it doesn't have an actual underlying queueing discipline. What  ingress
       can  do is to classify, mangle, redirect or drop packets. When queueing
       is required on ingress side, then ingress must redirect packets to  the
       ifb  device,  otherwise  policing can be used. Moreover, ingress can be
       used to have an early drop point of unwanted packets  before  they  hit
       upper  layers  of the networking stack, perform network accounting with
       eBPF maps that could be shared with egress, or  have  an  early  mangle
       and/or redirection point to different networking devices.

       Multiple eBPF actions and classifier can be placed into a single object
       file within various sections. In that case, non-default  section  names
       must be provided, which is the case for both actions in this example:

           tc filter add dev em1 parent 1: bpf obj bpf.o flowid 1:1 \
                                    action bpf obj bpf.o sec action-mark \
                                    action bpf obj bpf.o sec action-rand ok

       The  advantage  of  this is that the classifier and the two actions can
       then share eBPF maps with each other, if implemented in the programs.

       In order to access eBPF maps from user space beyond tc(8)  setup  life-
       time, the ownership can be transferred to an eBPF agent via Unix domain
       sockets. There are two possibilities for implementing this:

       1) implementation of an own eBPF agent that takes care  of  setting  up
       the  Unix  domain  socket and implementing the protocol that tc(8) dic-
       tates. A code example of this can be found inside the  iproute2  source
       package under: examples/bpf/

       2) use tc exec for transferring the eBPF map file descriptors through a
       Unix domain socket, and spawning an application such as  sh(1)  .  This
       approach's  advantage  is  that tc will place the file descriptors into
       the environment and thus make them available just like  stdin,  stdout,
       stderr  file  descriptors,  meaning, in case user applications run from
       within this fd-owner shell, they can terminate and restart without los-
       ing  eBPF  maps  file descriptors. Example invocation with the previous
       classifier and action mixture:

           tc exec bpf imp /tmp/bpf
           tc filter add dev em1 parent 1: bpf obj bpf.o exp  /tmp/bpf  flowid
           1:1 \
                                    action bpf obj bpf.o sec action-mark \
                                    action bpf obj bpf.o sec action-rand ok

       Assuming  that  eBPF  maps are shared with classifier and actions, it's
       enough to export them once, for example, from within the classifier  or
       action command. tc will setup all eBPF map file descriptors at the time
       when the object file is first parsed.

       When a shell has been spawned, the environment will have  a  couple  of
       eBPF  related variables. BPF_NUM_MAPS provides the total number of maps
       that have been transferred over the Unix  domain  socket.  BPF_MAP<X>'s
       value  is the file descriptor number that can be accessed in eBPF agent
       applications, in other words, it can directly be used as the  file  de-
       scriptor value for the bpf(2) system call to retrieve or alter eBPF map
       values. <X> denotes the identifier of the eBPF map. It  corresponds  to
       the  id  member  of struct bpf_elf_map  from the tc eBPF map specifica-
       tion.

       The environment in this example looks as follows:

           sh# env | grep BPF
               BPF_NUM_MAPS=3
               BPF_MAP1=6
               BPF_MAP0=5
               BPF_MAP2=7
           sh# ls -la /proc/self/fd
               [...]
               lrwx------. 1 root root 64 Apr 14 16:46 5 -> anon_inode:bpf-map
               lrwx------. 1 root root 64 Apr 14 16:46 6 -> anon_inode:bpf-map
               lrwx------. 1 root root 64 Apr 14 16:46 7 -> anon_inode:bpf-map
           sh# my_bpf_agent

       eBPF agents are very useful in that they can prepopulate eBPF maps from
       user space, monitor statistics via maps and based on that feedback, for
       example, rewrite classids in eBPF map values during runtime. Given that
       eBPF  agents  are implemented as normal applications, they can also dy-
       namically receive traffic control policies  from  external  controllers
       and  thus push them down into eBPF maps to dynamically adapt to network
       conditions. Moreover, eBPF maps can also be shared with other eBPF pro-
       gram types (e.g. tracing), thus very powerful combination can therefore
       be implemented.

   eBPF PROGRAMMING
       eBPF classifier and actions are being implemented in restricted C  syn-
       tax (in future, there could additionally be new language frontends sup-
       ported).

       The header file linux/bpf.h provides eBPF helper functions that can  be
       called from an eBPF program.  This man page will only provide two mini-
       mal, stand-alone  examples,  have  a  look  at  examples/bpf  from  the
       iproute2  source  package for a fully fledged flow dissector example to
       better demonstrate some of the possibilities with eBPF.

       Supported 32 bit classifier return codes from the C program  and  their
       meanings:
           0 , denotes a mismatch
           -1 , denotes the default classid configured from the command line
           else , everything else will override the default classid to provide
           a facility for non-linear matching

       Supported 32 bit action return codes from the C program and their mean-
       ings ( linux/pkt_cls.h ):
           TC_ACT_OK  (0)  , will terminate the packet processing pipeline and
           allows the packet to proceed
           TC_ACT_SHOT (2) , will terminate the packet processing pipeline and
           drops the packet
           TC_ACT_UNSPEC (-1) , will use the default action configured from tc
           (similarly as returning -1 from a classifier)
           TC_ACT_PIPE (3) , will iterate to the next action, if available
           TC_ACT_RECLASSIFY (1) , will terminate the packet processing  pipe-
           line and start classification from the beginning
           else , everything else is an unspecified return code

       Both  classifier and action return codes are supported in eBPF and cBPF
       programs.

       To demonstrate restricted C syntax, a minimal toy classifier example is
       provided,  which  assumes that egress packets, for instance originating
       from a container, have previously been marked in interval [0, 255]. The
       program keeps statistics on different marks for user space and maps the
       classid to the root qdisc with the marking itself as the minor handle:

           #include <stdint.h>
           #include <asm/types.h>

           #include <linux/bpf.h>
           #include <linux/pkt_sched.h>

           #include "helpers.h"

           struct tuple {
                   long packets;
                   long bytes;
           };

           #define BPF_MAP_ID_STATS        1 /* agent's map identifier */
           #define BPF_MAX_MARK            256

           struct bpf_elf_map __section("maps") map_stats = {
                   .type           =       BPF_MAP_TYPE_ARRAY,
                   .id             =       BPF_MAP_ID_STATS,
                   .size_key       =       sizeof(uint32_t),
                   .size_value     =       sizeof(struct tuple),
                   .max_elem       =       BPF_MAX_MARK,
                   .pinning        =       PIN_GLOBAL_NS,
           };

           static inline void cls_update_stats(const struct __sk_buff *skb,
                                               uint32_t mark)
           {
                   struct tuple *tu;

                   tu = bpf_map_lookup_elem(&map_stats, &mark);
                   if (likely(tu)) {
                           __sync_fetch_and_add(&tu->packets, 1);
                           __sync_fetch_and_add(&tu->bytes, skb->len);
                   }
           }

           __section("cls") int cls_main(struct __sk_buff *skb)
           {
                   uint32_t mark = skb->mark;

                   if (unlikely(mark >= BPF_MAX_MARK))
                           return 0;

                   cls_update_stats(skb, mark);

                   return TC_H_MAKE(TC_H_ROOT, mark);
           }

           char __license[] __section("license") = "GPL";

       Another small example is a port redirector  which  demuxes  destination
       port 80 into the interval [8080, 8087] steered by RSS, that can then be
       attached to ingress qdisc. The exercise of adding the  egress  counter-
       part and IPv6 support is left to the reader:

           #include <asm/types.h>
           #include <asm/byteorder.h>

           #include <linux/bpf.h>
           #include <linux/filter.h>
           #include <linux/in.h>
           #include <linux/if_ether.h>
           #include <linux/ip.h>
           #include <linux/tcp.h>

           #include "helpers.h"

           static inline void set_tcp_dport(struct __sk_buff *skb, int nh_off,
                                            __u16 old_port, __u16 new_port)
           {
                   bpf_l4_csum_replace(skb, nh_off + offsetof(struct tcphdr, check),
                                       old_port, new_port, sizeof(new_port));
                   bpf_skb_store_bytes(skb, nh_off + offsetof(struct tcphdr, dest),
                                       &new_port, sizeof(new_port), 0);
           }

           static inline int lb_do_ipv4(struct __sk_buff *skb, int nh_off)
           {
                   __u16 dport, dport_new = 8080, off;
                   __u8 ip_proto, ip_vl;

                   ip_proto = load_byte(skb, nh_off +
                                        offsetof(struct iphdr, protocol));
                   if (ip_proto != IPPROTO_TCP)
                           return 0;

                   ip_vl = load_byte(skb, nh_off);
                   if (likely(ip_vl == 0x45))
                           nh_off += sizeof(struct iphdr);
                   else
                           nh_off += (ip_vl & 0xF) << 2;

                   dport = load_half(skb, nh_off + offsetof(struct tcphdr, dest));
                   if (dport != 80)
                           return 0;

                   off = skb->queue_mapping & 7;
                   set_tcp_dport(skb, nh_off - BPF_LL_OFF, __constant_htons(80),
                                 __cpu_to_be16(dport_new + off));
                   return -1;
           }

           __section("lb") int lb_main(struct __sk_buff *skb)
           {
                   int ret = 0, nh_off = BPF_LL_OFF + ETH_HLEN;

                   if (likely(skb->protocol == __constant_htons(ETH_P_IP)))
                           ret = lb_do_ipv4(skb, nh_off);

                   return ret;
           }

           char __license[] __section("license") = "GPL";

       The related helper header file helpers.h in both examples was:

           /* Misc helper macros. */
           #define __section(x) __attribute__((section(x), used))
           #define offsetof(x, y) __builtin_offsetof(x, y)
           #define likely(x) __builtin_expect(!!(x), 1)
           #define unlikely(x) __builtin_expect(!!(x), 0)

           /* Object pinning settings */
           #define PIN_NONE       0
           #define PIN_OBJECT_NS  1
           #define PIN_GLOBAL_NS  2

           /* ELF map definition */
           struct bpf_elf_map {
               __u32 type;
               __u32 size_key;
               __u32 size_value;
               __u32 max_elem;
               __u32 flags;
               __u32 id;
               __u32 pinning;
               __u32 inner_id;
               __u32 inner_idx;
           };

           /* Some used BPF function calls. */
           static int (*bpf_skb_store_bytes)(void *ctx, int off, void *from,
                                             int len, int flags) =
                 (void *) BPF_FUNC_skb_store_bytes;
           static int (*bpf_l4_csum_replace)(void *ctx, int off, int from,
                                             int to, int flags) =
                 (void *) BPF_FUNC_l4_csum_replace;
           static void *(*bpf_map_lookup_elem)(void *map, void *key) =
                 (void *) BPF_FUNC_map_lookup_elem;

           /* Some used BPF intrinsics. */
           unsigned long long load_byte(void *skb, unsigned long long off)
               asm ("llvm.bpf.load.byte");
           unsigned long long load_half(void *skb, unsigned long long off)
               asm ("llvm.bpf.load.half");

       Best  practice,  we  recommend  to  only  have a single eBPF classifier
       loaded in tc and perform all necessary matching and mangling from there
       instead of a list of individual classifier and separate actions. Just a
       single classifier tailored for a given use-case will be most  efficient
       to run.

   eBPF DEBUGGING
       Both  tc filter and action commands for bpf support an optional verbose
       parameter that can be used to inspect the  eBPF  verifier  log.  It  is
       dumped by default in case of an error.

       In case the eBPF/cBPF JIT compiler has been enabled, it can also be in-
       structed to emit a debug output of the resulting opcode image into  the
       kernel log, which can be read via dmesg(1) :

           echo 2 > /proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_enable

       The  Linux  kernel  source  tree  ships additionally under tools/net/ a
       small helper called bpf_jit_disasm that reads out the opcode image dump
       from the kernel log and dumps the resulting disassembly:

           bpf_jit_disasm -o

       Other  than that, the Linux kernel also contains an extensive eBPF/cBPF
       test suite module called test_bpf . Upon ...

           modprobe test_bpf

       ... it performs a diversity of test cases and dumps  the  results  into
       the  kernel  log  that can be inspected with dmesg(1) . The results can
       differ depending on whether the JIT compiler is enabled or not. In case
       of  failed  test cases, the module will fail to load. In such cases, we
       urge you to file a bug report to the related JIT authors, Linux  kernel
       and networking mailing lists.

   cBPF
       Although  we generally recommend switching to implementing eBPF classi-
       fier and actions, for the sake of completeness, a few words on  how  to
       program in cBPF will be lost here.

       Likewise,  the  bpf_jit_enable  switch  can be enabled as mentioned al-
       ready. Tooling such as bpf_jit_disasm is also independent whether  eBPF
       or cBPF code is being loaded.

       Unlike in eBPF, classifier and action are not implemented in restricted
       C, but rather in a minimal assembler-like language or with the help  of
       other tooling.

       The raw interface with tc takes opcodes directly. For example, the most
       minimal classifier matching on every packet resulting  in  the  default
       classid of 1:1 looks like:

           tc  filter add dev em1 parent 1: bpf bytecode '1,6 0 0 4294967295,'
           flowid 1:1

       The first decimal of the bytecode sequence denotes the number of subse-
       quent  4-tuples  of cBPF opcodes. As mentioned, such a 4-tuple consists
       of c t f k decimals, where c represents the cBPF  opcode,  t  the  jump
       true  offset target, f the jump false offset target and k the immediate
       constant/literal. Here, this denotes an unconditional return  from  the
       program with immediate value of -1.

       Thus, for egress classification, Willem de Bruijn implemented a minimal
       stand-alone helper tool under the GNU General Public License version  2
       for  iptables(8) BPF extension, which abuses the libpcap internal clas-
       sic BPF compiler, his code derived here for usage with tc(8) :

           #include <pcap.h>
           #include <stdio.h>

           int main(int argc, char **argv)
           {
                   struct bpf_program prog;
                   struct bpf_insn *ins;
                   int i, ret, dlt = DLT_RAW;

                   if (argc < 2 || argc > 3)
                           return 1;
                   if (argc == 3) {
                           dlt = pcap_datalink_name_to_val(argv[1]);
                           if (dlt == -1)
                                   return 1;
                   }

                   ret = pcap_compile_nopcap(-1, dlt, &prog, argv[argc - 1],
                                             1, PCAP_NETMASK_UNKNOWN);
                   if (ret)
                           return 1;

                   printf("%d,", prog.bf_len);
                   ins = prog.bf_insns;

                   for (i = 0; i < prog.bf_len - 1; ++ins, ++i)
                           printf("%u %u %u %u,", ins->code,
                                  ins->jt, ins->jf, ins->k);
                   printf("%u %u %u %u",
                          ins->code, ins->jt, ins->jf, ins->k);

                   pcap_freecode(&prog);
                   return 0;
           }

       Given this small helper, any tcpdump(8) filter expression can be abused
       as a classifier where a match will result in the default classid:

           bpftool EN10MB 'tcp[tcpflags] & tcp-syn != 0' > /var/bpf/tcp-syn
           tc  filter add dev em1 parent 1: bpf bytecode-file /var/bpf/tcp-syn
           flowid 1:1

       Basically, such a minimal generator is equivalent to:

           tcpdump -iem1 -ddd 'tcp[tcpflags] & tcp-syn != 0' | tr '\n'  ','  >
           /var/bpf/tcp-syn

       Since  libpcap  does not support all Linux' specific cBPF extensions in
       its compiler, the Linux kernel also ships under  tools/net/  a  minimal
       BPF  assembler  called bpf_asm for providing full control. For detailed
       syntax and semantics on implementing such programs by hand, see  refer-
       ences under FURTHER READING .

       Trivial  toy example in bpf_asm for classifying IPv4/TCP packets, saved
       in a text file called foobar :

           ldh [12]
           jne #0x800, drop
           ldb [23]
           jneq #6, drop
           ret #-1
           drop: ret #0

       Similarly, such a classifier can be loaded as:

           bpf_asm foobar > /var/bpf/tcp-syn
           tc filter add dev em1 parent 1: bpf bytecode-file  /var/bpf/tcp-syn
           flowid 1:1

       For  BPF  classifiers,  the  Linux  kernel  provides additionally under
       tools/net/ a small BPF debugger called bpf_dbg , which can be  used  to
       test a classifier against pcap files, single-step or add various break-
       points into the classifier program and dump  register  contents  during
       runtime.

       Implementing  an  action  in classic BPF is rather limited in the sense
       that packet mangling is not supported. Therefore, it's generally recom-
       mended to make the switch to eBPF, whenever possible.

FURTHER READING
       Further  and  more  technical details about the BPF architecture can be
       found in the Linux  kernel  source  tree  under  Documentation/network-
       ing/filter.txt .

       Further  details  on  eBPF  tc(8) examples can be found in the iproute2
       source tree under examples/bpf/ .

SEE ALSO
       tc(8), tc-ematch(8) bpf(2) bpf(4)

AUTHORS
       Manpage written by Daniel Borkmann.

       Please report corrections or improvements to the Linux kernel  network-
       ing mailing list: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>

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