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* fwd, conf: Probe host's ephemeral portsDavid Gibson2024-08-291-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When we forward "all" ports (-t all or -u all), or use an exclude-only range, we don't actually forward *all* ports - that wouln't leave local ports to use for outgoing connections. Rather we forward all non-ephemeral ports - those that won't be used for outgoing connections or datagrams. Currently we assume the range of ephemeral ports is that recommended by RFC 6335, 49152-65535. However, that's not the range used by default on Linux, 32768-60999 but configurable with the net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range sysctl. We can't really know what range the guest will consider ephemeral, but if it differs too much from the host it's likely to cause problems we can't avoid anyway. So, using the host's ephemeral range is a better guess than using the RFC 6335 range. Therefore, add logic to probe the host's ephemeral range, falling back to the RFC 6335 range if that fails. This has the bonus advantage of reducing the number of ports bound by -t all -u all on most Linux machines thereby reducing kernel memory usage. Specifically this reduces kernel memory usage with -t all -u all from ~380MiB to ~289MiB. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Reviewed-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
* conf, fwd: Make ephemeral port logic more flexibleDavid Gibson2024-08-291-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "Ephemeral" ports are those which the kernel may allocate as local port numbers for outgoing connections or datagrams. Because of that, they're generally not good choices for listening servers to bind to. Thefore when using -t all, -u all or exclude-only ranges, we map only non-ephemeral ports. Our logic for this is a bit rigid though: we assume the ephemeral ports are always a fixed range at the top of the port number space. We also assume PORT_EPHEMERAL_MIN is a multiple of 8, or we won't set the forward bitmap correctly. Make the logic in conf.c more flexible, using a helper moved into fwd.[ch], although we don't change which ports we consider ephemeral (yet). The new handling is undoubtedly more computationally expensive, but since it's a once-off operation at start off, I don't think it really matters. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Reviewed-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
* flow, tcp: Flow based NAT and port forwarding for TCPDavid Gibson2024-07-191-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently the code to translate host side addresses and ports to guest side addresses and ports, and vice versa, is scattered across the TCP code. This includes both port redirection as controlled by the -t and -T options, and our special case NAT controlled by the --no-map-gw option. Gather this logic into fwd_nat_from_*() functions for each input interface in fwd.c which take protocol and address information for the initiating side and generates the pif and address information for the forwarded side. This performs any NAT or port forwarding needed. We create a flow_target() helper which applies those forwarding functions as needed to automatically move a flow from INI to TGT state. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
* conf: Fix clang-tidy warning about using an undefined enum valueDavid Gibson2024-05-131-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | In conf() we temporarily set the forwarding mode variables to 0 - an invalid value, so that we can check later if they've been set by the intervening logic. clang-tidy 18.1.1 in Fedora 40 now complains about this. Satisfy it by giving an name in the enum to the 0 value. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
* fwd: Rename port_fwd.[ch] and their contentsDavid Gibson2024-02-291-0/+44
Currently port_fwd.[ch] contains helpers related to port forwarding, particular automatic port forwarding. We're planning to allow much more flexible sorts of forwarding, including both port translation and NAT based on the flow table. This will subsume the existing port forwarding logic, so rename port_fwd.[ch] to fwd.[ch] with matching updates to all the names within. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>