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From:   Leonard Crestez <cdleonard@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFCv2 1/9] tcp: authopt: Initial support and key management
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On 11.08.2021 16:42, David Ahern wrote:
> On 8/11/21 2:29 AM, Leonard Crestez wrote:
>> On 8/10/21 11:41 PM, Dmitry Safonov wrote:
>>> Hi Leonard,
>>>
>>> On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 at 02:50, Leonard Crestez <cdleonard@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> [..]
>>>> +/* Representation of a Master Key Tuple as per RFC5925 */
>>>> +struct tcp_authopt_key_info {
>>>> +       struct hlist_node node;
>>>> +       /* Local identifier */
>>>> +       u32 local_id;
>>>
>>> There is no local_id in RFC5925, what's that?
>>> An MKT is identified by (send_id, recv_id), together with
>>> (src_addr/src_port, dst_addr/dst_port).
>>> Why introducing something new to already complicated RFC?
>>
>> It was there to simplify user interface and initial implementation.
>>
>> But it seems that BGP listeners already needs to support multiple
>> keychains for different peers so identifying the key by (send_id,
>> recv_id, binding) is easier for userspace to work with. Otherwise they
>> need to create their own local_id mapping internally.
>>
> 
> any proposed simplification needs to be well explained and how it
> relates to the RFC spec.

The local_id only exists between userspace and kernel so it's not really 
covered by the RFC.

There are objections to this and it seems to be unhelpful for userspace 
zo I will replace it with match by binding.

BTW: another somewhat dubious simplification is that I offloaded the RFC 
requirement to never add overlapping keys to userspace. So if userspace 
adds keys with same recvid that match the same TCP 4-tuple then 
connections will just start failing.

It's arguably fine to allow userspace misconfiguration to cause failures.

--
Regards,
Leonard