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    vxlan: Group Policy extension · 3511494c
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    Implements supports for the Group Policy VXLAN extension [0] to provide
    a lightweight and simple security label mechanism across network peers
    based on VXLAN. The security context and associated metadata is mapped
    to/from skb->mark. This allows further mapping to a SELinux context
    using SECMARK, to implement ACLs directly with nftables, iptables, OVS,
    tc, etc.
    
    The group membership is defined by the lower 16 bits of skb->mark, the
    upper 16 bits are used for flags.
    
    SELinux allows to manage label to secure local resources. However,
    distributed applications require ACLs to implemented across hosts. This
    is typically achieved by matching on L2-L4 fields to identify the
    original sending host and process on the receiver. On top of that,
    netlabel and specifically CIPSO [1] allow to map security contexts to
    universal labels.  However, netlabel and CIPSO are relatively complex.
    This patch provides a lightweight alternative for overlay network
    environments with a trusted underlay. No additional control protocol
    is required.
    
               Host 1:                       Host 2:
    
          Group A        Group B        Group B     Group A
          +-----+   +-------------+    +-------+   +-----+
          | lxc |   | SELinux CTX |    | httpd |   | VM  |
          +--+--+   +--+----------+    +---+---+   +--+--+
    	  \---+---/                     \----+---/
    	      |                              |
    	  +---+---+                      +---+---+
    	  | vxlan |                      | vxlan |
    	  +---+---+                      +---+---+
    	      +------------------------------+
    
    Backwards compatibility:
    A VXLAN-GBP socket can receive standard VXLAN frames and will assign
    the default group 0x0000 to such frames. A Linux VXLAN socket will
    drop VXLAN-GBP  frames. The extension is therefore disabled by default
    and needs to be specifically enabled:
    
       ip link add [...] type vxlan [...] gbp
    
    In a mixed environment with VXLAN and VXLAN-GBP sockets, the GBP socket
    must run on a separate port number.
    
    Examples:
     iptables:
      host1# iptables -I OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner 101 -j MARK --set-mark 0x200
      host2# iptables -I INPUT -m mark --mark 0x200 -j DROP
    
     OVS:
      # ovs-ofctl add-flow br0 'in_port=1,actions=load:0x200->NXM_NX_TUN_GBP_ID[],NORMAL'
      # ovs-ofctl add-flow br0 'in_port=2,tun_gbp_id=0x200,actions=drop'
    
    [0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-smith-vxlan-group-policy
    [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/204905/Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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