ebpf, filter: do not convert skb->protocol to host endianess during runtime
Commit c2497395 ("bpf: allow BPF programs access 'protocol' and 'vlan_tci' fields") has added support for accessing protocol, vlan_present and vlan_tci into the skb offset map. As referenced in the below discussion, accessing skb->protocol from an eBPF program should be converted without handling endianess. The reason for this is that an eBPF program could simply do a check more naturally, by f.e. testing skb->protocol == htons(ETH_P_IP), where the LLVM compiler resolves htons() against a constant automatically during compilation time, as opposed to an otherwise needed run time conversion. After all, the way of programming both from a user perspective differs quite a lot, i.e. bpf_asm ["ld proto"] versus a C subset/LLVM. Reference: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/450819/Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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