[ovs-dev] [PATCH 0/6 net-next] VXLAN Group Policy Extension

Thomas Graf tgraf at suug.ch
Wed Jan 7 02:05:35 UTC 2015


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 extension is disabled by default and should be run on a distinct
port in mixed Linux VXLAN VTEP environments. Liberal VXLAN VTEPs
which ignore unknown reserved bits will be able to receive VXLAN-GBP
frames.

Simple usage example:

10.1.1.1:
   # ip link add vxlan0 type vxlan id 10 remote 10.1.1.2 gbp
   # iptables -I OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner 101 -j MARK --set-mark 0x200

10.1.1.2:
   # ip link add vxlan0 type vxlan id 10 remote 10.1.1.1 gbp
   # iptables -I INPUT -m mark --mark 0x200 -j DROP

iproute2 [1] and OVS [2] support will be provided in separate patches.

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-smith-vxlan-group-policy
[1] https://github.com/tgraf/iproute2/tree/vxlan-gbp
[2] https://github.com/tgraf/ovs/tree/vxlan-gbp

Thomas Graf (6):
  vxlan: Allow for VXLAN extensions to be implemented
  vxlan: Group Policy extension
  vxlan: Only bind to sockets with correct extensions enabled
  vxlan: Fail build if VXLAN header is misdefined
  openvswitch: Rename GENEVE_TUN_OPTS() to TUN_METADATA_OPTS()
  openvswitch: Support VXLAN Group Policy extension

 drivers/net/vxlan.c              | 221 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 include/net/vxlan.h              | 104 ++++++++++++++++--
 include/uapi/linux/if_link.h     |   8 ++
 include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h |  19 ++++
 net/openvswitch/flow.c           |   2 +-
 net/openvswitch/flow.h           |  14 +--
 net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c   | 111 ++++++++++++--------
 net/openvswitch/vport-vxlan.c    |  89 +++++++++++++++-
 8 files changed, 435 insertions(+), 133 deletions(-)

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1.9.3




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