The new action inheritdsfield copies the field DS of
IPv4 and IPv6 packets into skb->priority. This enables
later classification of packets based on the DS field.

Original idea by Jamal Hadi Salim <j...@mojatatu.com>

Signed-off-by: Qiaobin Fu <qiaob...@bu.edu>
Reviewed-by: Michel Machado <mic...@digirati.com.br>
---

Note that the motivation for this patch is found in the following discussion:
https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg501061.html
---

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/tc_act/tc_skbedit.h 
b/include/uapi/linux/tc_act/tc_skbedit.h
index fbcfe27..432ad2f 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/tc_act/tc_skbedit.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/tc_act/tc_skbedit.h
@@ -30,9 +30,11 @@
 #define SKBEDIT_F_MARK                 0x4
 #define SKBEDIT_F_PTYPE                        0x8
 #define SKBEDIT_F_MASK                 0x10
+#define SKBEDIT_F_INHERITDSFIELD       0x20
 
 struct tc_skbedit {
        tc_gen;
+       __u64 flags;
 };
 
 enum {
diff --git a/tc/m_skbedit.c b/tc/m_skbedit.c
index db5c64c..7553a40 100644
--- a/tc/m_skbedit.c
+++ b/tc/m_skbedit.c
@@ -30,16 +30,18 @@
 
 static void explain(void)
 {
-       fprintf(stderr, "Usage: ... skbedit <[QM] [PM] [MM] [PT]>\n"
+       fprintf(stderr, "Usage: ... skbedit <[QM] [PM] [MM] [PT] [IF]>\n"
                "QM = queue_mapping QUEUE_MAPPING\n"
                "PM = priority PRIORITY\n"
                "MM = mark MARK\n"
                "PT = ptype PACKETYPE\n"
+               "IF = inheritdsfield\n"
                "PACKETYPE = is one of:\n"
                "  host, otherhost, broadcast, multicast\n"
                "QUEUE_MAPPING = device transmit queue to use\n"
                "PRIORITY = classID to assign to priority field\n"
-               "MARK = firewall mark to set\n");
+               "MARK = firewall mark to set\n"
+               "note: inheritdsfield maps DS field to skb->priority\n");
 }
 
 static void
@@ -59,7 +61,7 @@ parse_skbedit(struct action_util *a, int *argc_p, char 
***argv_p, int tca_id,
        struct rtattr *tail;
        unsigned int tmp;
        __u16 queue_mapping, ptype;
-       __u32 flags = 0, priority, mark;
+       __u32 priority, mark;
        struct tc_skbedit sel = { 0 };
 
        if (matches(*argv, "skbedit") != 0)
@@ -69,7 +71,7 @@ parse_skbedit(struct action_util *a, int *argc_p, char 
***argv_p, int tca_id,
 
        while (argc > 0) {
                if (matches(*argv, "queue_mapping") == 0) {
-                       flags |= SKBEDIT_F_QUEUE_MAPPING;
+                       sel.flags |= SKBEDIT_F_QUEUE_MAPPING;
                        NEXT_ARG();
                        if (get_unsigned(&tmp, *argv, 10) || tmp > 65535) {
                                fprintf(stderr, "Illegal queue_mapping\n");
@@ -78,7 +80,7 @@ parse_skbedit(struct action_util *a, int *argc_p, char 
***argv_p, int tca_id,
                        queue_mapping = tmp;
                        ok++;
                } else if (matches(*argv, "priority") == 0) {
-                       flags |= SKBEDIT_F_PRIORITY;
+                       sel.flags |= SKBEDIT_F_PRIORITY;
                        NEXT_ARG();
                        if (get_tc_classid(&priority, *argv)) {
                                fprintf(stderr, "Illegal priority\n");
@@ -86,7 +88,7 @@ parse_skbedit(struct action_util *a, int *argc_p, char 
***argv_p, int tca_id,
                        }
                        ok++;
                } else if (matches(*argv, "mark") == 0) {
-                       flags |= SKBEDIT_F_MARK;
+                       sel.flags |= SKBEDIT_F_MARK;
                        NEXT_ARG();
                        if (get_u32(&mark, *argv, 0)) {
                                fprintf(stderr, "Illegal mark\n");
@@ -109,7 +111,10 @@ parse_skbedit(struct action_util *a, int *argc_p, char 
***argv_p, int tca_id,
                                        *argv);
                                return -1;
                        }
-                       flags |= SKBEDIT_F_PTYPE;
+                       sel.flags |= SKBEDIT_F_PTYPE;
+                       ok++;
+               } else if (matches(*argv, "inheritdsfield") == 0) {
+                       sel.flags |= SKBEDIT_F_INHERITDSFIELD;
                        ok++;
                } else if (matches(*argv, "help") == 0) {
                        usage();
@@ -144,16 +149,16 @@ parse_skbedit(struct action_util *a, int *argc_p, char 
***argv_p, int tca_id,
 
        tail = addattr_nest(n, MAX_MSG, tca_id);
        addattr_l(n, MAX_MSG, TCA_SKBEDIT_PARMS, &sel, sizeof(sel));
-       if (flags & SKBEDIT_F_QUEUE_MAPPING)
+       if (sel.flags & SKBEDIT_F_QUEUE_MAPPING)
                addattr_l(n, MAX_MSG, TCA_SKBEDIT_QUEUE_MAPPING,
                          &queue_mapping, sizeof(queue_mapping));
-       if (flags & SKBEDIT_F_PRIORITY)
+       if (sel.flags & SKBEDIT_F_PRIORITY)
                addattr_l(n, MAX_MSG, TCA_SKBEDIT_PRIORITY,
                          &priority, sizeof(priority));
-       if (flags & SKBEDIT_F_MARK)
+       if (sel.flags & SKBEDIT_F_MARK)
                addattr_l(n, MAX_MSG, TCA_SKBEDIT_MARK,
                          &mark, sizeof(mark));
-       if (flags & SKBEDIT_F_PTYPE)
+       if (sel.flags & SKBEDIT_F_PTYPE)
                addattr_l(n, MAX_MSG, TCA_SKBEDIT_PTYPE,
                          &ptype, sizeof(ptype));
        addattr_nest_end(n, tail);
@@ -211,6 +216,8 @@ static int print_skbedit(struct action_util *au, FILE *f, 
struct rtattr *arg)
                else
                        fprintf(f, " ptype %d", *ptype);
        }
+       if (p->flags & SKBEDIT_F_INHERITDSFIELD)
+               fprintf(f, "inherit DS field ");
 
        print_action_control(f, " ", p->action, "");

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