// Copyright 2018 Google LLC // // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); // you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. // You may obtain a copy of the License at // // http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 // // Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software // distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, // WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. // See the License for the specific language governing permissions and // limitations under the License. // Package loopback provides the implemention of loopback data-link layer // endpoints. Such endpoints just turn outbound packets into inbound ones. // // Loopback endpoints can be used in the networking stack by calling New() to // create a new endpoint, and then passing it as an argument to // Stack.CreateNIC(). package loopback import ( "gvisor.googlesource.com/gvisor/pkg/tcpip" "gvisor.googlesource.com/gvisor/pkg/tcpip/buffer" "gvisor.googlesource.com/gvisor/pkg/tcpip/stack" ) type endpoint struct { dispatcher stack.NetworkDispatcher } // New creates a new loopback endpoint. This link-layer endpoint just turns // outbound packets into inbound packets. func New() tcpip.LinkEndpointID { return stack.RegisterLinkEndpoint(&endpoint{}) } // Attach implements stack.LinkEndpoint.Attach. It just saves the stack network- // layer dispatcher for later use when packets need to be dispatched. func (e *endpoint) Attach(dispatcher stack.NetworkDispatcher) { e.dispatcher = dispatcher } // IsAttached implements stack.LinkEndpoint.IsAttached. func (e *endpoint) IsAttached() bool { return e.dispatcher != nil } // MTU implements stack.LinkEndpoint.MTU. It returns a constant that matches the // linux loopback interface. func (*endpoint) MTU() uint32 { return 65536 } // Capabilities implements stack.LinkEndpoint.Capabilities. Loopback advertises // itself as supporting checksum offload, but in reality it's just omitted. func (*endpoint) Capabilities() stack.LinkEndpointCapabilities { return stack.CapabilityChecksumOffload | stack.CapabilitySaveRestore | stack.CapabilityLoopback } // MaxHeaderLength implements stack.LinkEndpoint.MaxHeaderLength. Given that the // loopback interface doesn't have a header, it just returns 0. func (*endpoint) MaxHeaderLength() uint16 { return 0 } // LinkAddress returns the link address of this endpoint. func (*endpoint) LinkAddress() tcpip.LinkAddress { return "" } // WritePacket implements stack.LinkEndpoint.WritePacket. It delivers outbound // packets to the network-layer dispatcher. func (e *endpoint) WritePacket(_ *stack.Route, hdr buffer.Prependable, payload buffer.VectorisedView, protocol tcpip.NetworkProtocolNumber) *tcpip.Error { views := make([]buffer.View, 1, 1+len(payload.Views())) views[0] = hdr.View() views = append(views, payload.Views()...) vv := buffer.NewVectorisedView(len(views[0])+payload.Size(), views) // Because we're immediately turning around and writing the packet back to the // rx path, we intentionally don't preserve the remote and local link // addresses from the stack.Route we're passed. e.dispatcher.DeliverNetworkPacket(e, "" /* remote */, "" /* local */, protocol, vv) return nil }