net: UDP tunnel encapsulation module for tunnelling different protocols like MPLS, IP, NSH etc.

The Bareudp tunnel module provides a generic L3 encapsulation
tunnelling module for tunnelling different protocols like MPLS,
IP,NSH etc inside a UDP tunnel.

Signed-off-by: Martin Varghese <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

Author: Martin Varghese

Documentation/networking/bareudp.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+========================================
+Bare UDP Tunnelling Module Documentation
+========================================
+
+There are various L3 encapsulation standards using UDP being discussed to
+leverage the UDP based load balancing capability of different networks.
+MPLSoUDP (__ https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7510) is one among them.
+
+The Bareudp tunnel module provides a generic L3 encapsulation tunnelling
+support for tunnelling different L3 protocols like MPLS, IP, NSH etc. inside
+a UDP tunnel.
+
+Usage
+------
+
+1) Device creation & deletion
+
+    a) ip link add dev bareudp0 type bareudp dstport 6635 ethertype 0x8847.
+
+       This creates a bareudp tunnel device which tunnels L3 traffic with ethertype
+       0x8847 (MPLS traffic). The destination port of the UDP header will be set to
+       6635.The device will listen on UDP port 6635 to receive traffic.
+
+    b) ip link delete bareudp0
+
+2) Device Usage
+
+The bareudp device could be used along with OVS or flower filter in TC.
+The OVS or TC flower layer must set the tunnel information in SKB dst field before
+sending packet buffer to the bareudp device for transmission. On reception the
+bareudp device extracts and stores the tunnel information in SKB dst field before
+passing the packet buffer to the network stack.

Documentation/networking/index.rst

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Contents:
 
    netdev-FAQ
    af_xdp
+   bareudp
    batman-adv
    can
    can_ucan_protocol

drivers/net/Kconfig

@@ -258,6 +258,19 @@ config GENEVE
 	  To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
 	  will be called geneve.
 
+config BAREUDP
+       tristate "Bare UDP Encapsulation"
+       depends on INET
+       depends on IPV6 || !IPV6
+       select NET_UDP_TUNNEL
+       select GRO_CELLS
+       help
+          This adds a bare UDP tunnel module for tunnelling different
+          kinds of traffic like MPLS, IP, etc. inside a UDP tunnel.
+
+          To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
+          will be called bareudp.
+
 config GTP
 	tristate "GPRS Tunneling Protocol datapath (GTP-U)"
 	depends on INET

drivers/net/Makefile

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_VETH) += veth.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_VIRTIO_NET) += virtio_net.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_VXLAN) += vxlan.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_GENEVE) += geneve.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_BAREUDP) += bareudp.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_GTP) += gtp.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_NLMON) += nlmon.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_NET_VRF) += vrf.o