Re: 12.0-BETA1 vnet with pf firewall

> On 30 Oct 2018, at 14:29, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> > On 30 Oct 2018, at 12:23, Kristof Provost wrote:
> >> I?m not too familiar with this part of the vnet code, but it looks 
> >> to me like we?ve got more per-vnet variables that was originally 
> >> anticipated, so we may need to just increase the allocated space.
> >
> > Can you elfdump -a the two modules and see how big their set_vnet 
> > section sizes are?  I see:
> >
> > pf.ko:  sh_size: 6664
> > ipl.ko: sh_size: 2992
> >
> I see exactly the same numbers.
> 
> > VNET_MODMIN is two pages (8k).  So yes, that would exceed the module 
> > space.
> > Having 6.6k global variable space is a bit excessive?  Where does that 
> > come from?  multicast used to have a similar problem in the past that 
> > it could not be loaded as a module as it had a massive array there and 
> > we changed it to be malloced and that reduced it to a pointer.
> >
> > 0000000000000f38 l     O set_vnet       0000000000000428 
> > vnet_entry_pfr_nulltable
> That?s a default table. It?s large because it uses MAXPATHLEN for 
> the pfrt_anchor string.
> 
> > 0000000000000b10 l     O set_vnet       00000000000003d0 
> > vnet_entry_pf_default_rule
> Default rule. Rules potentially contain names, tag names, interface 
> names, ? so it?s a large structure.
> 
> > 0000000000001370 l     O set_vnet       0000000000000690 
> > vnet_entry_pf_main_anchor
> Anchors use MAXPATHLEN for the anchor path, so that?s 1024 bytes right 
> away.
> 
> > 0000000000000000 l     O set_vnet       0000000000000120 
> > vnet_entry_pf_status
> >
> pf status. Mostly counters.
> 
> I?ll see about putting moving those into the heap on my todo list.

Though that removes the current situation, it is a partial fix,
doesnt this static sized 2 page VNET_MODMIN needs to be fixed in the
longer term?

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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes_at_freebsd.org