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The firewall node so far only computed an action and ignored a drop decision, so no rule was ever enforced. Enforce it now and make the evaluation symmetric: for each direction the rules of the VF side are evaluated, a direction without any rule implicitly allows everything, and once at least one rule for a direction exists, non-matching traffic is dropped. Both directions are always evaluated so that per-rule hit counters see every matching rule. Rule matching is reworked as well: the IP prefixes of a rule are now checked for every protocol, including ICMP and wildcard (match-any) rules, which previously could accept a packet before the prefix check was reached. Port ranges are only compared for TCP/UDP and ICMP type/code only for ICMP, as the filter union is not meaningful for the other protocols. An interface carries a firewall state (enabled by default) that decides whether its side of the decision is enforced at all. For HA, a flow taken over via NAT port-overload synchronization has no packet to evaluate, so the flow key is converted back into a dp_flow and the firewall decision is computed and stored on the synchronized flow. Tests are adjusted to the now effective firewall and extended with cases for ICMP and wildcard rules as well as for the synchronized NAT flows.
Interface creation takes no firewall parameters, every new interface
starts with the firewall enabled. The state can be read and changed
afterwards via GetFirewallParams/SetFirewallParams, and it is also
reported as part of the interface specification by GetInterface and
ListInterfaces.
The Go client, the dpservice-cli ("get fwparams" / "set fwparams") and
the pytest gRPC client expose the new calls, including a test that an
interface with a disabled firewall does not enforce its rules.
Monitoring event messages are sent from several threads: the flow aging timer runs on the main lcore, link status changes come from the ethdev interrupt thread. The queue was created as single-producer and enqueued without synchronization, so concurrent senders could corrupt it. Create the queue as multi-producer and enqueue with rte_ring_mp_enqueue(). The other queues keep their single-producer, single-consumer mode. Signed-off-by: Guvenc Gulce <guevenc.guelce@external.t-systems.com>
Add a /dp_service/firewall/rule_hits telemetry command that takes an interface id and replies with the hit counter of each of its firewall rules, and export those counters as dps_firewall_rule_hits_total from the Prometheus exporter. The telemetry test helper is fixed on the way: dpdk passes everything after the first comma to the command verbatim, so neither a filler parameter nor a trailing newline may be appended.
Add tests that run a request, its reply and a second packet of the same flow under firewall rules that only allow the original direction, so a reply can only pass through the conntrack entry of the request. The rule hit counters must show a single evaluation for the whole exchange, which also checks that the original key does not change. The cases cover VM to VM on the same host (TCP, ICMP and IPv6 TCP, with NAT on none, either or both sides), VM to a VM on another host and VM to the internet (TCP and ICMP, with and without NAT, plus NAT64), and an HA failover onto a flow created from NAT sync. The telemetry helper moves to helpers.py and takes the dpdk file prefix, so the HA tests can query the backup dpservice. The HA NAT tests send from a UDP source port that no earlier test uses for untranslated traffic, so they do not reuse its conntrack entry. Several of the new tests fail until the next commit. Signed-off-by: Guvenc Gulce <guevenc.guelce@external.t-systems.com>
dp_mark_vnf_type() marked every packet coming from a VF with a NAT IP as NAT, although only south-north traffic gets translated, which is only known after routing. The reply of a west-east flow is marked by its own sender, so the keys of both directions only matched when both sides had a NAT or neither had. Otherwise the reply missed its conntrack entry, was evaluated as a new flow and got dropped by the ingress rules. Packets from a VF are no longer marked as NAT. Instead snat_node marks the reply key of a translated flow (IPv4 NAT and NAT64), as that reply arrives on the NAT underlay address, and flows created from NAT sync get the same keys. As the key of an untranslated flow no longer changes when a NAT gets attached, flows established before stay untranslated until they time out. The key also feeds the flow hash selecting the PF under port redundancy, so the NAT ICMP test uses an identifier that still leaves through PF1. Signed-off-by: Guvenc Gulce <guevenc.guelce@external.t-systems.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds firewall state APIs, CLI commands, state-aware directional enforcement, synchronized NAT handling, rule-hit telemetry, Prometheus metrics, runtime configuration, and integration tests for firewall, conntrack, NAT, gRPC, and HA flows. ChangesFirewall functionality
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In `@cli/dpservice-exporter/metrics/metrics.go`:
- Line 144: The Update flow should collect and validate all rule-hit query
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In `@src/dp_firewall.c`:
- Line 90: Update the protocol-matching logic around the protocol gate so
wildcard and exact protocol rules can proceed to IP-prefix checks for every L4
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| // Rule hits are exported per rule, so the series of deleted rules (and interfaces) need to be dropped | ||
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Do not clear rule-hit series before all queries succeed.
If any query at Line 153 fails, Update returns after this reset. Prometheus then exposes no previous rule-hit values, even for interfaces that had valid data in the prior scrape.
Collect the new values first. Reset and publish the gauge only after all rule-hit queries succeed.
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The rule hits telemetry reply came from the current snapshot while the refresh it requested only served later requests. The test helper therefore queried twice with a fixed delay in between, which is not enough on a busy runner and made the tests read a stale snapshot. The worker now counts every refresh request it handles, including the ones served by the current snapshot due to the refresh interval. The telemetry thread reads this counter before sending the request and waits (with a doubling delay, at most 2 seconds) for it to change, so the reply reflects the state at the time of the query. The worker hot path only gains one atomic store per request.
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🟡 Minor · Keep per-interface rule-hit failures from stopping the exporter. · metrics.go:143-159
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queryTelemetrycan return a socket read or write error. The rule-hit branch returns that error fromUpdate, andperiodicMetricsUpdateexits on anyUpdateerror. This stops updates and shuts down/metricsoutput for all collectors. Treat this optional query as non-fatal. Retain last-knownDpserviceFwRuleHitsvalues when it fails, and continue updating the other metrics. Do not callResetbefore all rule-hit queries succeed.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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The refresh interval of the firewall rule hits snapshot was disabled at compile time for test builds. The tests are however also run against a build without tests enabled (as done in CI), where the interval applies and the rule hits are not up to date, making the checks fail. Replace the compile-time switch with a test-only command-line option --fwall-tel-interval (like --flow-timeout), defaulting to the production interval. runtest.py detects it and runs the rule hits checks in a new "firewall" suite and in the "ha" suite with the interval disabled (--fast-fwall-telemetry). Without it, the firewall conntrack and HA tests only check the traffic itself and the rule hits telemetry test is skipped, apart from the interface id validation.
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| | --log-format | FORMAT | set the format of individual log lines (on standard output) | 'text' (default) or 'json' | | ||
| | --grpc-port | PORT | listen for gRPC clients on this port | | | ||
| | --flow-timeout | SECONDS | inactive flow timeout (except TCP established flows) | | | ||
| | --fwall-tel-interval | SECONDS | minimal interval between firewall rule hits telemetry refreshes | | |
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This is true for --flow-timeout also and one other setting already. Needs a separate PR that changes the generator.
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@PlagueCZ, agreed. This mismatch is pre-existing and affects other generated options. A generator change should handle all conditional options in a separate PR.
Would you like me to open a follow-up GitHub issue for the dp_conf_generate.py production-help behavior?
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I did a partial review, I am still unsure with the telemetry and tests, but I want to put the firewall code review here.
The firewall itself has been tested in real environment a little bit. That is how we found the conntrack problem, which is also fixed here.
My current issue is the telemetry is so different than all previous ones, that I need to look further.
| | --log-format | FORMAT | set the format of individual log lines (on standard output) | 'text' (default) or 'json' | | ||
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This is true for --flow-timeout also and one other setting already. Needs a separate PR that changes the generator.
| * the per-rule hit counters account for every matching rule. | ||
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| egress_action = dp_get_directional_action(df, &in_port->iface.fwall_head, DP_FWALL_EGRESS); |
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Inside dp_get_directional_action, dp_is_matched_in_fwall_list is called and rule->stats.rule_hit++ is executed if a rule matching happens. This sequence of calling seems to be invoked regardless if the below .fwall_state equals to DP_FWALL_ENABLED or not. That is said, regardless if a firewall is enabled or not, stats.rule_hit keeps increasing. Is it intended behaviour or stats.rule_hit should stop increasing when fwall is disabled?
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That is intenional. The reason is::
- you have some rules
- nothing works
- you disable the firewall but keep rules
- packets now work, but you can also see what would happen if you enabled it
| df->l4_info.trans_port.src_port = htons(key->src.port_src); | ||
| df->l4_info.trans_port.dst_port = htons(key->port_dst); | ||
| } else if (key->proto == IPPROTO_ICMP || key->proto == IPPROTO_ICMPV6) { | ||
| df->l4_info.icmp_field.icmp_type = (uint8_t)key->src.type_src; |
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flow_key does not have the icmp_code field, which is used inside dp_is_rule_matching. Allowing icmp packets with the same type (e.g., error type) and a specific code seems to allow following icmp packets with the same type with different codes because flow_key remains the same, and it may not be the intent of a fwall rule installation call specifying a icmp code. To resolve this potential inconsistency, either flow_key needs to include icmp_code, or icmp_code needs to be always DP_FWALL_MATCH_ANY_ICMP_CODE, or remove this field from this gRPC protocol.
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Adding icmp_code to flow_key can be tricky because unknown type / code of the replying packet for a icmp request. If we are fine with larger granularity in terms of icmp_code in firewall, it is just easy to remove it from the proto file.
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Firewall rules were evaluated but a drop decision was ignored, so no rule was ever enforced. This PR enforces them and makes the firewall controllable per interface.
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GetFirewallParams/SetFirewallParamsgRPC calls, and is also returned byGetInterface/ListInterfaces.dpservice-cli(get fwparams/set fwparams) and in the pytest gRPC client./dp_service/firewall/rule_hits, returns per-rule hit counters. The Prometheus exporter publishes them asdps_firewall_rule_hits_total.Behavior change
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