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// Copyright 2018 The gVisor Authors.
//
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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//
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// 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.dev/gvisor/pkg/tcpip"
"gvisor.dev/gvisor/pkg/tcpip/header"
"gvisor.dev/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() stack.LinkEndpoint {
return &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.CapabilityRXChecksumOffload | stack.CapabilityTXChecksumOffload | 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 ""
}
// Wait implements stack.LinkEndpoint.Wait.
func (*endpoint) Wait() {}
// WritePackets implements stack.LinkEndpoint.WritePackets.
func (e *endpoint) WritePackets(pkts stack.PacketBufferList) (int, tcpip.Error) {
for pkt := pkts.Front(); pkt != nil; pkt = pkt.Next() {
// In order to properly loop back to the inbound side we must create a
// fresh packet that only contains the underlying payload with no headers
// or struct fields set.
newPkt := stack.NewPacketBuffer(stack.PacketBufferOptions{
Payload: pkt.Buffer(),
})
e.dispatcher.DeliverNetworkPacket(pkt.NetworkProtocolNumber, newPkt)
newPkt.DecRef()
}
return pkts.Len(), nil
}
// ARPHardwareType implements stack.LinkEndpoint.ARPHardwareType.
func (*endpoint) ARPHardwareType() header.ARPHardwareType {
return header.ARPHardwareLoopback
}
func (*endpoint) AddHeader(*stack.PacketBuffer) {}