xdp: add a tunnel mode to avoid sharing UMEM among sandboxes #9858
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The existing redirect mode uses XDP to maximize performance but is not suitably secure: packets are copied directly from the driver into a userspace buffer (UMEM). But because the UMEM is shared among all processes with a socket open on a particular NIC queue, sandboxes using redirect mode all map the same UMEM and thus can read each other's packets. Tunnel mode instead installs an eBPF program that copies packets from the host's NIC driver into a per-sandbox NIC driver. This incurs an additional copy, but there is no longer memory shared between sandboxes. Benchmarking tunnel mode with redis-benchmark shows a performance gain over standard Docker networking of 20%. Redirect mode showed a 30% improvement. PiperOrigin-RevId: 595746162
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xdp: add a tunnel mode to avoid sharing UMEM among sandboxes
The existing redirect mode uses XDP to maximize performance but is not suitably
secure: packets are copied directly from the driver into a userspace buffer
(UMEM). But because the UMEM is shared among all processes with a socket open
on a particular NIC queue, sandboxes using redirect mode all map the same UMEM
and thus can read each other's packets.
Tunnel mode instead installs an eBPF program that copies packets from the
host's NIC driver into a per-sandbox NIC driver. This incurs an additional
copy, but there is no longer memory shared between sandboxes.
Benchmarking tunnel mode with redis-benchmark shows a performance gain over
standard Docker networking of 20%. Redirect mode showed a 30% improvement.