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26.Dd September 19, 2010
27.Dt SEND 4
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm send
31.Nd "Kernel side support for Secure Neighbor Discovery (SeND)"
32.Sh SYNOPSIS
33.In sys/socket.h
34.In netinet/in.h
35.In netinet6/send.h
36.Ft int
37.Fn socket PF_INET6 SOCK_RAW IPPROTO_SEND
38.Pp
39To load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in
40.Xr loader.conf 5 :
41.Bd -literal -offset indent
42send_load="YES"
43.Ed
44.Sh DESCRIPTION
45IPv6 nodes use the Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) to discover other nodes
46on the link, to determine their link-layer addresses to find routers, and
47to maintain reachability information about the paths to active members.
48NDP is vulnerable to various attacks [RFC3756].
49Secure Neighbor Discovery is a set of extensions to NDP that counter threats
50to NDP [RFC3971].
51.Pp
52Kernel side support for SeND consists of a kernel module with hooks that
53divert relevant packets (Neighbor Solicitations, Neighbor Advertisements,
54Router Solicitations, Router Advertisements and Redirects) from the NDP stack,
55send them to user space on a dedicated socket and reinject them back for
56further processing.
57Hooks are triggered only if the
58.Nm
59module is loaded.
60.Pp
61The native SeND socket is similar to a raw IP socket, but with its own,
62internal pseudo-protocol (IPPROTO_SEND).
63Struct sockaddr_send is defined in
64.In netinet6/send.h .
65It defines the total length of the structure, the address family, packet's
66incoming or outgoing direction from the interface's point of view, and the
67interface index.
68.Bd -literal
69struct sockaddr_send {
70        unsigned char           send_len;       /* total length */
71        sa_family_t             send_family;    /* address family */
72        int                     send_direction;
73        int                     send_ifidx;
74        char                    send_zero[8];
75};
76.Ed
77.Pp
78The address family is always
79.Va AF_INET6 .
80The
81.Va send_direction
82variable denotes the direction of the packet from the interface's
83point of view and has either the value
84.Dv SND_IN
85or
86.Dv SND_OUT .
87The
88.Va send_ifidx
89variable is the interface index of the receiving or sending interface.
90The
91.Va send_zero
92variable is padding and must always be zero.
93.Pp
94In case that no user space application is connected to the send socket,
95processing continues normally as if the module was not loaded.
96.Sh INPUT HOOK
97The input hook is named after the input path of the incoming or outgoing
98NDP packets, on the way from the wire, through the nd6 stack, to user
99space.
100Relevant packets are identified by adding an mbuf_tag
101(see
102.Xr mbuf_tags 9 )
103to the
104.Xr mbuf 9 ,
105if the
106.Nm
107module is loaded.
108It is then passed on to the kernel-userland interface
109for either cryptographic protection or validation by the SeND application.
110The hook takes an argument that describes the direction of the packet, both
111in case of incoming and outgoing packets.
112.Dv SND_IN
113is the direction of the incoming packets that are usually protected
114by the SeND options and then sent to user space for cryptographic validation.
115.Dv SND_OUT
116is the outgoing direction.
117It describes both reply and locally
118originated outgoing packets that are sent to user space for the addition
119of SeND options.
120.Sh INCOMING PACKETS
121The incoming ND packet from the wire:
122.Bd -literal
123                                        kernelspace ( userspace
124                                                    )
125 incoming SeND/ND packet                            (
126            |                                       )
127            v                 ( SND_IN )            (
128           icmp6_input() -> send_input_hook ---> send socket ----+
129            :                                       )            |
130            :             #                 #       (            |
131   normal   :             #                 #       )            v
132 processing :             #     send.ko     #       (    SeND application
133    path    :             #                 #       )            |
134            :             #                 #       (            |
135            v                                       )            |
136   icmp6/nd6_??_input() <- protocol switch  <--- send socket <---+
137            |         structure (IPPPROTO_SEND)     )
138            |                ( SND_IN )             (
139            v                                       )
140 continue normal ND processing                      (
141.Ed
142.Sh OUTGOING PACKETS
143Outgoing ND packet (reply or locally triggered):
144.Bd -literal
145                                        kernelspace ( userspace
146                                                    )
147 nd6_na_input()                                     (
148 +PACKET_TAG_ND_OUTGOING                            )
149 |                                                  )
150 |   outgoing packet                                (
151 |          |                                       )
152 |          v                                       (
153 |   icmp6_redirect_output()                        )
154 |   nd6_ns_output()                                (
155 |   nd6_na_output()                                )
156 |   +PACKET_TAG_ND_OUTGOING                        (
157 |          |                                       )
158 |          +-----------<- rip6_output() <----------)----- rtsol/rtadvd/..
159 |          |              +PACKET_TAG_ND_OUTGOING  (
160 |          v                                       )
161 |       ip6_output()                               (
162 |          |                                       )
163 +-------->-+                                       (
164            |                                       )
165            v                ( SND_OUT )            (
166        nd6_output_lle() -> send_input_hook ---> send socket ----+
167 -PACKET_TAG_ND_OUTGOING                            )            |
168            :             #                 #       (            |
169   normal   :             #                 #       )            v
170 processing :             #     send.ko     #       (    SeND application
171    path    :             #                 #       )            |
172            :             #                 #       (            |
173            v                                       )            |
174    (*ifp->if_output)() <- protocol switch  <--- send socket <---+
175            |         structure (IPPPROTO_SEND)     )
176            |                ( SND_OUT )            (
177            v                                       )
178 continue with normal packet output                 (
179.Ed
180.Sh ERRORS
181A socket operation may fail with one of the following errors returned:
182.Bl -tag -width Er
183.It Bq Er EEXIST
184Another user space SeND application is bound to the socket.
185.It Bq Er ENOBUFS
186Shortage of space to receive the incoming (SeND-protected) or outgoing
187(SeND-validated) packet from the SeND application.
188.It Bq Er ENOSYS
189A packet received from user space and passed to the NDP stack for further
190processing is neither Neighbor Solicitation, Neighbor Advertisement,
191Router Solicitation, Router Advertisement nor Redirect.
192.It Bq Er ENOENT
193Occurs if interface output routines fail to send the packet out of the
194interface.
195.El
196.Sh SEE ALSO
197.Xr recvfrom 2 ,
198.Xr sendto 2 ,
199.Xr socket 2 ,
200.Xr loader.conf 5
201.Sh HISTORY
202The
203.Nm
204module first appeared in
205.Fx 9.0 .
206.Sh AUTHORS
207.An Ana Kukec Aq Mt anchie@FreeBSD.org ,
208University of Zagreb
209.Sh BUGS
210Due to the lack of NDP locking, it is currently not possible to unload the
211.Nm
212module.
213