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Iago López Galeiras authored
Based on work from Lorenzo, updated by Iago, Alban, Alessandro and Michael. This PR adds connection tracking using eBPF. This feature is not enabled by default. For now, you can enable it by launching scope with the following command: ``` sudo ./scope launch --probe.ebpf.connections=true ``` This patch allows scope to get notified of every connection event, without relying on the parsing of /proc/$pid/net/tcp{,6} and /proc/$pid/fd/*, and therefore improve performance. We vendor https://github.com/iovisor/gobpf in Scope to load the pre-compiled ebpf program and https://github.com/weaveworks/tcptracer-bpf to guess the offsets of the structures we need in the kernel. In this way we don't need a different pre-compiled ebpf object file per kernel. The pre-compiled ebpf program is included in the vendoring of tcptracer-bpf. The ebpf program uses kprobes/kretprobes on the following kernel functions: - tcp_v4_connect - tcp_v6_connect - tcp_set_state - inet_csk_accept - tcp_close It generates "connect", "accept" and "close" events containing the connection tuple but also pid and netns. Note: the IPv6 events are not supported in Scope and thus not passed on. probe/endpoint/ebpf.go maintains the list of connections. Similarly to conntrack, it also keeps the dead connections for one iteration in order to report short-lived connections. The code for parsing /proc/$pid/net/tcp{,6} and /proc/$pid/fd/* is still there and still used at start-up because eBPF only brings us the events and not the initial state. However, the /proc parsing for the initial state is now done in foreground instead of background, via newForegroundReader(). NAT resolution on connections from eBPF works in the same way as it did on connections from /proc: by using conntrack. One of the two conntrack instances is only started to get the initial state and then it is stopped since eBPF detects short-lived connections. The Scope Docker image size comparison: - weaveworks/scope in current master: 22 MB (compressed), 68 MB (uncompressed) - weaveworks/scope with this patchset: 23 MB (compressed), 69 MB (uncompressed) Fixes #1168 (walking /proc to obtain connections is very expensive) Fixes #1260 (Short-lived connections not tracked for containers in shared networking namespaces) Fixes #1962 (Port ebpf tracker to Go) Fixes #1961 (Remove runtime kernel header dependency from ebpf tracker)
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