[RFC PATCH net-next 0/5] net: In-kernel QUIC implementation with Userspace handshake

[Stefan Metzmacher]

Hi Xin Long,

first many thanks for working on this topic!

> Usage
> =====
> 
> This implementation supports a mapping of QUIC into sockets APIs. Similar
> to TCP and SCTP, a typical Server and Client use the following system call
> sequence to communicate:
> 
>         Client                    Server
>      ------------------------------------------------------------------
>      sockfd = socket(IPPROTO_QUIC)      listenfd = socket(IPPROTO_QUIC)
>      bind(sockfd)                       bind(listenfd)
>                                         listen(listenfd)
>      connect(sockfd)
>      quic_client_handshake(sockfd)
>                                         sockfd = accecpt(listenfd)
>                                         quic_server_handshake(sockfd, cert)
> 
>      sendmsg(sockfd)                    recvmsg(sockfd)
>      close(sockfd)                      close(sockfd)
>                                         close(listenfd)
> 
> Please note that quic_client_handshake() and quic_server_handshake() functions
> are currently sourced from libquic in the github lxin/quic repository, and might
> be integrated into ktls-utils in the future. These functions are responsible for
> receiving and processing the raw TLS handshake messages until the completion of
> the handshake process.

I see a problem with this design for the server, as one reason to
have SMB over QUIC is to use udp port 443 in order to get through
firewalls. As QUIC has the concept of ALPN it should be possible
let a conumer only listen on a specif ALPN, so that the smb server
and web server on "h3" could both accept connections.

So the server application should have a way to specify the desired
ALPN before or during the bind() call. I'm not sure if the
ALPN is available in cleartext before any crypto is needed,
so if the ALPN is encrypted it might be needed to also register
a server certificate and key together with the ALPN.
Because multiple application may not want to share the same key.

This needs to work indepented of kernel or userspace application.

We may want ksmbd (kernel smb server) and apache or smbd (Samba's userspace smb server)
together with apache. And maybe event ksmbd with one certificate for
ksmbd.example.com and smbd with a certificate for smbd.example.com
both on ALPN "smb", while apache uses "h3" with a certificate for
apache.example.com and nginx with "h3" and a certificate for
nginx.example.com.

But also smbd with "smb" as well as apache with "h3" both using
a certificate for quic.example.com.

I guess TLS Server Name Indication also works for QUIC, correct?

For the client side I guess dynamic udp ports are used and
there's no problem with multiple applications...

metze