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authorPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>2017-11-27 21:55:14 +0100
committerPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>2018-01-08 18:01:23 +0100
commitef71fe27ec2f1607e38af160ab261a8d8ef8e121 (patch)
treea1ca3ce2d168dc58db17fd0c4f1beefe36685f0c /include/linux/netfilter.h
parentnetfilter: connlimit: split xt_connlimit into front and backend (diff)
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netfilter: move checksum indirection to struct nf_ipv6_ops
We cannot make a direct call to nf_ip6_checksum() because that would result in autoloading the 'ipv6' module because of symbol dependencies. Therefore, define checksum indirection in nf_ipv6_ops where this really belongs to. For IPv4, we can indeed make a direct function call, which is faster, given IPv4 is built-in in the networking code by default. Still, CONFIG_INET=n and CONFIG_NETFILTER=y is possible, so define empty inline stub for IPv4 in such case. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/netfilter.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netfilter.h19
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netfilter.h b/include/linux/netfilter.h
index 85a0b0d599e6..4c4d38ef1a76 100644
--- a/include/linux/netfilter.h
+++ b/include/linux/netfilter.h
@@ -311,8 +311,6 @@ struct nf_queue_entry;
struct nf_afinfo {
unsigned short family;
- __sum16 (*checksum)(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int hook,
- unsigned int dataoff, u_int8_t protocol);
__sum16 (*checksum_partial)(struct sk_buff *skb,
unsigned int hook,
unsigned int dataoff,
@@ -333,20 +331,9 @@ static inline const struct nf_afinfo *nf_get_afinfo(unsigned short family)
return rcu_dereference(nf_afinfo[family]);
}
-static inline __sum16
-nf_checksum(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int hook, unsigned int dataoff,
- u_int8_t protocol, unsigned short family)
-{
- const struct nf_afinfo *afinfo;
- __sum16 csum = 0;
-
- rcu_read_lock();
- afinfo = nf_get_afinfo(family);
- if (afinfo)
- csum = afinfo->checksum(skb, hook, dataoff, protocol);
- rcu_read_unlock();
- return csum;
-}
+__sum16 nf_checksum(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int hook,
+ unsigned int dataoff, u_int8_t protocol,
+ unsigned short family);
static inline __sum16
nf_checksum_partial(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int hook,