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authorFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>2021-08-26 15:54:22 +0200
committerPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>2021-08-30 11:52:21 +0200
commitd7e7747ac5c2496c98291944c6066adaa9f3b975 (patch)
tree58f5bfa9d5169cfad2e44fb94bee310f188eb9ba /include/uapi/linux/netfilter
parentnetfilter: conntrack: switch to siphash (diff)
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netfilter: refuse insertion if chain has grown too large
Also add a stat counter for this that gets exported both via old /proc interface and ctnetlink. Assuming the old default size of 16536 buckets and max hash occupancy of 64k, this results in 128k insertions (origin+reply), so ~8 entries per chain on average. The revised settings in this series will result in about two entries per bucket on average. This allows a hard-limit ceiling of 64. This is not tunable at the moment, but its possible to either increase nf_conntrack_buckets or decrease nf_conntrack_max to reduce average lengths. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi/linux/netfilter')
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nfnetlink_conntrack.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nfnetlink_conntrack.h b/include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nfnetlink_conntrack.h
index d8484be72fdc..5ade231f497b 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nfnetlink_conntrack.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nfnetlink_conntrack.h
@@ -257,6 +257,7 @@ enum ctattr_stats_cpu {
CTA_STATS_ERROR,
CTA_STATS_SEARCH_RESTART,
CTA_STATS_CLASH_RESOLVE,
+ CTA_STATS_CHAIN_TOOLONG,
__CTA_STATS_MAX,
};
#define CTA_STATS_MAX (__CTA_STATS_MAX - 1)