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authorPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>2011-01-19 16:00:07 +0100
committerPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>2011-01-19 16:00:07 +0100
commita992ca2a0498edd22a88ac8c41570f536de29c9e (patch)
tree4574d4da3f44c7dd3879cb4f209a8bd3a37c0ca9 /net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_timestamp.c
parentnetfilter: nf_conntrack: nf_conntrack snmp helper (diff)
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netfilter: nf_conntrack_tstamp: add flow-based timestamp extension
This patch adds flow-based timestamping for conntracks. This conntrack extension is disabled by default. Basically, we use two 64-bits variables to store the creation timestamp once the conntrack has been confirmed and the other to store the deletion time. This extension is disabled by default, to enable it, you have to: echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_timestamp This patch allows to save memory for user-space flow-based loogers such as ulogd2. In short, ulogd2 does not need to keep a hashtable with the conntrack in user-space to know when they were created and destroyed, instead we use the kernel timestamp. If we want to have a sane IPFIX implementation in user-space, this nanosecs resolution timestamps are also useful. Other custom user-space applications can benefit from this via libnetfilter_conntrack. This patch modifies the /proc output to display the delta time in seconds since the flow start. You can also obtain the flow-start date by means of the conntrack-tools. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
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diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_timestamp.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_timestamp.c
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+/*
+ * (C) 2010 Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation (or any later at your option).
+ */
+
+#include <linux/netfilter.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/moduleparam.h>
+
+#include <net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h>
+#include <net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_extend.h>
+#include <net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_timestamp.h>
+
+static int nf_ct_tstamp __read_mostly;
+
+module_param_named(tstamp, nf_ct_tstamp, bool, 0644);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(tstamp, "Enable connection tracking flow timestamping.");
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
+static struct ctl_table tstamp_sysctl_table[] = {
+ {
+ .procname = "nf_conntrack_timestamp",
+ .data = &init_net.ct.sysctl_tstamp,
+ .maxlen = sizeof(unsigned int),
+ .mode = 0644,
+ .proc_handler = proc_dointvec,
+ },
+ {}
+};
+#endif /* CONFIG_SYSCTL */
+
+static struct nf_ct_ext_type tstamp_extend __read_mostly = {
+ .len = sizeof(struct nf_conn_tstamp),
+ .align = __alignof__(struct nf_conn_tstamp),
+ .id = NF_CT_EXT_TSTAMP,
+};
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
+static int nf_conntrack_tstamp_init_sysctl(struct net *net)
+{
+ struct ctl_table *table;
+
+ table = kmemdup(tstamp_sysctl_table, sizeof(tstamp_sysctl_table),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!table)
+ goto out;
+
+ table[0].data = &net->ct.sysctl_tstamp;
+
+ net->ct.tstamp_sysctl_header = register_net_sysctl_table(net,
+ nf_net_netfilter_sysctl_path, table);
+ if (!net->ct.tstamp_sysctl_header) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "nf_ct_tstamp: can't register to sysctl.\n");
+ goto out_register;
+ }
+ return 0;
+
+out_register:
+ kfree(table);
+out:
+ return -ENOMEM;
+}
+
+static void nf_conntrack_tstamp_fini_sysctl(struct net *net)
+{
+ struct ctl_table *table;
+
+ table = net->ct.tstamp_sysctl_header->ctl_table_arg;
+ unregister_net_sysctl_table(net->ct.tstamp_sysctl_header);
+ kfree(table);
+}
+#else
+static int nf_conntrack_tstamp_init_sysctl(struct net *net)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static void nf_conntrack_tstamp_fini_sysctl(struct net *net)
+{
+}
+#endif
+
+int nf_conntrack_tstamp_init(struct net *net)
+{
+ int ret;
+
+ net->ct.sysctl_tstamp = nf_ct_tstamp;
+
+ if (net_eq(net, &init_net)) {
+ ret = nf_ct_extend_register(&tstamp_extend);
+ if (ret < 0) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "nf_ct_tstamp: Unable to register "
+ "extension\n");
+ goto out_extend_register;
+ }
+ }
+
+ ret = nf_conntrack_tstamp_init_sysctl(net);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ goto out_sysctl;
+
+ return 0;
+
+out_sysctl:
+ if (net_eq(net, &init_net))
+ nf_ct_extend_unregister(&tstamp_extend);
+out_extend_register:
+ return ret;
+}
+
+void nf_conntrack_tstamp_fini(struct net *net)
+{
+ nf_conntrack_tstamp_fini_sysctl(net);
+ if (net_eq(net, &init_net))
+ nf_ct_extend_unregister(&tstamp_extend);
+}