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2010-06-08netfilter: nf_conntrack: IPS_UNTRACKED bitEric Dumazet1-1/+1
NOTRACK makes all cpus share a cache line on nf_conntrack_untracked twice per packet. This is bad for performance. __read_mostly annotation is also a bad choice. This patch introduces IPS_UNTRACKED bit so that we can use later a per_cpu untrack structure more easily. A new helper, nf_ct_untracked_get() returns a pointer to nf_conntrack_untracked. Another one, nf_ct_untracked_status_or() is used by nf_nat_init() to add IPS_NAT_DONE_MASK bits to untracked status. nf_ct_is_untracked() prototype is changed to work on a nf_conn pointer. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-05-20netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix a race in __nf_conntrack_confirm against nf_ct_get_next_corpse()Joerg Marx1-1/+1
This race was triggered by a 'conntrack -F' command running in parallel to the insertion of a hash for a new connection. Losing this race led to a dead conntrack entry effectively blocking traffic for a particular connection until timeout or flushing the conntrack hashes again. Now the check for an already dying connection is done inside the lock. Signed-off-by: Joerg Marx <joerg.marx@secunet.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-02-15netfilter: nf_conntrack: add support for "conntrack zones"Patrick McHardy1-1/+2
Normally, each connection needs a unique identity. Conntrack zones allow to specify a numerical zone using the CT target, connections in different zones can use the same identity. Example: iptables -t raw -A PREROUTING -i veth0 -j CT --zone 1 iptables -t raw -A OUTPUT -o veth1 -j CT --zone 1 Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-03-16netfilter: conntrack: don't deliver events for racy packetsPablo Neira Ayuso1-1/+2
This patch skips the delivery of conntrack events if the packet was drop due to a race condition in the conntrack insertion. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-18netfilter: nf_conntrack: don't try to deliver events for untracked connectionsPatrick McHardy1-1/+1
The untracked conntrack actually does usually have events marked for delivery as its not special-cased in that part of the code. Skip the actual delivery since it impacts performance noticeably. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2008-10-08netfilter: netns nf_conntrack: pass netns pointer to nf_conntrack_in()Alexey Dobriyan1-1/+2
It's deducible from skb->dev or skb->dst->dev, but we know netns at the moment of call, so pass it down and use for finding and creating conntracks. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2008-10-08netfilter: netns nf_conntrack: per-netns unconfirmed listAlexey Dobriyan1-1/+0
What is confirmed connection in one netns can very well be unconfirmed in another one. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2008-10-08netfilter: netns nf_conntrack: per-netns conntrack hashAlexey Dobriyan1-2/+1
* make per-netns conntrack hash Other solution is to add ->ct_net pointer to tuplehashes and still has one hash, I tried that it's ugly and requires more code deep down in protocol modules et al. * propagate netns pointer to where needed, e. g. to conntrack iterators. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2008-10-08netfilter: netns nf_conntrack: add netns boilerplateAlexey Dobriyan1-2/+2
One comment: #ifdefs around #include is necessary to overcome amazing compile breakages in NOTRACK-in-netns patch (see below). Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2008-10-08netfilter: Use unsigned types for hooknum and pf varsJan Engelhardt1-1/+1
and (try to) consistently use u_int8_t for the L3 family. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2008-04-14[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: use bool type in struct nf_conntrack_tuple.hJan Engelhardt1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2008-01-31[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: annotate l3protos with constJan Engelhardt1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-31[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: switch rwlock to spinlockPatrick McHardy1-1/+1
With the RCU conversion only write_lock usages of nf_conntrack_lock are left (except one read_lock that should actually use write_lock in the H.323 helper). Switch to a spinlock. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: clean up a few header filesPatrick McHardy1-12/+0
- Remove declarations of non-existing variables and functions - Move helper init/cleanup function declarations to nf_conntrack_helper.h - Remove unneeded __nf_conntrack_attach declaration and make it static Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-15[NETFILTER]: Replace sk_buff ** with sk_buff *Herbert Xu1-5/+5
With all the users of the double pointers removed, this patch mops up by finally replacing all occurances of sk_buff ** in the netfilter API by sk_buff *. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: use hashtable for expectationsPatrick McHardy1-1/+0
Currently all expectations are kept on a global list that - needs to be searched for every new conncetion - needs to be walked for evicting expectations when a master connection has reached its limit - needs to be walked on connection destruction for connections that have open expectations This is obviously not good, especially when considering helpers like H.323 that register *lots* of expectations and can set up permanent expectations, but it also allows for an easy DoS against firewalls using connection tracking helpers. Use a hashtable for expectations to avoid incurring the search overhead for every new connection. The default hash size is 1/256 of the conntrack hash table size, this can be overriden using a module parameter. This patch only introduces the hash table for expectation lookups and keeps other users to reduce the noise, the following patches will get rid of it completely. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack_expect: function naming unificationPatrick McHardy1-1/+1
Currently there is a wild mix of nf_conntrack_expect_, nf_ct_exp_, expect_, exp_, ... Consistently use nf_ct_ as prefix for exported functions. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: remove 'ignore_conntrack' argument from nf_conntrack_find_getPatrick McHardy1-2/+1
All callers pass NULL, this also doesn't seem very useful for modules. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: use hlists for conntrack hashPatrick McHardy1-2/+2
Convert conntrack hash to hlists to reduce its size and cache footprint. Since the default hashsize to max. entries ratio sucks (1:16), this patch doesn't reduce the amount of memory used for the hash by default, but instead uses a better ratio of 1:8, which results in the same max. entries value. One thing worth noting is early_drop. It really should use LRU, so it now has to iterate over the entire chain to find the last unconfirmed entry. Since chains shouldn't be very long and the entire operation is very rare this shouldn't be a problem. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: use extension infrastructure for helperYasuyuki Kozakai1-0/+3
Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: remove ugly hack in l4proto registrationPatrick McHardy1-0/+3
Remove ugly special-casing of nf_conntrack_l4proto_generic, all it wants is its sysctl tables registered, so do that explicitly in an init function and move the remaining protocol initialization and cleanup code to nf_conntrack_proto.c as well. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-03-05[NETFILTER]: conntrack: fix {nf,ip}_ct_iterate_cleanup endless loopsPatrick McHardy1-1/+1
Fix {nf,ip}_ct_iterate_cleanup unconfirmed list handling: - unconfirmed entries can not be killed manually, they are removed on confirmation or final destruction of the conntrack entry, which means we might iterate forever without making forward progress. This can happen in combination with the conntrack event cache, which holds a reference to the conntrack entry, which is only released when the packet makes it all the way through the stack or a different packet is handled. - taking references to an unconfirmed entry and using it outside the locked section doesn't work, the list entries are not refcounted and another CPU might already be waiting to destroy the entry What the code really wants to do is make sure the references of the hash table to the selected conntrack entries are released, so they will be destroyed once all references from skbs and the event cache are dropped. Since unconfirmed entries haven't even entered the hash yet, simply mark them as dying and skip confirmation based on that. Reported and tested by Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: rename struct nf_conntrack_protocolMartin Josefsson1-5/+5
Rename 'struct nf_conntrack_protocol' to 'struct nf_conntrack_l4proto' in order to help distinguish it from 'struct nf_conntrack_l3proto'. It gets rather confusing with 'nf_conntrack_protocol'. Signed-off-by: Martin Josefsson <gandalf@wlug.westbo.se> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2006-12-02[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: split out the event cacheMartin Josefsson1-0/+1
This patch splits out the event cache into its own file nf_conntrack_ecache.c Signed-off-by: Martin Josefsson <gandalf@wlug.westbo.se> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2006-12-02[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: split out helper handlingMartin Josefsson1-0/+2
This patch splits out handling of helpers into its own file nf_conntrack_helper.c Signed-off-by: Martin Josefsson <gandalf@wlug.westbo.se> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2006-12-02[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: split out expectation handlingMartin Josefsson1-0/+7
This patch splits out expectation handling into its own file nf_conntrack_expect.c Signed-off-by: Martin Josefsson <gandalf@wlug.westbo.se> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2005-11-09[NETFILTER]: Add nf_conntrack subsystem.Yasuyuki Kozakai1-0/+76
The existing connection tracking subsystem in netfilter can only handle ipv4. There were basically two choices present to add connection tracking support for ipv6. We could either duplicate all of the ipv4 connection tracking code into an ipv6 counterpart, or (the choice taken by these patches) we could design a generic layer that could handle both ipv4 and ipv6 and thus requiring only one sub-protocol (TCP, UDP, etc.) connection tracking helper module to be written. In fact nf_conntrack is capable of working with any layer 3 protocol. The existing ipv4 specific conntrack code could also not deal with the pecularities of doing connection tracking on ipv6, which is also cured here. For example, these issues include: 1) ICMPv6 handling, which is used for neighbour discovery in ipv6 thus some messages such as these should not participate in connection tracking since effectively they are like ARP messages 2) fragmentation must be handled differently in ipv6, because the simplistic "defrag, connection track and NAT, refrag" (which the existing ipv4 connection tracking does) approach simply isn't feasible in ipv6 3) ipv6 extension header parsing must occur at the correct spots before and after connection tracking decisions, and there were no provisions for this in the existing connection tracking design 4) ipv6 has no need for stateful NAT The ipv4 specific conntrack layer is kept around, until all of the ipv4 specific conntrack helpers are ported over to nf_conntrack and it is feature complete. Once that occurs, the old conntrack stuff will get placed into the feature-removal-schedule and we will fully kill it off 6 months later. Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>