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2014-06-25netfilter: conntrack: remove timer from ecache extensionFlorian Westphal1-2/+24
This brings the (per-conntrack) ecache extension back to 24 bytes in size (was 152 byte on x86_64 with lockdep on). When event delivery fails, re-delivery is attempted via work queue. Redelivery is attempted at least every 0.1 seconds, but can happen more frequently if userspace is not congested. The nf_ct_release_dying_list() function is removed. With this patch, ownership of the to-be-redelivered conntracks (on-dying-list-with-DYING-bit not yet set) is with the work queue, which will release the references once event is out. Joint work with Pablo Neira Ayuso. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2013-09-23netfilter: Remove extern from function prototypesJoe Perches1-9/+13
There are a mix of function prototypes with and without extern in the kernel sources. Standardize on not using extern for function prototypes. Function prototypes don't need to be written with extern. extern is assumed by the compiler. Its use is as unnecessary as using auto to declare automatic/local variables in a block. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-23netfilter: nf_ct_ecache: move initialization out of pernet_operationsGao feng1-4/+15
Move the global initial codes to the module_init/exit context. Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2012-09-10netlink: Rename pid to portid to avoid confusionEric W. Biederman1-16/+16
It is a frequent mistake to confuse the netlink port identifier with a process identifier. Try to reduce this confusion by renaming fields that hold port identifiers portid instead of pid. I have carefully avoided changing the structures exported to userspace to avoid changing the userspace API. I have successfully built an allyesconfig kernel with this change. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-31netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix racy timer handling with reliable eventsPablo Neira Ayuso1-0/+1
Existing code assumes that del_timer returns true for alive conntrack entries. However, this is not true if reliable events are enabled. In that case, del_timer may return true for entries that were just inserted in the dying list. Note that packets / ctnetlink may hold references to conntrack entries that were just inserted to such list. This patch fixes the issue by adding an independent timer for event delivery. This increases the size of the ecache extension. Still we can revisit this later and use variable size extensions to allocate this area on demand. Tested-by: Oliver Smith <olipro@8.c.9.b.0.7.4.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2012-07-09netfilter: nf_ct_ecache: fix crash with multiple containers, one shutting downPablo Neira Ayuso1-1/+1
Hans reports that he's still hitting: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000027c IP: [<ffffffff813615db>] netlink_has_listeners+0xb/0x60 PGD 0 Oops: 0000 [#3] PREEMPT SMP CPU 0 It happens when adding a number of containers with do: nfct_query(h, NFCT_Q_CREATE, ct); and most likely one namespace shuts down. this problem was supposed to be fixed by: 70e9942 netfilter: nf_conntrack: make event callback registration per-netns Still, it was missing one rcu_access_pointer to check if the callback is set or not. Reported-by: Hans Schillstrom <hans@schillstrom.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2011-11-22netfilter: nf_conntrack: make event callback registration per-netnsPablo Neira Ayuso1-9/+10
This patch fixes an oops that can be triggered following this recipe: 0) make sure nf_conntrack_netlink and nf_conntrack_ipv4 are loaded. 1) container is started. 2) connect to it via lxc-console. 3) generate some traffic with the container to create some conntrack entries in its table. 4) stop the container: you hit one oops because the conntrack table cleanup tries to report the destroy event to user-space but the per-netns nfnetlink socket has already gone (as the nfnetlink socket is per-netns but event callback registration is global). To fix this situation, we make the ctnl_notifier per-netns so the callback is registered/unregistered if the container is created/destroyed. Alex Bligh and Alexey Dobriyan originally proposed one small patch to check if the nfnetlink socket is gone in nfnetlink_has_listeners, but this is a very visited path for events, thus, it may reduce performance and it looks a bit hackish to check for the nfnetlink socket only to workaround this situation. As a result, I decided to follow the bigger path choice, which seems to look nicer to me. Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Reported-by: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2011-02-04Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6David S. Miller1-3/+0
2011-02-01netfilter: ecache: always set events bits, filter them laterPablo Neira Ayuso1-3/+0
For the following rule: iptables -I PREROUTING -t raw -j CT --ctevents assured The event delivered looks like the following: [UPDATE] tcp 6 src=192.168.0.2 dst=192.168.1.2 sport=37041 dport=80 src=192.168.1.2 dst=192.168.1.100 sport=80 dport=37041 [ASSURED] Note that the TCP protocol state is not included. For that reason the CT event filtering is not very useful for conntrackd. To resolve this issue, instead of conditionally setting the CT events bits based on the ctmask, we always set them and perform the filtering in the late stage, just before the delivery. Thus, the event delivered looks like the following: [UPDATE] tcp 6 432000 ESTABLISHED src=192.168.0.2 dst=192.168.1.2 sport=37041 dport=80 src=192.168.1.2 dst=192.168.1.100 sport=80 dport=37041 [ASSURED] Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-11-15netfilter: add __rcu annotationsEric Dumazet1-2/+2
Add some __rcu annotations and use helpers to reduce number of sparse warnings (CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER=y) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-11-15netfilter: ct_extend: define NF_CT_EXT_* as neededChangli Gao1-0/+8
Less IDs make nf_ct_ext smaller. Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-02-03netfilter: ctnetlink: support selective event deliveryPatrick McHardy1-31/+28
Add two masks for conntrack end expectation events to struct nf_conntrack_ecache and use them to filter events. Their default value is "all events" when the event sysctl is on and "no events" when it is off. A following patch will add specific initializations. Expectation events depend on the ecache struct of their master conntrack. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-02-03netfilter: nf_conntrack: split up IPCT_STATUS eventPatrick McHardy1-10/+11
Split up the IPCT_STATUS event into an IPCT_REPLY event, which is generated when the IPS_SEEN_REPLY bit is set, and an IPCT_ASSURED event, which is generated when the IPS_ASSURED bit is set. In combination with a following patch to support selective event delivery, this can be used for "sparse" conntrack replication: start replicating the conntrack entry after it reached the ASSURED state and that way it's SYN-flood resistant. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-11-04net: cleanup include/netEric Dumazet1-2/+1
This cleanup patch puts struct/union/enum opening braces, in first line to ease grep games. struct something { becomes : struct something { Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-13netfilter: conntrack: optional reliable conntrack event deliveryPablo Neira Ayuso1-17/+44
This patch improves ctnetlink event reliability if one broadcast listener has set the NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR socket option. The logic is the following: if an event delivery fails, we keep the undelivered events in the missed event cache. Once the next packet arrives, we add the new events (if any) to the missed events in the cache and we try a new delivery, and so on. Thus, if ctnetlink fails to deliver an event, we try to deliver them once we see a new packet. Therefore, we may lose state transitions but the userspace process gets in sync at some point. At worst case, if no events were delivered to userspace, we make sure that destroy events are successfully delivered. Basically, if ctnetlink fails to deliver the destroy event, we remove the conntrack entry from the hashes and we insert them in the dying list, which contains inactive entries. Then, the conntrack timer is added with an extra grace timeout of random32() % 15 seconds to trigger the event again (this grace timeout is tunable via /proc). The use of a limited random timeout value allows distributing the "destroy" resends, thus, avoiding accumulating lots "destroy" events at the same time. Event delivery may re-order but we can identify them by means of the tuple plus the conntrack ID. The maximum number of conntrack entries (active or inactive) is still handled by nf_conntrack_max. Thus, we may start dropping packets at some point if we accumulate a lot of inactive conntrack entries that did not successfully report the destroy event to userspace. During my stress tests consisting of setting a very small buffer of 2048 bytes for conntrackd and the NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR socket flag, and generating lots of very small connections, I noticed very few destroy entries on the fly waiting to be resend. A simple way to test this patch consist of creating a lot of entries, set a very small Netlink buffer in conntrackd (+ a patch which is not in the git tree to set the BROADCAST_ERROR flag) and invoke `conntrack -F'. For expectations, no changes are introduced in this patch. Currently, event delivery is only done for new expectations (no events from expectation expiration, removal and confirmation). In that case, they need a per-expectation event cache to implement the same idea that is exposed in this patch. This patch can be useful to provide reliable flow-accouting. We still have to add a new conntrack extension to store the creation and destroy time. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-06-13netfilter: conntrack: move event caching to conntrack extension infrastructurePablo Neira Ayuso1-61/+69
This patch reworks the per-cpu event caching to use the conntrack extension infrastructure. The main drawback is that we consume more memory per conntrack if event delivery is enabled. This patch is required by the reliable event delivery that follows to this patch. BTW, this patch allows you to enable/disable event delivery via /proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_events in runtime, although you can still disable event caching as compilation option. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-06-03netfilter: conntrack: replace notify chain by function pointerPablo Neira Ayuso1-20/+48
This patch removes the notify chain infrastructure and replace it by a simple function pointer. This issue has been mentioned in the mailing list several times: the use of the notify chain adds too much overhead for something that is only used by ctnetlink. This patch also changes nfnetlink_send(). It seems that gfp_any() returns GFP_KERNEL for user-context request, like those via ctnetlink, inside the RCU read-side section which is not valid. Using GFP_KERNEL is also evil since netlink may schedule(), this leads to "scheduling while atomic" bug reports. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2009-06-02netfilter: conntrack: simplify event caching systemPablo Neira Ayuso1-30/+6
This patch simplifies the conntrack event caching system by removing several events: * IPCT_[*]_VOLATILE, IPCT_HELPINFO and IPCT_NATINFO has been deleted since the have no clients. * IPCT_COUNTER_FILLING which is a leftover of the 32-bits counter days. * IPCT_REFRESH which is not of any use since we always include the timeout in the messages. After this patch, the existing events are: * IPCT_NEW, IPCT_RELATED and IPCT_DESTROY, that are used to identify addition and deletion of entries. * IPCT_STATUS, that notes that the status bits have changes, eg. IPS_SEEN_REPLY and IPS_ASSURED. * IPCT_PROTOINFO, that reports that internal protocol information has changed, eg. the TCP, DCCP and SCTP protocol state. * IPCT_HELPER, that a helper has been assigned or unassigned to this entry. * IPCT_MARK and IPCT_SECMARK, that reports that the mark has changed, this covers the case when a mark is set to zero. * IPCT_NATSEQADJ, to report that there's updates in the NAT sequence adjustment. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2009-06-02netfilter: conntrack: remove events flags from userspace exposed filePablo Neira Ayuso1-0/+69
This patch moves the event flags from linux/netfilter/nf_conntrack_common.h to net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ecache.h. This flags are not of any use from userspace. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2008-11-18netfilter: ctnetlink: deliver events for conntracks changed from userspacePablo Neira Ayuso1-4/+53
As for now, the creation and update of conntracks via ctnetlink do not propagate an event to userspace. This can result in inconsistent situations if several userspace processes modify the connection tracking table by means of ctnetlink at the same time. Specifically, using the conntrack command line tool and conntrackd at the same time can trigger unconsistencies. This patch also modifies the event cache infrastructure to pass the process PID and the ECHO flag to nfnetlink_send() to report back to userspace if the process that triggered the change needs so. Based on a suggestion from Patrick McHardy. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2008-10-11net: fix dummy 'nf_conntrack_event_cache()'Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
The dummy version of 'nf_conntrack_event_cache()' (used when the NF_CONNTRACK_EVENTS config option is not enabled) had not been updated when the calling convention changed. This was introduced by commit a71996fccce4b2086a26036aa3c915365ca36926 ("netfilter: netns nf_conntrack: pass conntrack to nf_conntrack_event_cache() not skb") Tssk. Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-09nf_conntrack_ecache.h: Fix missing bracesGuo-Fu Tseng1-0/+1
This patch add missing braces of today's net-next-2.6: include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ecache.h Signed-off-by: Guo-Fu Tseng <cooldavid@cooldavid.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-08netfilter: netns nf_conntrack: per-netns event cacheAlexey Dobriyan1-6/+16
Heh, last minute proof-reading of this patch made me think, that this is actually unneeded, simply because "ct" pointers will be different for different conntracks in different netns, just like they are different in one netns. Not so sure anymore. [Patrick: pointers will be different, flushing can only be done while inactive though and thus it needs to be per netns] Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2008-10-08netfilter: netns nf_conntrack: pass conntrack to nf_conntrack_event_cache() not skbAlexey Dobriyan1-3/+1
This is cleaner, we already know conntrack to which event is relevant. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2007-07-10[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack_expect: function naming unificationPatrick McHardy1-9/+8
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>
2007-04-25[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: uninline notifier registration functionsPatrick McHardy1-24/+6
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: split out the event cacheMartin Josefsson1-0/+95
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>