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2015-09-06openvswitch: Remove conntrack Kconfig option.Joe Stringer1-2/+2
There's no particular desire to have conntrack action support in Open vSwitch as an independently configurable bit, rather just to ensure there is not a hard dependency. This exposed option doesn't accurately reflect the conntrack dependency when enabled, so simplify this by removing the option. Compile the support if NF_CONNTRACK is enabled. Fixes: 7f8a436eaa2c ("openvswitch: Add conntrack action") Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-08-27openvswitch: Allow matching on conntrack labelJoe Stringer1-2/+9
Allow matching and setting the ct_label field. As with ct_mark, this is populated by executing the CT action. The label field may be modified by specifying a label and mask nested under the CT action. It is stored as metadata attached to the connection. Label modification occurs after lookup, and will only persist when the conntrack entry is committed by providing the COMMIT flag to the CT action. Labels are currently fixed to 128 bits in size. Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-08-27openvswitch: Allow matching on conntrack markJoe Stringer1-0/+1
Allow matching and setting the ct_mark field. As with ct_state and ct_zone, these fields are populated when the CT action is executed. To write to this field, a value and mask can be specified as a nested attribute under the CT action. This data is stored with the conntrack entry, and is executed after the lookup occurs for the CT action. The conntrack entry itself must be committed using the COMMIT flag in the CT action flags for this change to persist. Signed-off-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-08-27openvswitch: Add conntrack actionJoe Stringer1-0/+78
Expose the kernel connection tracker via OVS. Userspace components can make use of the CT action to populate the connection state (ct_state) field for a flow. This state can be subsequently matched. Exposed connection states are OVS_CS_F_*: - NEW (0x01) - Beginning of a new connection. - ESTABLISHED (0x02) - Part of an existing connection. - RELATED (0x04) - Related to an established connection. - INVALID (0x20) - Could not track the connection for this packet. - REPLY_DIR (0x40) - This packet is in the reply direction for the flow. - TRACKED (0x80) - This packet has been sent through conntrack. When the CT action is executed by itself, it will send the packet through the connection tracker and populate the ct_state field with one or more of the connection state flags above. The CT action will always set the TRACKED bit. When the COMMIT flag is passed to the conntrack action, this specifies that information about the connection should be stored. This allows subsequent packets for the same (or related) connections to be correlated with this connection. Sending subsequent packets for the connection through conntrack allows the connection tracker to consider the packets as ESTABLISHED, RELATED, and/or REPLY_DIR. The CT action may optionally take a zone to track the flow within. This allows connections with the same 5-tuple to be kept logically separate from connections in other zones. If the zone is specified, then the "ct_zone" match field will be subsequently populated with the zone id. IP fragments are handled by transparently assembling them as part of the CT action. The maximum received unit (MRU) size is tracked so that refragmentation can occur during output. IP frag handling contributed by Andy Zhou. Based on original design by Justin Pettit. Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>