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Lucas De Marchi 25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
Changli Gao e5fc9e7a66 netfilter: nf_conntrack: don't always initialize ct->proto
ct->proto is big(60 bytes) due to structure ip_ct_tcp, and we don't need
to initialize the whole for all the other protocols. This patch moves
proto to the end of structure nf_conn, and pushes the initialization down
to the individual protocols.

Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-11-12 17:33:17 +01:00
Stephen Hemminger 654d0fbdc8 netfilter: cleanup printk messages
Make sure all printk messages have a severity level.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-05-13 15:02:08 +02:00
Patrick McHardy 858b313300 netfilter: nf_conntrack: split up IPCT_STATUS event
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>
2010-02-03 13:48:53 +01:00
Eric W. Biederman f8572d8f2a sysctl net: Remove unused binary sysctl code
Now that sys_sysctl is a compatiblity wrapper around /proc/sys
all sysctl strategy routines, and all ctl_name and strategy
entries in the sysctl tables are unused, and can be
revmoed.

In addition neigh_sysctl_register has been modified to no longer
take a strategy argument and it's callers have been modified not
to pass one.

Cc: "David Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2009-11-12 02:05:06 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 440f0d5885 netfilter: nf_conntrack: use per-conntrack locks for protocol data
Introduce per-conntrack locks and use them instead of the global protocol
locks to avoid contention. Especially tcp_lock shows up very high in
profiles on larger machines.

This will also allow to simplify the upcoming reliable event delivery patches.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-06-10 14:32:47 +02:00
Holger Eitzenberger a400c30edb netfilter: nf_conntrack: calculate per-protocol nlattr size
Signed-off-by: Holger Eitzenberger <holger@eitzenberger.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-03-25 21:53:39 +01:00
Patrick McHardy 328bd8997d netfilter: nf_conntrack_proto_sctp: avoid bogus warning
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c: In function 'sctp_packet':
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c:376: warning: array subscript is above array bounds

gcc doesn't realize that do_basic_checks() guarantees that there is
at least one valid chunk and thus new_state is never SCTP_CONNTRACK_MAX
after the loop. Initialize to SCTP_CONNTRACK_NONE to avoid the warning.

Based on patch by Wu Fengguang <wfg@linux.intel.com>

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2008-11-24 13:47:21 +01:00
Alexey Dobriyan 6d9f239a1e net: '&' redux
I want to compile out proc_* and sysctl_* handlers totally and
stub them to NULL depending on config options, however usage of &
will prevent this, since taking adress of NULL pointer will break
compilation.

So, drop & in front of every ->proc_handler and every ->strategy
handler, it was never needed in fact.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-03 18:21:05 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan a71996fccc netfilter: netns nf_conntrack: pass conntrack to nf_conntrack_event_cache() not skb
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>
2008-10-08 11:35:07 +02:00
Jan Engelhardt 76108cea06 netfilter: Use unsigned types for hooknum and pf vars
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>
2008-10-08 11:35:00 +02:00
Patrick McHardy 5547cd0ae8 netfilter: nf_conntrack_sctp: fix sparse warnings
Introduced by a258860e (netfilter: ctnetlink: add full support for SCTP to ctnetlink):

net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c:483:2: warning: cast from restricted type
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c:483:2: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different base types)
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c:483:2:    expected unsigned int [unsigned] [usertype] x
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c:483:2:    got restricted unsigned int const <noident>
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c:483:2: warning: cast from restricted type
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c:483:2: warning: cast from restricted type
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c:483:2: warning: cast from restricted type
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c:483:2: warning: cast from restricted type
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c:487:2: warning: cast from restricted type
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c:487:2: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different base types)
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c:487:2:    expected unsigned int [unsigned] [usertype] x
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c:487:2:    got restricted unsigned int const <noident>
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c:487:2: warning: cast from restricted type
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c:487:2: warning: cast from restricted type
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c:487:2: warning: cast from restricted type
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c:487:2: warning: cast from restricted type
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c:532:42: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c:532:42:    expected restricted unsigned int <noident>
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c:532:42:    got unsigned int
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c:534:39: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c:534:39:    expected restricted unsigned int <noident>
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c:534:39:    got unsigned int

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-21 10:11:02 -07:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso a258860e01 netfilter: ctnetlink: add full support for SCTP to ctnetlink
This patch adds full support for SCTP to ctnetlink. This includes three
new attributes: state, original vtag and reply vtag.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-09 15:56:39 -07:00
Jan Engelhardt 12c33aa20e [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: const annotations in nf_conntrack_sctp, nf_nat_proto_gre
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2008-04-14 11:15:54 +02:00
Jan Engelhardt 09f263cd39 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: use bool type in struct nf_conntrack_l4proto
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2008-04-14 11:15:53 +02:00
Patrick McHardy c88130bcd5 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: naming unification
Rename all "conntrack" variables to "ct" for more consistency and
avoiding some overly long lines.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-31 19:27:59 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger 2f0d2f1039 [NETFILTER]: conntrack: get rid of sparse warnings
Teach sparse about locking here, and fix signed/unsigned warnings.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-31 19:27:46 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 86c0bf4095 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack_sctp: remove timeout indirection
Instead of keeping pointers to the timeout values in a table, simply
put the timeout values in the table directly.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:02:39 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 9b1c2cfd7a [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack_sctp: replace magic value by symbolic constant
Use SCTP_CHUNK_FLAG_T instead of 0x1.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:02:39 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 4a64830af0 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack_sctp: don't take sctp_lock once per chunk
Don't take and release the lock once per SCTP chunk, simply hold it
the entire time while iterating through the chunks.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:02:37 -08:00
Patrick McHardy efe9f68afe [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack_sctp: rename "newconntrack" variable
The name is misleading, it holds the new connection state, so rename it
to "newstate". Also rename "oldsctpstate" to "oldstate" for consistency.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:02:36 -08:00
Patrick McHardy b37e933ac7 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack_sctp: consolidate sctp_packet() error paths
Consolidate error paths and use proper symbolic return value instead
of magic values.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:02:36 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 8528819adc [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack_sctp: reduce line length further
Eliminate a few lines over 80 characters by using a local variable to
hold the conntrack direction instead of using CTINFO2DIR everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:02:35 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 112f35c9c1 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack_sctp: reduce line length
Reduce the length of some overly long lines by renaming all
"conntrack" variables to "ct".

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:02:34 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 35c6d3cbe1 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack_sctp: use proper types for bitops
Use unsigned long instead of char for the bitmap and removed lots
of casts.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:02:34 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 5447d4777c [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack_sctp: basic cleanups
Reindent switch cases properly, get rid of weird constructs like "!(x == y)",
put logical operations on the end of the line instead of the next line, get
rid of superfluous braces.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:02:33 -08:00
Patrick McHardy a5e73c29d9 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack_{tcp,sctp}: shrink state table
The TCP and SCTP conntrack state transition tables only holds
small numbers, but gcc uses 4 byte per entry for the enum. Switching
to an u8 reduces the size from 480 to 120 bytes for TCP and from
576 to 144 bytes for SCTP.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:02:32 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 77e2420b85 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack_{tcp,sctp}: mark state table const
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:02:31 -08:00
Jan Engelhardt e79ec50b95 [NETFILTER]: Parenthesize macro parameters
Parenthesize macro parameters.

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>
2008-01-28 14:59:08 -08:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso c7212e9d39 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack_sctp: add ctnetlink support
This patch adds support for SCTP to ctnetlink.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:58:52 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 064b5bba0c sysctl: remove broken netfilter binary sysctls
No one has bothered to set strategy routine for the the netfilter sysctls that
return jiffies to be sysctl_jiffies.

So it appears the sys_sysctl path is unused and untested, so this patch
removes the binary sysctl numbers.

Which fixes the netfilter oops in 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 for me.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:23 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 61075af51f [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: mark protocols __read_mostly
Also remove two unnecessary EXPORT_SYMBOLs and move the
nf_conntrack_l3proto_ipv4 declaration to the correct file.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-14 20:48:19 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 99d24edeb6 [NETFILTER]: {ip, nf}_conntrack_sctp: fix remotely triggerable NULL ptr dereference (CVE-2007-2876)
When creating a new connection by sending an unknown chunk type, we
don't transition to a valid state, causing a NULL pointer dereference
in sctp_packet when accessing sctp_timeouts[SCTP_CONNTRACK_NONE].

Fix by don't creating new conntrack entry if initial state is invalid.

Noticed by Vilmos Nebehaj <vilmos.nebehaj@ramsys.hu>

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 23:24:52 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 0d53778e81 [NETFILTER]: Convert DEBUGP to pr_debug
Convert DEBUGP to pr_debug and fix lots of non-compiling debug statements.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:18:20 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 1b53d9042c [NETFILTER]: Remove changelogs and CVS IDs
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:27:35 -07:00
Tim Schmielau cd354f1ae7 [PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h
After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h
recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes.
There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need
anything defined in there.  Presumably these includes were once needed for
macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the
course of cleaning it up.

To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only
removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble.

Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha,
arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig,
allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all
configs in arch/arm/configs on arm.  I also checked that no new warnings were
introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted
by unnecessarily included header files).

Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14 08:09:54 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki 601e68e100 [NETFILTER]: Fix whitespace errors
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-12 11:15:49 -08:00
Patrick McHardy d2483ddefd [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: add module aliases to IPv4 conntrack names
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 22:06:05 -08:00
Patrick McHardy bff9a89bca [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: endian annotations
Resync with Al Viro's ip_conntrack annotations and fix a missed
spot in ip_nat_proto_icmp.c.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 22:05:08 -08:00
Patrick McHardy a999e68376 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: sysctl compatibility with old connection tracking
This patch adds an option to keep the connection tracking sysctls visible
under their old names.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2006-12-02 21:31:19 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 933a41e7e1 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: move conntrack protocol sysctls to individual modules
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2006-12-02 21:31:18 -08:00
Martin Josefsson 605dcad6c8 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: rename struct nf_conntrack_protocol
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 21:31:09 -08:00
Martin Josefsson f61801218a [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: split out the event cache
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 21:31:06 -08:00
Brian Haley 94aec08ea4 [NETFILTER]: Change tunables to __read_mostly
Change some netfilter tunables to __read_mostly.  Also fixed some
incorrect file reference comments while I was in there.

(this will be my last __read_mostly patch unless someone points out
something else that needs it)

Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 15:18:54 -07:00
Patrick McHardy dd7271feba [NETFILTER]: SCTP conntrack: fix crash triggered by packet without chunks
When a packet without any chunks is received, the newconntrack variable
in sctp_packet contains an out of bounds value that is used to look up an
pointer from the array of timeouts, which is then dereferenced, resulting
in a crash. Make sure at least a single chunk is present.

Problem noticed by George A. Theall <theall@tenablesecurity.com>

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-30 14:12:01 -07:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai 40a839fdbd [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: Fix undefined references to local_bh_*
CC      net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.o
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c: In function `sctp_print_conntrack':
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c:206: warning: implicit declaration of function `local_bh_disable'
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c:208: warning: implicit declaration of function `local_bh_enable'
  CC      net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.o
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c: In function `ctnetlink_dump_table':
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c:429: warning: implicit declaration of function `local_bh_disable'
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c:452: warning: implicit declaration of function `local_bh_enable'

Spotted by Toralf Förster

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>
2006-06-29 16:57:42 -07:00
Patrick McHardy e17df688f7 [NETFILTER] SCTP conntrack: fix infinite loop
fix infinite loop in the SCTP-netfilter code: check SCTP chunk size to
guarantee progress of for_each_sctp_chunk(). (all other uses of
for_each_sctp_chunk() are preceded by do_basic_checks(), so this fix
should be complete.)

Based on patch from Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

CVE-2006-1527

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-02 17:26:39 -07:00
Andrew Morton 65b4b4e81a [NETFILTER]: Rename init functions.
Every netfilter module uses `init' for its module_init() function and
`fini' or `cleanup' for its module_exit() function.

Problem is, this creates uninformative initcall_debug output and makes
ctags rather useless.

So go through and rename them all to $(filename)_init and
$(filename)_fini.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-28 17:02:48 -08:00
Patrick McHardy babbdb1a18 [NETFILTER]: Fix timeout sysctls on big-endian 64bit architectures
The connection tracking timeout variables are unsigned long, but
proc_dointvec_jiffies is used with sizeof(unsigned int) in the sysctl
tables. Since there is no proc_doulongvec_jiffies function, change the
timeout variables to unsigned int.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-10 12:54:35 -08:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai 9fb9cbb108 [NETFILTER]: Add nf_conntrack subsystem.
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>
2005-11-09 16:38:16 -08:00