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authorPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>2009-06-13 12:30:52 +0200
committerPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>2009-06-13 12:30:52 +0200
commitdd7669a92c6066b2b31bae7e04cd787092920883 (patch)
treed06a9e18aec99c5a34a191cb3391e74ba8a8ec59 /include/net/netfilter
parentd219dce76c64f2c883dad0537fa09a56d5ff0a10 (diff)
netfilter: conntrack: optional reliable conntrack event delivery
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/netfilter')
-rw-r--r--include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h2
-rw-r--r--include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ecache.h61
2 files changed, 46 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h b/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h
index ecc79f95907..a632689b61b 100644
--- a/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h
+++ b/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h
@@ -201,6 +201,8 @@ extern struct nf_conntrack_tuple_hash *
__nf_conntrack_find(struct net *net, const struct nf_conntrack_tuple *tuple);
extern void nf_conntrack_hash_insert(struct nf_conn *ct);
+extern void nf_ct_delete_from_lists(struct nf_conn *ct);
+extern void nf_ct_insert_dying_list(struct nf_conn *ct);
extern void nf_conntrack_flush_report(struct net *net, u32 pid, int report);
diff --git a/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ecache.h b/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ecache.h
index e7ae297ba38..4f20d58e2ab 100644
--- a/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ecache.h
+++ b/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ecache.h
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ enum ip_conntrack_expect_events {
struct nf_conntrack_ecache {
unsigned long cache; /* bitops want long */
+ unsigned long missed; /* missed events */
+ u32 pid; /* netlink pid of destroyer */
};
static inline struct nf_conntrack_ecache *
@@ -84,14 +86,16 @@ nf_conntrack_event_cache(enum ip_conntrack_events event, struct nf_conn *ct)
set_bit(event, &e->cache);
}
-static inline void
+static inline int
nf_conntrack_eventmask_report(unsigned int eventmask,
struct nf_conn *ct,
u32 pid,
int report)
{
+ int ret = 0;
struct net *net = nf_ct_net(ct);
struct nf_ct_event_notifier *notify;
+ struct nf_conntrack_ecache *e;
rcu_read_lock();
notify = rcu_dereference(nf_conntrack_event_cb);
@@ -101,29 +105,52 @@ nf_conntrack_eventmask_report(unsigned int eventmask,
if (!net->ct.sysctl_events)
goto out_unlock;
+ e = nf_ct_ecache_find(ct);
+ if (e == NULL)
+ goto out_unlock;
+
if (nf_ct_is_confirmed(ct) && !nf_ct_is_dying(ct)) {
struct nf_ct_event item = {
.ct = ct,
- .pid = pid,
+ .pid = e->pid ? e->pid : pid,
.report = report
};
- notify->fcn(eventmask, &item);
+ /* This is a resent of a destroy event? If so, skip missed */
+ unsigned long missed = e->pid ? 0 : e->missed;
+
+ ret = notify->fcn(eventmask | missed, &item);
+ if (unlikely(ret < 0 || missed)) {
+ spin_lock_bh(&ct->lock);
+ if (ret < 0) {
+ /* This is a destroy event that has been
+ * triggered by a process, we store the PID
+ * to include it in the retransmission. */
+ if (eventmask & (1 << IPCT_DESTROY) &&
+ e->pid == 0 && pid != 0)
+ e->pid = pid;
+ else
+ e->missed |= eventmask;
+ } else
+ e->missed &= ~missed;
+ spin_unlock_bh(&ct->lock);
+ }
}
out_unlock:
rcu_read_unlock();
+ return ret;
}
-static inline void
+static inline int
nf_conntrack_event_report(enum ip_conntrack_events event, struct nf_conn *ct,
u32 pid, int report)
{
- nf_conntrack_eventmask_report(1 << event, ct, pid, report);
+ return nf_conntrack_eventmask_report(1 << event, ct, pid, report);
}
-static inline void
+static inline int
nf_conntrack_event(enum ip_conntrack_events event, struct nf_conn *ct)
{
- nf_conntrack_eventmask_report(1 << event, ct, 0, 0);
+ return nf_conntrack_eventmask_report(1 << event, ct, 0, 0);
}
struct nf_exp_event {
@@ -183,16 +210,16 @@ extern void nf_conntrack_ecache_fini(struct net *net);
static inline void nf_conntrack_event_cache(enum ip_conntrack_events event,
struct nf_conn *ct) {}
-static inline void nf_conntrack_eventmask_report(unsigned int eventmask,
- struct nf_conn *ct,
- u32 pid,
- int report) {}
-static inline void nf_conntrack_event(enum ip_conntrack_events event,
- struct nf_conn *ct) {}
-static inline void nf_conntrack_event_report(enum ip_conntrack_events event,
- struct nf_conn *ct,
- u32 pid,
- int report) {}
+static inline int nf_conntrack_eventmask_report(unsigned int eventmask,
+ struct nf_conn *ct,
+ u32 pid,
+ int report) { return 0; }
+static inline int nf_conntrack_event(enum ip_conntrack_events event,
+ struct nf_conn *ct) { return 0; }
+static inline int nf_conntrack_event_report(enum ip_conntrack_events event,
+ struct nf_conn *ct,
+ u32 pid,
+ int report) { return 0; }
static inline void nf_ct_deliver_cached_events(const struct nf_conn *ct) {}
static inline void nf_ct_expect_event(enum ip_conntrack_expect_events event,
struct nf_conntrack_expect *exp) {}