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2005-11-09[NETFILTER] nfnetlink: nfattr_parse() can never fail, make it voidHarald Welte
nfattr_parse (and thus nfattr_parse_nested) always returns success. So we can make them 'void' and remove all the checking at the caller side. Based on original patch by Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-10-10[NETFILTER] nfnetlink: use highest bit of nfa_type to indicate nested TLVHarald Welte
As Henrik Nordstrom pointed out, all our efforts with "split endian" (i.e. host byte order tags, net byte order values) are useless, unless a parser can determine whether an attribute is nested or not. This patch steals the highest bit of nfattr.nfa_type to indicate whether the data payload contains a nested nfattr (1) or not (0). This will break userspace compatibility, but luckily no kernel with nfnetlink was released so far. Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29[NETLINK]: Convert netlink users to use group numbers instead of bitmasksPatrick McHardy
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29[NETFILTER]: attribute count is an attribute of message type, not subsytemHarald Welte
Prior to this patch, every nfnetlink subsystem had to specify it's attribute count. However, in reality the attribute count depends on the message type within the subsystem, not the subsystem itself. This patch moves 'attr_count' from 'struct nfnetlink_subsys' into nfnl_callback to fix this. Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29[NETFILTER]: Core changes required by upcoming nfnetlink_queue codeHarald Welte
- split netfiler verdict in 16bit verdict and 16bit queue number - add 'queuenum' argument to nf_queue_outfn_t and its users ip[6]_queue - move NFNL_SUBSYS_ definitions from enum to #define - introduce autoloading for nfnetlink subsystem modules - add MODULE_ALIAS_NFNL_SUBSYS macro - add nf_unregister_queue_handlers() to register all handlers for a given nf_queue_outfn_t - add more verbose DEBUGP macro definition to nfnetlink.c - make nfnetlink_subsys_register fail if subsys already exists - add some more comments and debug statements to nfnetlink.c Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29[NETFILTER]: Add ctnetlink subsystemHarald Welte
Add ctnetlink subsystem for userspace-access to ip_conntrack table. This allows reading and updating of existing entries, as well as creating new ones (and new expect's) via nfnetlink. Please note the 'strange' byte order: nfattr (tag+length) are in host byte order, while the payload is always guaranteed to be in network byte order. This allows a simple userspace process to encapsulate netlink messages into arch-independent udp packets by just processing/swapping the headers and not knowing anything about the actual payload. Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29[NETFITLER]: Add nfnetlink layer.Harald Welte
Introduce "nfnetlink" (netfilter netlink) layer. This layer is used as transport layer for all userspace communication of the new upcoming netfilter subsystems, such as ctnetlink, nfnetlink_queue and some day even the mythical pkttables ;) Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>