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2009-06-13netfilter: conntrack: move helper destruction to nf_ct_helper_destroy()Pablo Neira Ayuso
This patch moves the helper destruction to a function that lives in nf_conntrack_helper.c. This new function is used in the patch to add ctnetlink reliable event delivery. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-03-25netfilter: limit the length of the helper nameHolger Eitzenberger
This is necessary in order to have an upper bound for Netlink message calculation, which is not a problem at all, as there are no helpers with a longer name. Signed-off-by: Holger Eitzenberger <holger@eitzenberger.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2008-11-18netfilter: ctnetlink: helper modules load-on-demand supportPablo Neira Ayuso
This patch adds module loading for helpers via ctnetlink. * Creation path: We support explicit and implicit helper assignation. For the explicit case, we try to load the module. If the module is correctly loaded and the helper is present, we return EAGAIN to re-start the creation. Otherwise, we return EOPNOTSUPP. * Update path: release the spin lock, load the module and check. If it is present, then return EAGAIN to re-start the update. This patch provides a refactorized function to lookup-and-set the connection tracking helper. The function removes the exported symbol __nf_ct_helper_find as it has not clients anymore. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2008-03-25[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: introduce expectation classes and policiesPatrick McHardy
Introduce expectation classes and policies. An expectation class is used to distinguish different types of expectations by the same helper (for example audio/video/t.120). The expectation policy is used to hold the maximum number of expectations and the initial timeout for each class. The individual classes are isolated from each other, which means that for example an audio expectation will only evict other audio expectations. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-31[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: use RCU for conntrack helpersPatrick McHardy
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: clean up a few header filesPatrick McHardy
- Remove declarations of non-existing variables and functions - Move helper init/cleanup function declarations to nf_conntrack_helper.h - Remove unneeded __nf_conntrack_attach declaration and make it static Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-15[NETFILTER]: Replace sk_buff ** with sk_buff *Herbert Xu
With all the users of the double pointers removed, this patch mops up by finally replacing all occurances of sk_buff ** in the netfilter API by sk_buff *. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: rename functions containing 'nfattr'Patrick McHardy
There is no struct nfattr anymore, rename functions to 'nlattr'. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack_helper: use hashtable for conntrack helpersPatrick McHardy
Eliminate the last global list searched for every new connection. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack_expect: maintain per conntrack expectation listPatrick McHardy
This patch brings back the per-conntrack expectation list that was removed around 2.6.10 to avoid walking all expectations on expectation eviction and conntrack destruction. As these were the last users of the global expectation list, this patch also kills that. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: reduce masks to a subset of tuplesPatrick McHardy
Since conntrack currently allows to use masks for every bit of both helper and expectation tuples, we can't hash them and have to keep them on two global lists that are searched for every new connection. This patch removes the never used ability to use masks for the destination part of the expectation tuple and completely removes masks from helpers since the only reasonable choice is a full match on l3num, protonum and src.u.all. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: use extension infrastructure for helperYasuyuki Kozakai
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>
2006-12-02[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack/nf_nat: add PPTP helper portPatrick McHardy
Add nf_conntrack port of the PPtP conntrack/NAT helper. Since there seems to be no IPv6-capable PPtP implementation the helper only support IPv4. 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 helper handlingMartin Josefsson
This patch splits out handling of helpers into its own file nf_conntrack_helper.c Signed-off-by: Martin Josefsson <gandalf@wlug.westbo.se> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2006-12-02[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: split out expectation handlingMartin Josefsson
This patch splits out expectation handling into its own file nf_conntrack_expect.c Signed-off-by: Martin Josefsson <gandalf@wlug.westbo.se> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2006-01-05[NETFILTER]: Add ctnetlink port for nf_conntrackPablo Neira Ayuso
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>
2005-11-09[NETFILTER]: Add nf_conntrack subsystem.Yasuyuki Kozakai
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>