The following patch kills __ip_ct_expect_unlink_destroy and export
unlink_expect as ip_ct_unlink_expect. As it was discussed [1], the function
__ip_ct_expect_unlink_destroy is a bit confusing so better do the following
sequence: ip_ct_destroy_expect and ip_conntrack_expect_put.
[1] https://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter-devel/2005-August/020794.html
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>
refcnt underflow: the reference count is decremented when a conntrack
entry is removed from the hash but it is not incremented when entering
new entries.
missing protection of process context against softirq context: all
cache operations need to locally disable softirqs to avoid races.
Additionally the event cache can't be initialized when a packet
enteres the conntrack code but needs to be initialized whenever we
cache an event and the stored conntrack entry doesn't match the
current one.
incorrect flushing of the event cache in ip_ct_iterate_cleanup:
without real locking we can't flush the cache for different CPUs
without incurring races. The cache for different CPUs can only be
flushed when no packets are going through the
code. ip_ct_iterate_cleanup doesn't need to drop all references, so
flushing is moved to the cleanup path.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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>
This adds a notifier chain based event mechanism for ip_conntrack state
changes. As opposed to the previous implementations in patch-o-matic, we
do no longer need a field in the skb to achieve this.
Thanks to the valuable input from Patrick McHardy and Rusty on the idea
of a per_cpu implementation.
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
