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>
This kills the global 'destroy' operation which was used by NAT.
Instead it uses the extension infrastructure so that multiple
extensions can register own operations.
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>
Now memory space for help and NAT are allocated by extension
infrastructure.
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>
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>
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>
I will split 'struct nf_nat_info' out from conntrack. So I cannot use
'offsetof' to get the pointer to conntrack from it.
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>
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>
Old space allocator of conntrack had problems about extensibility.
- It required slab cache per combination of extensions.
- It expected what extensions would be assigned, but it was impossible
to expect that completely, then we allocated bigger memory object than
really required.
- It needed to search helper twice due to lock issue.
Now basic informations of a connection are stored in 'struct nf_conn'.
And a storage for extension (helper, NAT) is allocated by kmalloc.
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>
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>
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>
These are also in include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.h
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>
nf_nat_rule_find, alloc_null_binding and alloc_null_binding_confirmed
do not use the argument 'info', which is actually ct->nat.info.
If they are necessary to access it again, we can use the argument 'ct'
instead.
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>
- make the following needlessly global variables static:
- core/rtnetlink.c: struct rtnl_msg_handlers[]
- netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto.c: struct nf_ct_protos[]
- make the following needlessly global functions static:
- core/rtnetlink.c: rtnl_dump_all()
- netlink/af_netlink.c: netlink_queue_skip()
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Remove ugly special-casing of nf_conntrack_l4proto_generic, all it
wants is its sysctl tables registered, so do that explicitly in an
init function and move the remaining protocol initialization and
cleanup code to nf_conntrack_proto.c as well.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Remove the obsolete IPv4 only connection tracking/NAT as scheduled in
feature-removal-schedule.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fix {nf,ip}_ct_iterate_cleanup unconfirmed list handling:
- unconfirmed entries can not be killed manually, they are removed on
confirmation or final destruction of the conntrack entry, which means
we might iterate forever without making forward progress.
This can happen in combination with the conntrack event cache, which
holds a reference to the conntrack entry, which is only released when
the packet makes it all the way through the stack or a different
packet is handled.
- taking references to an unconfirmed entry and using it outside the
locked section doesn't work, the list entries are not refcounted and
another CPU might already be waiting to destroy the entry
What the code really wants to do is make sure the references of the hash
table to the selected conntrack entries are released, so they will be
destroyed once all references from skbs and the event cache are dropped.
Since unconfirmed entries haven't even entered the hash yet, simply mark
them as dying and skip confirmation based on that.
Reported and tested by Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
No caller checks the return value, and since its usually called within the
module unload path there's nothing a module could do about errors anyway,
so BUG on invalid conditions and return void.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
NF_CT_STAT_INC assumes rcu_read_lock in nf_hook_slow disables
preemption as well, making it legal to use __get_cpu_var without
disabling preemption manually. The assumption is not correct anymore
with preemptable RCU, additionally we need to protect against softirqs
when not holding nf_conntrack_lock.
Add NF_CT_STAT_INC_ATOMIC macro, which disables local softirqs,
and use where necessary.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Replace preempt_{enable,disable} based RCU by proper use of the
RCU API and add missing rcu_read_lock/rcu_read_unlock calls in
all paths not obviously only used within packet process context
(nfnetlink_conntrack).
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const". Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data. In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch adds support to NAT to randomize source ports.
Signed-off-by: Eric Leblond <eric@inl.fr>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This is nf_conntrack_sane, a netfilter connection tracking helper module
for the SANE protocol used by the 'saned' daemon to make scanners available
via network. The SANE protocol uses separate control & data connections,
similar to passive FTP. The helper module is needed to recognize the data
connection as RELATED to the control one.
Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In file included from net/netfilter/xt_state.c:13:
include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_compat.h: In function 'nf_ct_l3proto_try_module_get':
include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_compat.h:70: error: 'PF_INET' undeclared (first use in this function)
include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_compat.h:70: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_compat.h:70: error: for each function it appears in.)
include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_compat.h:71: warning: control reaches end of non-void function
make[2]: *** [net/netfilter/xt_state.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [net/netfilter] Error 2
make: *** [net] Error 2
A simple fix is to have nf_conntrack_compat.h #include <linux/socket.h>.
Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To do that, this makes nf_ct_l3proto_try_module_{get,put} compatible
functions. As a result we can remove '#ifdef' surrounds and direct call of
need_conntrack().
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>
Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache.
The patch was generated using the following script:
#!/bin/sh
#
# Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources.
#
set -e
for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do
quilt add $file
sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$
mv /tmp/$$ $file
quilt refresh
done
The script was run like this
sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache"
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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>
Add IPv4 and IPv6 capable nf_conntrack port of the H.323 conntrack/NAT helper.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Expectation address masks need to be differently initialized depending
on the address family, create helper function to avoid cluttering up
the code too much.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add FTP NAT helper.
Split out from Jozsef's big nf_nat patch with a few small fixes by myself.
Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add NAT support for nf_conntrack. Joint work of Jozsef Kadlecsik,
Yasuyuki Kozakai, Martin Josefsson and myself.
Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Some helpers (namely H.323) manually assign further helpers to expected
connections. This is not possible with nf_conntrack anymore since we
need to know whether a helper is used at allocation time.
Handle the helper assignment centrally, which allows to perform the
correct allocation and as a nice side effect eliminates the need
for the H.323 helper to fiddle with nf_conntrack_lock.
Mid term the allocation scheme really needs to be redesigned since
we do both the helper and expectation lookup _twice_ for every new
connection.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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>
Adding the alignment to the size doesn't make any sense, what it
should do is align the size of the conntrack structure to the
alignment requirements of the helper structure and return an
aligned pointer in nfct_help().
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
We usually uses 'xxx_find_get' for function which increments
reference count.
Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
This patch adds /proc/net/ip_conntrack, /proc/net/ip_conntrack_expect and
/proc/net/stat/ip_conntrack files to keep old programs using them working.
The /proc/net/ip_conntrack and /proc/net/ip_conntrack_expect files show only
IPv4 entries, the /proc/net/stat/ip_conntrack shows global statistics.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Add helper functions for sysctl registration with optional instantiating
of common path elements (like net/netfilter) and use it for support for
automatic registation of conntrack protocol sysctls.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Remove unused struct list_head from struct nf_conntrack_l3proto and
nf_conntrack_l4proto as all protocols are kept in arrays, not linked
lists.
Signed-off-by: Martin Josefsson <gandalf@wlug.westbo.se>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Add some more sanity checks when registering/unregistering l3/l4 protocols.
Signed-off-by: Martin Josefsson <gandalf@wlug.westbo.se>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
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>
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>
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>
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>
* git://git.infradead.org/hdrcleanup-2.6: (63 commits)
[S390] __FD_foo definitions.
Switch to __s32 types in joystick.h instead of C99 types for consistency.
Add <sys/types.h> to headers included for userspace in <linux/input.h>
Move inclusion of <linux/compat.h> out of user scope in asm-x86_64/mtrr.h
Remove struct fddi_statistics from user view in <linux/if_fddi.h>
Move user-visible parts of drivers/s390/crypto/z90crypt.h to include/asm-s390
Revert include/media changes: Mauro says those ioctls are only used in-kernel(!)
Include <linux/types.h> and use __uXX types in <linux/cramfs_fs.h>
Use __uXX types in <linux/i2o_dev.h>, include <linux/ioctl.h> too
Remove private struct dx_hash_info from public view in <linux/ext3_fs.h>
Include <linux/types.h> and use __uXX types in <linux/affs_hardblocks.h>
Use __uXX types in <linux/divert.h> for struct divert_blk et al.
Use __u32 for elf_addr_t in <asm-powerpc/elf.h>, not u32. It's user-visible.
Remove PPP_FCS from user view in <linux/ppp_defs.h>, remove __P mess entirely
Use __uXX types in user-visible structures in <linux/nbd.h>
Don't use 'u32' in user-visible struct ip_conntrack_old_tuple.
Use __uXX types for S390 DASD volume label definitions which are user-visible
S390 BIODASDREADCMB ioctl should use __u64 not u64 type.
Remove unneeded inclusion of <linux/time.h> from <linux/ufs_fs.h>
Fix private integer types used in V4L2 ioctls.
...
Manually resolve conflict in include/linux/mtd/physmap.h
Add a secmark field to IP and NF conntracks, so that security markings
on packets can be copied to their associated connections, and also
copied back to packets as required. This is similar to the network
mark field currently used with conntrack, although it is intended for
enforcement of security policy rather than network policy.
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The kernel's implementation of notifier chains is unsafe. There is no
protection against entries being added to or removed from a chain while the
chain is in use. The issues were discussed in this thread:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113018709002036&w=2
We noticed that notifier chains in the kernel fall into two basic usage
classes:
"Blocking" chains are always called from a process context
and the callout routines are allowed to sleep;
"Atomic" chains can be called from an atomic context and
the callout routines are not allowed to sleep.
We decided to codify this distinction and make it part of the API. Therefore
this set of patches introduces three new, parallel APIs: one for blocking
notifiers, one for atomic notifiers, and one for "raw" notifiers (which is
really just the old API under a new name). New kinds of data structures are
used for the heads of the chains, and new routines are defined for
registration, unregistration, and calling a chain. The three APIs are
explained in include/linux/notifier.h and their implementation is in
kernel/sys.c.
With atomic and blocking chains, the implementation guarantees that the chain
links will not be corrupted and that chain callers will not get messed up by
entries being added or removed. For raw chains the implementation provides no
guarantees at all; users of this API must provide their own protections. (The
idea was that situations may come up where the assumptions of the atomic and
blocking APIs are not appropriate, so it should be possible for users to
handle these things in their own way.)
There are some limitations, which should not be too hard to live with. For
atomic/blocking chains, registration and unregistration must always be done in
a process context since the chain is protected by a mutex/rwsem. Also, a
callout routine for a non-raw chain must not try to register or unregister
entries on its own chain. (This did happen in a couple of places and the code
had to be changed to avoid it.)
Since atomic chains may be called from within an NMI handler, they cannot use
spinlocks for synchronization. Instead we use RCU. The overhead falls almost
entirely in the unregister routine, which is okay since unregistration is much
less frequent that calling a chain.
Here is the list of chains that we adjusted and their classifications. None
of them use the raw API, so for the moment it is only a placeholder.
ATOMIC CHAINS
-------------
arch/i386/kernel/traps.c: i386die_chain
arch/ia64/kernel/traps.c: ia64die_chain
arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c: powerpc_die_chain
arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c: sparc64die_chain
arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c: die_chain
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c: xaction_notifier_list
kernel/panic.c: panic_notifier_list
kernel/profile.c: task_free_notifier
net/bluetooth/hci_core.c: hci_notifier
net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c: ip_conntrack_chain
net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c: ip_conntrack_expect_chain
net/ipv6/addrconf.c: inet6addr_chain
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c: nf_conntrack_chain
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c: nf_conntrack_expect_chain
net/netlink/af_netlink.c: netlink_chain
BLOCKING CHAINS
---------------
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c: pSeries_reconfig_chain
arch/s390/kernel/process.c: idle_chain
arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c idle_notifier
drivers/base/memory.c: memory_chain
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c cpufreq_policy_notifier_list
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c cpufreq_transition_notifier_list
drivers/macintosh/adb.c: adb_client_list
drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c sleep_notifier_list
drivers/macintosh/via-pmu68k.c sleep_notifier_list
drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c wf_client_list
drivers/usb/core/notify.c usb_notifier_list
drivers/video/fbmem.c fb_notifier_list
kernel/cpu.c cpu_chain
kernel/module.c module_notify_list
kernel/profile.c munmap_notifier
kernel/profile.c task_exit_notifier
kernel/sys.c reboot_notifier_list
net/core/dev.c netdev_chain
net/decnet/dn_dev.c: dnaddr_chain
net/ipv4/devinet.c: inetaddr_chain
It's possible that some of these classifications are wrong. If they are,
please let us know or submit a patch to fix them. Note that any chain that
gets called very frequently should be atomic, because the rwsem read-locking
used for blocking chains is very likely to incur cache misses on SMP systems.
(However, if the chain's callout routines may sleep then the chain cannot be
atomic.)
The patch set was written by Alan Stern and Chandra Seetharaman, incorporating
material written by Keith Owens and suggestions from Paul McKenney and Andrew
Morton.
[jes@sgi.com: restructure the notifier chain initialization macros]
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
x_tables matches and targets that require nf_conntrack_ipv[4|6] to work
don't have enough information to load on demand these modules. This
patch introduces the following changes to solve this issue:
o nf_ct_l3proto_try_module_get: try to load the layer 3 connection
tracker module and increases the refcount.
o nf_ct_l3proto_module put: drop the refcount of the module.
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>
This patch moves all helper related data fields of 'struct nf_conn'
into a separate structure 'struct nf_conn_help'. This new structure
is only present in conntrack entries for which we actually have a
helper loaded.
Also, this patch cleans up the nf_conntrack 'features' mechanism to
resemble what the original idea was: Just glue the feature-specific
data structures at the end of 'struct nf_conn', and explicitly
re-calculate the pointer to it when needed rather than keeping
pointers around.
Saves 20 bytes per conntrack on my x86_64 box. A non-helped conntrack
is 276 bytes. We still need to save another 20 bytes in order to fit
into to target of 256bytes.
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
__nf_conntrack_{l3}proto_find() doesn't check the passed protocol family,
then it's possible to touch out of the array which has only AF_MAX items.
Spotted by Pablo Neira Ayuso.
Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
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>
There are errors and inconsistency in the display of NIP6 strings.
ie: net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c
There are errors and inconsistency in the display of NIPQUAD strings too.
ie: net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ftp.c
This patch:
adds NIP6_FMT to kernel.h
changes all code to use NIP6_FMT
fixes net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c
adds NIPQUAD_FMT to kernel.h
fixes net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ftp.c
changes a few uses of "%u.%u.%u.%u" to NIPQUAD_FMT for symmetry to NIP6_FMT
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This monster-patch tries to do the best job for unifying the data
structures and backend interfaces for the three evil clones ip_tables,
ip6_tables and arp_tables. In an ideal world we would never have
allowed this kind of copy+paste programming... but well, our world
isn't (yet?) ideal.
o introduce a new x_tables module
o {ip,arp,ip6}_tables depend on this x_tables module
o registration functions for tables, matches and targets are only
wrappers around x_tables provided functions
o all matches/targets that are used from ip_tables and ip6_tables
are now implemented as xt_FOOBAR.c files and provide module aliases
to ipt_FOOBAR and ip6t_FOOBAR
o header files for xt_matches are in include/linux/netfilter/,
include/linux/netfilter_{ipv4,ipv6} contains compatibility wrappers
around the xt_FOOBAR.h headers
Based on this patchset we're going to further unify the code,
gradually getting rid of all the layer 3 specific assumptions.
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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>
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>