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2005-10-10[NETFILTER]: Use only 32bit counters for CONNTRACK_ACCTHarald Welte
Initially we used 64bit counters for conntrack-based accounting, since we had no event mechanism to tell userspace that our counters are about to overflow. With nfnetlink_conntrack, we now have such a event mechanism and thus can save 16bytes per connection. Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-10-10[NETFILTER] ctnetlink: add one nesting level for TCP statePablo Neira Ayuso
To keep consistency, the TCP private protocol information is nested attributes under CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP. This way the sequence of attributes to access the TCP state information looks like here below: CTA_PROTOINFO CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_STATE instead of: CTA_PROTOINFO CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_STATE Signed-off-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]: introduce and use aligned_u64 data typeHarald Welte
As proposed by Andi Kleen, this is required esp. for x86_64 architecture, where 64bit code needs 8byte aligned 64bit data types, but 32bit userspace apps will only align to 4bytes. Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29[NETFILTER]: add correct bridging support to nfnetlink_{queue,log}Harald Welte
This patch adds support for passing the real 'physical' device ifindex down to userspace via nfnetlink_log and nfnetlink_queue. This feature basically obsoletes net/bridge/netfilter/ebt_ulog.c, and it is likely ebt_ulog.c will die with one of the next couple of patches. Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29[NETFILTER]: don't use nested attributes for conntrack_expectHarald Welte
We used to use nested nfattr structures for ip_conntrack_expect. This is bogus, since ip_conntrack and ip_conntrack_expect are communicated in different netlink message types. both should be encoded at the top level attributes, no extra nesting required. This patch addresses the issue. Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> 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]: Add new "nfnetlink_log" userspace packet logging facilityHarald Welte
This is a generic (layer3 independent) version of what ipt_ULOG is already doing for IPv4 today. ipt_ULOG, ebt_ulog and finally also ip[6]t_LOG will be deprecated by this mechanism in the long term. Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29[NETFILTER]: Add refcounting and /proc/net/netfilter interface to ↵Harald Welte
nfnetlink_queue Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29[NETFILTER]: Add "nfnetlink_queue" netfilter queue handler over nfnetlinkHarald Welte
- Add new nfnetlink_queue module - Add new ipt_NFQUEUE and ip6t_NFQUEUE modules to access queue numbers 1-65535 - Mark ip_queue and ip6_queue Kconfig options as OBSOLETE - Update feature-removal-schedule to remove ip[6]_queue in December 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>