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Pablo Neira Ayuso d584a61a93 netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: fix compilation with CONFIG_NF_NAT=m and CONFIG_NF_CT_NETLINK=y
LD      init/built-in.o
net/built-in.o:(.data+0x4408): undefined reference to `nf_nat_tcp_seq_adjust'
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1

This patch adds a new pointer hook (nfq_ct_nat_hook) similar to other existing
in Netfilter to solve our complicated configuration dependencies.

Reported-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2012-06-22 02:49:52 +02:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso 5a05fae5ca netfilter: nfq_ct_hook needs __rcu and __read_mostly
This removes some sparse warnings.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2012-06-20 20:50:31 +02:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso 8c88f87cb2 netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: add NAT TCP sequence adjustment if packet mangled
User-space programs that receive traffic via NFQUEUE may mangle packets.
If NAT is enabled, this usually puzzles sequence tracking, leading to
traffic disruptions.

With this patch, nfnl_queue will make the corresponding NAT TCP sequence
adjustment if:

1) The packet has been mangled,
2) the NFQA_CFG_F_CONNTRACK flag has been set, and
3) NAT is detected.

There are some records on the Internet complaning about this issue:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/260757/packet-mangling-utilities-besides-iptables

By now, we only support TCP since we have no helpers for DCCP or SCTP.
Better to add this if we ever have some helper over those layer 4 protocols.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2012-06-16 15:09:08 +02:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso 9cb0176654 netfilter: add glue code to integrate nfnetlink_queue and ctnetlink
This patch allows you to include the conntrack information together
with the packet that is sent to user-space via NFQUEUE.

Previously, there was no integration between ctnetlink and
nfnetlink_queue. If you wanted to access conntrack information
from your libnetfilter_queue program, you required to query
ctnetlink from user-space to obtain it. Thus, delaying the packet
processing even more.

Including the conntrack information is optional, you can set it
via NFQA_CFG_F_CONNTRACK flag with the new NFQA_CFG_FLAGS attribute.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2012-06-16 15:09:02 +02:00
Denys Fedoryshchenko efdedd5426 netfilter: xt_recent: add address masking option
The mask option allows you put all address belonging that mask into
the same recent slot. This can be useful in case that recent is used
to detect attacks from the same network segment.

Tested for backward compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2012-06-07 14:58:42 +02:00
Eric W. Biederman a5347fe36b net: Delete all remaining instances of ctl_path
We don't use struct ctl_path anymore so delete the exported constants.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-20 21:22:30 -04:00
Ingo Molnar c5905afb0e static keys: Introduce 'struct static_key', static_key_true()/false() and static_key_slow_[inc|dec]()
So here's a boot tested patch on top of Jason's series that does
all the cleanups I talked about and turns jump labels into a
more intuitive to use facility. It should also address the
various misconceptions and confusions that surround jump labels.

Typical usage scenarios:

        #include <linux/static_key.h>

        struct static_key key = STATIC_KEY_INIT_TRUE;

        if (static_key_false(&key))
                do unlikely code
        else
                do likely code

Or:

        if (static_key_true(&key))
                do likely code
        else
                do unlikely code

The static key is modified via:

        static_key_slow_inc(&key);
        ...
        static_key_slow_dec(&key);

The 'slow' prefix makes it abundantly clear that this is an
expensive operation.

I've updated all in-kernel code to use this everywhere. Note
that I (intentionally) have not pushed through the rename
blindly through to the lowest levels: the actual jump-label
patching arch facility should be named like that, so we want to
decouple jump labels from the static-key facility a bit.

On non-jump-label enabled architectures static keys default to
likely()/unlikely() branches.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: ddaney.cavm@gmail.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120222085809.GA26397@elte.hu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-02-24 10:05:59 +01:00
Eric Dumazet a2d7ec58ac netfilter: use jump_label for nf_hooks
On configs where CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL=y, we can replace in fast path a
load/compare/conditional jump by a single jump with no dcache reference.

Jump target is modified as soon as nf_hooks[pf][hook] switches from
empty state to non empty states. jump_label state is kept outside of
nf_hooks array so has no cost on cpu caches.

This patch removes the test on CONFIG_NETFILTER_DEBUG : No need to call
nf_hook_slow() at all if nf_hooks[pf][hook] is empty, this didnt give
useful information, but slowed down things a lot.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
CC: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-11-21 16:38:08 -05:00
David S. Miller bee95250f0 net: Add linux/sysctl.h includes where needed.
Several networking headers were depending upon the implicit
linux/sysctl.h include they get when including linux/net.h

Add explicit includes.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-05-27 13:40:58 -04:00
Florian Westphal 0fae2e7740 netfilter: af_info: add 'strict' parameter to limit lookup to .oif
ipv6 fib lookup can set RT6_LOOKUP_F_IFACE flag to restrict search
to an interface, but this flag cannot be set via struct flowi.

Also, it cannot be set via ip6_route_output: this function uses the
passed sock struct to determine if this flag is required
(by testing for nonzero sk_bound_dev_if).

Work around this by passing in an artificial struct sk in case
'strict' argument is true.

This is required to replace the rt6_lookup call in xt_addrtype.c with
nf_afinfo->route().

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2011-04-04 17:00:54 +02:00
Florian Westphal 31ad3dd64e netfilter: af_info: add network namespace parameter to route hook
This is required to eventually replace the rt6_lookup call in
xt_addrtype.c with nf_afinfo->route().

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2011-04-04 16:56:29 +02:00
Florian Westphal 94b27cc361 netfilter: allow NFQUEUE bypass if no listener is available
If an skb is to be NF_QUEUE'd, but no program has opened the queue, the
packet is dropped.

This adds a v2 target revision of xt_NFQUEUE that allows packets to
continue through the ruleset instead.

Because the actual queueing happens outside of the target context, the
'bypass' flag has to be communicated back to the netfilter core.

Unfortunately the only choice to do this without adding a new function
argument is to use the target function return value (i.e. the verdict).

In the NF_QUEUE case, the upper 16bit already contain the queue number
to use.  The previous patch reduced NF_VERDICT_MASK to 0xff, i.e.
we now have extra room for a new flag.

If a hook issued a NF_QUEUE verdict, then the netfilter core will
continue packet processing if the queueing hook
returns -ESRCH (== "this queue does not exist") and the new
NF_VERDICT_FLAG_QUEUE_BYPASS flag is set in the verdict value.

Note: If the queue exists, but userspace does not consume packets fast
enough, the skb will still be dropped.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fwestphal@astaro.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2011-01-18 16:08:30 +01:00
Florian Westphal f615df76ed netfilter: reduce NF_VERDICT_MASK to 0xff
NF_VERDICT_MASK is currently 0xffff. This is because the upper
16 bits are used to store errno (for NF_DROP) or the queue number
(NF_QUEUE verdict).

As there are up to 0xffff different queues available, there is no more
room to store additional flags.

At the moment there are only 6 different verdicts, i.e. we can reduce
NF_VERDICT_MASK to 0xff to allow storing additional flags in the 0xff00 space.

NF_VERDICT_BITS would then be reduced to 8, but because the value is
exported to userspace, this might cause breakage; e.g.:

e.g. 'queuenr = (1 << NF_VERDICT_BITS) | NF_QUEUE'  would now break.

Thus, remove NF_VERDICT_BITS usage in the kernel and move the old value
to the 'userspace compat' section.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2011-01-18 15:52:14 +01:00
Simon Horman fee1cc0895 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6 into HEAD 2011-01-13 10:29:21 +09:00
Eric Paris da68365004 netfilter: allow hooks to pass error code back up the stack
SELinux would like to pass certain fatal errors back up the stack.  This patch
implements the generic netfilter support for this functionality.

Based-on-patch-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-17 10:54:34 -08:00
Eric Dumazet 0e60ebe04c netfilter: add __rcu annotations
Add some __rcu annotations and use helpers to reduce number of sparse
warnings (CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER=y)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-11-15 18:17:21 +01:00
Eric Paris ac5aa2e333 netfilter: NF_HOOK_COND has wrong conditional
The NF_HOOK_COND returns 0 when it shouldn't due to what I believe to be an
error in the code as the order of operations is not what was intended.  C will
evalutate == before =.  Which means ret is getting set to the bool result,
rather than the return value of the function call.  The code says

if (ret = function() == 1)
when it meant to say:
if ((ret = function()) == 1)

Normally the compiler would warn, but it doesn't notice it because its
a actually complex conditional and so the wrong code is wrapped in an explict
set of () [exactly what the compiler wants you to do if this was intentional].
Fixing this means that errors when netfilter denies a packet get propagated
back up the stack rather than lost.

Problem introduced by commit 2249065f (netfilter: get rid of the grossness
in netfilter.h).

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-11-12 08:26:06 +01:00
Patrick McHardy 4bac6b1807 netfilter: restore POST_ROUTING hook in NF_HOOK_COND
Commit 2249065 ("netfilter: get rid of the grossness in netfilter.h")
inverted the logic for conditional hook invocation, breaking the
POST_ROUTING hook invoked by ip_output().

Correct the logic and remove an unnecessary initialization.

Reported-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-02-19 08:03:28 +01:00
Jan Engelhardt 2249065f4b netfilter: get rid of the grossness in netfilter.h
GCC is now smart enough to follow the inline trail correctly.
vmlinux size remain the same.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
2010-02-15 16:56:51 +01:00
Jan Engelhardt 23f3733d44 netfilter: reduce NF_HOOK by one argument
No changes in vmlinux filesize.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
2010-02-15 16:56:51 +01:00
Alexey Dobriyan c30f540b63 netfilter: xtables: CONFIG_COMPAT redux
Ifdef out
	struct nf_sockopt_ops::compat_set
	struct nf_sockopt_ops::compat_get
	struct xt_match::compat_from_user
	struct xt_match::compat_to_user
	struct xt_match::compatsize
to make structures smaller on COMPAT=n kernels.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-02-02 15:03:24 +01:00
Eric Dumazet d94d9fee9f net: cleanup include/linux
This cleanup patch puts struct/union/enum opening braces,
in first line to ease grep games.

struct something
{

becomes :

struct something {

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-04 09:50:58 -08:00
David S. Miller b7058842c9 net: Make setsockopt() optlen be unsigned.
This provides safety against negative optlen at the type
level instead of depending upon (sometimes non-trivial)
checks against this sprinkled all over the the place, in
each and every implementation.

Based upon work done by Arjan van de Ven and feedback
from Linus Torvalds.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-30 16:12:20 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan 48dc7865aa netfilter: netns: remove nf_*_net() wrappers
Now that dev_net() exists, the usefullness of them is even less. Also they're
a big problem in resolving circular header dependencies necessary for
NOTRACK-in-netns patch. See below.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2008-10-08 11:35:01 +02:00
Jan Engelhardt 7e9c6eeb13 netfilter: Introduce NFPROTO_* constants
The netfilter subsystem only supports a handful of protocols (much
less than PF_*) and even non-PF protocols like ARP and
pseudo-protocols like PF_BRIDGE. By creating NFPROTO_*, we can earn a
few memory savings on arrays that previously were always PF_MAX-sized
and keep the pseudo-protocols to ourselves.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2008-10-08 11:35:00 +02:00
Jan Engelhardt 76108cea06 netfilter: Use unsigned types for hooknum and pf vars
and (try to) consistently use u_int8_t for the L3 family.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2008-10-08 11:35:00 +02:00
Patrick McHardy c8942f1f0a netfilter: Move linux/types.h inclusions outside of #ifdef __KERNEL__
Greg Steuck <greg@nest.cx> points out that some of the netfilter
headers can't be used in userspace without including linux/types.h
first. The headers include their own linux/types.h include statements,
these are stripped by make headers-install because they are inside
#ifdef __KERNEL__ however. Move them out to fix this.

Reported and Tested by Greg Steuck.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-21 14:08:38 -07:00
Patrick McHardy d63a650736 [NETFILTER]: Add partial checksum validation helper
Move the UDP-Lite conntrack checksum validation to a generic helper
similar to nf_checksum() and make it fall back to nf_checksum()
in case the full packet is to be checksummed and hardware checksums
are available. This is to be used by DCCP conntrack, which also
needs to verify partial checksums.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2008-04-14 11:15:49 +02:00
Alexey Dobriyan 666953df35 [NETFILTER]: ip_tables: per-netns FILTER/MANGLE/RAW tables for real
Commit 9335f047fe aka
"[NETFILTER]: ip_tables: per-netns FILTER, MANGLE, RAW"
added per-netns _view_ of iptables rules. They were shown to user, but
ignored by filtering code. Now that it's possible to at least ping loopback,
per-netns tables can affect filtering decisions.

netns is taken in case of
	PRE_ROUTING, LOCAL_IN -- from in device,
	POST_ROUTING, LOCAL_OUT -- from out device,
	FORWARD -- from in device which should be equal to out device's netns.
		   This code is relatively new, so BUG_ON was plugged.

Wrappers were added to a) keep code the same from CONFIG_NET_NS=n users
(overwhelming majority), b) consolidate code in one place -- similar
changes will be done in ipv6 and arp netfilter code.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2008-04-14 09:56:02 +02:00
Patrick McHardy b8beedd25d [NETFILTER]: Add nf_inet_addr_cmp()
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-25 20:09:33 -07:00
Patrick McHardy fbabbed828 [NETFILTER]: Fix NF_QUEUE_NR() parenthesis
Properly add parens around the macro argument. This is not needed by
the kernel but the macro is exported to userspace, so it shouldn't
make any assumptions.

Also use NF_VERDICT_BITS instead of NF_VERDICT_QBTIS for the left-shift
since thats whats logically correct.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-27 12:21:18 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 7b33ed2219 [NETFILTER]: Use __u32 in struct nf_inet_addr
As reported by David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, using u_int32_t
in struct nf_inet_addr breaks the busybox build. Fix by using __u32.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-19 17:20:33 -08:00
Jan Engelhardt 2e3075a2c4 [NETFILTER]: Extend nf_inet_addr with in{,6}_addr
Extend union nf_inet_addr with struct in_addr and in6_addr. Useful
because a lot of in-kernel IPv4 and IPv6 functions use
in_addr/in6_addr.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:02:22 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov b3fd3ffe39 [NETFILTER]: Use the ctl paths instead of hand-made analogue
The conntracks subsystem has a similar infrastructure
to maintain ctl_paths, but since we already have it
on the generic level, I think it's OK to switch to
using it.

So, basically, this patch just replaces the ctl_table-s
with ctl_path-s, nf_register_sysctl_table with
register_sysctl_paths() and removes no longer needed code.

After this the net/netfilter/nf_sysctl.c file contains
the paths only.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:01:11 -08:00
Jan Engelhardt 643a2c15a4 [NETFILTER]: Introduce nf_inet_address
A few netfilter modules provide their own union of IPv4 and IPv6
address storage. Will unify that in this patch series.

(1/4): Rename union nf_conntrack_address to union nf_inet_addr and
move it to x_tables.h.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:59:07 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 051578ccbc [NETFILTER]: nf_nat: properly use RCU for ip_nat_decode_session
We need to use rcu_assign_pointer/rcu_dereference to avoid races.
Also remove an obsolete CONFIG_IP_NAT_NEEDED ifdef.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:59:06 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 1e796fda00 [NETFILTER]: constify nf_afinfo
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:59:05 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 90a9ba8dd9 [NETFILTER]: Kill function prototype for non-existing function
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:59:05 -08:00
Patrick McHardy f01ffbd6e7 [NETFILTER]: nf_log: move logging stuff to seperate header
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:58:58 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 02f014d888 [NETFILTER]: nf_queue: move list_head/skb/id to struct nf_info
Move common fields for queue management to struct nf_info and rename it
to struct nf_queue_entry. The avoids one allocation/free per packet and
simplifies the code a bit.

Alternatively we could add some private room at the tail, but since
all current users use identical structs this seems easier.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:56:14 -08:00
Patrick McHardy c01cd429fc [NETFILTER]: nf_queue: move queueing related functions/struct to seperate header
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:56:10 -08:00
Patrick McHardy f9d8928f83 [NETFILTER]: nf_queue: remove unused data pointer
Remove the data pointer from struct nf_queue_handler. It has never been used
and is useless for the only handler that really matters, nfnetlink_queue,
since the handler is shared between all instances.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:56:10 -08:00
Patrick McHardy e3ac529815 [NETFILTER]: nf_queue: make queue_handler const
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:56:09 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 1841a4c7ae [NETFILTER]: nf_ct_h323: remove ipv6 module dependency
nf_conntrack_h323 needs ip6_route_output for the call forwarding filter.
Add a ->route function to nf_afinfo and use that to avoid pulling in the
ipv6 module.

Fix the #ifdef for the IPv6 code while I'm at it - the IPv6 support is
only needed when IPv6 conntrack is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:56:05 -08:00
Patrick McHardy be0ea7d5da [NETFILTER]: Convert old checksum helper names
Kill the defines again, convert to the new checksum helper names and
remove the dependency of NET_ACT_NAT on NETFILTER.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:55:15 -08:00
Patrick McHardy a99a00cf1a [NET]: Move netfilter checksum helpers to net/core/utils.c
This allows to get rid of the CONFIG_NETFILTER dependency of NET_ACT_NAT.
This patch redefines the old names to keep the noise low, the next patch
converts all users.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:55:14 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 6e23ae2a48 [NETFILTER]: Introduce NF_INET_ hook values
The IPv4 and IPv6 hook values are identical, yet some code tries to figure
out the "correct" value by looking at the address family. Introduce NF_INET_*
values for both IPv4 and IPv6. The old values are kept in a #ifndef __KERNEL__
section for userspace compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:53:55 -08:00
Herbert Xu 3db05fea51 [NETFILTER]: Replace sk_buff ** with sk_buff *
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>
2007-10-15 12:26:29 -07:00
Herbert Xu 37d4187922 [NETFILTER]: Do not copy skb in skb_make_writable
Now that all callers of netfilter can guarantee that the skb is not shared,
we no longer have to copy the skb in skb_make_writable.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-15 12:26:27 -07:00
Neil Horman 16fcec35e7 [NETFILTER]: Fix/improve deadlock condition on module removal netfilter
So I've had a deadlock reported to me.  I've found that the sequence of
events goes like this:

1) process A (modprobe) runs to remove ip_tables.ko

2) process B (iptables-restore) runs and calls setsockopt on a netfilter socket,
increasing the ip_tables socket_ops use count

3) process A acquires a file lock on the file ip_tables.ko, calls remove_module
in the kernel, which in turn executes the ip_tables module cleanup routine,
which calls nf_unregister_sockopt

4) nf_unregister_sockopt, seeing that the use count is non-zero, puts the
calling process into uninterruptible sleep, expecting the process using the
socket option code to wake it up when it exits the kernel

4) the user of the socket option code (process B) in do_ipt_get_ctl, calls
ipt_find_table_lock, which in this case calls request_module to load
ip_tables_nat.ko

5) request_module forks a copy of modprobe (process C) to load the module and
blocks until modprobe exits.

6) Process C. forked by request_module process the dependencies of
ip_tables_nat.ko, of which ip_tables.ko is one.

7) Process C attempts to lock the request module and all its dependencies, it
blocks when it attempts to lock ip_tables.ko (which was previously locked in
step 3)

Theres not really any great permanent solution to this that I can see, but I've
developed a two part solution that corrects the problem

Part 1) Modifies the nf_sockopt registration code so that, instead of using a
use counter internal to the nf_sockopt_ops structure, we instead use a pointer
to the registering modules owner to do module reference counting when nf_sockopt
calls a modules set/get routine.  This prevents the deadlock by preventing set 4
from happening.

Part 2) Enhances the modprobe utilty so that by default it preforms non-blocking
remove operations (the same way rmmod does), and add an option to explicity
request blocking operation.  So if you select blocking operation in modprobe you
can still cause the above deadlock, but only if you explicity try (and since
root can do any old stupid thing it would like....  :)  ).

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-09-11 11:28:26 +02:00