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Ingo Molnar 57b47a53ec [NET]: sem2mutex part 2
Semaphore to mutex conversion.

The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 22:35:41 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven 4a3e2f711a [NET] sem2mutex: net/
Semaphore to mutex conversion.

The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 22:33:17 -08:00
Patrick McHardy a242769248 [NETFILTER]: ctnetlink: avoid unneccessary event message generation
Avoid unneccessary event message generation by checking for netlink
listeners before building a message.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 18:03:59 -08:00
Patrick McHardy c4b8851392 [NETFILTER]: x_tables: replace IPv4/IPv6 policy match by address family independant version
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 18:03:40 -08:00
Patrick McHardy c498673474 [NETFILTER]: x_tables: add xt_{match,target} arguments to match/target functions
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 18:02:56 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 5d04bff096 [NETFILTER]: Convert x_tables matches/targets to centralized error checking
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 18:01:58 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 37f9f7334b [NETFILTER]: xt_tables: add centralized error checking
Introduce new functions for common match/target checks (private data
size, valid hooks, valid tables and valid protocols) to get more consistent
error reporting and to avoid each module duplicating them.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 17:59:06 -08:00
Harald Welte dc808fe28d [NETFILTER] nf_conntrack: clean up to reduce size of 'struct nf_conn'
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>
2006-03-20 17:56:32 -08:00
Harald Welte 0af5f6c1eb [NETFILTER] nfnetlink_log: add sequence numbers for log events
By using a sequence number for every logged netfilter event, we can
determine from userspace whether logging information was lots somewhere
downstream.

The user has a choice of either having per-instance local sequence
counters, or using a global sequence counter, or both.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 17:15:11 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 406dbfc9ae [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink_queue: fix possible NULL-ptr dereference
Fix NULL-ptr dereference when a config message for a non-existant
queue containing only an NFQA_CFG_PARAMS attribute is received.

Coverity #433

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-12 20:39:35 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 45fe4dc08c [NETFILTER]: nf_queue: fix end-of-list check
The comparison wants to find out if the last list iteration reached the
end of the list. It needs to compare the iterator with the list head to
do this, not the element it is looking for.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-27 13:03:55 -08:00
Patrick McHardy e121e9ecb0 [NETFILTER]: nf_queue: remove unnecessary check for outfn
The only point of registering a queue handler is to provide an outfn,
so there is no need to check for it.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-27 13:03:39 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 7a11b9848a [NETFILTER]: nf_queue: fix rerouting after packet mangling
Packets should be rerouted when they come back from userspace, not before.
Also move the queue_rerouters to RCU to avoid taking the queue_handler_lock
for each reinjected packet.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-27 13:03:24 -08:00
Patrick McHardy f92f871989 [NETFILTER]: nf_queue: check if rerouter is present before using it
Every rerouter needs to provide a save and a reroute function, we don't
need to check for them. But we do need to check if a rerouter is registered
at all for the current family, with bridging for example packets of
unregistered families can hit nf_queue.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-27 13:03:10 -08:00
Patrick McHardy e02f7d1603 [NETFILTER]: nf_queue: don't copy registered rerouter data
Use the registered data structure instead of copying it.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-27 13:02:52 -08:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai 7c6de05884 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: Fix TCP/UDP HW checksum handling for IPv6 packet
If skb->ip_summed is CHECKSUM_HW here, skb->csum includes checksum
of actual IPv6 header and extension headers. Then such excess
checksum must be subtruct when nf_conntrack calculates TCP/UDP checksum
with pseudo IPv6 header. Spotted by Ben Skeggs.

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>
2006-02-15 15:25:18 -08:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai 7d3cdc6b55 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: move registration of __nf_ct_attach
Move registration of __nf_ct_attach to nf_conntrack_core to make it usable
for IPv6 connection tracking as well.

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>
2006-02-15 15:22:21 -08:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai deac0ccdb4 [NETFILTER]: x_tables: fix dependencies of conntrack related modules
NF_CONNTRACK_MARK is bool and depends on NF_CONNTRACK which is
tristate.  If a variable depends on NF_CONNTRACK_MARK and doesn't take
care about NF_CONNTRACK, it can be y even if NF_CONNTRACK isn't y.
NF_CT_ACCT have same issue, too.

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>
2006-02-15 15:21:31 -08:00
Harald Welte a6c1cd5726 [NETFILTER] Fix Kconfig menu level for x_tables
The new x_tables related Kconfig options appear at the wrong menu level
without this patch.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-13 15:42:48 -08:00
Samir Bellabes df4e9574a3 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: fix incorrect memset() size in FTP helper
This memset() is executing with a bad size. According to Yasuyuki Kozakai,
this memset() can be deleted, as 'ftp' is declared in global area.

Signed-off-by: Samir Bellabes <sbellabes@mandriva.com>
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>
2006-02-04 23:51:23 -08:00
Patrick McHardy a706124d0a [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink_queue: fix packet marking over netlink
The packet marked is the netlink skb, not the queued skb.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-04 23:51:20 -08:00
Patrick McHardy ad2ad0f965 [NETFILTER]: Fix undersized skb allocation in ipt_ULOG/ebt_ulog/nfnetlink_log
The skb allocated is always of size nlbufsize, even if that is smaller than
the size needed for the current packet.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-04 23:51:19 -08:00
Holger Eitzenberger c2db292438 [NETFILTER]: ULOG/nfnetlink_log: Use better default value for 'nlbufsiz'
Performance tests showed that ULOG may fail on heavy loaded systems
because of failed order-N allocations (N >= 1).

The default value of 4096 is not optimal in the sense that it actually
allocates _two_ contigous physical pages.  Reasoning: ULOG uses
alloc_skb(), which adds another ~300 bytes for skb_shared_info.

This patch sets the default value to NLMSG_GOODSIZE and adds some
documentation at the top.

Signed-off-by: Holger Eitzenberger <heitzenberger@astaro.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-04 23:51:18 -08:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai ddc8d029ac [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: check address family when finding protocol module
__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>
2006-02-04 23:51:17 -08:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso 34f9a2e4de [NETFILTER]: ctnetlink: add MODULE_ALIAS for expectation subsystem
Add load-on-demand support for expectation request. eg. conntrack -L expect

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>
2006-02-04 23:51:16 -08:00
Marcus Sundberg b633ad5fbf [NETFILTER]: ctnetlink: Fix subsystem used for expectation events
The ctnetlink expectation events should use the NFNL_SUBSYS_CTNETLINK_EXP
subsystem, not NFNL_SUBSYS_CTNETLINK.

Signed-off-by: Marcus Sundberg <marcus@ingate.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-04 23:51:15 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven 858119e159 [PATCH] Unlinline a bunch of other functions
Remove the "inline" keyword from a bunch of big functions in the kernel with
the goal of shrinking it by 30kb to 40kb

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:06 -08:00
David S. Miller 37d8dc82e0 [NETFILTER] x-tables: Missing linux/ipv6.h includes.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-13 16:19:44 -08:00
Joe Perches 46b86a2da0 [NET]: Use NIP6_FMT in kernel.h
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>
2006-01-13 14:29:07 -08:00
Harald Welte 2e4e6a17af [NETFILTER] x_tables: Abstraction layer for {ip,ip6,arp}_tables
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>
2006-01-12 14:06:43 -08:00
Patrick McHardy babbdb1a18 [NETFILTER]: Fix timeout sysctls on big-endian 64bit architectures
The connection tracking timeout variables are unsigned long, but
proc_dointvec_jiffies is used with sizeof(unsigned int) in the sysctl
tables. Since there is no proc_doulongvec_jiffies function, change the
timeout variables to unsigned int.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-10 12:54:35 -08:00
Adrian Bunk 93b1fae491 spelling: s/trough/through/
Additionally, one comment was reformulated by Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-01-10 00:13:33 +01:00
Patrick McHardy e7be6994ec [NETFILTER]: Fix module_param types and permissions
Fix netfilter module_param types and permissions. Also fix an off-by-one in
the ipt_ULOG nlbufsiz < 128k check.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-05 12:19:46 -08:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso 87711cb81c [NETFILTER]: Filter dumped entries based on the layer 3 protocol number
Dump entries of a given Layer 3 protocol number.

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>
2006-01-05 12:19:23 -08:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso c1d10adb4a [NETFILTER]: Add ctnetlink port for nf_conntrack
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>
2006-01-05 12:19:05 -08:00
Jesper Juhl d695aa8a1f [NETFILTER]: Decrease number of pointer derefs in nf_conntrack_core.c
Benefits of the patch:
 - Fewer pointer dereferences should make the code slightly faster.
 - Size of generated code is smaller
 - improved readability

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-05 12:16:16 -08:00
Jesper Juhl 3e4ead4fe5 [NETFILTER]: Decrease number of pointer derefs in nfnetlink_queue.c
Benefits of the patch:
 - Fewer pointer dereferences should make the code slightly faster.
 - Size of generated code is smaller
 - improved readability

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-05 12:15:58 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki 181a46a56e [NETFILTER]: Use macro for spinlock_t/rwlock_t initializations/definition.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-04 13:56:54 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 6636568cf8 [NETFILTER]: Wait for untracked references in nf_conntrack module unload
Noticed by Pablo Neira <pablo@eurodev.net>.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-05 13:36:50 -08:00
Patrick McHardy a795756333 [NETFILTER]: Mark ctnetlink as EXPERIMENTAL
Should have been marked EXPERIMENTAL from the beginning, as the current
bunch of fixes show.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-05 13:36:25 -08:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai 3ebbe0cdd4 [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: Fix calculation of minimum message length
At least, valid nfnetlink message should have nlmsghdr and nfgenmsg.

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>
2005-12-05 13:33:26 -08:00
Jozsef Kadlecsik 73f306024c [NETFILTER]: Ignore ACKs ACKs on half open connections in TCP conntrack
Mounting NFS file systems after a (warm) reboot could take a long time if
firewalling and connection tracking was enabled.

The reason is that the NFS clients tends to use the same ports (800 and
counting down). Now on reboot, the server would still have a TCB for an
existing TCP connection client:800 -> server:2049. The client sends a
SYN from port 800 to server:2049, which elicits an ACK from the server.
The firewall on the client drops the ACK because (from its point of
view) the connection is still in half-open state, and it expects to see
a SYNACK.

The client will eventually time out after several minutes.

The following patch corrects this, by accepting ACKs on half open
connections as well.

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>
2005-12-01 14:28:58 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 4a59a81051 [NETFILTER]: Fix nf_conntrack compilation with CONFIG_NETFILTER_DEBUG
CC [M]  net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.o
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c: In function 'nf_ct_unlink_expect':
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:390: error: 'exp_timeout' undeclared (first use in this function)
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:390: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:390: error: for each function it appears in.)

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-16 23:14:19 -08:00
KOVACS Krisztian 5a6f294e43 [NETFILTER] Free layer-3 specific protocol tables at cleanup
Although the comment around the allocation code tells us that
the layer-3 specific protocol tables will be freed when cleaning up,
they aren't. And this makes nfsim complain loudly...

Signed-off-by: KOVACS Krisztian <hidden@balabit.hu>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-15 16:47:34 -08:00
KOVACS Krisztian 96479376c8 [NETFILTER] Remove nf_conntrack stat proc file when cleaning up
Fix nf_conntrack statistics proc file removal. Looks like the old bug
was forward-ported from ip_conntrack. :-]

Signed-off-by: KOVACS Krisztian <hidden@balabit.hu>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-15 16:47:09 -08:00
Harald Welte 37d2e7a20d [NETFILTER] nfnetlink: unconditionally require CAP_NET_ADMIN
This patch unconditionally requires CAP_NET_ADMIN for all nfnetlink
messages.  It also removes the per-message cap_required field, since all
existing subsystems use CAP_NET_ADMIN for all their messages anyway.

Patrick McHardy owes me a beer if we ever need to re-introduce this.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-14 15:24:59 -08:00
KOVACS Krisztian 3746a2b140 [NETFILTER] nf_conntrack: Add missing code to TCP conntrack module
Looks like the nf_conntrack TCP code was slightly mismerged: it does
not contain an else branch present in the IPv4 version. Let's add that
code and make the testsuite happy.

Signed-off-by: KOVACS Krisztian <hidden@balabit.hu>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-14 15:23:01 -08:00
Vlad Drukker a2d7222f0f [NETFILTER] {ip,nf}_conntrack TCP: Accept SYN+PUSH like SYN
Some devices (e.g. Qlogic iSCSI HBA hardware like QLA4010 up to firmware
3.0.0.4) initiates TCP with SYN and PUSH flags set.

The Linux TCP/IP stack deals fine with that, but the connection tracking
code doesn't.

This patch alters TCP connection tracking to accept SYN+PUSH as a valid
flag combination.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Drukker <vlad@storewiz.com>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-12 12:13:14 -08:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai 9fb9cbb108 [NETFILTER]: Add nf_conntrack subsystem.
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>
2005-11-09 16:38:16 -08:00
Harald Welte ed77de9fc6 [NETFILTER] nfnetlink: only load subsystems if CAP_NET_ADMIN is set
Without this patch, any user can cause nfnetlink subsystems to be
autoloaded.  Those subsystems however could add significant processing
overhead to packet processing, and would refuse any configuration messages
from non-CAP_NET_ADMIN processes anyway.

This patch follows a suggestion from Patrick McHardy.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-09 13:02:16 -08:00