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stigge@antcom.de b31525d16b net: lpc_eth: Driver cleanup
This patch removes some nowadays superfluous definitions (one unused define and
an obsolete function forward declaration) and corrects a netdev_err() to
netdev_dbg().

Signed-off-by: Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Pereira da Silva <aletes.xgr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-19 00:27:03 -07:00
Daniel Halperin 39d84a58ad sctp: fix warning when compiling without IPv6
net/sctp/protocol.c: In function ‘sctp_addr_wq_timeout_handler’:
net/sctp/protocol.c:676: warning: label ‘free_next’ defined but not used

Signed-off-by: Daniel Halperin <dhalperi@cs.washington.edu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-19 00:26:26 -07:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso 674147e211 netfilter: fix missing symbols if CONFIG_NETFILTER_NETLINK_QUEUE_CT unset
ERROR: "nfqnl_ct_parse" [net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "nfqnl_ct_seq_adjust" [net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "nfqnl_ct_put" [net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "nfqnl_ct_get" [net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.ko] undefined!

We have to use CONFIG_NETFILTER_NETLINK_QUEUE_CT in
include/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.h, not CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-18 21:09:17 -07:00
David S. Miller 6bdc5f49e3 Merge branch 'master' of git://1984.lsi.us.es/nf-next
Pablo says:

====================
The following patchset provides fixes for issues that were recently introduced
by my new cthelper infrastructure. They have been spotted by Randy Dunlap,
Andrew Morton and Dan Carpenter.

The patches provide:

* compilation fixes if CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK is disabled: I moved all the
  conntrack code from nfnetlink_queue.c to nfnetlink_queue_ct.c to avoid
  peppering the entire code with lots of ifdefs. I needed to rename
  nfnetlink_queue.c to nfnetlink_queue_core.c to get it working with the
  Makefile tweaks I've added.

* fix NULL pointer dereference via ctnetlink while trying to change the helper
  for an existing conntrack entry. I don't find any reasonable use case for
  changing the helper from one to another in run-time. Thus, now ctnetlink
  returns -EOPNOTSUPP for this operation.

* fix possible out-of-bound zeroing of the conntrack extension area due to
  the helper automatic assignation routine.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-18 20:26:06 -07:00
David S. Miller f032537fef Included changes:
* major skb->data pointer usage fix
 * interval version update
 * added get_ethtool_stats() support
 * endianess clean up
 * routing protocol API improvement wrt TT commit code
 * fix locking in hash table code
 * minor cleanups and fixes
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Merge tag 'batman-adv-for-davem' of git://git.open-mesh.org/linux-merge

Included changes:

* major skb->data pointer usage fix
* interval version update
* added get_ethtool_stats() support
* endianess clean up
* routing protocol API improvement wrt TT commit code
* fix locking in hash table code
* minor cleanups and fixes
2012-06-18 20:23:55 -07:00
Andrei Emeltchenko ea1e76a3f9 Bluetooth: btmrvl: Do not send vendor events to bluetooth stack
Vendor-specific events shall be processed in driver and not sent
to bluetooth stack where they screw up HCI command countings.

Signed-off-by: Andrei Emeltchenko <andrei.emeltchenko@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk>
2012-06-19 00:19:11 -03:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso 7c62234547 netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: fix compilation with NF_CONNTRACK disabled
In "9cb0176 netfilter: add glue code to integrate nfnetlink_queue and ctnetlink"
the compilation with NF_CONNTRACK disabled is broken. This patch fixes this
issue.

I have moved the conntrack part into nfnetlink_queue_ct.c to avoid
peppering the entire nfnetlink_queue.c code with ifdefs.

I also needed to rename nfnetlink_queue.c to nfnetlink_queue_pkt.c
to update the net/netfilter/Makefile to support conditional compilation
of the conntrack integration.

This patch also adds CONFIG_NETFILTER_QUEUE_CT in case you want to explicitly
disable the integration between nf_conntrack and nfnetlink_queue.

Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2012-06-19 04:44:57 +02:00
Thomas Graf d189634eca ipv6: Move ipv6 proc file registration to end of init order
/proc/net/ipv6_route reflects the contents of fib_table_hash. The proc
handler is installed in ip6_route_net_init() whereas fib_table_hash is
allocated in fib6_net_init() _after_ the proc handler has been installed.

This opens up a short time frame to access fib_table_hash with its pants
down.

Move the registration of the proc files to a later point in the init
order to avoid the race.

Tested :-)

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-18 18:38:50 -07:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso 6e9c2db3aa netfilter: fix compilation of the nfnl_cthelper if NF_CONNTRACK is unset
This patch fixes the compilation of net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c
if CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK is not set.

This patch also moves the definition of the cthelper infrastructure to
the scope of NF_CONNTRACK things.

I have also renamed NETFILTER_NETLINK_CTHELPER by NF_CT_NETLINK_HELPER,
to use similar names to other nf_conntrack_netlink extensions. Better now
that this has been only for two days in David's tree.

Two new dependencies have been added:

* NF_CT_NETLINK
* NETFILTER_NETLINK_QUEUE

Since these infrastructure requires both ctnetlink and nfqueue.

Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2012-06-19 01:25:08 +02:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso 32f5376003 netfilter: nf_ct_helper: disable automatic helper re-assignment of different type
This patch modifies __nf_ct_try_assign_helper in a way that invalidates support
for the following scenario:

1) attach the helper A for first time when the conntrack is created
2) attach new (different) helper B due to changes the reply tuple caused by NAT

eg. port redirection from TCP/21 to TCP/5060 with both FTP and SIP helpers
loaded, which seems to be a quite unorthodox scenario.

I can provide a more elaborated patch to support this scenario but explicit
helper attachment provides a better solution for this since now the use can
attach the helpers consistently, without relying on the automatic helper
lookup magic.

This patch fixes a possible out of bound zeroing of the conntrack helper
extension if the helper B uses more memory for its private data than
helper A.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2012-06-19 01:24:52 +02:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso fd7462de46 netfilter: ctnetlink: fix NULL dereference while trying to change helper
The patch 1afc56794e03: "netfilter: nf_ct_helper: implement variable
length helper private data" from Jun 7, 2012, leads to the following
Smatch complaint:

net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c:1231 ctnetlink_change_helper()
         error: we previously assumed 'help->helper' could be null (see line 1228)

This NULL dereference can be triggered with the following sequence:

1) attach the helper for first time when the conntrack is created.
2) remove the helper module or detach the helper from the conntrack
   via ctnetlink.
3) attach helper again (the same or different one, no matter) to the
   that existing conntrack again via ctnetlink.

This patch fixes the problem by removing the use case that allows you
to re-assign again a helper for one conntrack entry via ctnetlink since
I cannot find any practical use for it.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2012-06-19 00:18:38 +02:00
John W. Linville 8cfe523a12 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless into for-davem 2012-06-18 15:13:27 -04:00
Marek Lindner dafe94b278 batman-adv: only store changed gw_bandwidth values
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-06-18 18:01:07 +02:00
Matthias Schiffer 75c5a2e788 batman-adv: fix locking in hash_add()
To ensure an entry isn't added twice all comparisons have to be protected by the
hash line write spinlock. This doesn't really hurt as the case that it is tried
to add an element already present to the hash shouldn't occur very often, so in
most cases the lock would have have to be taken anyways.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net>
Acked-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-06-18 18:01:06 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli ef3a409391 batman-adv: use DBG_ALL in log_level sysfs definition
Each time a new log level is added the developer must change either the DBG_ALL
enum definition and the hard coded value in the bat_sysfs.c for the log_level
attribute max value. This is extremely error prone.
With this patch the code directly uses DBG_ALL in the sysfs definition

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-06-18 18:01:06 +02:00
Marek Lindner be9aa4c1e0 batman-adv: turn tt commit code into routing protocol agnostic API
Prior to this patch the translation table code made assumptions about how
the routing protocol works and where its buffers are stored (to directly
modify them).
Each protocol now calls the tt code with the relevant pointers, thereby
abstracting the code.

Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-06-18 18:01:05 +02:00
Matthias Schiffer beeb96a414 batman-adv: fix visualization output without neighbors on the primary interface
The primary entry and the corresponding secondary entries are missing when there
are no neighbors on the primary interface. This also causes the TT entries to
miss and makes nodes with multiply secondary interface fall apart since there
is no way to see they are related without a primary entry.

Fix this by always emitting a primary entry.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-06-18 18:01:04 +02:00
Al Viro 16a703459b batman-adv: don't bother flipping ->tt_crc
Keep it net-endian

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-06-18 18:01:04 +02:00
Al Viro f25bd58a9d batman-adv: don't bother flipping ->tt_data
just keep it net-endian all along

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
[lindner_marek@yahoo.de: fix checkpatch warnings]
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-06-18 18:01:03 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann 5346c35ebf batman-adv: Return error codes instead of -1 on failures
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-06-18 18:01:03 +02:00
Al Viro e0f5211f9b batman-adv: keep batman_ogm_packet ->seqno net-endian all along
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-06-18 18:01:02 +02:00
Al Viro 3e2f1a1bb5 batman-adv: trivial endianness annotations
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-06-18 18:01:01 +02:00
Al Viro 1a5852d81a batman-adv: get rid of pointless cast in memcpy()
memcpy() arguments are void *, precisely to avoid that kind of pointless
casts.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-06-18 18:01:01 +02:00
Marek Lindner 08ad76ecc9 batman-adv: return added entries instead of number of possibly added entries
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-06-18 18:01:00 +02:00
Marek Lindner d8cb548616 batman-adv: ignore trailing CR when comparing protocol names
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-06-18 18:00:59 +02:00
Marek Lindner 519d3497c6 batman-adv: avoid characters requiring shell escapes in protocol names
Reported-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-06-18 18:00:59 +02:00
Martin Hundebøll f8214865a5 batman-adv: Add get_ethtool_stats() support
Added additional counters in a bat_stats structure, which are exported
through the ethtool api. The counters are specific to batman-adv and
includes:
 forwarded packets and bytes
 management packets and bytes (aggregated OGMs at this point)
 translation table packets

New counters are added by extending "enum bat_counters" in types.h and
adding corresponding  descriptive string(s) to bat_counters_strings in
soft-iface.c.

Counters are increased by calling batadv_add_counter() and incremented
by one by calling batadv_inc_counter().

Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-06-18 18:00:58 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli 66a1b2bcb3 batman-adv: convert bat_priv->tt_crc from atomic_t to uint16_t
In the code we neever need to atomically check and set the bat_priv->tt_crc
field value. It is simply set and read once in different pieces of the code.
Therefore this field can be safely be converted from atomic_t to uint16_t.

Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-06-18 18:00:58 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann 5d52dad27a batman-adv: Initialize lockdep class keys for hashes
The hash for claim and backbone hash in the bridge loop avoidance code receive
the same key because they are getting initialized by hash_new with the same
key. Lockdep will create a backtrace when they are used recursively. This can
be avoided by reinitializing the key directly after the hash_new.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-06-18 18:00:57 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli d2b6cc8e46 batman-adv: fix skb->data assignment
skb_linearize(skb) possibly rearranges the skb internal data and then changes
the skb->data pointer value. For this reason any other pointer in the code that
was assigned skb->data before invoking skb_linearise(skb) must be re-assigned.

In the current tt_query message handling code this is not done and therefore, in
case of skb linearization, the pointer used to handle the packet header ends up
in pointing to poisoned memory. The packet is then dropped but the
translation-table mechanism is corrupted.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-06-18 18:00:56 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann 284fefd59a batman-adv: update internal version number
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-06-18 18:00:56 +02:00
David S. Miller 6fac262526 ipv4: Cap ADVMSS metric in the FIB rather than the routing cache.
It makes no sense to execute this limit test every time we create a
routing cache entry.

We can't simply error out on these things since we've silently
accepted and truncated them forever.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-17 19:47:34 -07:00
Rémi Denis-Courmont 31fdc5553b net: remove my future former mail address
Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi@remlab.net>
Cc: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-17 16:29:38 -07:00
Eric Dumazet a7e2eaadd0 net: lpc_eth: free skbs in start_xmit
Transmitted skbs can be freed immediately in lpc_eth_hard_start_xmit()
instead of at TX completion, since driver copies the frames in DMA area.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Tested-by: Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-17 16:28:32 -07:00
Amerigo Wang df2bcc4af2 bonding: show all the link status of slaves
There are four link statuses of a bonding slave, the procfs
code shows a wrong status when using downdelay/updelay:

	(slave->link == BOND_LINK_UP) ?  "up" : "down"

It doesn't respect the rest two statuses. This patch fixes it.

Cc: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-17 16:23:54 -07:00
Phil Sutter 86a2f415e6 usbnet: sanitise overlong driver information strings
As seen on smsc75xx, driver_info->description being longer than 32
characters messes up 'ethtool -i' output.

Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil.sutter@viprinet.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-17 16:20:31 -07:00
Vasundhara Volam 0b3f0e7ae0 be2net: Increase statistics structure size for skyhawk.
Increasing the hardware statistics structure to accomodate statistics for skyhawk.

Signed-off-by: Vasundhara Volam <vasundhara.volam@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-17 16:18:51 -07:00
Vasundhara Volam 97f1d8cd8d be2net: Modify error message to incorporate subsystem
Modify IOCTL error message to print subsystem also.

Signed-off-by: Vasundhara Volam <vasundhara.volam@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-17 16:18:51 -07:00
Sarveshwar Bandi b7e5887e0e be2net: reduce gso_max_size setting to account for ethernet header.
The maximum size of packet that can be handled by controller including ethernet
header is 65535. Reducing gso_max_size accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Sarveshwar Bandi <sarveshwar.bandi@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-17 16:18:51 -07:00
Yuval Mintz 79504d708d bnx2x: correct LPI pass-through configuration
Commit c8c60d88c5 contained
an incorrect logic which enabled a buffer overflow when accessing
an array during LPI pass-through configuration.
This patch fixes this issue by removing that logic altogether.

Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Yaniv Rosner <yaniv.rosner@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-17 16:16:51 -07:00
Jacob Keller b6138ed604 ixgbe: Fix PHC loophole allowing misconfiguration of increment register
This patch fixes a potential hole when configuring the cycle counter used to
generate the nanosecond time clock. This clock is based off of the SYSTIME
registers along with the TIMINCA registers. The TIMINCA register determines
the increment to be added to the SYSTIME registers every DMA clock tick. This
register needs to be reconfigured whenever the link-speed changes. However,
the value calculated stays the same when link is down and when link is up.
Misconfiguration can occur if the link status changes due to a reset, which
causes the TIMINCA register to be reset. This reset puts the device in an
unstable state where the SYSTIME registers stop incrementing and the PTP
protocol does not function.

The solution is to double check the TIMINCA value and always reset the value
if the register is zero. This prevents a misconfiguration bug that halts the
PHC.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Acked-by: Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@intel.com>
Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-17 16:15:06 -07:00
Yuval Mintz 5481388bc7 bnx2x: fix link for BCM57711 with 84823 phy
Signed-off-by: Yaniv Rosner <yaniv.rosner@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-16 23:38:36 -07:00
Yuval Mintz 50a2984543 bnx2x: fix I2C non-respondent issue
When I2C is not responding it's usually due to a previous
unexpected reset during I2C operation. We release it by
powering down and up the SFP+ module.

Signed-off-by: Yaniv Rosner <yaniv.rosner@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-16 23:38:36 -07:00
Michael Chan 260762c7d8 bnx2: Update version 2.2.2
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-16 22:22:59 -07:00
Michael Chan aefd90e414 bnx2: Read PCI function number from internal register
so that it will work on any hypervisor.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-16 22:22:59 -07:00
Michael Chan 13e63517f4 bnx2: Dump additional BC_STATE during firmware sync timeout.
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-16 22:22:58 -07:00
Michael Chan 555069dad0 bnx2: Dump all FTQ_CTL registers during tx_timeout
to help debug tx timeouts reported in the field.

Reviewed-by Benjamin Li <benli@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-16 22:22:58 -07:00
David S. Miller 82f437b950 Merge branch 'master' of git://1984.lsi.us.es/nf-next
Pablo says:

====================
This is the second batch of Netfilter updates for net-next. It contains the
kernel changes for the new user-space connection tracking helper
infrastructure.

More details on this infrastructure are provides here:
http://lwn.net/Articles/500196/

Still, I plan to provide some official documentation through the
conntrack-tools user manual on how to setup user-space utilities for this.
So far, it provides two helper in user-space, one for NFSv3 and another for
Oracle/SQLnet/TNS. Yet in my TODO list.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-16 15:23:35 -07:00
Eldad Zack 7f95e1880e include/net/dst.h: neaten asterisk placement
Fix code style - place the asterisk where it belongs.

Signed-off-by: Eldad Zack <eldad@fogrefinery.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-16 15:20:35 -07:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso 12f7a50533 netfilter: add user-space connection tracking helper infrastructure
There are good reasons to supports helpers in user-space instead:

* Rapid connection tracking helper development, as developing code
  in user-space is usually faster.

* Reliability: A buggy helper does not crash the kernel. Moreover,
  we can monitor the helper process and restart it in case of problems.

* Security: Avoid complex string matching and mangling in kernel-space
  running in privileged mode. Going further, we can even think about
  running user-space helpers as a non-root process.

* Extensibility: It allows the development of very specific helpers (most
  likely non-standard proprietary protocols) that are very likely not to be
  accepted for mainline inclusion in the form of kernel-space connection
  tracking helpers.

This patch adds the infrastructure to allow the implementation of
user-space conntrack helpers by means of the new nfnetlink subsystem
`nfnetlink_cthelper' and the existing queueing infrastructure
(nfnetlink_queue).

I had to add the new hook NF_IP6_PRI_CONNTRACK_HELPER to register
ipv[4|6]_helper which results from splitting ipv[4|6]_confirm into
two pieces. This change is required not to break NAT sequence
adjustment and conntrack confirmation for traffic that is enqueued
to our user-space conntrack helpers.

Basic operation, in a few steps:

1) Register user-space helper by means of `nfct':

 nfct helper add ftp inet tcp

 [ It must be a valid existing helper supported by conntrack-tools ]

2) Add rules to enable the FTP user-space helper which is
   used to track traffic going to TCP port 21.

For locally generated packets:

 iptables -I OUTPUT -t raw -p tcp --dport 21 -j CT --helper ftp

For non-locally generated packets:

 iptables -I PREROUTING -t raw -p tcp --dport 21 -j CT --helper ftp

3) Run the test conntrackd in helper mode (see example files under
   doc/helper/conntrackd.conf

 conntrackd

4) Generate FTP traffic going, if everything is OK, then conntrackd
   should create expectations (you can check that with `conntrack':

 conntrack -E expect

    [NEW] 301 proto=6 src=192.168.1.136 dst=130.89.148.12 sport=0 dport=54037 mask-src=255.255.255.255 mask-dst=255.255.255.255 sport=0 dport=65535 master-src=192.168.1.136 master-dst=130.89.148.12 sport=57127 dport=21 class=0 helper=ftp
[DESTROY] 301 proto=6 src=192.168.1.136 dst=130.89.148.12 sport=0 dport=54037 mask-src=255.255.255.255 mask-dst=255.255.255.255 sport=0 dport=65535 master-src=192.168.1.136 master-dst=130.89.148.12 sport=57127 dport=21 class=0 helper=ftp

This confirms that our test helper is receiving packets including the
conntrack information, and adding expectations in kernel-space.

The user-space helper can also store its private tracking information
in the conntrack structure in the kernel via the CTA_HELP_INFO. The
kernel will consider this a binary blob whose layout is unknown. This
information will be included in the information that is transfered
to user-space via glue code that integrates nfnetlink_queue and
ctnetlink.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2012-06-16 15:40:02 +02:00