The tcp_ehash hash table gets too big on systems with really big memory.
It is worse on systems with pages larger than 4KB. It wastes memory that
could be better used. It also makes the netstat command slow because reading
/proc/net/tcp and /proc/net/tcp6 needs to go through the full hash table.
The default value should not be larger for larger page sizes. It seems
that the effect of page size is an unintended error dating back a long
time. I also wonder if the default value really should be a larger
fraction of memory for systems with more memory. While systems with
really big ram can afford more space for hash tables, it is not clear to
me that they benefit from increasing the allocation ratio for this table.
The amount of memory allocated is determined by net/ipv4/tcp.c:tcp_init and
mm/page_alloc.c:alloc_large_system_hash.
tcp_init calls alloc_large_system_hash passing parameters-
bucketsize=sizeof(struct tcp_ehash_bucket)
numentries=thash_entries
scale=(num_physpages >= 128 * 1024) ? (25-PAGE_SHIFT) : (27-PAGE_SHIFT)
limit=0
On i386, PAGE_SHIFT is 12 for a page size of 4K
On ia64, PAGE_SHIFT defaults to 14 for a page size of 16K
The num_physpages test above makes the allocation take a larger fraction
of the total memory on systems with larger memory. The threshold size
for a i386 system is 512MB. For an ia64 system with 16KB pages the
threshold is 2GB.
For smaller memory systems-
On i386, scale = (27 - 12) = 15
On ia64, scale = (27 - 14) = 13
For larger memory systems-
On i386, scale = (25 - 12) = 13
On ia64, scale = (25 - 14) = 11
For the rest of this discussion, I'll just track the larger memory case.
The default behavior has numentries=thash_entries=0, so the allocated
size is determined by either scale or by the default limit of 1/16 of
total memory.
In alloc_large_system_hash-
| numentries = (flags & HASH_HIGHMEM) ? nr_all_pages : nr_kernel_pages;
| numentries += (1UL << (20 - PAGE_SHIFT)) - 1;
| numentries >>= 20 - PAGE_SHIFT;
| numentries <<= 20 - PAGE_SHIFT;
At this point, numentries is pages for all of memory, rounded up to the
nearest megabyte boundary.
| /* limit to 1 bucket per 2^scale bytes of low memory */
| if (scale > PAGE_SHIFT)
| numentries >>= (scale - PAGE_SHIFT);
| else
| numentries <<= (PAGE_SHIFT - scale);
On i386, numentries >>= (13 - 12), so numentries is 1/8196 of
bytes of total memory.
On ia64, numentries <<= (14 - 11), so numentries is 1/2048 of
bytes of total memory.
| log2qty = long_log2(numentries);
|
| do {
| size = bucketsize << log2qty;
bucketsize is 16, so size is 16 times numentries, rounded
down to a power of two.
On i386, size is 1/512 of bytes of total memory.
On ia64, size is 1/128 of bytes of total memory.
For smaller systems the results are
On i386, size is 1/2048 of bytes of total memory.
On ia64, size is 1/512 of bytes of total memory.
The large page effect can be removed by just replacing
the use of PAGE_SHIFT with a constant of 12 in the calls to
alloc_large_system_hash. That makes them more like the other uses of
that function from fs/inode.c and fs/dcache.c
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_netlink.c: In function 'ctnetlink_dump_table':
net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_netlink.c:409: warning: implicit declaration of function 'local_bh_disable'
net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_netlink.c:427: warning: implicit declaration of function 'local_bh_enable'
Signed-off-by: Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@ens-lyon.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Remove proto == NULL checking since ip_conntrack_[nat_]proto_find_get
always returns a valid pointer.
Fix missing ip_conntrack_proto_put in some paths.
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>
This patch fixes the problem with promoting aliases when:
a) a single primary and > 1 secondary addresses
b) multiple primary addresses each with at least one secondary address
Based on earlier efforts from Brian Pomerantz <bapper@piratehaven.org>,
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> and Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
- IP_NF_CONNTRACK_MARK is bool and depends on only IP_NF_CONNTRACK
which is tristate. If a variable depends on IP_NF_CONNTRACK_MARK and
doesn't care about IP_NF_CONNTRACK, it can be y. This must be avoided.
- IP_NF_CT_ACCT has same problem.
- IP_NF_TARGET_CLUSTERIP also depends on IP_NF_MANGLE.
Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Don't show local table to behave similar to fib_hash.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Since we've converted the ftp/irc/tftp helpers to use the new
module_parm_array() some time ago, we ware accidentially using signed data
types - thus preventing those modules from being used on ports >= 32768.
This patch fixes it by using 'ushort' module parameters.
Thanks to Jan Nijs for reporting this bug.
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
There is a compile error that crept in with the last patch of
TCP patches.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Both of ipq and frag_queue have *next and **prev, and they can be replaced
with hlist. Thanks Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo for the suggestion.
Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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>
Add missing size checks. Thanks Patrick McHardy for the hint.
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>
Make gcc-4.x happy. Use size_t instead of int. Thanks to Patrick McHardy
for the hint.
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>
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>
Use "hints" to speed up the SACK processing. Various forms
of this have been used by TCP developers (Web100, STCP, BIC)
to avoid the 2x linear search of outstanding segments.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This is a patch for discussion addressing some receive buffer growing issues.
This is partially related to the thread "Possible BUG in IPv4 TCP window
handling..." last week.
Specifically it addresses the problem of an interaction between rcvbuf
moderation (receiver autotuning) and rcv_ssthresh. The problem occurs when
sending small packets to a receiver with a larger MTU. (A very common case I
have is a host with a 1500 byte MTU sending to a host with a 9k MTU.) In
such a case, the rcv_ssthresh code is targeting a window size corresponding
to filling up the current rcvbuf, not taking into account that the new rcvbuf
moderation may increase the rcvbuf size.
One hunk makes rcv_ssthresh use tcp_rmem[2] as the size target rather than
rcvbuf. The other changes the behavior when it overflows its memory bounds
with in-order data so that it tries to grow rcvbuf (the same as with
out-of-order data).
These changes should help my problem of mixed MTUs, and should also help the
case from last week's thread I think. (In both cases though you still need
tcp_rmem[2] to be set much larger than the TCP window.) One question is if
this is too aggressive at trying to increase rcvbuf if it's under memory
stress.
Orignally-from: John Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This is an updated version of the RFC3465 ABC patch originally
for Linux 2.6.11-rc4 by Yee-Ting Li. ABC is a way of counting
bytes ack'd rather than packets when updating congestion control.
The orignal ABC described in the RFC applied to a Reno style
algorithm. For advanced congestion control there is little
change after leaving slow start.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Move all the code that does linear TCP slowstart to one
inline function to ease later patch to add ABC support.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Simplify the code that comuputes microsecond rtt estimate used
by TCP Vegas. Move the callback out of the RTT sampler and into
the end of the ack cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
TCP peformance with TSO over networks with delay is awful.
On a 100Mbit link with 150ms delay, we get 4Mbits/sec with TSO and
50Mbits/sec without TSO.
The problem is with TSO, we intentionally do not keep the maximum
number of packets in flight to fill the window, we hold out to until
we can send a MSS chunk. But, we also don't update the congestion window
unless we have filled, as per RFC2861.
This patch replaces the check for the congestion window being full
with something smarter that accounts for TSO.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Here is the patch that introduces the generic skb_checksum_complete
which also checks for hardware RX checksum faults. If that happens,
it'll call netdev_rx_csum_fault which currently prints out a stack
trace with the device name. In future it can turn off RX checksum.
I've converted every spot under net/ that does RX checksum checks to
use skb_checksum_complete or __skb_checksum_complete with the
exceptions of:
* Those places where checksums are done bit by bit. These will call
netdev_rx_csum_fault directly.
* The following have not been completely checked/converted:
ipmr
ip_vs
netfilter
dccp
This patch is based on patches and suggestions from Stephen Hemminger
and David S. Miller.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Most netlink families make no use of the done() callback, making
it optional gets rid of all unnecessary dummy implementations.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
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>
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki <ole@ans.pl>
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>
This patch fixes an userspace triggered oops. If there is no ICMP_ID
info the reference to attr will be NULL.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki <ole@ans.pl>
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>
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>
Propagate the error to userspace instead of returning -EPERM if the get
conntrack operation fails.
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>
Return -EINVAL if the size isn't OK instead of -EPERM.
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>
Currently connection tracking handles ICMP error like normal packets
if it failed to get related connection. But it fails that after all.
This makes connection tracking stop tracking ICMP error at early point.
Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The reply tuple of the PNS->PAC expectation was using the wrong call id.
So we had the following situation:
- PNS behind NAT firewall
- PNS call id requires NATing
- PNS->PAC gre packet arrives first
then the PNS->PAC expectation is matched, and the other expectation
is deleted, but the PAC->PNS gre packets do not match the gre conntrack
because the call id is wrong.
We also cannot use ip_nat_follow_master().
Signed-off-by: Philip Craig <philipc@snapgear.com>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
ctnetlink_get_conntrack is always called from user context, so GFP_KERNEL
is enough.
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>
Kill some useless headers included in ctnetlink. They aren't used in any
way.
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>
Add missing module alias. This is a must to load ctnetlink on demand. For
example, the conntrack tool will fail if the module isn't loaded.
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>
This patch adds support for conntrack marking from user space.
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>
This fixes an oops triggered from userspace. If we don't pass information
about the private protocol info, the reference to attr will be NULL. This is
likely to happen in update messages.
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>
nfattr_parse (and thus nfattr_parse_nested) always returns success. So we
can make them 'void' and remove all the checking at the caller side.
Based on original patch by Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The packet counter variable of conntrack was changed to 32bits from 64bits.
This follows that change.
Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When ip_queue_xmit calls ip_select_ident_more for IP identity selection
it gives it the wrong packet count for TSO packets. The ip_select_*
functions expect one less than the number of packets, so we need to
subtract one for TSO packets.
This bug was diagnosed and fixed by Tom Young.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
From: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
This is the net/ part of the big kfree cleanup patch.
Remove pointless checks for NULL prior to calling kfree() in net/.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
There was a fix in 2.6.13 that changed the behaviour of
ip_vs_conn_expire_now function not to put reference to connection,
its callers should hold write lock or connection refcnt. But we
forgot to convert one caller, when the real server for connection
is unavailable caller should put the connection reference. It
happens only when sysctl var expire_nodest_conn is set to 1 and
such connections never expire. Thanks to Roberto Nibali who found
the problem and tested a 2.4.32-rc2 patch, which is equal to this
2.6 version. Patch for 2.4 is already sent to Marcelo.
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Roberto Nibali <ratz@drugphish.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch randomizes the port selected on bind() for connections
to help with possible security attacks. It should also be faster
in most cases because there is no need for a global lock.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
There's a missing dependency from the CONNMARK target to ip_conntrack.
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@eurodev.net>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
It's not necessary to free skb if netlink_unicast() failed.
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>
The unknown protocol is used as a fallback when a protocol isn't known.
Hence we cannot handle it failing, so don't set ".me". It's OK, since we
only grab a reference from within the same module (iptable_nat.ko), so we
never take the module refcount from 0 to 1.
Also, remove the "protocol is NULL" test: it's never NULL.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Rusty <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
This endianness bug slipped through while changing the 'gre.key' field in the
conntrack tuple from 32bit to 16bit.
None of my tests caught the problem, since the linux pptp client always has
'0' as call id / gre key. Only windows clients actually trigger the bug.
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
This patch fixes compilation of the PPTP conntrack helper when NAT is
configured off.
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>
The max growth of BIC TCP is too large. Original code was based on
BIC 1.0 and the default there was 32. Later code (2.6.13) included
compensation for delayed acks, and should have reduced the default
value to 16; since normally TCP gets one ack for every two packets sent.
The current value of 32 makes BIC too aggressive and unfair to other
flows.
Submitted-by: Injong Rhee <rhee@eos.ncsu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <imcdnzl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Mike Stroyan
Benoit Boissinot
Pablo Neira Ayuso
Jamal Hadi Salim
Yasuyuki Kozakai
Patrick McHardy
Harald Welte
Stephen Hemminger
Vlad Drukker
Jeff Garzik
John Heffner
Herbert Xu
Thomas Graf
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki
Philip Craig
Jesper Juhl
Julian Anastasov