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<title>ipv4: Adjust semantics of rt-&gt;rt_gateway.</title>
<updated>2012-07-20T20:31:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-13T12:03:45+00:00</published>
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In order to allow prefixed routes, we have to adjust how rt_gateway
is set and interpreted.

The new interpretation is:

1) rt_gateway == 0, destination is on-link, nexthop is iph-&gt;daddr

2) rt_gateway != 0, destination requires a nexthop gateway

Abstract the fetching of the proper nexthop value using a new
inline helper, rt_nexthop(), as suggested by Joe Perches.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Tested-by: Vijay Subramanian &lt;subramanian.vijay@gmail.com&gt;
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In order to allow prefixed routes, we have to adjust how rt_gateway
is set and interpreted.

The new interpretation is:

1) rt_gateway == 0, destination is on-link, nexthop is iph-&gt;daddr

2) rt_gateway != 0, destination requires a nexthop gateway

Abstract the fetching of the proper nexthop value using a new
inline helper, rt_nexthop(), as suggested by Joe Perches.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Tested-by: Vijay Subramanian &lt;subramanian.vijay@gmail.com&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'master' of git://1984.lsi.us.es/nf-next</title>
<updated>2012-07-07T23:18:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-07T23:18:50+00:00</published>
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<title>netfilter: nf_conntrack: generalize nf_ct_l4proto_net</title>
<updated>2012-07-04T17:37:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pablo Neira Ayuso</name>
<email>pablo@netfilter.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-29T05:23:24+00:00</published>
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This patch generalizes nf_ct_l4proto_net by splitting it into chunks and
moving the corresponding protocol part to where it really belongs to.

To clarify, note that we follow two different approaches to support per-net
depending if it's built-in or run-time loadable protocol tracker.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Acked-by: Gao feng &lt;gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
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This patch generalizes nf_ct_l4proto_net by splitting it into chunks and
moving the corresponding protocol part to where it really belongs to.

To clarify, note that we follow two different approaches to support per-net
depending if it's built-in or run-time loadable protocol tracker.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Acked-by: Gao feng &lt;gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
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<title>netlink: add netlink_kernel_cfg parameter to netlink_kernel_create</title>
<updated>2012-06-29T23:46:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pablo Neira Ayuso</name>
<email>pablo@netfilter.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-29T06:15:21+00:00</published>
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This patch adds the following structure:

struct netlink_kernel_cfg {
        unsigned int    groups;
        void            (*input)(struct sk_buff *skb);
        struct mutex    *cb_mutex;
};

That can be passed to netlink_kernel_create to set optional configurations
for netlink kernel sockets.

I've populated this structure by looking for NULL and zero parameters at the
existing code. The remaining parameters that always need to be set are still
left in the original interface.

That includes optional parameters for the netlink socket creation. This allows
easy extensibility of this interface in the future.

This patch also adapts all callers to use this new interface.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This patch adds the following structure:

struct netlink_kernel_cfg {
        unsigned int    groups;
        void            (*input)(struct sk_buff *skb);
        struct mutex    *cb_mutex;
};

That can be passed to netlink_kernel_create to set optional configurations
for netlink kernel sockets.

I've populated this structure by looking for NULL and zero parameters at the
existing code. The remaining parameters that always need to be set are still
left in the original interface.

That includes optional parameters for the netlink socket creation. This allows
easy extensibility of this interface in the future.

This patch also adapts all callers to use this new interface.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: nf_ct_icmp: add icmp_kmemdup[_compat]_sysctl_table function</title>
<updated>2012-06-27T17:14:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gao feng</name>
<email>gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-21T04:36:49+00:00</published>
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Split sysctl function into smaller chucks to cleanup code and prepare
patches to reduce ifdef pollution.

Signed-off-by: Gao feng &lt;gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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Split sysctl function into smaller chucks to cleanup code and prepare
patches to reduce ifdef pollution.

Signed-off-by: Gao feng &lt;gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: nf_conntrack: prepare l4proto-&gt;init_net cleanup</title>
<updated>2012-06-27T16:31:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gao feng</name>
<email>gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-21T04:36:39+00:00</published>
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l4proto-&gt;init contain quite redundant code. We can simplify this
by adding a new parameter l3proto.

This patch prepares that code simplification.

Signed-off-by: Gao feng &lt;gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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l4proto-&gt;init contain quite redundant code. We can simplify this
by adding a new parameter l3proto.

This patch prepares that code simplification.

Signed-off-by: Gao feng &lt;gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: ipt_ULOG: Move away from NLMSG_PUT().</title>
<updated>2012-06-27T04:30:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-27T04:30:49+00:00</published>
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And use nlmsg_data() while we're here too.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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And use nlmsg_data() while we're here too.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: fix compilation with CONFIG_NF_NAT=m and CONFIG_NF_CT_NETLINK=y</title>
<updated>2012-06-22T00:49:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pablo Neira Ayuso</name>
<email>pablo@netfilter.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-20T18:52:31+00:00</published>
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  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 &lt;valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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  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 &lt;valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: add user-space connection tracking helper infrastructure</title>
<updated>2012-06-16T13:40:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pablo Neira Ayuso</name>
<email>pablo@netfilter.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-13T19:44:54+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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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 &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: add NAT TCP sequence adjustment if packet mangled</title>
<updated>2012-06-16T13:09:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pablo Neira Ayuso</name>
<email>pablo@netfilter.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-07T11:31:25+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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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 &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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