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Merav Sicron
65565884fb bnx2x: Make the transmission queues adjacent
In the current scheme the transmission queues of traffic-class 0 were 0-15, the
transmission queues of traffic-class 1 were 16-31 and so on. If the number of
RSS queues was smaller than 16, there were gaps in transmission queues
numbering, as well as in CIDs numbering. This is both a waste (especially when
16 is increased to 64), and may causes problems with flushing queues when
reducing the number of RSS queues (using ethtool -L). The new scheme eliminates
the gaps.

Signed-off-by: Merav Sicron <meravs@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-19 14:34:34 -07:00
Merav Sicron
a052997ea3 bnx2x: Allow more than 64 L2 CIDs
With increased number of RSS queues, each multiplied by the number of traffic-
classes, we may have up to 64*3=192 CIDs. The current driver scheme with regard
to context allocation supports only 64 CIDs. The new scheme enables scatter-
gatehr list of pages for the context.

Signed-off-by: Merav Sicron <meravs@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-19 14:34:34 -07:00
Merav Sicron
5d317c6a95 bnx2x: Add support for 4-tupple UDP RSS
This change enables to control via ethtool whether to do UDP RSS on 2-tupple
(IP source / destination only) or on 4-tupple (include UDP source / destination
port). It also enables to read back the RSS configuration.

Signed-off-by: Merav Sicron <meravs@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-19 14:34:34 -07:00
Merav Sicron
cf2c1df62e bnx2x: Return only online tests for MF
1. In multi-function device, show only the online tests in self-test results as
   only these test are performed (offline tests cannot be performed as they may
   corrupt the traffic of other functions on the same physical port). Note that
   multi-function mode cannot change while the driver is up.
2. Check result code in NIC load and act accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Merav Sicron <meravs@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-19 14:34:34 -07:00
Merav Sicron
8970b2e439 bnx2x: Add support for external LB
This change enables to do self-test with external loopback via ethtool.

Signed-off-by: Merav Sicron <meravs@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-19 14:34:34 -07:00
Oliver Hartkopp
ea53fe0c66 canfd: update documentation according to CAN FD extensions
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
2012-06-19 21:40:26 +02:00
Oliver Hartkopp
41052ef6df vcan: add CAN FD support
- move the length calculation from dlc to real length (using canfd_frame)
- allow to switch the driver between CAN and CAN FD (change of MTU)

Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
2012-06-19 21:40:20 +02:00
Oliver Hartkopp
1e0625faca candev: add/update helpers for CAN FD
- update sanity checks
- add DLC to length conversion helpers
  - can_dlc2len() - get data length from can_dlc with sanitized can_dlc
  - can_len2dlc() - map the sanitized data length to an appropriate DLC

Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
2012-06-19 21:40:14 +02:00
Oliver Hartkopp
e2d265d3b5 canfd: add support for CAN FD in CAN_RAW sockets
- introduce a new sockopt CAN_RAW_FD_FRAMES to allow CAN FD frames
- handle CAN frames and CAN FD frames simultaneously when enabled

Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
2012-06-19 21:40:08 +02:00
Oliver Hartkopp
8b01939f35 canfd: add support for CAN FD in PF_CAN core
- handle ETH_P_CAN and ETH_P_CANFD skbuffs
- update sanity checks for CAN and CAN FD
- make sure the CAN frame can pass the selected CAN netdevice on send
- bump core version and abi version to indicate the new CAN FD support

Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
2012-06-19 21:40:01 +02:00
Oliver Hartkopp
7c9416365c canfd: add new data structures and constants
- add new struct canfd_frame
- check identical element offsets in struct can_frame and struct canfd_frame
- new ETH_P_CANFD definition to tag CAN FD skbs correctly
- add CAN_MTU and CANFD_MTU definitions for easy frame and mode detection
- add CAN[FD]_MAX_[DLC|DLEN] helper constants to remove hard coded values
- update existing struct can_frame with helper constants and comments

Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
2012-06-19 21:39:50 +02:00
Federico Vaga
5b92da0443 c_can_pci: generic module for C_CAN/D_CAN on PCI
Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Giancarlo Asnaghi <giancarlo.asnaghi@st.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
Acked-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhupesh.sharma@st.com>
[mkl: fix call to pci_iounmap]
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
2012-06-19 21:22:28 +02:00
John W. Linville
b3c911eeb4 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next into for-davem
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/testmode.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c
2012-06-19 14:41:22 -04:00
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
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
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
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 1afc56794e: "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
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
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
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
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