History log of /net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_generic.c
Revision Date Author Comments
db29a9508a9246e77087c5531e45b2c88ec6988b 26-Sep-2014 Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> netfilter: conntrack: disable generic tracking for known protocols

Given following iptables ruleset:

-P FORWARD DROP
-A FORWARD -m sctp --dport 9 -j ACCEPT
-A FORWARD -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
-A FORWARD -p tcp -m conntrack -m state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT

One would assume that this allows SCTP on port 9 and TCP on port 80.
Unfortunately, if the SCTP conntrack module is not loaded, this allows
*all* SCTP communication, to pass though, i.e. -p sctp -j ACCEPT,
which we think is a security issue.

This is because on the first SCTP packet on port 9, we create a dummy
"generic l4" conntrack entry without any port information (since
conntrack doesn't know how to extract this information).

All subsequent packets that are unknown will then be in established
state since they will fallback to proto_generic and will match the
'generic' entry.

Our originally proposed version [1] completely disabled generic protocol
tracking, but Jozsef suggests to not track protocols for which a more
suitable helper is available, hence we now mitigate the issue for in
tree known ct protocol helpers only, so that at least NAT and direction
information will still be preserved for others.

[1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/netfilter-devel/msg33430.html

Joint work with Daniel Borkmann.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
08911475d1d0921401e37d83292b217e1411d10b 29-Jun-2012 Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> netfilter: nf_conntrack: generalize nf_ct_l4proto_net

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 <pablo@netfilter.org>
Acked-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
22ac03772f2b7cedbd531f588f0b77a77d943585 21-Jun-2012 Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com> netfilter: nf_ct_generic: add generic_kmemdup_sysctl_table function

This patch is a cleanup. It adds generic_kmemdup_sysctl_table to
split code into smaller chunks. Yet it prepares introduction
of nf_conntrack_proto_*_sysctl.c.

Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
f1caad274515ffd9841ac57ce9a7b5fc35bbf689 21-Jun-2012 Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com> netfilter: nf_conntrack: prepare l4proto->init_net cleanup

l4proto->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 <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
8264deb81853462da5cbcfb19b54c4fd9f3d88ba 28-May-2012 Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com> netfilter: nf_conntrack: add namespace support for cttimeout

This patch adds namespace support for cttimeout.

Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
e76d0af5e45f4152e3fdcc103b753a8aff93fcb5 05-Jun-2012 Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> netfilter: nf_conntrack: remove now unused sysctl for nf_conntrack_l[3|4]proto

Since the sysctl data for l[3|4]proto now resides in pernet nf_proto_net.
We can now remove this unused fields from struct nf_contrack_l[3,4]proto.

Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
15f585bd76b6bd2974b23c9e69ff038a0826a0be 28-May-2012 Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com> netfilter: nf_ct_generic: add namespace support

This patch adds namespace support for the generic layer 4 protocol
tracker.

Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
f577694143b8024e95b2c0b680ab2071424bb1c7 02-Apr-2012 David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> nf_conntrack_proto_generic: Stop using NLA_PUT*().

These macros contain a hidden goto, and are thus extremely error
prone and make code hard to audit.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
50978462300f74dc48aea4a38471cb69bdf741a5 28-Feb-2012 Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> netfilter: add cttimeout infrastructure for fine timeout tuning

This patch adds the infrastructure to add fine timeout tuning
over nfnetlink. Now you can use the NFNL_SUBSYS_CTNETLINK_TIMEOUT
subsystem to create/delete/dump timeout objects that contain some
specific timeout policy for one flow.

The follow up patches will allow you attach timeout policy object
to conntrack via the CT target and the conntrack extension
infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2c8503f55fbdfbeff4164f133df804cf4d316290 28-Feb-2012 Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> netfilter: nf_conntrack: pass timeout array to l4->new and l4->packet

This patch defines a new interface for l4 protocol trackers:

unsigned int *(*get_timeouts)(struct net *net);

that is used to return the array of unsigned int that contains
the timeouts that will be applied for this flow. This is passed
to the l4proto->new(...) and l4proto->packet(...) functions to
specify the timeout policy.

This interface allows per-net global timeout configuration
(although only DCCP supports this by now) and it will allow
custom custom timeout configuration by means of follow-up
patches.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
f8572d8f2a2ba75408b97dc24ef47c83671795d7 05-Nov-2009 Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> sysctl net: Remove unused binary sysctl code

Now that sys_sysctl is a compatiblity wrapper around /proc/sys
all sysctl strategy routines, and all ctl_name and strategy
entries in the sysctl tables are unused, and can be
revmoed.

In addition neigh_sysctl_register has been modified to no longer
take a strategy argument and it's callers have been modified not
to pass one.

Cc: "David Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
fe2a7ce4de07472ace0cdf460a41f462a4621687 18-Feb-2009 Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@student.uclouvain.be> netfilter: change generic l4 protocol number

0 is used by Hop-by-hop header and so this may cause confusion.
255 is stated as 'Reserved' by IANA.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@student.uclouvain.be>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
6d9f239a1edb31d6133230f478fd1dc2da338ec5 04-Nov-2008 Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> net: '&' redux

I want to compile out proc_* and sysctl_* handlers totally and
stub them to NULL depending on config options, however usage of &
will prevent this, since taking adress of NULL pointer will break
compilation.

So, drop & in front of every ->proc_handler and every ->strategy
handler, it was never needed in fact.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
76108cea065cda58366d16a7eb6ca90d717a1396 08-Oct-2008 Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> netfilter: Use unsigned types for hooknum and pf vars

and (try to) consistently use u_int8_t for the L3 family.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
09f263cd39751cada63dec2dccc71e67c00bc38c 14-Apr-2008 Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: use bool type in struct nf_conntrack_l4proto

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
c88130bcd546e73e66165f9c29113dae9facf1ec 31-Jan-2008 Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: naming unification

Rename all "conntrack" variables to "ct" for more consistency and
avoiding some overly long lines.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
c71e9167081a6a0d2a076cda674b696b89bb31c2 15-Jan-2008 Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: make print_conntrack function optional for l4protos

Allows to remove five empty implementations.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
064b5bba0cc495201729285c6a6ce205df0a386a 18-Oct-2007 Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> sysctl: remove broken netfilter binary sysctls

No one has bothered to set strategy routine for the the netfilter sysctls that
return jiffies to be sysctl_jiffies.

So it appears the sys_sysctl path is unused and untested, so this patch
removes the binary sysctl numbers.

Which fixes the netfilter oops in 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 for me.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
61075af51f252913401c41fbe94075b46c94e9f1 15-Jul-2007 Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: mark protocols __read_mostly

Also remove two unnecessary EXPORT_SYMBOLs and move the
nf_conntrack_l3proto_ipv4 declaration to the correct file.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
1b53d9042c04b8eb875d02e65792e9884efc3784 23-Mar-2007 Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> [NETFILTER]: Remove changelogs and CVS IDs

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
cd354f1ae75e6466a7e31b727faede57a1f89ca5 14-Feb-2007 Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de> [PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h

After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h
recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes.
There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need
anything defined in there. Presumably these includes were once needed for
macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the
course of cleaning it up.

To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only
removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble.

Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha,
arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig,
allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all
configs in arch/arm/configs on arm. I also checked that no new warnings were
introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted
by unnecessarily included header files).

Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
a999e6837603e4b5a164333c93918a1292f074c8 29-Nov-2006 Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: sysctl compatibility with old connection tracking

This patch adds an option to keep the connection tracking sysctls visible
under their old names.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
933a41e7e12b773d1dd026018f02b86b5d257a22 29-Nov-2006 Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: move conntrack protocol sysctls to individual modules

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
605dcad6c85226e6d43387917b329d65b95cef39 29-Nov-2006 Martin Josefsson <gandalf@wlug.westbo.se> [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: rename struct nf_conntrack_protocol

Rename 'struct nf_conntrack_protocol' to 'struct nf_conntrack_l4proto' in
order to help distinguish it from 'struct nf_conntrack_l3proto'. It gets
rather confusing with 'nf_conntrack_protocol'.

Signed-off-by: Martin Josefsson <gandalf@wlug.westbo.se>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
94aec08ea426903a3fb3cafd4d8b900cd50df702 18-Sep-2006 Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com> [NETFILTER]: Change tunables to __read_mostly

Change some netfilter tunables to __read_mostly. Also fixed some
incorrect file reference comments while I was in there.

(this will be my last __read_mostly patch unless someone points out
something else that needs it)

Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
babbdb1a18d37e57acae7e348ef122f2b905df0a 10-Jan-2006 Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> [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>
9fb9cbb1082d6b31fb45aa1a14432449a0df6cf1 10-Nov-2005 Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp> [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>