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authorTim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>2010-06-25 14:44:07 +0200
committerPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>2010-06-25 14:44:07 +0200
commita8756201ba4189bca3ee1a6ec4e290f467ee09ab (patch)
tree309d40a10f68ffc971de4f16d26d16a0dccc0693 /net
parentfe6fb552858f686f39e33d7b0a33fe56dacea0bf (diff)
netfilter: xt_connbytes: Force CT accounting to be enabled
Check at rule install time that CT accounting is enabled. Force it to be enabled if not while also emitting a warning since this is not the default state. This is in preparation for deprecating CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT upon which CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_CONNBYTES depended being set. Added 2 CT accounting support functions: nf_ct_acct_enabled() - Get CT accounting state. nf_ct_set_acct() - Enable/disable CT accountuing. Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> Acked-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/netfilter/xt_connbytes.c10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_connbytes.c b/net/netfilter/xt_connbytes.c
index 73517835303..5b138506690 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/xt_connbytes.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/xt_connbytes.c
@@ -112,6 +112,16 @@ static int connbytes_mt_check(const struct xt_mtchk_param *par)
if (ret < 0)
pr_info("cannot load conntrack support for proto=%u\n",
par->family);
+
+ /*
+ * This filter cannot function correctly unless connection tracking
+ * accounting is enabled, so complain in the hope that someone notices.
+ */
+ if (!nf_ct_acct_enabled(par->net)) {
+ pr_warning("Forcing CT accounting to be enabled\n");
+ nf_ct_set_acct(par->net, true);
+ }
+
return ret;
}