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2012-06-28ipv4: Kill rt->rt_spec_dst, no longer used.David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-28ipv4: Create and use fib_compute_spec_dst() helper.David S. Miller
The specific destination is the host we direct unicast replies to. Usually this is the original packet source address, but if we are responding to a multicast or broadcast packet we have to use something different. Specifically we must use the source address we would use if we were to send a packet to the unicast source of the original packet. The routing cache precomputes this value, but we want to remove that precomputation because it creates a hard dependency on the expensive rpfilter source address validation which we'd like to make cheaper. There are only three places where this matters: 1) ICMP replies. 2) pktinfo CMSG 3) IP options Now there will be no real users of rt->rt_spec_dst and we can simply remove it altogether. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-28ipv4: Show that ip_send_reply() is purely unicast routine.David S. Miller
Rename it to ip_send_unicast_reply() and add explicit 'saddr' argument. This removed one of the few users of rt->rt_spec_dst. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-27ipv4: Kill early demux method return value.David S. Miller
It's completely unnecessary. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-27xfrm_user: Propagate netlink error codes properly.David S. Miller
Instead of using a fixed value of "-1" or "-EMSGSIZE", propagate what the nla_*() interfaces actually return. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-27netdev/phy/of: Add more methods for binding PHY devices to drivers.David Daney
Allow PHY drivers to supply their own device matching function (match_phy_device()), or to be matched OF compatible properties. PHYs following IEEE802.3 clause 45 have more than one device identifier constants, which breaks the default device matching code. Other 10G PHYs don't follow the standard manufacturer/device identifier register layout standards, but they do use the standard MDIO bus protocols for register access. Both of these require adjustments to the PHY driver to device matching code. If the there is an of_node associated with such a PHY, we can match it to its driver using the "compatible" properties, just as we do with certain platform devices. If the "compatible" property match fails, first check if there is a driver supplied matching function, and if not fall back to the existing identifier matching rules. Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-27netdev/phy: Handle IEEE802.3 clause 45 Ethernet PHYsDavid Daney
The IEEE802.3 clause 45 MDIO bus protocol allows for directly addressing PHY registers using a 21 bit address, and is used by many 10G Ethernet PHYS. Already existing is the ability of MDIO bus drivers to use clause 45, with the MII_ADDR_C45 flag. Here we add struct phy_c45_device_ids to hold the device identifier registers present in clause 45. struct phy_device gets a couple of new fields: c45_ids to hold the identifiers and is_c45 to signal that it is clause 45. get_phy_device() gets a new parameter is_c45 to indicate that the PHY device should use the clause 45 protocol, and its callers are adjusted to pass false. The follow-on patch to of_mdio.c will pass true where appropriate. EXPORT phy_device_create() so that the follow-on patch to of_mdio.c can use it to create phy devices for PHYs, that have non-standard device identifier registers, based on the device tree bindings. Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-27Revert "ipv4: tcp: dont cache unconfirmed intput dst"David S. Miller
This reverts commit c074da2810c118b3812f32d6754bd9ead2f169e7. This change has several unwanted side effects: 1) Sockets will cache the DST_NOCACHE route in sk->sk_rx_dst and we'll thus never create a real cached route. 2) All TCP traffic will use DST_NOCACHE and never use the routing cache at all. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-27net: added support for 40GbE link.parav.pandit@emulex.com
1. removed code replication for tov calculation for 1G, 10G and made is common for speed > 1G (1G, 10G, 40G, 100G). 2. defines values for #4 different 40G Phys (KR4, LF4, SR4, CR4) Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <parav.pandit@emulex.com> Reviewed-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-27netlink: Get rid of obsolete rtnetlink macrosThomas Graf
Removes all RTA_GET*() and RTA_PUT*() variations, as well as the the unused rtattr_strcmp(). Get rid of rtm_get_table() by moving it to its only user decnet. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-27ipv4: tcp: dont cache unconfirmed intput dstEric Dumazet
DDOS synflood attacks hit badly IP route cache. On typical machines, this cache is allowed to hold up to 8 Millions dst entries, 256 bytes for each, for a total of 2GB of memory. rt_garbage_collect() triggers and tries to cleanup things. Eventually route cache is disabled but machine is under fire and might OOM and crash. This patch exploits the new TCP early demux, to set a nocache boolean in case incoming TCP frame is for a not yet ESTABLISHED or TIMEWAIT socket. This 'nocache' boolean is then used in case dst entry is not found in route cache, to create an unhashed dst entry (DST_NOCACHE) SYN-cookie-ACK sent use a similar mechanism (ipv4: tcp: dont cache output dst for syncookies), so after this patch, a machine is able to absorb a DDOS synflood attack without polluting its IP route cache. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Hans Schillstrom <hans.schillstrom@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-26netlink: Delete NLMSG_PUT and NLMSG_NEW.David S. Miller
No longer used and a poor interface as they were macros with embedded gotos. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-26team: remove unused rcu_head field from team_port structJiri Pirko
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-26team: do not allow to map disabled portsJiri Pirko
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-26drivers/ieee802154: add support for the at86rf230/231 transceiversalex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com
The AT86RF231 is a feature rich, low-power 2.4 GHz radio transceiver designed for industrial and consumer ZigBee/IEEE 802.15.4, 6LoWPAN, RF4CE and high data rate 2.4 GHz ISM band applications. This patch adds support for the Atmel RF230/231 radio transceivers. Signed-off-by: Alexander Smirnov <alex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-26mac802154: add wpan device-class supportalex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com
Every real 802.15.4 transceiver, which works with software MAC layer, can be classified as a wpan device in this stack. So the wpan device implementation provides missing link in datapath between the device drivers and the Linux network queue. According to the IEEE 802.15.4 standard each packet can be one of the following types: - beacon - MAC layer command - ACK - data This patch adds support for the data packet-type only, but this is enough to perform data transmission and receiving over radio. Signed-off-by: Alexander Smirnov <alex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-25caif-hsi: Remove use of module parametersSjur Brændeland
Remove use of module parameters on caif hsi device, as rtnl configuration parameters are already supported. All caif hsi configuration data is put in cfhsi_config, and default values in hsi_default_config. Signed-off-by: Sjur Brændeland <sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-25caif-hsi: Replace platform device with ops structure.Sjur Brændeland
Remove use of struct platform_device, and replace it with struct cfhsi_ops. Updated variable names in the same spirit: cfhsi_get_dev to cfhsi_get_ops, cfhsi->dev to cfhsi->ops and, cfhsi->dev.drv to cfhsi->ops->cb_ops. Signed-off-by: Sjur Brændeland <sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-25caif-hsi: Add rtnl supportSjur Brændeland
Add RTNL support for managing the caif hsi interface. The HSI HW interface is no longer registering as a device, instead we use symbol_get to get hold of the HSI API. Signed-off-by: Sjur Brændeland <sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-25net: struct sock cleanupsEric Dumazet
Add missing kernel doc for sk_rx_dst Move sk_rx_dst to avoid two 32bit holes on 64bit arches Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-25net: Remove 'unlikely' qualifier in skb_steal_sock()Vijay Subramanian
With early demux enabled by default for TCP flows, there is high chance that skb->sk will be non-null. 'unlikely()' was removed from __inet_lookup_skb() but maybe it can be removed from skb_steal_sock() as well. Note: skb_steal_sock() is also called by __inet6_lookup_skb() and __udp4_lib_lookup_skb() but they are protected by their own 'unlikely' calls. Signed-off-by: Vijay Subramanian <subramanian.vijay@gmail.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-25Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller
Conflicts: drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c net/batman-adv/translation-table.c net/ipv6/route.c qmi_wwan.c resolution provided by Bjørn Mork. batman-adv conflict is dealing merely with the changes of global function names to have a proper subsystem prefix. ipv6's route.c conflict is merely two side-by-side additions of network namespace methods. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-23Merge branch 'master' of git://1984.lsi.us.es/nf-nextDavid S. Miller
Pablo says: ==================== The following four patches provide Netfilter fixes for the cthelper infrastructure that was recently merged mainstream, they are: * two fixes for compilation breakage with two different configurations: - CONFIG_NF_NAT=m and CONFIG_NF_CT_NETLINK=y - NF_CONNTRACK_EVENTS=n and CONFIG_NETFILTER_NETLINK_QUEUE_CT=y * two fixes for sparse warnings. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-22ipv4: Don't add deprecated new binary sysctl value.David S. Miller
Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-22ipv4: tcp: dont cache output dst for syncookiesEric Dumazet
Don't cache output dst for syncookies, as this adds pressure on IP route cache and rcu subsystem for no gain. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Hans Schillstrom <hans.schillstrom@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-22ipv4: Add sysctl knob to control early socket demuxAlexander Duyck
This change is meant to add a control for disabling early socket demux. The main motivation behind this patch is to provide an option to disable the feature as it adds an additional cost to routing that reduces overall throughput by up to 5%. For example one of my systems went from 12.1Mpps to 11.6 after the early socket demux was added. It looks like the reason for the regression is that we are now having to perform two lookups, first the one for an established socket, and then the one for the routing table. By adding this patch and toggling the value for ip_early_demux to 0 I am able to get back to the 12.1Mpps I was previously seeing. [ Move local variables in ip_rcv_finish() down into the basic block in which they are actually used. -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-22netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: fix compilation with CONFIG_NF_NAT=m and ↵Pablo Neira Ayuso
CONFIG_NF_CT_NETLINK=y 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 <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2012-06-20netfilter: nfq_ct_hook needs __rcu and __read_mostlyPablo Neira Ayuso
This removes some sparse warnings. Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2012-06-19ipv4: Early TCP socket demux.David S. Miller
Input packet processing for local sockets involves two major demuxes. One for the route and one for the socket. But we can optimize this down to one demux for certain kinds of local sockets. Currently we only do this for established TCP sockets, but it could at least in theory be expanded to other kinds of connections. If a TCP socket is established then it's identity is fully specified. This means that whatever input route was used during the three-way handshake must work equally well for the rest of the connection since the keys will not change. Once we move to established state, we cache the receive packet's input route to use later. Like the existing cached route in sk->sk_dst_cache used for output packets, we have to check for route invalidations using dst->obsolete and dst->ops->check(). Early demux occurs outside of a socket locked section, so when a route invalidation occurs we defer the fixup of sk->sk_rx_dst until we are actually inside of established state packet processing and thus have the socket locked. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-19inet: Sanitize inet{,6} protocol demux.David S. Miller
Don't pretend that inet_protos[] and inet6_protos[] are hashes, thay are just a straight arrays. Remove all unnecessary hash masking. Document MAX_INET_PROTOS. Use RAW_HTABLE_SIZE when appropriate. Reported-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-19team: add port_[enabled/disabled] mode callbacksJiri Pirko
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-19team: allow async option changesJiri Pirko
This patch adds two exported functions. One allows to mark option instance as changed and the second processes change check and does transfer of changed options to userspace. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-19team: push array_index and port into separate structureJiri Pirko
Introduce struct team_option_inst_info and push option instance info there. It can be then easily passed to gsetter context and used for feature async option changes. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-19team: introduce array optionsJiri Pirko
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-19team: add mode priv to portJiri Pirko
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-19team: make team_mode struct constJiri Pirko
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-19Merge branch 'master' of git://gitorious.org/linux-can/linux-can-nextDavid S. Miller
Marc Kleine-Budde says: ==================== here is our second pull request for net-next. In this series Federico Vaga adds a pci driver for c_can/d_can hardware using the existing generic c_can driver. The remaining 6 patches are by Oliver Hartkopp. He adds CANFD support to the CAN stack while keeping binary compatibility for existing applications. CANFD is an extension to the existing CAN standard, it allows longer CAN frames and/or higher data rates. There's no real hardware available yet, but this series adds CANFD support to the vcan driver. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-19Merge branch 'for-davem' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next John Linville says: ==================== This is a sizeable batch of updates intended for 3.6... The bulk of the changes here are Bluetooth. Gustavo says: Here goes the first Bluetooth pull request for 3.6, we have queued quite a lot of work. Andrei Emeltchenko added the AMP Manager code, a lot of work is needed, but the first bit are already there. This code is disabled by default. Mat Martineau changed the whole L2CAP ERTM state machine code, replacing the old one with a new implementation. Besides that we had lot of coding style fixes (to follow net rules), more l2cap core separation from socket and many clean ups and fixed all over the tree. Along with the above, there is a healthy dose of ath9k, iwlwifi, and other driver updates. There is also another pull from the wireless tree to resolve some merge issues. I also fixed-up some merge discrepencies between net-next and wireless-next. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-19candev: add/update helpers for CAN FDOliver Hartkopp
- 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>
2012-06-19canfd: add support for CAN FD in CAN_RAW socketsOliver Hartkopp
- 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>
2012-06-19canfd: add support for CAN FD in PF_CAN coreOliver Hartkopp
- 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>
2012-06-19canfd: add new data structures and constantsOliver Hartkopp
- 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>
2012-06-19Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
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
2012-06-18netfilter: fix missing symbols if CONFIG_NETFILTER_NETLINK_QUEUE_CT unsetPablo Neira Ayuso
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>
2012-06-19netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: fix compilation with NF_CONNTRACK disabledPablo Neira Ayuso
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>
2012-06-18Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless into for-davem
2012-06-17net: remove my future former mail addressRémi Denis-Courmont
Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi@remlab.net> Cc: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-16Merge branch 'master' of git://1984.lsi.us.es/nf-nextDavid S. Miller
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>
2012-06-16include/net/dst.h: neaten asterisk placementEldad Zack
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>
2012-06-16netfilter: add user-space connection tracking helper infrastructurePablo Neira Ayuso
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>