From bc01befdcf3e40979eb518085a075cbf0aacede0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pablo Neira Ayuso Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:06:34 +0200 Subject: netfilter: ctnetlink: add support for user-space expectation helpers This patch adds the basic infrastructure to support user-space expectation helpers via ctnetlink and the netfilter queuing infrastructure NFQUEUE. Basically, this patch: * adds NF_CT_EXPECT_USERSPACE flag to identify user-space created expectations. I have also added a sanity check in __nf_ct_expect_check() to avoid that kernel-space helpers may create an expectation if the master conntrack has no helper assigned. * adds some branches to check if the master conntrack helper exists, otherwise we skip the code that refers to kernel-space helper such as the local expectation list and the expectation policy. * allows to set the timeout for user-space expectations with no helper assigned. * a list of expectations created from user-space that depends on ctnetlink (if this module is removed, they are deleted). * includes USERSPACE in the /proc output for expectations that have been created by a user-space helper. This patch also modifies ctnetlink to skip including the helper name in the Netlink messages if no kernel-space helper is set (since no user-space expectation has not kernel-space kernel assigned). You can access an example user-space FTP conntrack helper at: http://people.netfilter.org/pablo/userspace-conntrack-helpers/nf-ftp-helper-userspace-POC.tar.bz Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy --- include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_expect.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/net/netfilter') diff --git a/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_expect.h b/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_expect.h index 96bb42af5fa..416b8384448 100644 --- a/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_expect.h +++ b/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_expect.h @@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ nf_ct_find_expectation(struct net *net, u16 zone, void nf_ct_unlink_expect(struct nf_conntrack_expect *exp); void nf_ct_remove_expectations(struct nf_conn *ct); void nf_ct_unexpect_related(struct nf_conntrack_expect *exp); +void nf_ct_remove_userspace_expectations(void); /* Allocate space for an expectation: this is mandatory before calling nf_ct_expect_related. You will have to call put afterwards. */ -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2