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Joe Perches 0a9ee81349 netfilter: Remove unnecessary OOM logging messages
Site specific OOM messages are duplications of a generic MM
out of memory message and aren't really useful, so just
delete them.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2011-11-01 09:19:49 +01:00
Stephen Hemminger a9b3cd7f32 rcu: convert uses of rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) to RCU_INIT_POINTER
When assigning a NULL value to an RCU protected pointer, no barrier
is needed. The rcu_assign_pointer, used to handle that but will soon
change to not handle the special case.

Convert all rcu_assign_pointer of NULL value.

//smpl
@@ expression P; @@

- rcu_assign_pointer(P, NULL)
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER(P, NULL)

// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-08-02 04:29:23 -07:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso 88ed01d17b netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix ct refcount leak in l4proto->error()
This patch fixes a refcount leak of ct objects that may occur if
l4proto->error() assigns one conntrack object to one skbuff. In
that case, we have to skip further processing in nf_conntrack_in().

With this patch, we can also fix wrong return values (-NF_ACCEPT)
for special cases in ICMP[v6] that should not bump the invalid/error
statistic counters.

Reported-by: Zoltan Menyhart <Zoltan.Menyhart@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2011-06-06 01:37:02 +02:00
Eric Dumazet fb04883371 netfilter: add more values to enum ip_conntrack_info
Following error is raised (and other similar ones) :

net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_standalone.c: In function ‘nf_nat_fn’:
net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_standalone.c:119:2: warning: case value ‘4’
not in enumerated type ‘enum ip_conntrack_info’

gcc barfs on adding two enum values and getting a not enumerated
result :

case IP_CT_RELATED+IP_CT_IS_REPLY:

Add missing enum values

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2011-06-06 01:35:10 +02:00
Lucas De Marchi 25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
David S. Miller 31111c26d9 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-next-2.6
Conflicts:
	Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
2011-03-15 13:03:27 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger fe8f661f2c netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix sysctl memory leak
Message in log because sysctl table was not empty at netns exit
 WARNING: at net/sysctl_net.c:84 sysctl_net_exit+0x2a/0x2c()

Instrumenting showed that the nf_conntrack_timestamp was the entry
that was being created but not cleared.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2011-03-14 19:20:44 +01:00
David S. Miller da935c66ba Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
	drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c
	net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
2011-02-19 19:17:35 -08:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso c317428644 netfilter: nf_conntrack: set conntrack templates again if we return NF_REPEAT
The TCP tracking code has a special case that allows to return
NF_REPEAT if we receive a new SYN packet while in TIME_WAIT state.

In this situation, the TCP tracking code destroys the existing
conntrack to start a new clean session.

[DESTROY] tcp      6 src=192.168.0.2 dst=192.168.1.2 sport=38925 dport=8000 src=192.168.1.2 dst=192.168.1.100 sport=8000 dport=38925 [ASSURED]
    [NEW] tcp      6 120 SYN_SENT src=192.168.0.2 dst=192.168.1.2 sport=38925 dport=8000 [UNREPLIED] src=192.168.1.2 dst=192.168.1.100 sport=8000 dport=38925

However, this is a problem for the iptables' CT target event filtering
which will not work in this case since the conntrack template will not
be there for the new session. To fix this, we reassign the conntrack
template to the packet if we return NF_REPEAT.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2011-02-09 08:08:20 +01:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso a992ca2a04 netfilter: nf_conntrack_tstamp: add flow-based timestamp extension
This patch adds flow-based timestamping for conntracks. This
conntrack extension is disabled by default. Basically, we use
two 64-bits variables to store the creation timestamp once the
conntrack has been confirmed and the other to store the deletion
time. This extension is disabled by default, to enable it, you
have to:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_timestamp

This patch allows to save memory for user-space flow-based
loogers such as ulogd2. In short, ulogd2 does not need to
keep a hashtable with the conntrack in user-space to know
when they were created and destroyed, instead we use the
kernel timestamp. If we want to have a sane IPFIX implementation
in user-space, this nanosecs resolution timestamps are also
useful. Other custom user-space applications can benefit from
this via libnetfilter_conntrack.

This patch modifies the /proc output to display the delta time
in seconds since the flow start. You can also obtain the
flow-start date by means of the conntrack-tools.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2011-01-19 16:00:07 +01:00
Changli Gao 45eec34195 netfilter: nf_conntrack: remove an atomic bit operation
As this ct won't be seen by the others, we don't need to set the
IPS_CONFIRMED_BIT in atomic way.

Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Cc: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2011-01-18 15:08:13 +01:00
Patrick McHardy d862a6622e netfilter: nf_conntrack: use is_vmalloc_addr()
Use is_vmalloc_addr() in nf_ct_free_hashtable() and get rid of
the vmalloc flags to indicate that a hash table has been allocated
using vmalloc().

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2011-01-14 15:45:56 +01:00
Simon Horman fee1cc0895 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6 into HEAD 2011-01-13 10:29:21 +09:00
Changli Gao f682cefa5a netfilter: fix the race when initializing nf_ct_expect_hash_rnd
Since nf_ct_expect_dst_hash() may be called without nf_conntrack_lock
locked, nf_ct_expect_hash_rnd should be initialized in the atomic way.

In this patch, we use nf_conntrack_hash_rnd instead of
nf_ct_expect_hash_rnd.

Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-01-06 11:22:20 -08:00
Changli Gao e5fc9e7a66 netfilter: nf_conntrack: don't always initialize ct->proto
ct->proto is big(60 bytes) due to structure ip_ct_tcp, and we don't need
to initialize the whole for all the other protocols. This patch moves
proto to the end of structure nf_conn, and pushes the initialization down
to the individual protocols.

Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-11-12 17:33:17 +01:00
Eric Dumazet 6b1686a71e netfilter: nf_conntrack: allow nf_ct_alloc_hashtable() to get highmem pages
commit ea781f197d (use SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU and get rid of call_rcu())
did a mistake in __vmalloc() call in nf_ct_alloc_hashtable().

I forgot to add __GFP_HIGHMEM, so pages were taken from LOWMEM only.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-10-28 12:34:21 +02:00
Changli Gao 99f07e91be netfilter: save the hash of the tuple in the original direction for latter use
Since we don't change the tuple in the original direction, we can save it
in ct->tuplehash[IP_CT_DIR_REPLY].hnode.pprev for __nf_conntrack_confirm()
use.

__hash_conntrack() is split into two steps: hash_conntrack_raw() is used
to get the raw hash, and __hash_bucket() is used to get the bucket id.

In SYN-flood case, early_drop() doesn't need to recompute the hash again.

Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-09-21 17:49:20 +02:00
Changli Gao b23909695c netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix the hash random initializing race
nf_conntrack_alloc() isn't called with nf_conntrack_lock locked, so hash
random initializing code maybe executed more than once on different
CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-09-16 19:55:03 +02:00
Changli Gao 6661481d5a netfilter: nf_conntrack_acct: use skb->len for accounting
use skb->len for accounting as xt_quota does. Since nf_conntrack works
at the network layer, skb_network_offset should always returns ZERO.

Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-08-02 17:56:28 +02:00
Patrick McHardy f9181f4ffc Merge branch 'master' of /repos/git/net-next-2.6
Conflicts:
	include/net/netfilter/xt_rateest.h
	net/bridge/br_netfilter.c
	net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-06-15 17:31:06 +02:00
Eric Dumazet b3c5163fe0 netfilter: nf_conntrack: per_cpu untracking
NOTRACK makes all cpus share a cache line on nf_conntrack_untracked
twice per packet, slowing down performance.

This patch converts it to a per_cpu variable.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-06-09 14:43:38 +02:00
Eric Dumazet 5bfddbd46a netfilter: nf_conntrack: IPS_UNTRACKED bit
NOTRACK makes all cpus share a cache line on nf_conntrack_untracked
twice per packet. This is bad for performance.
__read_mostly annotation is also a bad choice.

This patch introduces IPS_UNTRACKED bit so that we can use later a
per_cpu untrack structure more easily.

A new helper, nf_ct_untracked_get() returns a pointer to
nf_conntrack_untracked.

Another one, nf_ct_untracked_status_or() is used by nf_nat_init() to add
IPS_NAT_DONE_MASK bits to untracked status.

nf_ct_is_untracked() prototype is changed to work on a nf_conn pointer.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-06-08 16:09:52 +02:00
Eric Dumazet c2d9ba9bce net: CONFIG_NET_NS reduction
Use read_pnet() and write_pnet() to reduce number of ifdef CONFIG_NET_NS

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-02 05:16:23 -07:00
Joerg Marx fc350777c7 netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix a race in __nf_conntrack_confirm against nf_ct_get_next_corpse()
This race was triggered by a 'conntrack -F' command running in parallel
to the insertion of a hash for a new connection. Losing this race led to
a dead conntrack entry effectively blocking traffic for a particular
connection until timeout or flushing the conntrack hashes again.
Now the check for an already dying connection is done inside the lock.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Marx <joerg.marx@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-05-20 15:55:30 +02:00
Stephen Hemminger 654d0fbdc8 netfilter: cleanup printk messages
Make sure all printk messages have a severity level.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-05-13 15:02:08 +02:00
Jesper Dangaard Brouer af740b2c8f netfilter: nf_conntrack: extend with extra stat counter
I suspect an unfortunatly series of events occuring under a DDoS
attack, in function __nf_conntrack_find() nf_contrack_core.c.

Adding a stats counter to see if the search is restarted too often.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-04-23 12:34:56 +02:00
Patrick McHardy 5d0aa2ccd4 netfilter: nf_conntrack: add support for "conntrack zones"
Normally, each connection needs a unique identity. Conntrack zones allow
to specify a numerical zone using the CT target, connections in different
zones can use the same identity.

Example:

iptables -t raw -A PREROUTING -i veth0 -j CT --zone 1
iptables -t raw -A OUTPUT -o veth1 -j CT --zone 1

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-02-15 18:13:33 +01:00
Patrick McHardy 8fea97ec17 netfilter: nf_conntrack: pass template to l4proto ->error() handler
The error handlers might need the template to get the conntrack zone
introduced in the next patches to perform a conntrack lookup.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-02-15 17:45:08 +01:00
Patrick McHardy 9ab99d5a43 Merge branch 'master' of /repos/git/net-next-2.6
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-02-10 14:17:10 +01:00
Patrick McHardy d696c7bdaa netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix hash resizing with namespaces
As noticed by Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>, the conntrack hash
size is global and not per namespace, but modifiable at runtime through
/sys/module/nf_conntrack/hashsize. Changing the hash size will only
resize the hash in the current namespace however, so other namespaces
will use an invalid hash size. This can cause crashes when enlarging
the hashsize, or false negative lookups when shrinking it.

Move the hash size into the per-namespace data and only use the global
hash size to initialize the per-namespace value when instanciating a
new namespace. Additionally restrict hash resizing to init_net for
now as other namespaces are not handled currently.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-08 11:18:07 -08:00
Eric Dumazet 5b3501faa8 netfilter: nf_conntrack: per netns nf_conntrack_cachep
nf_conntrack_cachep is currently shared by all netns instances, but
because of SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU special semantics, this is wrong.

If we use a shared slab cache, one object can instantly flight between
one hash table (netns ONE) to another one (netns TWO), and concurrent
reader (doing a lookup in netns ONE, 'finding' an object of netns TWO)
can be fooled without notice, because no RCU grace period has to be
observed between object freeing and its reuse.

We dont have this problem with UDP/TCP slab caches because TCP/UDP
hashtables are global to the machine (and each object has a pointer to
its netns).

If we use per netns conntrack hash tables, we also *must* use per netns
conntrack slab caches, to guarantee an object can not escape from one
namespace to another one.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
[Patrick: added unique slab name allocation]
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-02-08 11:16:56 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 9edd7ca0a3 netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix memory corruption with multiple namespaces
As discovered by Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>, the "untracked"
conntrack, which is located in the data section, might be accidentally
freed when a new namespace is instantiated while the untracked conntrack
is attached to a skb because the reference count it re-initialized.

The best fix would be to use a seperate untracked conntrack per
namespace since it includes a namespace pointer. Unfortunately this is
not possible without larger changes since the namespace is not easily
available everywhere we need it. For now move the untracked conntrack
initialization to the init_net setup function to make sure the reference
count is not re-initialized and handle cleanup in the init_net cleanup
function to make sure namespaces can exit properly while the untracked
conntrack is in use in other namespaces.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-08 11:16:26 -08:00
Patrick McHardy b2a15a604d netfilter: nf_conntrack: support conntrack templates
Support initializing selected parameters of new conntrack entries from a
"conntrack template", which is a specially marked conntrack entry attached
to the skb.

Currently the helper and the event delivery masks can be initialized this
way.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-02-03 14:40:17 +01:00
Patrick McHardy 0cebe4b416 netfilter: ctnetlink: support selective event delivery
Add two masks for conntrack end expectation events to struct nf_conntrack_ecache
and use them to filter events. Their default value is "all events" when the
event sysctl is on and "no events" when it is off. A following patch will add
specific initializations. Expectation events depend on the ecache struct of
their master conntrack.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-02-03 13:51:51 +01:00
Patrick McHardy 858b313300 netfilter: nf_conntrack: split up IPCT_STATUS event
Split up the IPCT_STATUS event into an IPCT_REPLY event, which is generated
when the IPS_SEEN_REPLY bit is set, and an IPCT_ASSURED event, which is
generated when the IPS_ASSURED bit is set.

In combination with a following patch to support selective event delivery,
this can be used for "sparse" conntrack replication: start replicating the
conntrack entry after it reached the ASSURED state and that way it's SYN-flood
resistant.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-02-03 13:48:53 +01:00
David S. Miller 424eff9751 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-next-2.6 2009-12-03 13:23:12 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 1ce55238e2 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (34 commits)
  net/fsl_pq_mdio: add module license GPL
  can: fix WARN_ON dump in net/core/rtnetlink.c:rtmsg_ifinfo()
  can: should not use __dev_get_by_index() without locks
  hisax: remove bad udelay call to fix build error on ARM
  ipip: Fix handling of DF packets when pmtudisc is OFF
  qlge: Set PCIe reset type for EEH to fundamental.
  qlge: Fix early exit from mbox cmd complete wait.
  ixgbe: fix traffic hangs on Tx with ioatdma loaded
  ixgbe: Fix checking TFCS register for TXOFF status when DCB is enabled
  ixgbe: Fix gso_max_size for 82599 when DCB is enabled
  macsonic: fix crash on PowerBook 520
  NET: cassini, fix lock imbalance
  ems_usb: Fix byte order issues on big endian machines
  be2net: Bug fix to send config commands to hardware after netdev_register
  be2net: fix to set proper flow control on resume
  netfilter: xt_connlimit: fix regression caused by zero family value
  rt2x00: Don't queue ieee80211 work after USB removal
  Revert "ipw2200: fix oops on missing firmware"
  decnet: netdevice refcount leak
  netfilter: nf_nat: fix NAT issue in 2.6.30.4+
  ...
2009-11-09 09:51:42 -08:00
Jozsef Kadlecsik f9dd09c7f7 netfilter: nf_nat: fix NAT issue in 2.6.30.4+
Vitezslav Samel discovered that since 2.6.30.4+ active FTP can not work
over NAT. The "cause" of the problem was a fix of unacknowledged data
detection with NAT (commit a3a9f79e36).
However, actually, that fix uncovered a long standing bug in TCP conntrack:
when NAT was enabled, we simply updated the max of the right edge of
the segments we have seen (td_end), by the offset NAT produced with
changing IP/port in the data. However, we did not update the other parameter
(td_maxend) which is affected by the NAT offset. Thus that could drift
away from the correct value and thus resulted breaking active FTP.

The patch below fixes the issue by *not* updating the conntrack parameters
from NAT, but instead taking into account the NAT offsets in conntrack in a
consistent way. (Updating from NAT would be more harder and expensive because
it'd need to re-calculate parameters we already calculated in conntrack.)

Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-06 00:43:42 -08:00
Changli Gao 5ae27aa2b1 netfilter: nf_conntrack: avoid additional compare.
Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-11-05 14:51:31 +01:00
Alexey Dobriyan d43c36dc6b headers: remove sched.h from interrupt.h
After m68k's task_thread_info() doesn't refer to current,
it's possible to remove sched.h from interrupt.h and not break m68k!
Many thanks to Heiko Carstens for allowing this.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2009-10-11 11:20:58 -07:00
Jan Beulich 4481374ce8 mm: replace various uses of num_physpages by totalram_pages
Sizing of memory allocations shouldn't depend on the number of physical
pages found in a system, as that generally includes (perhaps a huge amount
of) non-RAM pages.  The amount of what actually is usable as storage
should instead be used as a basis here.

Some of the calculations (i.e.  those not intending to use high memory)
should likely even use (totalram_pages - totalhigh_pages).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:38 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan ee254fa44d netfilter: nf_conntrack: netns fix re reliable conntrack event delivery
Conntracks in netns other than init_net dying list were never killed.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-08-31 14:23:15 +02:00
Patrick McHardy 3993832464 netfilter: nfnetlink: constify message attributes and headers
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-08-25 16:07:58 +02:00
Eric Dumazet 941297f443 netfilter: nf_conntrack: nf_conntrack_alloc() fixes
When a slab cache uses SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU, we must be careful when allocating
objects, since slab allocator could give a freed object still used by lockless
readers.

In particular, nf_conntrack RCU lookups rely on ct->tuplehash[xxx].hnnode.next
being always valid (ie containing a valid 'nulls' value, or a valid pointer to next
object in hash chain.)

kmem_cache_zalloc() setups object with NULL values, but a NULL value is not valid
for ct->tuplehash[xxx].hnnode.next.

Fix is to call kmem_cache_alloc() and do the zeroing ourself.

As spotted by Patrick, we also need to make sure lookup keys are committed to
memory before setting refcount to 1, or a lockless reader could get a reference
on the old version of the object. Its key re-check could then pass the barrier.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-07-16 14:03:40 +02:00
Patrick McHardy 8d8890b775 netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix conntrack lookup race
The RCU protected conntrack hash lookup only checks whether the entry
has a refcount of zero to decide whether it is stale. This is not
sufficient, entries are explicitly removed while there is at least
one reference left, possibly more. Explicitly check whether the entry
has been marked as dying to fix this.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-06-22 14:14:41 +02:00
Patrick McHardy 5c8ec910e7 netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix confirmation race condition
New connection tracking entries are inserted into the hash before they
are fully set up, namely the CONFIRMED bit is not set and the timer not
started yet. This can theoretically lead to a race with timer, which
would set the timeout value to a relative value, most likely already in
the past.

Perform hash insertion as the final step to fix this.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-06-22 14:14:16 +02:00
Eric Dumazet 8cc20198cf netfilter: nf_conntrack: death_by_timeout() fix
death_by_timeout() might delete a conntrack from hash list
and insert it in dying list.

 nf_ct_delete_from_lists(ct);
 nf_ct_insert_dying_list(ct);

I believe a (lockless) reader could *catch* ct while doing a lookup
and miss the end of its chain.
(nulls lookup algo must check the null value at the end of lookup and
should restart if the null value is not the expected one.
cf Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt for details)

We need to change nf_conntrack_init_net() and use a different "null" value,
guaranteed not being used in regular lists. Choose very large values, since
hash table uses [0..size-1] null values.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-06-22 14:13:55 +02:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso dd7669a92c netfilter: conntrack: optional reliable conntrack event delivery
This patch improves ctnetlink event reliability if one broadcast
listener has set the NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR socket option.

The logic is the following: if an event delivery fails, we keep
the undelivered events in the missed event cache. Once the next
packet arrives, we add the new events (if any) to the missed
events in the cache and we try a new delivery, and so on. Thus,
if ctnetlink fails to deliver an event, we try to deliver them
once we see a new packet. Therefore, we may lose state
transitions but the userspace process gets in sync at some point.

At worst case, if no events were delivered to userspace, we make
sure that destroy events are successfully delivered. Basically,
if ctnetlink fails to deliver the destroy event, we remove the
conntrack entry from the hashes and we insert them in the dying
list, which contains inactive entries. Then, the conntrack timer
is added with an extra grace timeout of random32() % 15 seconds
to trigger the event again (this grace timeout is tunable via
/proc). The use of a limited random timeout value allows
distributing the "destroy" resends, thus, avoiding accumulating
lots "destroy" events at the same time. Event delivery may
re-order but we can identify them by means of the tuple plus
the conntrack ID.

The maximum number of conntrack entries (active or inactive) is
still handled by nf_conntrack_max. Thus, we may start dropping
packets at some point if we accumulate a lot of inactive conntrack
entries that did not successfully report the destroy event to
userspace.

During my stress tests consisting of setting a very small buffer
of 2048 bytes for conntrackd and the NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR socket
flag, and generating lots of very small connections, I noticed
very few destroy entries on the fly waiting to be resend.

A simple way to test this patch consist of creating a lot of
entries, set a very small Netlink buffer in conntrackd (+ a patch
which is not in the git tree to set the BROADCAST_ERROR flag)
and invoke `conntrack -F'.

For expectations, no changes are introduced in this patch.
Currently, event delivery is only done for new expectations (no
events from expectation expiration, removal and confirmation).
In that case, they need a per-expectation event cache to implement
the same idea that is exposed in this patch.

This patch can be useful to provide reliable flow-accouting. We
still have to add a new conntrack extension to store the creation
and destroy time.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-06-13 12:30:52 +02:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso 9858a3ae1d netfilter: conntrack: move helper destruction to nf_ct_helper_destroy()
This patch moves the helper destruction to a function that lives
in nf_conntrack_helper.c. This new function is used in the patch
to add ctnetlink reliable event delivery.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-06-13 12:28:22 +02:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso a0891aa6a6 netfilter: conntrack: move event caching to conntrack extension infrastructure
This patch reworks the per-cpu event caching to use the conntrack
extension infrastructure.

The main drawback is that we consume more memory per conntrack
if event delivery is enabled. This patch is required by the
reliable event delivery that follows to this patch.

BTW, this patch allows you to enable/disable event delivery via
/proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_events in runtime, although
you can still disable event caching as compilation option.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-06-13 12:26:29 +02:00