History log of /linux-master/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_tuple.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# eaf9e719 03-Jul-2023 Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>

netfilter: conntrack: don't fold port numbers into addresses before hashing

Originally this used jhash2() over tuple and folded the zone id,
the pernet hash value, destination port and l4 protocol number into the
32bit seed value.

When the switch to siphash was done, I used an on-stack temporary
buffer to build a suitable key to be hashed via siphash().

But this showed up as performance regression, so I got rid of
the temporary copy and collected to-be-hashed data in 4 u64 variables.

This makes it easy to build tuples that produce the same hash, which isn't
desirable even though chain lengths are limited.

Switch back to plain siphash, but just like with jhash2(), take advantage
of the fact that most of to-be-hashed data is already in a suitable order.

Use an empty struct as annotation in 'struct nf_conntrack_tuple' to mark
last member that can be used as hash input.

The only remaining data that isn't present in the tuple structure are the
zone identifier and the pernet hash: fold those into the key.

Fixes: d2c806abcf0b ("netfilter: conntrack: use siphash_4u64")
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>


# f19438bd 13-Sep-2019 Jeremy Sowden <jeremy@azazel.net>

netfilter: remove CONFIG_NETFILTER checks from headers.

`struct nf_hook_ops`, `struct nf_hook_state` and the `nf_hookfn`
function typedef appear in function and struct declarations and
definitions in a number of netfilter headers. The structs and typedef
themselves are defined by linux/netfilter.h but only when
CONFIG_NETFILTER is enabled. Define them unconditionally and add
forward declarations in order to remove CONFIG_NETFILTER conditionals
from the other headers.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Sowden <jeremy@azazel.net>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>


# b0edba2a 13-Sep-2019 Jeremy Sowden <jeremy@azazel.net>

netfilter: fix coding-style errors.

Several header-files, Kconfig files and Makefiles have trailing
white-space. Remove it.

In netfilter/Kconfig, indent the type of CONFIG_NETFILTER_NETLINK_ACCT
correctly.

There are semicolons at the end of two function definitions in
include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_acct.h and
include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ecache.h. Remove them.

Fix indentation in nf_conntrack_l4proto.h.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Sowden <jeremy@azazel.net>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>


# 78458e3e 07-Aug-2019 Jeremy Sowden <jeremy@azazel.net>

netfilter: add missing IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NETFILTER) checks to some header-files.

linux/netfilter.h defines a number of struct and inline function
definitions which are only available is CONFIG_NETFILTER is enabled.
These structs and functions are used in declarations and definitions in
other header-files. Added preprocessor checks to make sure these
headers will compile if CONFIG_NETFILTER is disabled.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Sowden <jeremy@azazel.net>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>


# b2441318 01-Nov-2017 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# cbc9f2f4 23-Dec-2011 Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

netfilter: nf_nat: export NAT definitions to userspace

Export the NAT definitions to userspace. So far userspace (specifically,
iptables) has been copying the headers files from include/net. Also
rename some structures and definitions in preparation for IPv6 NAT.
Since these have never been officially exported, this doesn't affect
existing userspace code.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>


# 8d83f63b 01-Oct-2011 Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

netfilter: export NAT definitions through linux/netfilter_ipv4/nf_nat.h

This patch exports several definitions that used to live under
include/net/netfilter/nf_nat.h. These definitions, although not
exported, have been used by iptables and other userspace
applications like miniupnpd since long time. Basically, these
userspace tools included some internal definition of the required
structures and they assume no changes in the binary representation
(which is OK indeed).

To resolve this situation, this patch makes public the required
structure and install them in INSTALL_HDR_PATH.

See: https://bugs.gentoo.org/376873, for more information.

This patch is heavily based on the initial patch sent by:

Anthony G. Basile <blueness@gentoo.org>

Which was entitled:

netfilter: export sanitized nf_nat.h to INSTALL_HDR_PATH

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>


# 2a9e9507 24-Apr-2011 David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

net: Remove __KERNEL__ cpp checks from include/net

These header files are never installed to user consumption, so any
__KERNEL__ cpp checks are superfluous.

Projects should also not copy these files into their userland utility
sources and try to use them there. If they insist on doing so, the
onus is on them to sanitize the headers as needed.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# fd2c3ef7 02-Nov-2009 Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

net: cleanup include/net

This cleanup patch puts struct/union/enum opening braces,
in first line to ease grep games.

struct something
{

becomes :

struct something {

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# ea781f19 25-Mar-2009 Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>

netfilter: nf_conntrack: use SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU and get rid of call_rcu()

Use "hlist_nulls" infrastructure we added in 2.6.29 for RCUification of UDP & TCP.

This permits an easy conversion from call_rcu() based hash lists to a
SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU one.

Avoiding call_rcu() delay at nf_conn freeing time has numerous gains.

First, it doesnt fill RCU queues (up to 10000 elements per cpu).
This reduces OOM possibility, if queued elements are not taken into account
This reduces latency problems when RCU queue size hits hilimit and triggers
emergency mode.

- It allows fast reuse of just freed elements, permitting better use of
CPU cache.

- We delete rcu_head from "struct nf_conn", shrinking size of this structure
by 8 or 16 bytes.

This patch only takes care of "struct nf_conn".
call_rcu() is still used for less critical conntrack parts, that may
be converted later if necessary.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>


# 3685f25d 31-Oct-2008 Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>

misc: replace NIPQUAD()

Using NIPQUAD() with NIPQUAD_FMT, %d.%d.%d.%d or %u.%u.%u.%u
can be replaced with %pI4

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 5b095d989 29-Oct-2008 Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>

net: replace %p6 with %pI6

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 0c6ce78a 28-Oct-2008 Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>

net: replace uses of NIP6_FMT with %p6

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 443a70d5 29-Apr-2008 Philip Craig <philipc@snapgear.com>

netfilter: nf_conntrack: padding breaks conntrack hash on ARM

commit 0794935e "[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: optimize hash_conntrack()"
results in ARM platforms hashing uninitialised padding. This padding
doesn't exist on other architectures.

Fix this by replacing NF_CT_TUPLE_U_BLANK() with memset() to ensure
everything is initialised. There were only 4 bytes that
NF_CT_TUPLE_U_BLANK() wasn't clearing anyway (or 12 bytes on ARM).

Signed-off-by: Philip Craig <philipc@snapgear.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 3c9fba65 14-Apr-2008 Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>

[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: replace NF_CT_DUMP_TUPLE macro indrection by function call

Directly call IPv4 and IPv6 variants where the address family is
easily known.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>


# 5f2b4c90 14-Apr-2008 Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>

[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: use bool type in struct nf_conntrack_tuple.h

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>


# 2bc78049 20-Mar-2008 Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: add DCCP protocol support

Add DCCP conntrack helper. Thanks to Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
for review and testing.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>


# b8beedd2 25-Mar-2008 Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

[NETFILTER]: Add nf_inet_addr_cmp()

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# ef27559b 25-Mar-2008 Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: fix NF_CT_TUPLE_DUMP for IPv4

NF_CT_TUPLE_DUMP prints IPv4 addresses as IPv6, fix this and use printk
(guarded by #ifdef DEBUG) directly instead of pr_debug since the tuple
is usually printed at the end of line and we don't want to include a
log-level.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 380517de 31-Jan-2008 Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: avoid duplicate protocol comparison in nf_ct_tuple_equal()

nf_ct_tuple_src_equal() and nf_ct_tuple_dst_equal() both compare the protocol
numbers. Unfortunately gcc doesn't optimize out the second comparison, so
remove it and prefix both functions with __ to indicate that they should not
be used directly.

Saves another 16 byte of text in __nf_conntrack_find() on x86_64:

nf_conntrack_tuple_taken | -20 # 320 -> 300, size inlines: 181 -> 161
__nf_conntrack_find | -16 # 267 -> 251, size inlines: 127 -> 115
__nf_conntrack_confirm | -40 # 875 -> 835, size inlines: 570 -> 537
3 functions changed, 76 bytes removed

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 643a2c15 17-Dec-2007 Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>

[NETFILTER]: Introduce nf_inet_address

A few netfilter modules provide their own union of IPv4 and IPv6
address storage. Will unify that in this patch series.

(1/4): Rename union nf_conntrack_address to union nf_inet_addr and
move it to x_tables.h.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# a34c4589 26-Jul-2007 Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>

netfilter endian regressions

no real bugs, just misannotations cropping up

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 0d53778e 07-Jul-2007 Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

[NETFILTER]: Convert DEBUGP to pr_debug

Convert DEBUGP to pr_debug and fix lots of non-compiling debug statements.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# d4156e8c 07-Jul-2007 Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: reduce masks to a subset of tuples

Since conntrack currently allows to use masks for every bit of both
helper and expectation tuples, we can't hash them and have to keep
them on two global lists that are searched for every new connection.

This patch removes the never used ability to use masks for the
destination part of the expectation tuple and completely removes
masks from helpers since the only reasonable choice is a full
match on l3num, protonum and src.u.all.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# f205c5e0 07-Jul-2007 Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: use hlists for conntrack hash

Convert conntrack hash to hlists to reduce its size and cache
footprint. Since the default hashsize to max. entries ratio
sucks (1:16), this patch doesn't reduce the amount of memory
used for the hash by default, but instead uses a better ratio
of 1:8, which results in the same max. entries value.

One thing worth noting is early_drop. It really should use LRU,
so it now has to iterate over the entire chain to find the last
unconfirmed entry. Since chains shouldn't be very long and the
entire operation is very rare this shouldn't be a problem.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# f09943fe 02-Dec-2006 Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack/nf_nat: add PPTP helper port

Add nf_conntrack port of the PPtP conntrack/NAT helper. Since there seems
to be no IPv6-capable PPtP implementation the helper only support IPv4.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# d6a9b650 02-Dec-2006 Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: add helper function for expectation initialization

Expectation address masks need to be differently initialized depending
on the address family, create helper function to avoid cluttering up
the code too much.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# bff9a89b 02-Dec-2006 Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: endian annotations

Resync with Al Viro's ip_conntrack annotations and fix a missed
spot in ip_nat_proto_icmp.c.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 46b86a2d 13-Jan-2006 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>

[NET]: Use NIP6_FMT in kernel.h

There are errors and inconsistency in the display of NIP6 strings.
ie: net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c

There are errors and inconsistency in the display of NIPQUAD strings too.
ie: net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ftp.c

This patch:
adds NIP6_FMT to kernel.h
changes all code to use NIP6_FMT
fixes net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c
adds NIPQUAD_FMT to kernel.h
fixes net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ftp.c
changes a few uses of "%u.%u.%u.%u" to NIPQUAD_FMT for symmetry to NIP6_FMT

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 9fb9cbb1 09-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>