History log of /linux-master/net/netfilter/nft_cmp.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# 2b3082c6 28-Jul-2023 Ratheesh Kannoth <rkannoth@marvell.com>

net: flow_dissector: Use 64bits for used_keys

As 32bits of dissector->used_keys are exhausted,
increase the size to 64bits.

This is base change for ESP/AH flow dissector patch.
Please find patch and discussions at
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/ZMDNjD46BvZ5zp5I@corigine.com/T/#t

Signed-off-by: Ratheesh Kannoth <rkannoth@marvell.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com> # for mlxsw
Tested-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Habets <habetsm.xilinx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 7d34aa3e 14-Oct-2022 Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>

netfilter: nf_tables: Extend nft_expr_ops::dump callback parameters

Add a 'reset' flag just like with nft_object_ops::dump. This will be
useful to reset "anonymous stateful objects", e.g. simple rule counters.

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>


# 341b6941 08-Aug-2022 Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

netfilter: nf_tables: upfront validation of data via nft_data_init()

Instead of parsing the data and then validate that type and length are
correct, pass a description of the expected data so it can be validated
upfront before parsing it to bail out earlier.

This patch adds a new .size field to specify the maximum size of the
data area. The .len field is optional and it is used as an input/output
field, it provides the specific length of the expected data in the input
path. If then .len field is not specified, then obtained length from the
netlink attribute is stored. This is required by cmp, bitwise, range and
immediate, which provide no netlink attribute that describes the data
length. The immediate expression uses the destination register type to
infer the expected data type.

Relying on opencoded validation of the expected data might lead to
subtle bugs as described in 7e6bc1f6cabc ("netfilter: nf_tables:
stricter validation of element data").

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


# 6b772053 23-Jun-2022 Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>

netfilter: nf_tables: move nft_cmp_fast_mask to where its used

... and cast result to u32 so sparse won't complain anymore.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>


# ffb3d9a3 23-Jun-2022 Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>

netfilter: nf_tables: use correct integer types

Sparse tool complains about mixing of different endianess
types, so use the correct ones.

Add type casts where needed.

objdiff shows no changes except in nft_tunnel (type is changed).

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>


# b2d30654 14-Mar-2022 Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

netfilter: nf_tables: do not reduce read-only expressions

Skip register tracking for expressions that perform read-only operations
on the registers. Define and use a cookie pointer NFT_REDUCE_READONLY to
avoid defining stubs for these expressions.

This patch re-enables register tracking which was disabled in ed5f85d42290
("netfilter: nf_tables: disable register tracking"). Follow up patches
add remaining register tracking for existing expressions.

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


# 23f68d46 07-Feb-2022 Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

netfilter: nft_cmp: optimize comparison for 16-bytes

Allow up to 16-byte comparisons with a new cmp fast version. Use two
64-bit words and calculate the mask representing the bits to be
compared. Make sure the comparison is 64-bit aligned and avoid
out-of-bound memory access on registers.

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


# ff4d90a8 12-Apr-2021 Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

netfilter: nftables_offload: VLAN id needs host byteorder in flow dissector

The flow dissector representation expects the VLAN id in host byteorder.
Add the NFT_OFFLOAD_F_NETWORK2HOST flag to swap the bytes from nft_cmp.

Fixes: a82055af5959 ("netfilter: nft_payload: add VLAN offload support")
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>


# 626899a0 28-Jan-2021 Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>

netfilter: nftables: remove redundant assignment of variable err

The variable err is being assigned a value that is never read,
the same error number is being returned at the error return
path via label err1. Clean up the code by removing the assignment.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>


# 4f16d25c 25-Jan-2021 Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

netfilter: nftables: add nft_parse_register_load() and use it

This new function combines the netlink register attribute parser
and the load validation function.

This update requires to replace:

enum nft_registers sreg:8;

in many of the expression private areas otherwise compiler complains
with:

error: cannot take address of bit-field ‘sreg’

when passing the register field as reference.

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


# a5d45bc0 25-Nov-2020 Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

netfilter: nftables_offload: build mask based from the matching bytes

Userspace might match on prefix bytes of header fields if they are on
the byte boundary, this requires that the mask is adjusted accordingly.
Use NFT_OFFLOAD_MATCH_EXACT() for meta since prefix byte matching is not
allowed for this type of selector.

The bitwise expression might be optimized out by userspace, hence the
kernel needs to infer the prefix from the number of payload bytes to
match on. This patch adds nft_payload_offload_mask() to calculate the
bitmask to match on the prefix.

Fixes: c9626a2cbdb2 ("netfilter: nf_tables: add hardware offload support")
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>


# 5f48846d 02-Oct-2020 Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>

netfilter: nf_tables: Enable fast nft_cmp for inverted matches

Add a boolean indicating NFT_CMP_NEQ. To include it into the match
decision, it is sufficient to XOR it with the data comparison's result.

While being at it, store the mask that is calculated during expression
init and free the eval routine from having to recalculate it each time.

Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>


# 954d8297 08-Jul-2020 Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>

netfilter: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword

Replace the existing /* fall through */ comments and its variants with
the new pseudo-keyword macro fallthrough[1]. Also, remove unnecessary
fall-through markings when it is the case.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html?highlight=fallthrough#implicit-switch-case-fall-through

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>


# 0d2c96af 06-Dec-2019 Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

netfilter: nf_tables: validate NFT_DATA_VALUE after nft_data_init()

Userspace might bogusly sent NFT_DATA_VERDICT in several netlink
attributes that assume NFT_DATA_VALUE. Moreover, make sure that error
path invokes nft_data_release() to decrement the reference count on the
chain object.

Fixes: 96518518cc41 ("netfilter: add nftables")
Fixes: 0f3cd9b36977 ("netfilter: nf_tables: add range expression")
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>


# 8819efc9 19-Nov-2019 Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

netfilter: nf_tables_offload: allow ethernet interface type only

Hardware offload support at this stage assumes an ethernet device in
place. The flow dissector provides the intermediate representation to
express this selector, so extend it to allow to store the interface
type. Flower does not uses this, so skb_flow_dissect_meta() is not
extended to match on this new field.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# de2a6052 28-Oct-2019 Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

netfilter: nf_tables_offload: check for register data length mismatches

Make sure register data length does not mismatch immediate data length,
otherwise hit EOPNOTSUPP.

Fixes: c9626a2cbdb2 ("netfilter: nf_tables: add hardware offload support")
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>


# c9626a2c 09-Jul-2019 Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

netfilter: nf_tables: add hardware offload support

This patch adds hardware offload support for nftables through the
existing netdev_ops->ndo_setup_tc() interface, the TC_SETUP_CLSFLOWER
classifier and the flow rule API. This hardware offload support is
available for the NFPROTO_NETDEV family and the ingress hook.

Each nftables expression has a new ->offload interface, that is used to
populate the flow rule object that is attached to the transaction
object.

There is a new per-table NFT_TABLE_F_HW flag, that is set on to offload
an entire table, including all of its chains.

This patch supports for basic metadata (layer 3 and 4 protocol numbers),
5-tuple payload matching and the accept/drop actions; this also includes
basechain hardware offload only.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# d2912cb1 04-Jun-2019 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500

Based on 2 normalized pattern(s):

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
published by the free software foundation

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
published by the free software foundation #

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 4122 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt <info@metux.net>
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604081206.933168790@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 10870dd8 08-Jan-2019 Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>

netfilter: nf_tables: add direct calls for all builtin expressions

With CONFIG_RETPOLINE its faster to add an if (ptr == &foo_func)
check and and use direct calls for all the built-in expressions.

~15% improvement in pathological cases.

checkpatch doesn't like the X macro due to the embedded return statement,
but the macro has a very limited scope so I don't think its a problem.

I would like to avoid bugs of the form
If (e->ops->eval == (unsigned long)nft_foo_eval)
nft_bar_eval();

and open-coded if ()/else if()/else cascade, thus the macro.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>


# fa5950e4 04-Sep-2018 Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>

netfilter: nf_tables: avoid BUG_ON usage

None of these spots really needs to crash the kernel.
In one two cases we can jsut report error to userspace, in the other
cases we can just use WARN_ON (and leak memory instead).

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>


# e8542dce 07-Nov-2017 Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@embeddedor.com>

netfilter: mark expected switch fall-throughs

In preparation to enabling -Wimplicit-fallthrough, mark switch cases
where we are expecting to fall through.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>


# 59105446 15-May-2017 Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

netfilter: nf_tables: revisit chain/object refcounting from elements

Andreas reports that the following incremental update using our commit
protocol doesn't work.

# nft -f incremental-update.nft
delete element ip filter client_to_any { 10.180.86.22 : goto CIn_1 }
delete chain ip filter CIn_1
... Error: Could not process rule: Device or resource busy

The existing code is not well-integrated into the commit phase protocol,
since element deletions do not result in refcount decrement from the
preparation phase. This results in bogus EBUSY errors like the one
above.

Two new functions come with this patch:

* nft_set_elem_activate() function is used from the abort path, to
restore the set element refcounting on objects that occurred from
the preparation phase.

* nft_set_elem_deactivate() that is called from nft_del_setelem() to
decrement set element refcounting on objects from the preparation
phase in the commit protocol.

The nft_data_uninit() has been renamed to nft_data_release() since this
function does not uninitialize any data store in the data register,
instead just releases the references to objects. Moreover, a new
function nft_data_hold() has been introduced to be used from
nft_set_elem_activate().

Reported-by: Andreas Schultz <aschultz@tpip.net>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>


# 71df14b0 15-May-2017 Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

netfilter: nf_tables: missing sanitization in data from userspace

Do not assume userspace always sends us NFT_DATA_VALUE for bitwise and
cmp expressions. Although NFT_DATA_VERDICT does not make any sense, it
is still possible to handcraft a netlink message using this incorrect
data type.

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


# 4e24877e 06-Nov-2016 Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@gmail.com>

netfilter: nf_tables: simplify the basic expressions' init routine

Some basic expressions are built into nf_tables.ko, such as nft_cmp,
nft_lookup, nft_range and so on. But these basic expressions' init
routine is a little ugly, too many goto errX labels, and we forget
to call nft_range_module_exit in the exit routine, although it is
harmless.

Acctually, the init and exit routines of these basic expressions
are same, i.e. do nft_register_expr in the init routine and do
nft_unregister_expr in the exit routine.

So it's better to arrange them into an array and deal with them
together.

Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>


# e41e9d62 29-Oct-2016 Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@gmail.com>

netfilter: nf_tables: remove useless U8_MAX validation

After call nft_data_init, size is already validated and desc.len will
not exceed the sizeof(struct nft_data), i.e. 16 bytes. So it will never
exceed U8_MAX.

Furthermore, in nft_immediate_init, we forget to call nft_data_uninit
when desc.len exceeds U8_MAX, although this will not happen, but it's
a logical mistake.

Now remove these redundant validation introduced by commit 36b701fae12a
("netfilter: nf_tables: validate maximum value of u32 netlink attributes")

Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>


# 36b701fa 14-Sep-2016 Laura Garcia Liebana <nevola@gmail.com>

netfilter: nf_tables: validate maximum value of u32 netlink attributes

Fetch value and validate u32 netlink attribute. This validation is
usually required when the u32 netlink attributes are being stored in a
field whose size is smaller.

This patch revisits 4da449ae1df9 ("netfilter: nft_exthdr: Add size check
on u8 nft_exthdr attributes").

Fixes: 96518518cc41 ("netfilter: add nftables")
Suggested-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Laura Garcia Liebana <nevola@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>


# d0a11fc3 10-Apr-2015 Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

netfilter: nf_tables: support variable sized data in nft_data_init()

Add a size argument to nft_data_init() and pass in the available space.
This will be used by the following patches to support variable sized
set element data.

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


# b1c96ed3 10-Apr-2015 Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

netfilter: nf_tables: add register parsing/dumping helpers

Add helper functions to parse and dump register values in netlink attributes.
These helpers will later be changed to take care of translation between the
old 128 bit and the new 32 bit register numbers.

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


# e562d860 10-Apr-2015 Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

netfilter: nf_tables: kill nft_data_cmp()

Only needlessly complicates things due to requiring specific argument
types. Use memcmp directly.

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


# a55e22e9 10-Apr-2015 Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

netfilter: nf_tables: get rid of NFT_REG_VERDICT usage

Replace the array of registers passed to expressions by a struct nft_regs,
containing the verdict as a seperate member, which aliases to the
NFT_REG_VERDICT register.

This is needed to seperate the verdict from the data registers completely,
so their size can be changed.

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


# d07db988 10-Apr-2015 Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

netfilter: nf_tables: introduce nft_validate_register_load()

Change nft_validate_input_register() to not only validate the input
register number, but also the length of the load, and rename it to
nft_validate_register_load() to reflect that change.

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


# b855d416 12-Apr-2014 Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

netfilter: nf_tables: fix nft_cmp_fast failure on big endian for size < 4

nft_cmp_fast is used for equality comparisions of size <= 4. For
comparisions of size < 4 byte a mask is calculated that is applied to
both the data from userspace (during initialization) and the register
value (during runtime). Both values are stored using (in effect) memcpy
to a memory area that is then interpreted as u32 by nft_cmp_fast.

This works fine on little endian since smaller types have the same base
address, however on big endian this is not true and the smaller types
are interpreted as a big number with trailing zero bytes.

The mask therefore must not include the lower bytes, but the higher bytes
on big endian. Add a helper function that does a cpu_to_le32 to switch
the bytes on big endian. Since we're dealing with a mask of just consequitive
bits, this works out fine.

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


# 0ca743a5 13-Oct-2013 Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

netfilter: nf_tables: add compatibility layer for x_tables

This patch adds the x_tables compatibility layer. This allows you
to use existing x_tables matches and targets from nf_tables.

This compatibility later allows us to use existing matches/targets
for features that are still missing in nf_tables. We can progressively
replace them with native nf_tables extensions. It also provides the
userspace compatibility software that allows you to express the
rule-set using the iptables syntax but using the nf_tables kernel
components.

In order to get this compatibility layer working, I've done the
following things:

* add NFNL_SUBSYS_NFT_COMPAT: this new nfnetlink subsystem is used
to query the x_tables match/target revision, so we don't need to
use the native x_table getsockopt interface.

* emulate xt structures: this required extending the struct nft_pktinfo
to include the fragment offset, which is already obtained from
ip[6]_tables and that is used by some matches/targets.

* add support for default policy to base chains, required to emulate
x_tables.

* add NFTA_CHAIN_USE attribute to obtain the number of references to
chains, required by x_tables emulation.

* add chain packet/byte counters using per-cpu.

* support 32-64 bits compat.

For historical reasons, this patch includes the following patches
that were posted in the netfilter-devel mailing list.

From Pablo Neira Ayuso:
* nf_tables: add default policy to base chains
* netfilter: nf_tables: add NFTA_CHAIN_USE attribute
* nf_tables: nft_compat: private data of target and matches in contiguous area
* nf_tables: validate hooks for compat match/target
* nf_tables: nft_compat: release cached matches/targets
* nf_tables: x_tables support as a compile time option
* nf_tables: fix alias for xtables over nftables module
* nf_tables: add packet and byte counters per chain
* nf_tables: fix per-chain counter stats if no counters are passed
* nf_tables: don't bump chain stats
* nf_tables: add protocol and flags for xtables over nf_tables
* nf_tables: add ip[6]t_entry emulation
* nf_tables: move specific layer 3 compat code to nf_tables_ipv[4|6]
* nf_tables: support 32bits-64bits x_tables compat
* nf_tables: fix compilation if CONFIG_COMPAT is disabled

From Patrick McHardy:
* nf_tables: move policy to struct nft_base_chain
* nf_tables: send notifications for base chain policy changes

From Alexander Primak:
* nf_tables: remove the duplicate NF_INET_LOCAL_OUT

From Nicolas Dichtel:
* nf_tables: fix compilation when nf-netlink is a module

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


# cb7dbfd0 10-Oct-2013 Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

netfilter: nf_tables: add optimized data comparison for small values

Add an optimized version of nft_data_cmp() that only handles values of to
4 bytes length.

This patch includes original Patrick McHardy's patch entitled (nf_tables:
inline nft_cmp_fast_eval() into main evaluation loop).

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


# ef1f7df9 10-Oct-2013 Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

netfilter: nf_tables: expression ops overloading

Split the expression ops into two parts and support overloading of
the runtime expression ops based on the requested function through
a ->select_ops() callback.

This can be used to provide optimized implementations, for instance
for loading small aligned amounts of data from the packet or inlining
frequently used operations into the main evaluation loop.

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


# 96518518 14-Oct-2013 Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

netfilter: add nftables

This patch adds nftables which is the intended successor of iptables.
This packet filtering framework reuses the existing netfilter hooks,
the connection tracking system, the NAT subsystem, the transparent
proxying engine, the logging infrastructure and the userspace packet
queueing facilities.

In a nutshell, nftables provides a pseudo-state machine with 4 general
purpose registers of 128 bits and 1 specific purpose register to store
verdicts. This pseudo-machine comes with an extensible instruction set,
a.k.a. "expressions" in the nftables jargon. The expressions included
in this patch provide the basic functionality, they are:

* bitwise: to perform bitwise operations.
* byteorder: to change from host/network endianess.
* cmp: to compare data with the content of the registers.
* counter: to enable counters on rules.
* ct: to store conntrack keys into register.
* exthdr: to match IPv6 extension headers.
* immediate: to load data into registers.
* limit: to limit matching based on packet rate.
* log: to log packets.
* meta: to match metainformation that usually comes with the skbuff.
* nat: to perform Network Address Translation.
* payload: to fetch data from the packet payload and store it into
registers.
* reject (IPv4 only): to explicitly close connection, eg. TCP RST.

Using this instruction-set, the userspace utility 'nft' can transform
the rules expressed in human-readable text representation (using a
new syntax, inspired by tcpdump) to nftables bytecode.

nftables also inherits the table, chain and rule objects from
iptables, but in a more configurable way, and it also includes the
original datatype-agnostic set infrastructure with mapping support.
This set infrastructure is enhanced in the follow up patch (netfilter:
nf_tables: add netlink set API).

This patch includes the following components:

* the netlink API: net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c and
include/uapi/netfilter/nf_tables.h
* the packet filter core: net/netfilter/nf_tables_core.c
* the expressions (described above): net/netfilter/nft_*.c
* the filter tables: arp, IPv4, IPv6 and bridge:
net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_tables_ipv4.c
net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_tables_ipv6.c
net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_tables_arp.c
net/bridge/netfilter/nf_tables_bridge.c
* the NAT table (IPv4 only):
net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_table_nat_ipv4.c
* the route table (similar to mangle):
net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_table_route_ipv4.c
net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_table_route_ipv6.c
* internal definitions under:
include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h
include/net/netfilter/nf_tables_core.h
* It also includes an skeleton expression:
net/netfilter/nft_expr_template.c
and the preliminary implementation of the meta target
net/netfilter/nft_meta_target.c

It also includes a change in struct nf_hook_ops to add a new
pointer to store private data to the hook, that is used to store
the rule list per chain.

This patch is based on the patch from Patrick McHardy, plus merged
accumulated cleanups, fixes and small enhancements to the nftables
code that has been done since 2009, which are:

From Patrick McHardy:
* nf_tables: adjust netlink handler function signatures
* nf_tables: only retry table lookup after successful table module load
* nf_tables: fix event notification echo and avoid unnecessary messages
* nft_ct: add l3proto support
* nf_tables: pass expression context to nft_validate_data_load()
* nf_tables: remove redundant definition
* nft_ct: fix maxattr initialization
* nf_tables: fix invalid event type in nf_tables_getrule()
* nf_tables: simplify nft_data_init() usage
* nf_tables: build in more core modules
* nf_tables: fix double lookup expression unregistation
* nf_tables: move expression initialization to nf_tables_core.c
* nf_tables: build in payload module
* nf_tables: use NFPROTO constants
* nf_tables: rename pid variables to portid
* nf_tables: save 48 bits per rule
* nf_tables: introduce chain rename
* nf_tables: check for duplicate names on chain rename
* nf_tables: remove ability to specify handles for new rules
* nf_tables: return error for rule change request
* nf_tables: return error for NLM_F_REPLACE without rule handle
* nf_tables: include NLM_F_APPEND/NLM_F_REPLACE flags in rule notification
* nf_tables: fix NLM_F_MULTI usage in netlink notifications
* nf_tables: include NLM_F_APPEND in rule dumps

From Pablo Neira Ayuso:
* nf_tables: fix stack overflow in nf_tables_newrule
* nf_tables: nft_ct: fix compilation warning
* nf_tables: nft_ct: fix crash with invalid packets
* nft_log: group and qthreshold are 2^16
* nf_tables: nft_meta: fix socket uid,gid handling
* nft_counter: allow to restore counters
* nf_tables: fix module autoload
* nf_tables: allow to remove all rules placed in one chain
* nf_tables: use 64-bits rule handle instead of 16-bits
* nf_tables: fix chain after rule deletion
* nf_tables: improve deletion performance
* nf_tables: add missing code in route chain type
* nf_tables: rise maximum number of expressions from 12 to 128
* nf_tables: don't delete table if in use
* nf_tables: fix basechain release

From Tomasz Bursztyka:
* nf_tables: Add support for changing users chain's name
* nf_tables: Change chain's name to be fixed sized
* nf_tables: Add support for replacing a rule by another one
* nf_tables: Update uapi nftables netlink header documentation

From Florian Westphal:
* nft_log: group is u16, snaplen u32

From Phil Oester:
* nf_tables: operational limit match

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