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authorYasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>2005-11-09 16:38:16 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2005-11-09 16:38:16 -0800
commit9fb9cbb1082d6b31fb45aa1a14432449a0df6cf1 (patch)
treec964a62bdd766eca436c30f51a9e33e2b798b0a6 /net/core
parent6730c3c14421b7c924d06e31bb66e0adad225547 (diff)
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r--net/core/skbuff.c15
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index 95501e40100..b7d13a4fff4 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -336,6 +336,9 @@ void __kfree_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)
}
#ifdef CONFIG_NETFILTER
nf_conntrack_put(skb->nfct);
+#if defined(CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK) || defined(CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_MODULE)
+ nf_conntrack_put_reasm(skb->nfct_reasm);
+#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_BRIDGE_NETFILTER
nf_bridge_put(skb->nf_bridge);
#endif
@@ -414,9 +417,17 @@ struct sk_buff *skb_clone(struct sk_buff *skb, gfp_t gfp_mask)
C(nfct);
nf_conntrack_get(skb->nfct);
C(nfctinfo);
+#if defined(CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK) || defined(CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_MODULE)
+ C(nfct_reasm);
+ nf_conntrack_get_reasm(skb->nfct_reasm);
+#endif
#if defined(CONFIG_IP_VS) || defined(CONFIG_IP_VS_MODULE)
C(ipvs_property);
#endif
+#if defined(CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK) || defined(CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_MODULE)
+ C(nfct_reasm);
+ nf_conntrack_get_reasm(skb->nfct_reasm);
+#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_BRIDGE_NETFILTER
C(nf_bridge);
nf_bridge_get(skb->nf_bridge);
@@ -474,6 +485,10 @@ static void copy_skb_header(struct sk_buff *new, const struct sk_buff *old)
new->nfct = old->nfct;
nf_conntrack_get(old->nfct);
new->nfctinfo = old->nfctinfo;
+#if defined(CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK) || defined(CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_MODULE)
+ new->nfct_reasm = old->nfct_reasm;
+ nf_conntrack_get_reasm(old->nfct_reasm);
+#endif
#if defined(CONFIG_IP_VS) || defined(CONFIG_IP_VS_MODULE)
new->ipvs_property = old->ipvs_property;
#endif