As Henrik Nordstrom pointed out, all our efforts with "split endian" (i.e.
host byte order tags, net byte order values) are useless, unless a parser
can determine whether an attribute is nested or not.
This patch steals the highest bit of nfattr.nfa_type to indicate whether
the data payload contains a nested nfattr (1) or not (0).
This will break userspace compatibility, but luckily no kernel with
nfnetlink was released so far.
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
- added typedef unsigned int __nocast gfp_t;
- replaced __nocast uses for gfp flags with gfp_t - it gives exactly
the same warnings as far as sparse is concerned, doesn't change
generated code (from gcc point of view we replaced unsigned int with
typedef) and documents what's going on far better.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fix implicit nocast warnings in nfnetlink code:
net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:204:43: warning: implicit cast to nocast type
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
1) memset return parameter 'cda' (nfattr pointer array) only on success
2) a message without attributes and just a 'struct nfgenmsg' is valid,
don't return -EINVAL
3) use likely() and unlikely() where apropriate
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Prior to this patch, every nfnetlink subsystem had to specify it's
attribute count. However, in reality the attribute count depends on
the message type within the subsystem, not the subsystem itself. This
patch moves 'attr_count' from 'struct nfnetlink_subsys' into
nfnl_callback to fix this.
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
- split netfiler verdict in 16bit verdict and 16bit queue number
- add 'queuenum' argument to nf_queue_outfn_t and its users ip[6]_queue
- move NFNL_SUBSYS_ definitions from enum to #define
- introduce autoloading for nfnetlink subsystem modules
- add MODULE_ALIAS_NFNL_SUBSYS macro
- add nf_unregister_queue_handlers() to register all handlers for a given
nf_queue_outfn_t
- add more verbose DEBUGP macro definition to nfnetlink.c
- make nfnetlink_subsys_register fail if subsys already exists
- add some more comments and debug statements to nfnetlink.c
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
- Remove bogus code for compiling netlink as module
- Add module refcounting support for modules implementing a netlink
protocol
- Add support for autoloading modules that implement a netlink protocol
as soon as someone opens a socket for that protocol
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add ctnetlink subsystem for userspace-access to ip_conntrack table.
This allows reading and updating of existing entries, as well as
creating new ones (and new expect's) via nfnetlink.
Please note the 'strange' byte order: nfattr (tag+length) are in host
byte order, while the payload is always guaranteed to be in network
byte order. This allows a simple userspace process to encapsulate netlink
messages into arch-independent udp packets by just processing/swapping the
headers and not knowing anything about the actual payload.
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Introduce "nfnetlink" (netfilter netlink) layer. This layer is used as
transport layer for all userspace communication of the new upcoming
netfilter subsystems, such as ctnetlink, nfnetlink_queue and some day even
the mythical pkttables ;)
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
