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authorRomain Bellan <romain.bellan@wifirst.fr>2020-05-04 21:34:29 +0200
committerPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>2020-05-27 22:20:34 +0200
commitcb8aa9a3affb7d23b11b11fbed41e2feaabc4b0a (patch)
treebf1fda7212f77fbdc824a0a627af4b0ffff066d7 /include/uapi/linux/netfilter
parent626a83238e6a63d88a5b5291febe797b244b5f18 (diff)
netfilter: ctnetlink: add kernel side filtering for dump
Conntrack dump does not support kernel side filtering (only get exists, but it returns only one entry. And user has to give a full valid tuple) It means that userspace has to implement filtering after receiving many irrelevant entries, consuming resources (conntrack table is sometimes very huge, much more than a routing table for example). This patch adds filtering in kernel side. To achieve this goal, we: * Add a new CTA_FILTER netlink attributes, actually a flag list to parametize filtering * Convert some *nlattr_to_tuple() functions, to allow a partial parsing of CTA_TUPLE_ORIG and CTA_TUPLE_REPLY (so nf_conntrack_tuple it not fully set) Filtering is now possible on: * IP SRC/DST values * Ports for TCP and UDP flows * IMCP(v6) codes types and IDs Filtering is done as an "AND" operator. For example, when flags PROTO_SRC_PORT, PROTO_NUM and IP_SRC are sets, only entries matching all values are dumped. Changes since v1: Set NLM_F_DUMP_FILTERED in nlm flags if entries are filtered Changes since v2: Move several constants to nf_internals.h Move a fix on netlink values check in a separate patch Add a check on not-supported flags Return EOPNOTSUPP if CDA_FILTER is set in ctnetlink_flush_conntrack (not yet implemented) Code style issues Changes since v3: Fix compilation warning reported by kbuild test robot Changes since v4: Fix a regression introduced in v3 (returned EINVAL for valid netlink messages without CTA_MARK) Changes since v5: Change definition of CTA_FILTER_F_ALL Fix a regression when CTA_TUPLE_ZONE is not set Signed-off-by: Romain Bellan <romain.bellan@wifirst.fr> Signed-off-by: Florent Fourcot <florent.fourcot@wifirst.fr> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi/linux/netfilter')
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nfnetlink_conntrack.h9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nfnetlink_conntrack.h b/include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nfnetlink_conntrack.h
index 1d41810d17e2..262881792671 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nfnetlink_conntrack.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nfnetlink_conntrack.h
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ enum ctattr_type {
CTA_LABELS,
CTA_LABELS_MASK,
CTA_SYNPROXY,
+ CTA_FILTER,
__CTA_MAX
};
#define CTA_MAX (__CTA_MAX - 1)
@@ -276,4 +277,12 @@ enum ctattr_expect_stats {
};
#define CTA_STATS_EXP_MAX (__CTA_STATS_EXP_MAX - 1)
+enum ctattr_filter {
+ CTA_FILTER_UNSPEC,
+ CTA_FILTER_ORIG_FLAGS,
+ CTA_FILTER_REPLY_FLAGS,
+ __CTA_FILTER_MAX
+};
+#define CTA_FILTER_MAX (__CTA_FILTER_MAX - 1)
+
#endif /* _IPCONNTRACK_NETLINK_H */