netfilter: ctnetlink: add support for user-space expectation helpers

This patch adds the basic infrastructure to support user-space
expectation helpers via ctnetlink and the netfilter queuing
infrastructure NFQUEUE. Basically, this patch:

* adds NF_CT_EXPECT_USERSPACE flag to identify user-space
  created expectations. I have also added a sanity check in
  __nf_ct_expect_check() to avoid that kernel-space helpers
  may create an expectation if the master conntrack has no
  helper assigned.
* adds some branches to check if the master conntrack helper
  exists, otherwise we skip the code that refers to kernel-space
  helper such as the local expectation list and the expectation
  policy.
* allows to set the timeout for user-space expectations with
  no helper assigned.
* a list of expectations created from user-space that depends
  on ctnetlink (if this module is removed, they are deleted).
* includes USERSPACE in the /proc output for expectations
  that have been created by a user-space helper.

This patch also modifies ctnetlink to skip including the helper
name in the Netlink messages if no kernel-space helper is set
(since no user-space expectation has not kernel-space kernel
assigned).

You can access an example user-space FTP conntrack helper at:
http://people.netfilter.org/pablo/userspace-conntrack-helpers/nf-ftp-helper-userspace-POC.tar.bz

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
This commit is contained in:
Pablo Neira Ayuso
2010-09-28 21:06:34 +02:00
committed by Patrick McHardy
parent 8b008faf92
commit bc01befdcf
4 changed files with 79 additions and 31 deletions
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ nf_ct_find_expectation(struct net *net, u16 zone,
void nf_ct_unlink_expect(struct nf_conntrack_expect *exp);
void nf_ct_remove_expectations(struct nf_conn *ct);
void nf_ct_unexpect_related(struct nf_conntrack_expect *exp);
void nf_ct_remove_userspace_expectations(void);
/* Allocate space for an expectation: this is mandatory before calling
nf_ct_expect_related. You will have to call put afterwards. */