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Commit cb8aa9a3 authored by Romain Bellan's avatar Romain Bellan Committed by Pablo Neira Ayuso
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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: default avatarRomain Bellan <romain.bellan@wifirst.fr>
Signed-off-by: default avatarFlorent Fourcot <florent.fourcot@wifirst.fr>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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