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Commit a44b7651 authored by Sriram Yagnaraman's avatar Sriram Yagnaraman Committed by Pablo Neira Ayuso
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netfilter: conntrack: unify established states for SCTP paths



An SCTP endpoint can start an association through a path and tear it
down over another one. That means the initial path will not see the
shutdown sequence, and the conntrack entry will remain in ESTABLISHED
state for 5 days.

By merging the HEARTBEAT_ACKED and ESTABLISHED states into one
ESTABLISHED state, there remains no difference between a primary or
secondary path. The timeout for the merged ESTABLISHED state is set to
210 seconds (hb_interval * max_path_retrans + rto_max). So, even if a
path doesn't see the shutdown sequence, it will expire in a reasonable
amount of time.

With this change in place, there is now more than one state from which
we can transition to ESTABLISHED, COOKIE_ECHOED and HEARTBEAT_SENT, so
handle the setting of ASSURED bit whenever a state change has happened
and the new state is ESTABLISHED. Removed the check for dir==REPLY since
the transition to ESTABLISHED can happen only in the reply direction.

Fixes: 9fb9cbb1 ("[NETFILTER]: Add nf_conntrack subsystem.")
Signed-off-by: default avatarSriram Yagnaraman <sriram.yagnaraman@est.tech>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
parent 13bd9b31
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