netfilter: conntrack: add sctp DATA_SENT state
SCTP conntrack currently assumes that the SCTP endpoints will probe secondary paths using HEARTBEAT before sending traffic. But, according to RFC 9260, SCTP endpoints can send any traffic on any of the confirmed paths after SCTP association is up. SCTP endpoints that sends INIT will confirm all peer addresses that upper layer configures, and the SCTP endpoint that receives COOKIE_ECHO will only confirm the address it sent the INIT_ACK to. So, we can have a situation where the INIT sender can start to use secondary paths without the need to send HEARTBEAT. This patch allows DATA/SACK packets to create new connection tracking entry. A new state has been added to indicate that a DATA/SACK chunk has been seen in the original direction - SCTP_CONNTRACK_DATA_SENT. State transitions mostly follows the HEARTBEAT_SENT, except on receiving HEARTBEAT/HEARTBEAT_ACK/DATA/SACK in the reply direction. State transitions in original direction: - DATA_SENT behaves similar to HEARTBEAT_SENT for all chunks, except that it remains in DATA_SENT on receving HEARTBEAT, HEARTBEAT_ACK/DATA/SACK chunks State transitions in reply direction: - DATA_SENT behaves similar to HEARTBEAT_SENT for all chunks, except that it moves to HEARTBEAT_ACKED on receiving HEARTBEAT/HEARTBEAT_ACK/DATA/SACK chunks Note: This patch still doesn't solve the problem when the SCTP endpoint decides to use primary paths for association establishment but uses a secondary path for association shutdown. We still have to depend on timeout for connections to expire in such a case. Signed-off-by: Sriram Yagnaraman <sriram.yagnaraman@est.tech> Reviewed-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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