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Commit 95219afb authored by Aaron Conole's avatar Aaron Conole Committed by David S. Miller
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act_ct: support asymmetric conntrack



The act_ct TC module shares a common conntrack and NAT infrastructure
exposed via netfilter.  It's possible that a packet needs both SNAT and
DNAT manipulation, due to e.g. tuple collision.  Netfilter can support
this because it runs through the NAT table twice - once on ingress and
again after egress.  The act_ct action doesn't have such capability.

Like netfilter hook infrastructure, we should run through NAT twice to
keep the symmetry.

Fixes: b57dc7c1 ("net/sched: Introduce action ct")
Signed-off-by: default avatarAaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMarcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 5d50aa83
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