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authorPablo Neira Ayuso2012-06-07 14:19:42 +0200
committerPablo Neira Ayuso2012-06-16 15:09:15 +0200
commitae243bee397102c51fbf9db440eca3b077e0e702 (patch)
treee2320f565fe03c500ed3356b82cc6fbed0a6fe81 /net
parent8c88f87cb27ad09086940bdd3e6955e5325ec89a (diff)
netfilter: ctnetlink: add CTA_HELP_INFO attribute
This attribute can be used to modify and to dump the internal protocol information. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c23
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
index 8be0ab9b4758..ae156dff4887 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
@@ -902,7 +902,8 @@ static const struct nla_policy help_nla_policy[CTA_HELP_MAX+1] = {
};
static inline int
-ctnetlink_parse_help(const struct nlattr *attr, char **helper_name)
+ctnetlink_parse_help(const struct nlattr *attr, char **helper_name,
+ struct nlattr **helpinfo)
{
struct nlattr *tb[CTA_HELP_MAX+1];
@@ -913,6 +914,9 @@ ctnetlink_parse_help(const struct nlattr *attr, char **helper_name)
*helper_name = nla_data(tb[CTA_HELP_NAME]);
+ if (tb[CTA_HELP_INFO])
+ *helpinfo = tb[CTA_HELP_INFO];
+
return 0;
}
@@ -1173,13 +1177,14 @@ ctnetlink_change_helper(struct nf_conn *ct, const struct nlattr * const cda[])
struct nf_conntrack_helper *helper;
struct nf_conn_help *help = nfct_help(ct);
char *helpname = NULL;
+ struct nlattr *helpinfo = NULL;
int err;
/* don't change helper of sibling connections */
if (ct->master)
return -EBUSY;
- err = ctnetlink_parse_help(cda[CTA_HELP], &helpname);
+ err = ctnetlink_parse_help(cda[CTA_HELP], &helpname, &helpinfo);
if (err < 0)
return err;
@@ -1214,8 +1219,12 @@ ctnetlink_change_helper(struct nf_conn *ct, const struct nlattr * const cda[])
}
if (help) {
- if (help->helper == helper)
+ if (help->helper == helper) {
+ /* update private helper data if allowed. */
+ if (helper->from_nlattr && helpinfo)
+ helper->from_nlattr(helpinfo, ct);
return 0;
+ }
if (help->helper)
return -EBUSY;
/* need to zero data of old helper */
@@ -1411,8 +1420,9 @@ ctnetlink_create_conntrack(struct net *net, u16 zone,
rcu_read_lock();
if (cda[CTA_HELP]) {
char *helpname = NULL;
-
- err = ctnetlink_parse_help(cda[CTA_HELP], &helpname);
+ struct nlattr *helpinfo = NULL;
+
+ err = ctnetlink_parse_help(cda[CTA_HELP], &helpname, &helpinfo);
if (err < 0)
goto err2;
@@ -1446,6 +1456,9 @@ ctnetlink_create_conntrack(struct net *net, u16 zone,
err = -ENOMEM;
goto err2;
}
+ /* set private helper data if allowed. */
+ if (helper->from_nlattr && helpinfo)
+ helper->from_nlattr(helpinfo, ct);
/* not in hash table yet so not strictly necessary */
RCU_INIT_POINTER(help->helper, helper);