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authorPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>2012-06-07 10:13:39 (GMT)
committerPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>2012-06-16 13:09:02 (GMT)
commit9cb0176654a7dc33a32af8a0bc9e0b2f9f9ebb0f (patch)
treed4945c63214441653bcd3f0ea3b3a15fb031798a /include/linux/netfilter
parent1afc56794e03229fa53cfa3c5012704d226e1dec (diff)
downloadlinux-fsl-qoriq-9cb0176654a7dc33a32af8a0bc9e0b2f9f9ebb0f.tar.xz
netfilter: add glue code to integrate nfnetlink_queue and ctnetlink
This patch allows you to include the conntrack information together with the packet that is sent to user-space via NFQUEUE. Previously, there was no integration between ctnetlink and nfnetlink_queue. If you wanted to access conntrack information from your libnetfilter_queue program, you required to query ctnetlink from user-space to obtain it. Thus, delaying the packet processing even more. Including the conntrack information is optional, you can set it via NFQA_CFG_F_CONNTRACK flag with the new NFQA_CFG_FLAGS attribute. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/netfilter')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.h3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.h b/include/linux/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.h
index a6c1dda..e0d8fd8 100644
--- a/include/linux/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.h
+++ b/include/linux/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.h
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ enum nfqnl_attr_type {
NFQA_IFINDEX_PHYSOUTDEV, /* __u32 ifindex */
NFQA_HWADDR, /* nfqnl_msg_packet_hw */
NFQA_PAYLOAD, /* opaque data payload */
+ NFQA_CT, /* nf_conntrack_netlink.h */
+ NFQA_CT_INFO, /* enum ip_conntrack_info */
__NFQA_MAX
};
@@ -92,5 +94,6 @@ enum nfqnl_attr_config {
/* Flags for NFQA_CFG_FLAGS */
#define NFQA_CFG_F_FAIL_OPEN (1 << 0)
+#define NFQA_CFG_F_CONNTRACK (1 << 1)
#endif /* _NFNETLINK_QUEUE_H */