This patch introduces a new flag called IPS_PICKUP that forces the protocol handler to pick up the required information in order to ensure that the connection will reach a successful state. Two new ctnetlink attributes are also introduced to inject the window scale factor since TCP window tracking could need it to take over the connection properly. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso -- The dawn of the fourth age of Linux firewalling is coming; a time of great struggle and heroic deeds -- J.Kadlecsik got inspired by J.Morris