From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91A61C4167B for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2023 12:38:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233335AbjK0Mie (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Nov 2023 07:38:34 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:48448 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S233389AbjK0MiQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Nov 2023 07:38:16 -0500 Received: from ganesha.gnumonks.org (ganesha.gnumonks.org [IPv6:2001:780:45:1d:225:90ff:fe52:c662]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C27301BD; Mon, 27 Nov 2023 04:38:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from [78.30.43.141] (port=38766 helo=gnumonks.org) by ganesha.gnumonks.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1r7asJ-001Z1Q-Bn; Mon, 27 Nov 2023 13:38:09 +0100 Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2023 13:38:06 +0100 From: Pablo Neira Ayuso To: Felix Huettner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, kadlec@netfilter.org, fw@strlen.de, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com, shuah@kernel.org, luca.czesla@mail.schwarz, max.lamprecht@mail.schwarz Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: ctnetlink: support filtering by zone Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 11:49:16AM +0000, Felix Huettner wrote: > conntrack zones are heavily used by tools like openvswitch to run > multiple virtual "routers" on a single machine. In this context each > conntrack zone matches to a single router, thereby preventing > overlapping IPs from becoming issues. > In these systems it is common to operate on all conntrack entries of a > given zone, e.g. to delete them when a router is deleted. Previously this > required these tools to dump the full conntrack table and filter out the > relevant entries in userspace potentially causing performance issues. > > To do this we reuse the existing CTA_ZONE attribute. This was previous > parsed but not used during dump and flush requests. Now if CTA_ZONE is > set we filter these operations based on the provided zone. > However this means that users that previously passed CTA_ZONE will > experience a difference in functionality. > > Alternatively CTA_FILTER could have been used for the same > functionality. However it is not yet supported during flush requests and > is only available when using AF_INET or AF_INET6. You mean, AF_UNSPEC cannot be specified in CTA_FILTER? Please, extend libnetfilter_conntrack to support for this feature, there is a filter API that can be used for this purpose. Thanks.