From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pablo Neira Ayuso Subject: [PATCH nf-next] netfilter: nf_ct_helper: disable automatic helper assignment Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 17:13:41 +0200 Message-ID: <1460646821-15401-1-git-send-email-pablo@netfilter.org> To: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail.us.es ([193.147.175.20]:37455 "EHLO mail.us.es" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751226AbcDNPOI (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2016 11:14:08 -0400 Received: from antivirus1-rhel7.int (unknown [192.168.2.11]) by mail.us.es (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47547E8387 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 17:14:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from antivirus1-rhel7.int (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antivirus1-rhel7.int (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37D7DC21A4 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 17:14:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from antivirus1-rhel7.int (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antivirus1-rhel7.int (Postfix) with ESMTP id 073589D0E0 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 17:14:01 +0200 (CEST) Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Four years ago we introduced a new sysctl knob to disable automatic helper assignment in 72110dfaa907 ("netfilter: nf_ct_helper: disable automatic helper assignment"). This knob kept this behaviour enabled by default to remain conservative. This measure was introduced to provide a secure way to configure iptables and connection tracking helpers through explicit rules. Give the time we have waited for this, let's turn off this by default now, worse case users still have a chance to recover the former behaviour by explicitly enabling this back through sysctl. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso --- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.c index 3b40ec5..498bf74 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.c @@ -38,10 +38,10 @@ unsigned int nf_ct_helper_hsize __read_mostly; EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_ct_helper_hsize); static unsigned int nf_ct_helper_count __read_mostly; -static bool nf_ct_auto_assign_helper __read_mostly = true; +static bool nf_ct_auto_assign_helper __read_mostly = false; module_param_named(nf_conntrack_helper, nf_ct_auto_assign_helper, bool, 0644); MODULE_PARM_DESC(nf_conntrack_helper, - "Enable automatic conntrack helper assignment (default 1)"); + "Enable automatic conntrack helper assignment (default 0)"); #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL static struct ctl_table helper_sysctl_table[] = { -- 2.1.4