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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/13] IP set core support
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:31:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D481949.4040709@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1296514388-20900-3-git-send-email-kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>

Am 31.01.2011 23:52, schrieb Jozsef Kadlecsik:
> The patch adds the IP set core support to the kernel.
> 
> The IP set core implements a netlink (nfnetlink) based protocol by which
> one can create, destroy, flush, rename, swap, list, save, restore sets,
> and add, delete, test elements from userspace. For simplicity (and backward
> compatibilty and for not to force ip(6)tables to be linked with a netlink
> library) reasons a small getsockopt-based protocol is also kept in order
> to communicate with the ip(6)tables match and target.
> 
> The netlink protocol passes all u16, etc values in network order with
> NLA_F_NET_BYTEORDER flag. The protocol enforces the proper use of the
> NLA_F_NESTED and NLA_F_NET_BYTEORDER flags.
> 
> For other kernel subsystems (netfilter match and target) the API contains
> the functions to add, delete and test elements in sets and the required calls
> to get/put refereces to the sets before those operations can be performed.
> 
> The set types (which are implemented in independent modules) are stored
> in a simple RCU protected list. A set type may have variants: for example
> without timeout or with timeout support, for IPv4 or for IPv6. The sets
> (i.e. the pointers to the sets) are stored in an array. The sets are
> identified by their index in the array, which makes possible easy and
> fast swapping of sets. The array is protected indirectly by the nfnl
> mutex from nfnetlink. The content of the sets are protected by the rwlock
> of the set.
> 
> There are functional differences between the add/del/test functions
> for the kernel and userspace:
> 
> - kernel add/del/test: works on the current packet (i.e. one element)
> - kernel test: may trigger an "add" operation  in order to fill
>   out unspecified parts of the element from the packet (like MAC address)
> - userspace add/del: works on the netlink message and thus possibly
>   on multiple elements from the IPSET_ATTR_ADT container attribute.
> - userspace add: may trigger resizing of a set
> 

Applied, thanks Jozsef.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-01 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-31 22:52 [PATCH 00/13] ipset kernel patches v3 Jozsef Kadlecsik
2011-01-31 22:52 ` [PATCH 01/13] NFNL_SUBSYS_IPSET id and NLA_PUT_NET* macros Jozsef Kadlecsik
2011-01-31 22:52   ` [PATCH 02/13] IP set core support Jozsef Kadlecsik
2011-01-31 22:52     ` [PATCH 03/13] bitmap:ip set type support Jozsef Kadlecsik
2011-01-31 22:52       ` [PATCH 04/13] bitmap:ip,mac " Jozsef Kadlecsik
2011-01-31 22:53         ` [PATCH 05/13] bitmap:port set " Jozsef Kadlecsik
2011-01-31 22:53           ` [PATCH 06/13] hash:ip " Jozsef Kadlecsik
2011-01-31 22:53             ` [PATCH 07/13] hash:ip,port " Jozsef Kadlecsik
2011-01-31 22:53               ` [PATCH 08/13] hash:ip,port,ip " Jozsef Kadlecsik
2011-01-31 22:53                 ` [PATCH 09/13] hash:ip,port,net " Jozsef Kadlecsik
2011-01-31 22:53                   ` [PATCH 10/13] hash:net " Jozsef Kadlecsik
2011-01-31 22:53                     ` [PATCH 11/13] hash:net,port " Jozsef Kadlecsik
2011-01-31 22:53                       ` [PATCH 12/13] list:set " Jozsef Kadlecsik
2011-01-31 22:53                         ` [PATCH 13/13] "set" match and "SET" target support Jozsef Kadlecsik
2011-02-01 14:56                           ` Patrick McHardy
2011-02-01 14:55                         ` [PATCH 12/13] list:set set type support Patrick McHardy
2011-02-01 14:54                       ` [PATCH 11/13] hash:net,port " Patrick McHardy
2011-02-01 14:53                     ` [PATCH 10/13] hash:net " Patrick McHardy
2011-02-01 14:52                   ` [PATCH 09/13] hash:ip,port,net " Patrick McHardy
2011-02-01 14:42                 ` [PATCH 08/13] hash:ip,port,ip " Patrick McHardy
2011-02-01 14:40               ` [PATCH 07/13] hash:ip,port " Patrick McHardy
2011-02-01 14:39             ` [PATCH 06/13] hash:ip " Patrick McHardy
2011-02-01 14:37           ` [PATCH 05/13] bitmap:port " Patrick McHardy
2011-02-01 14:36         ` [PATCH 04/13] bitmap:ip,mac " Patrick McHardy
2011-02-01 14:34       ` [PATCH 03/13] bitmap:ip set " Patrick McHardy
2011-02-01 14:31     ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2011-02-01 15:34     ` [PATCH 02/13] IP set core support Patrick McHardy
2011-02-01 19:43       ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2011-02-01 21:22         ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2011-02-01 21:28           ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2011-02-02  6:50             ` Patrick McHardy
2011-02-02 19:46               ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2011-02-02 22:56                 ` Patrick McHardy
2011-02-02  6:40         ` Patrick McHardy
2011-02-02  6:45           ` Patrick McHardy
2011-02-01 14:24   ` [PATCH 01/13] NFNL_SUBSYS_IPSET id and NLA_PUT_NET* macros Patrick McHardy
2011-02-01 14:18 ` [PATCH 00/13] ipset kernel patches v3 Patrick McHardy
2011-02-01 17:42 ` Patrick McHardy
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-01-21 14:01 [PATCH 00/13] ipset kernel patches v2 Jozsef Kadlecsik
2011-01-21 14:01 ` [PATCH 01/13] NFNL_SUBSYS_IPSET id and NLA_PUT_NET* macros Jozsef Kadlecsik
2011-01-21 14:01   ` [PATCH 02/13] IP set core support Jozsef Kadlecsik
2011-01-21 21:39     ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2011-01-25 14:47       ` Patrick McHardy
2011-01-25 21:23         ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2011-01-26 11:57           ` Patrick McHardy
2011-01-26 11:57           ` Patrick McHardy
2011-01-25 15:06     ` Patrick McHardy
2011-01-25 21:28       ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2011-01-27  8:58         ` Jozsef Kadlecsik

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