Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] netfilter: IPv4/v6 IPcomp match support

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 





On 2013年12月20日 17:04, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 11:30:09AM +0800, Fan Du wrote:


On 2013年12月17日 21:05, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 08:18:00PM +0800, Fan Du wrote:
Hi,

This patchset adds IPv4/v6 IPComp 'match' plugin to enables user setting
ACTONs for IPcomp flows sepecified with SPI value.

Corresponding iptables patchset will be sent here after soon.

Fan Du (2):
   netfilter: add IPv4 IPComp extension match support
   netfilter: add IPv6 IPComp extension match support

This looks good, but I have to ask you to merge those two modules into
one single xt_ipcomp, they are fairly small and we can save the
overhead of having two different modules. Moreover, at quick glance I
don't see any dependency with IPv4/IPv6 exported symbols that may
cause ifdef pollution.

Please, see net/netfilter/xt_tcpudp.c as reference to rework this.
Thanks.


I noticed netfilter ipv4/v6 AH support also has split implementation,
so far, by my understanding, it's fairly enough to consolidate those
two implementations into one as well, as IPv4/6 AH head format are
identical.

If you don't mind or it won't break anything internal for netfilter,
I plan to combine them into one piece.

We can merge those two, but you'll have to handle dependencies with
IPv6 core via ifdefs and Kconfig to avoid problems.

AH is not the last header, so we still have to use ipv6_find_hdr() to
find the good header instead of par->thoff. Note that the ip6_tables
sets par->thoff to the last IPv6 extension header.

I'm quite new to the internal of netfiler, especially about this part.
I will take a look at the code later.

This rises some concerns regarding your ipcomp, I think that if you
use this with ah and esp, the ordering of the headers is
ah+ipcomp+esp, right?

This depends on the user land configuration of encapsulation order.
It can be one of the three types only(ah, esp, ipcomp), the most commonly
used is ah(outer)+esp(inner).

I barely see ipcomp used in production, but I remember RFC says ipcomp
should be done first before esp, because after encryption in esp, the data
is polluted, i.e., not suitable for compressed anymore(I'm not sure the
details theory behind this statement.)

Anyway, no matter how ah,esp,ipcomp are ordered, I think it only makes
sense for the outer header when using any one of those three filters, and
that's what I can imagine how it's been used.

--
浮沉随浪只记今朝笑

--fan
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html




[Index of Archives]     [Netfitler Users]     [LARTC]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite Forum]

  Powered by Linux