Now that dpif_execute has a 'flow' member, it's pretty easy to access a
the flow (or the matching megaflow) in dp_execute_cb().
This means that's not necessary anymore for the connection tracker to
reextract 'dl_type' from the packet, it can be passed as a parameter.
This change means that we have to complicate sightly test-conntrack to
group the packets by dl_type before passing them to the connection
tracker.
Signed-off-by: Daniele Di Proietto <diproiettod@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Joe Stringer <joe@ovn.org>
From the connection tracker perspective, an ICMP connection is a tuple
identified by source ip address, destination ip address and ICMP id.
While this allows basic ICMP traffic (pings) to work, it doesn't take
into account the icmp type: the connection tracker will allow
requests/replies in any directions.
This is improved by making the ICMP type and code part of the connection
tuple. An ICMP echo request packet from A to B, will create a
connection that matches ICMP echo request from A to B and ICMP echo
replies from B to A. The same is done for timestamp and info
request/replies, and for ICMPv6.
A new modules conntrack-icmp is implemented, to allow only "request"
types to create new connections.
Also, since they're tracked in both userspace and kernel
implementations, ICMP type and code are always printed in ct-dpif (a few
testcase are updated as a consequence).
Reported-by: Subramani Paramasivam <subramani.paramasivam@wipro.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniele Di Proietto <diproiettod@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Joe Stringer <joe@ovn.org>
New functions are implemented in the conntrack module to support this.
Signed-off-by: Daniele Di Proietto <diproiettod@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@sysclose.org>
New functions are implemented in the conntrack module to support this.
Signed-off-by: Daniele Di Proietto <diproiettod@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@sysclose.org>
This commit adds a thread that periodically removes expired connections.
The expiration time of a connection can be expressed by:
expiration = now + timeout
For each possible 'timeout' value (there aren't many) we keep a list.
When the expiration is updated, we move the connection to the back of the
corresponding 'timeout' list. This ways, the list is always ordered by
'expiration'.
When the cleanup thread iterates through the lists for expired
connections, it can stop at the first non expired connection.
Suggested-by: Joe Stringer <joe@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniele Di Proietto <diproiettod@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Joe Stringer <joe@ovn.org>
This commit adds the conntrack module.
It is a connection tracker that resides entirely in userspace. Its
primary user will be the dpif-netdev datapath.
The module main goal is to provide conntrack_execute(), which offers a
convenient interface to implement the datapath ct() action.
The conntrack module uses two submodules to deal with the l4 protocol
details (conntrack-other for UDP and ICMP, conntrack-tcp for TCP).
The conntrack-tcp submodule implementation is adapted from FreeBSD's pf
subsystem, therefore it's BSD licensed. It has been slightly altered to
match the OVS coding style and to allow the pickup of already
established connections.
Signed-off-by: Daniele Di Proietto <diproiettod@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Antonio Fischetti <antonio.fischetti@intel.com>
Acked-by: Joe Stringer <joe@ovn.org>
