提交 77966845 编写于 作者: M Marcelo Ricardo Leitner 提交者: Pablo Neira Ayuso

netfilter: conntrack: warn the user if there is a better helper to use

After db29a950 ("netfilter: conntrack: disable generic tracking for
known protocols"), if the specific helper is built but not loaded
(a standard for most distributions) systems with a restrictive firewall
but weak configuration regarding netfilter modules to load, will
silently stop working.

This patch then puts a warning message so the sysadmin knows where to
start looking into. It's a pr_warn_once regardless of protocol itself
but it should be enough to give a hint on where to look.

Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: NMarcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
上级 c63264de
......@@ -90,7 +90,13 @@ static int generic_packet(struct nf_conn *ct,
static bool generic_new(struct nf_conn *ct, const struct sk_buff *skb,
unsigned int dataoff, unsigned int *timeouts)
{
return nf_generic_should_process(nf_ct_protonum(ct));
bool ret;
ret = nf_generic_should_process(nf_ct_protonum(ct));
if (!ret)
pr_warn_once("conntrack: generic helper won't handle protocol %d. Please consider loading the specific helper module.\n",
nf_ct_protonum(ct));
return ret;
}
#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NF_CT_NETLINK_TIMEOUT)
......
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