netfilter: add nftables

This patch adds nftables which is the intended successor of iptables.
This packet filtering framework reuses the existing netfilter hooks,
the connection tracking system, the NAT subsystem, the transparent
proxying engine, the logging infrastructure and the userspace packet
queueing facilities.

In a nutshell, nftables provides a pseudo-state machine with 4 general
purpose registers of 128 bits and 1 specific purpose register to store
verdicts. This pseudo-machine comes with an extensible instruction set,
a.k.a. "expressions" in the nftables jargon. The expressions included
in this patch provide the basic functionality, they are:

* bitwise: to perform bitwise operations.
* byteorder: to change from host/network endianess.
* cmp: to compare data with the content of the registers.
* counter: to enable counters on rules.
* ct: to store conntrack keys into register.
* exthdr: to match IPv6 extension headers.
* immediate: to load data into registers.
* limit: to limit matching based on packet rate.
* log: to log packets.
* meta: to match metainformation that usually comes with the skbuff.
* nat: to perform Network Address Translation.
* payload: to fetch data from the packet payload and store it into
  registers.
* reject (IPv4 only): to explicitly close connection, eg. TCP RST.

Using this instruction-set, the userspace utility 'nft' can transform
the rules expressed in human-readable text representation (using a
new syntax, inspired by tcpdump) to nftables bytecode.

nftables also inherits the table, chain and rule objects from
iptables, but in a more configurable way, and it also includes the
original datatype-agnostic set infrastructure with mapping support.
This set infrastructure is enhanced in the follow up patch (netfilter:
nf_tables: add netlink set API).

This patch includes the following components:

* the netlink API: net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c and
  include/uapi/netfilter/nf_tables.h
* the packet filter core: net/netfilter/nf_tables_core.c
* the expressions (described above): net/netfilter/nft_*.c
* the filter tables: arp, IPv4, IPv6 and bridge:
  net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_tables_ipv4.c
  net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_tables_ipv6.c
  net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_tables_arp.c
  net/bridge/netfilter/nf_tables_bridge.c
* the NAT table (IPv4 only):
  net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_table_nat_ipv4.c
* the route table (similar to mangle):
  net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_table_route_ipv4.c
  net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_table_route_ipv6.c
* internal definitions under:
  include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h
  include/net/netfilter/nf_tables_core.h
* It also includes an skeleton expression:
  net/netfilter/nft_expr_template.c
  and the preliminary implementation of the meta target
  net/netfilter/nft_meta_target.c

It also includes a change in struct nf_hook_ops to add a new
pointer to store private data to the hook, that is used to store
the rule list per chain.

This patch is based on the patch from Patrick McHardy, plus merged
accumulated cleanups, fixes and small enhancements to the nftables
code that has been done since 2009, which are:

From Patrick McHardy:
* nf_tables: adjust netlink handler function signatures
* nf_tables: only retry table lookup after successful table module load
* nf_tables: fix event notification echo and avoid unnecessary messages
* nft_ct: add l3proto support
* nf_tables: pass expression context to nft_validate_data_load()
* nf_tables: remove redundant definition
* nft_ct: fix maxattr initialization
* nf_tables: fix invalid event type in nf_tables_getrule()
* nf_tables: simplify nft_data_init() usage
* nf_tables: build in more core modules
* nf_tables: fix double lookup expression unregistation
* nf_tables: move expression initialization to nf_tables_core.c
* nf_tables: build in payload module
* nf_tables: use NFPROTO constants
* nf_tables: rename pid variables to portid
* nf_tables: save 48 bits per rule
* nf_tables: introduce chain rename
* nf_tables: check for duplicate names on chain rename
* nf_tables: remove ability to specify handles for new rules
* nf_tables: return error for rule change request
* nf_tables: return error for NLM_F_REPLACE without rule handle
* nf_tables: include NLM_F_APPEND/NLM_F_REPLACE flags in rule notification
* nf_tables: fix NLM_F_MULTI usage in netlink notifications
* nf_tables: include NLM_F_APPEND in rule dumps

From Pablo Neira Ayuso:
* nf_tables: fix stack overflow in nf_tables_newrule
* nf_tables: nft_ct: fix compilation warning
* nf_tables: nft_ct: fix crash with invalid packets
* nft_log: group and qthreshold are 2^16
* nf_tables: nft_meta: fix socket uid,gid handling
* nft_counter: allow to restore counters
* nf_tables: fix module autoload
* nf_tables: allow to remove all rules placed in one chain
* nf_tables: use 64-bits rule handle instead of 16-bits
* nf_tables: fix chain after rule deletion
* nf_tables: improve deletion performance
* nf_tables: add missing code in route chain type
* nf_tables: rise maximum number of expressions from 12 to 128
* nf_tables: don't delete table if in use
* nf_tables: fix basechain release

From Tomasz Bursztyka:
* nf_tables: Add support for changing users chain's name
* nf_tables: Change chain's name to be fixed sized
* nf_tables: Add support for replacing a rule by another one
* nf_tables: Update uapi nftables netlink header documentation

From Florian Westphal:
* nft_log: group is u16, snaplen u32

From Phil Oester:
* nf_tables: operational limit match

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

3 files changed, 42 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/bridge/netfilter/Kconfig b/net/bridge/netfilter/Kconfig
index a9aff9c7d027..68f8128147be 100644
--- a/net/bridge/netfilter/Kconfig
+++ b/net/bridge/netfilter/Kconfig
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 #
 # Bridge netfilter configuration
 #
+#
+config NF_TABLES_BRIDGE
+        tristate "Ethernet Bridge nf_tables support"
 
 menuconfig BRIDGE_NF_EBTABLES
         tristate "Ethernet Bridge tables (ebtables) support"
diff --git a/net/bridge/netfilter/Makefile b/net/bridge/netfilter/Makefile
index 0718699540b0..ea7629f58b3d 100644
--- a/net/bridge/netfilter/Makefile
+++ b/net/bridge/netfilter/Makefile
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 # Makefile for the netfilter modules for Link Layer filtering on a bridge.
 #
 
+obj-$(CONFIG_NF_TABLES_BRIDGE) += nf_tables_bridge.o
+
 obj-$(CONFIG_BRIDGE_NF_EBTABLES) += ebtables.o
 
 # tables
diff --git a/net/bridge/netfilter/nf_tables_bridge.c b/net/bridge/netfilter/nf_tables_bridge.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..bc5c21c911c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net/bridge/netfilter/nf_tables_bridge.c
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2008 Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * Development of this code funded by Astaro AG (http://www.astaro.com/)
+ */
+
+#include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/netfilter_bridge.h>
+#include <net/netfilter/nf_tables.h>
+
+static struct nft_af_info nft_af_bridge __read_mostly = {
+        .family         = NFPROTO_BRIDGE,
+        .nhooks         = NF_BR_NUMHOOKS,
+        .owner          = THIS_MODULE,
+};
+
+static int __init nf_tables_bridge_init(void)
+{
+        return nft_register_afinfo(&nft_af_bridge);
+}
+
+static void __exit nf_tables_bridge_exit(void)
+{
+        nft_unregister_afinfo(&nft_af_bridge);
+}
+
+module_init(nf_tables_bridge_init);
+module_exit(nf_tables_bridge_exit);
+
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+MODULE_AUTHOR("Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>");
+MODULE_ALIAS_NFT_FAMILY(AF_BRIDGE);