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* src: rework of the hash-cache infrastructurePablo Neira Ayuso2009-01-151-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, the caching system is implemented in a two layer architecture: hashtable (inner layer) and cache (upper layer). This patch reworks the hash-cache infrastructure to solve some initial design problems to make it more flexible, the main strong points of this patch are: * Memory handling is done in the cache layer, not in the inner hashtable layer. This removes one of the main dependencies between the hashtable and the cache classes. * Remove excessive encapsulation: the former cache used to hide a lot of details of the inner hashtable implementation. * Fix over-hashing of some operations: lookup-delete-add required three hash calculations. Similarly, the update-or-add operation required two hash calculations. Now, we calculate the hash once and re-use the value how many times as we need. This patch simplifies the caching system. As a result, we save ~130 lines of code. Small code means and less complexity means less chance to have bugs. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
* src: move callbacks to run.c for better readabilityPablo Neira Ayuso2008-11-271-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | This patch is a cleanup. It moves the callbacks from netlink.c to run.c where they are actually invoked. This is better for code readability as I usually have to switch from run.c to netlink.c to remember what the callbacks actually do. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
* filter: CIDR-based filtering supportPablo Neira Ayuso2008-11-251-1/+14
| | | | | | | | | | This patch adds CIDR-based filtering support. The current implementation is O(n). This patch also introduces the vector data type which is used to store the IP address and the network mask. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
* Major rework of the user-space event filteringPablo Neira Ayuso2008-07-221-0/+31
This patch reworks the user-space filtering. Although we have kernel-space filtering since Linux kernel >= 2.6.26, we keep userspace filtering to ensure backward compatibility. Moreover, this patch prepares the implementation of the kernel-space filtering via libnetfilter_conntrack's high-level berkeley socket filter API. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>