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* iptables-restore: support acquiring the lock.Lorenzo Colitti2017-03-211-1/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, ip[6]tables-restore does not perform any locking, so it is not safe to use concurrently with ip[6]tables. This patch makes ip[6]tables-restore wait for the lock if -w was specified. Arguments to -w and -W are supported in the same was as they are in ip[6]tables. The lock is not acquired on startup. Instead, it is acquired when a new table handle is created (on encountering '*') and released when the table is committed (COMMIT). This makes it possible to keep long-running iptables-restore processes in the background (for example, reading commands from a pipe opened by a system management daemon) and simultaneously run iptables commands. If -w is not specified, then the command proceeds without taking the lock. Tested as follows: 1. Run iptables-restore -w, and check that iptables commands work with or without -w. 2. Type "*filter" into the iptables-restore input. Verify that a) ip[6]tables commands without -w fail with "another app is currently holding the xtables lock...". b) ip[6]tables commands with "-w 2" fail after 2 seconds. c) ip[6]tables commands with "-w" hang until "COMMIT" is typed into the iptables-restore window. 3. With the lock held by an ip6tables-restore process: strace -e flock /tmp/iptables/sbin/iptables-restore -w 1 -W 100000 shows 11 calls to flock and fails. 4. Run an iptables-restore with -w and one without -w, and check: a) Type "*filter" in the first and then the second, and the second exits with an error. b) Type "*filter" in the second and "*filter" "-S" "COMMIT" into the first. The rules are listed only when the first copy sees "COMMIT". Signed-off-by: Narayan Kamath <narayan@google.com> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
* iptables: remove duplicated argument parsing codeLorenzo Colitti2017-03-171-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | 1. Factor out repeated code to a new xs_has_arg function. 2. Add a new parse_wait_time option to parse the value of -w. 3. Make parse_wait_interval take argc and argv so its callers can be simpler. Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
* xtables-translate-restore: do not escape quotesPablo M. Bermudo Garay2016-09-051-0/+1
| | | | | | | | If quotes are escaped, nft -f is unable to parse and load the translated ruleset. Signed-off-by: Pablo M. Bermudo Garay <pablombg@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
* xtables: Add an interval option for xtables lock waitSubash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan2016-07-031-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ip[6]tables currently waits for 1 second for the xtables lock to be freed if the -w option is used. We have seen that the lock is held much less than that resulting in unnecessary delay when trying to acquire the lock. This problem is even severe in case of latency sensitive applications. Introduce a new option 'W' to specify the wait interval in microseconds. If this option is not specified, the command sleeps for 1 second by default. v1->v2: Change behavior to take millisecond sleep as an argument to -w as suggested by Pablo. Also maintain current behavior for -w to sleep for 1 second as mentioned by Liping. v2->v3: Move the millisecond behavior to a new option as suggested by Pablo. v3->v4: Use select instead of usleep. Sleep every iteration for the time specified in the "-W" argument. Update man page. v4->v5: Fix compilation error when enabling nftables v5->v6: Simplify -W so it only takes the interval wait in microseconds. Bail out if -W is specific but -w is not. Joint work with Pablo Neira. Signed-off-by: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
* iptables: add optional [seconds] argument to -wJiri Popelka2014-07-251-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds an optional numeric argument to -w option (added with 93587a0) so one can specify how long to wait for an exclusive lock. If the value isn't specified it works as before, i.e. program waits indefinitely. If user specifies it, program exits after the given time interval passes. This patch also adds the -w/--wait to nftables compat code, so the parser doesn't complain. [ In the original patch, iptables-compat -w X was not working, I have fixed by adding the dummy code not to break scripts using the new optional argument --pablo ] Signed-off-by: Jiri Popelka <jpopelka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
* use nf_tables and nf_tables compatibility interfacePablo Neira Ayuso2013-12-301-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the following utilities: * xtables * xtables-restore * xtables-save * xtables-config They all use Patrick's nf_tables infrastructure plus my compatibility layer. xtables, xtables-restore and xtables-save are syntax compatible with ip[6]tables, ip[6]tables-restore and ip[6]tables-save. Semantics aims to be similar, still the main exception is that there is no commit operation. Thus, we incrementally add/delete rules without entire table locking. The following options are also not yet implemented: -Z (this requires adding expr->ops->reset(...) so nft_counters can reset internal state of expressions while dumping it) -R and -E (this requires adding this feature to nf_tables) -f (can be implemented with expressions: payload 6 (2-bytes) + bitwise a&b^!b + cmp neq 0) -IPv6 support. But those are a matter of time to get them done. A new utility, xtables-config, is available to register tables and chains. By default there is a configuration file that adds backward compatible tables and chains under iptables/etc/xtables.conf. You have to call this utility first to register tables and chains. However, it would be possible to automagically register tables and chains while using xtables and xtables-restore to get similar operation than with iptables. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
* ip[6]tables: Add locking to prevent concurrent instancesPhil Oester2013-06-111-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There have been numerous complaints and bug reports over the years when admins attempt to run more than one instance of iptables simultaneously. Currently open bug reports which are related: 325: Parallel execution of the iptables is impossible 758: Retry iptables command on transient failure 764: Doing -Z twice in parallel breaks counters 822: iptables shows negative or other bad packet/byte counts As Patrick notes in 325: "Since this has been a problem people keep running into, I'd suggest to simply add some locking to iptables to catch the most common case." I started looking into alternatives to add locking, and of course the most common/obvious solution is to use a pidfile. But this has various downsides, such as if the application is terminated abnormally and the pidfile isn't cleaned up. And this also requires a writable filesystem. Using a UNIX domain socket file (e.g. in /var/run) has similar issues. Starting in 2.2, Linux added support for abstract sockets. These sockets require no filesystem, and automatically disappear once the application terminates. This is the locking solution I chose to implement in ip[6]tables. As an added bonus, since each network namespace has its own socket pool, an ip[6]tables instance running in one namespace will not lock out an ip[6]tables instance running in another namespace. A filesystem approach would have to recognize and handle multiple network namespaces. Signed-off-by: Phil Oester <kernel@linuxace.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
* iptables: consolidate target/match init callJan Engelhardt2011-06-211-0/+2
| | | | | | | This is useful for the upcoming patch about per-instance auxiliary data. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
* option: fix ignored negation before implicit extension loadingJan Engelhardt2011-06-071-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | `iptables -A INPUT -p tcp ! --syn` forgot the negation, i.e. it was not present in a subsequent `iptables -S`. Commit v1.4.11~77^2~9 missed the fact that after autoloading a proto extension, cs.invert must not be touched until the next getopt call. This is now fixed by having command_default return a value to indicate whether to jump or not. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
* src: move all iptables pieces into a separate directoryJan Engelhardt2011-06-071-0/+87
(Unclutter top-level dir) Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>