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authorPiotr Radoslaw Sawicki <piotr.sawicki@gmail.com>2017-06-26 22:31:30 +0200
committerPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>2017-06-27 18:49:43 +0200
commit601abd1c71ccdf90753cf294c120ad43fb25dc54 (patch)
tree4e7a9144fb915a51fe9f16b73ae2157fb5f7dbb0
parent3f9eb57b489ea33875638e182d2bac3758729f26 (diff)
doc: Add information about retrieving UID/GID/SECCTX fieldslibnetfilter_queue-1.0.3
Add information about retrieving UID/GID/SECCTX fields Signed-off-by: Piotr Radoslaw Sawicki <piotr.sawicki@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
-rw-r--r--src/libnetfilter_queue.c20
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/libnetfilter_queue.c b/src/libnetfilter_queue.c
index 1702158..673e3b0 100644
--- a/src/libnetfilter_queue.c
+++ b/src/libnetfilter_queue.c
@@ -698,6 +698,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(nfq_set_mode);
flags &= ~NFQA_CFG_F_FAIL_OPEN;
err = nfq_set_queue_flags(qh, mask, flags);
\endverbatim
+ * - NFQA_CFG_F_SECCTX: the kernel will dump security context of the socket to
+ * which each packet belongs.
+ *
+ * \warning
+ * When fragmentation occurs and NFQA_CFG_F_GSO is NOT set then the kernel
+ * dumps UID/GID and security context fields only for one fragment. To deal
+ * with this limitation always set NFQA_CFG_F_GSO.
*
* \return -1 on error with errno set appropriately; =0 otherwise.
*/
@@ -1202,6 +1209,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(nfq_get_packet_hw);
* nfq_get_uid - get the UID of the user the packet belongs to
* \param nfad Netlink packet data handle passed to callback function
*
+ * \warning If the NFQA_CFG_F_GSO flag is not set, then fragmented packets
+ * may be pushed into the queue. In this case, only one fragment will have the
+ * UID field set. To deal with this issue always set NFQA_CFG_F_GSO.
+ *
* \return 1 if there is a UID available, 0 otherwise.
*/
int nfq_get_uid(struct nfq_data *nfad, uint32_t *uid)
@@ -1218,6 +1229,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(nfq_get_uid);
* nfq_get_gid - get the GID of the user the packet belongs to
* \param nfad Netlink packet data handle passed to callback function
*
+ * \warning If the NFQA_CFG_F_GSO flag is not set, then fragmented packets
+ * may be pushed into the queue. In this case, only one fragment will have the
+ * GID field set. To deal with this issue always set NFQA_CFG_F_GSO.
+ *
* \return 1 if there is a GID available, 0 otherwise.
*/
int nfq_get_gid(struct nfq_data *nfad, uint32_t *gid)
@@ -1230,12 +1245,15 @@ int nfq_get_gid(struct nfq_data *nfad, uint32_t *gid)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(nfq_get_gid);
-
/**
* nfq_get_secctx - get the security context for this packet
* \param nfad Netlink packet data handle passed to callback function
* \param secdata data to write the security context to
*
+ * \warning If the NFQA_CFG_F_GSO flag is not set, then fragmented packets
+ * may be pushed into the queue. In this case, only one fragment will have the
+ * SECCTX field set. To deal with this issue always set NFQA_CFG_F_GSO.
+ *
* \return -1 on error, otherwise > 0
*/
int nfq_get_secctx(struct nfq_data *nfad, unsigned char **secdata)