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Commit 77966845 authored by Marcelo Ricardo Leitner's avatar Marcelo Ricardo Leitner Committed by Pablo Neira Ayuso
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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: default avatarMarcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
parent c63264de
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